Radio device holder

• US 20030083115A1
• Filed: 10/25/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Shoji
• Granted Patent: US 6,785,567 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/573
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3877 Arrangements for enabling portable transceivers to be used in a fixed position, e.g. cradles or boosters

Abstract

The radio device holder according to the embodiment comprises: a holder main unit having a holder-side connector; a tray having a first side holding section and a second side holding section for holding a portable telephone, provided movably between an installation position and a halt/detachment position; device locking mechanism comprising a device locking member for engaging with and disengaging from a lock recess section of a portable telephone, for holding the portable telephone in such a manner that it is detachable by means of a manual action by an operator when the tray is situated in the halt/detachment position; a stopper rib for restricting the device locking member to an immovable state when the tray is situated in an installation position, thereby holding the portable telephone in such a manner that it can be detached from the tray by the device locking mechanism; a spring for impelling the tray constantly in the direction from the installation position towards the halt/detachment position, by means of a pressing force which exceeds the interconnecting force of the holder-side connector and device-side connector; tray locking mechanism, comprising a tray locking member which engages with and disengages from the tray, for engaging with the tray when situated in the installation position to fix the position of the tray, and releasing the engagement between the tray locking member and the tray by operation of a operating button; and an opening edge section for causing a tray moving from the installation position towards the halt/detachment position due to the tray impelling mechanism to stop at the halt/detachment position.

Claims

1. A radio device holder comprising:

a holder main unit having a holder-side connector for interconnecting with a device-side connector provided on a radio device;

a tray having a holding section for holding the radio device in a prescribed attitude, the tray being provided movably with respect to the holder main unit, in a direction along which the device-side connector on the radio device is inserted into or removed from the holder-side connector, between an installation position at which the device-side connector is interconnected with the holder-side connector, and a halt/detachment position at which the device-side connector is separated from the holder-side connector;

device locking means having a device locking member provided movably on the holding member of the tray between an engagement/disengagement state with respect to a locking recess section provided in the radio device, for holding the radio device in the tray in such a manner that it is detachable therefrom by manual operation of an operator, when the tray is situated in the halt/detachment position;

lock stopper means provided on the holder main unit, for restricting the device locking member of the device locking means to an immovable state when the tray is situated at the installation position, and holding the radio device held in the tray in such a manner that it cannot be detached from the tray by the device locking means;

tray impelling means, interposed between the holder main unit and the tray, for impelling the tray constantly in a direction from the installation position towards the halt/detachment position, by means of a pressing force exceeding the interconnecting force between the holder-side connector and the device-side connector;

tray locking means which comprises a tray locking member provided on the holder main unit to operate in a state engaged with or detached from the tray, and which fixes the tray in the installation position by engaging same with the tray situated at the installation position, and releases the engagement between the tray locking member and the tray by operation of an operating button provided on the tray locking member; and

tray stopper means provided on the holder main unit, so that the tray stopper means is abutted against the tray moving from the installation position to the halt/detachment position by the pressing force of the tray impelling means, for causing the tray to stop at the halt/detachment position.

2. The radio device holder according to claim 1, wherein the radio device is provided with the device-side connector on a base section thereof, installation grooves on base sides of left and right-hand sides thereof, and a locking recess section on a top section thereof.

3. The radio device holder according to claim 2, wherein the tray comprises a first side holding section for holding the base section of the radio device, and a second side holding section for holding the top section of the radio device.

4. The radio device holder according to claim 3, wherein the tray comprises, in the first side holding section, a cradle which conforming to a shape of the base section of the radio device and a pair of guide ribs which engage with the installation grooves of the radio device.

5. The radio device holder according to claim 3, wherein the tray comprises, in the second side holding section, a cradle conforming to a shape of the top section of the radio device and the device locking means for engaging/disengaging with respect to the locking recess section in the radio device.

6. The radio device holder according to claim 1, wherein the holder main unit has a pocket section for accommodating an end portion of the radio device, at one end section thereof, and a pair of guard sections which face with the left and right-hand sides of the radio device, at the other end section thereof.

7. The radio device holder according to claim 1, wherein the holder main unit has a recess section for preventing interference with a belt clip fixture metal on the radio device.

8. The radio device holder according to claim 1, wherein the tray locking means is provided on the left and right-hand side regions of the tray.

9. The radio device holder according to claim 1, wherein the radio device is a portable telephone.

10. The radio device holder according to claim 1, being an on-vehicle holder for using a portable telephone inside a vehicle.