Cellular phone holding device

• US 20040013265A1
• Filed: 07/17/2002
• Published: 01/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chin-Yang Wang
• Original Assignee: Chin-Yang Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Chin-Yang
• Application Number:
  US10/196,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20040013265A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/441
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a cellular phone holding device comprising a loop assembly for permitting an object (e.g., belt) to pass through a loop integrally formed by a left and a right clips, the loop assembly including a projected lower latched piece; and a pivotal assembly pivotably coupled to the loop assembly so that the pivotal assembly is capable of pivoting about the loop assembly to form an angle sufficiently enough to permit a user to see the number of an incoming call shown on a display of a cellular phone held thereon.

Claims

1. A device for holding a cellular phone comprising:

a loop assembly including a left clip and a right clip integral with the left clip at its top for permitting an object to pass through a loop formed by the left and the right clips and to be gripped;

a pivotal assembly pivotably coupled to the top of the loop assembly so that the pivotal assembly is capable of pivoting either clockwise about the loop assembly to form an angle therebetween or counterclockwise about the loop assembly to be substantially parallel to and in close proximity with the loop assembly, the pivotal assembly including a longitudinal slot for fastening the cellular phone; and

a fastening member at a lower part of the longitudinal slot so that a mated fastening member on the cellular phone is adapted to slide downward to receive in and secure to the longitudinal slot;

whereby in response to the device held on the object and the cellular phone is held by the device, the pivotal assembly is capable of swinging clockwise relative to the loop assembly at an angle sufficiently enough to permit a user to see the number of an incoming call shown on a display of the cellular phone.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the pivotal assembly further comprises a projected lower latched piece and the pivotal assembly further comprises a lower opening for receiving the latched piece and securing thereto as the pivotal assembly is disposed in close proximity with the loop assembly, thereby securing the pivotal assembly to the loop assembly.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the fastening member comprises two side openings near the lower opening at a bottom of the pivotal assembly, a flexible member extended downward between the side openings being capable of bending, a cam adjacent a lower end of the flexible member, a top slot above the longitudinal slot, and a slide piece slidably received in the longitudinal slot, and a bottom recess with the cam snugly receiving therein so that it is possible of pressing the slide piece to cause the recess to push the cam, the cam being disengaged from the mated fastening member as a result of further pressing of the slide piece, thereby removing the cellular phone from the pivotal assembly.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the loop assembly further comprises a hole at either top side and the pivotal assembly further comprises a horizontal top lug at either side and an aperture at either lug, and further comprising a pin inserted through the apertures and the holes to pivotably secure the loop and the pivotal assemblies together.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the right clip comprises a horizontal piece formed on a lower end as an additional support while the loop assembly is coupled to the object.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the diameter of the holes is larger than that of the pin enabling the pin to be moved vertically within the holes, while the pivotal assembly being in close proximity with the loop assembly, until the latched piece is secured to the lower opening or released from the lower opening.