Rotating detachable belt clip

• US 20040069821A1
• Filed: 10/10/2002
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Uniden Corporation (Cornwall Capital Management LP)
• Original Assignee: Uniden Corporation (Cornwall Capital Management LP)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Masatoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/268,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20040069821A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 224/269
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 2011/002 for portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/026 with a pin having an enlarged head detachably connected to a fastening device, e.g. to a pin receiving slot
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0516 Portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/021 to the belt
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/045 for connection in more than one rotational position around an axle, e.g. by using a rotatable connection

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to provide a rotating detachable belt clip of simple construction and low manufacturing cost. In order to achieve this object, the rotating detachable belt clip according to the present invention comprising: an attachment case having an opening section slightly broader than the external diameter of the rod section of a bushing which is inserted into the case of the mobile communications terminal device and has a T-shaped cross-section consisting of the rod section and a disc section, said attachment case being formed into a U-shaped cross-section for accommodating a disc section; a pawl for engaging with an arc-shaped guide groove formed in the surface of the case of the mobile communications terminal device; an elastic deforming section provided with the pawl on the front end section thereof, and constructed so as to deform elastically with respect to said attachment case; and a clipping plate connected via a shaft to said attachment case, and urged in a gripping direction by means of an elastic member; wherein the mobile communications terminal device is locked by means of said pawl engaging with the guide groove due to said elastic deforming section undergoing elastic deformation, when said disc section is accommodated inside the attachment case by means of sliding said cylindrical rod section in the direction of extension of said opening section.

Claims

1. A rotating detachable belt clip for carrying a mobile communications terminal device;

comprising;

an attachment case having an opening section slightly broader than the external diameter of the rod section of a bushing which is inserted into the case of said mobile communications terminal device and has a T-shaped cross-section consisting of the rod section and a disc section, said attachment case being formed into a U-shaped cross-section for accommodating a disc section, and;

a pawl for engaging with an arc-shaped guide groove formed in the surface of the case of said mobile communications terminal device;

an elastic deforming section provided with said pawl at the front end section thereof, and constructed so as to deform elastically with respect to said attachment case; and

a clipping plate connected via a shaft to said attachment case, and urged in a gripping direction by means of an elastic member;

wherein the mobile communications terminal device is locked by means of said pawl engaging with said guide groove due to said elastic deforming section undergoing elastic deformation, when said disc section is accommodated inside said attachment case by sliding said rod section in the direction of extension of said opening section.

2. The rotating detachable belt clip according to claim 1, wherein said guide groove is formed integrally with said case.

3. The rotating detachable belt clip according to claim 2, wherein said lock is released by means of said pawl riding up over a trapezoidal projection formed in said case.

4. The rotating detachable belt clip according to claim 3, wherein said trapezoidal projection is formed integrally with said case.

5. The rotating detachable belt clip according to claim 1, wherein said bushing is a member in which a circular disc section and a cylindrical rod section are formed integrally.

6. The rotating detachable belt clip according to claim 1, wherein grooves provided at equidistant intervals for engaging with said pawl are formed in said guide groove.

7. The rotating detachable belt clip according to claim 6, wherein said grooves are formed integrally with said case.