Information Book With Pda And Multiple Foldable Pieces

• US 20070199851A1
• Filed: 04/21/2005
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hung ZUN Industrial Company Limited, Shenzhen Wang Ling Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hung ZUN Industrial Company Limited, Shenzhen Wang Ling Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yau, Yimwai
• Granted Patent: US 7,540,379 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/472
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 3/123 incorporating sound producing or light emitting means or carrying sound records

Abstract

An information book includes a booklet casing having a front cover, a back cover, and a middle panel foldably extended between the front and back covers. The front cover, middle panel, and back cover are adapted for overlappedly folding in a tri-fold manner and are adapted to be aligned edge-to-edge in a plane manner. The front cover has an inner indented side defining a receiving cavity therein such that the middle panel is fittedly received in the indented side of the front cover. The booklet casing further includes a binding element provided between the middle panel and the back cover along a folding line thereof for detachably binding at least an information sheet between the middle panel and the back cover. Therefore, information on the PDA and information on the information sheet are adapted to be read and used simultaneously.

Claims

1. An information book for a PDA, comprising a booklet casing which comprises a front cover, a back cover, and at least a middle panel foldably extended between said front and back covers, wherein said booklet casing is folded between a storage position that said front cover, said middle panel, and said back cover are overlappedly folded in a tri-fold manner and an expanded position that said front cover, said middle panel, and said back cover are aligned edge-to-edge in a plane manner, wherein said front cover has an inner indented side defining a receiving cavity therein such that when said middle panel is folded to said front cover, said middle panel is fittedly received in said indented side of said front cover, wherein said booklet casing further comprises a binding element provided between said middle panel and said back cover along a folding line thereof for detachably binding at least an information sheet between said middle panel and said back cover.

2. The information book, as recited in claim 1, wherein said booklet casing further comprises a pivot hinge and a jointing strip, wherein said pivot hinge contains two pivot slots formed at upper and lower rims of said receiving cavity of said front cover and comprises two pivot axes which are protruded from upper and lower corner edges of said middle panel 30 and are fitted into said pivot slots of said front cover respectively so as to pivotally connect said middle panel with said front cover, wherein said jointing strip, which is made of soft and flexible material, is connected between edges of said middle panel and said back cover such that said middle panel is overlappedly folded on said back cover through said jointing strip.

3. The information book, as recited in claim 1, wherein said booklet casing further comprises two jointing strips for joining said front cover, said middle panel, and said back cover, wherein one of said jointing strips is connected between edges of said middle panel and said front cover and another said jointing strip is connected between edges of said middle panel and said back cover such that said front cover, said middle panel, and said back cover are adapted to be overlappedly folded in a tri-fold manner.

4. The information book, as recited in claim 1, wherein said front cover has a hollow structure, wherein a speaker is mounted at said front cover for operatively connecting with said PDA.

5. The information book, as recited in claim 1, further comprising a light source, provided at said front cover, a circuit board which is supported in said front cover and is electrically connected to said light source, and a power source which is supported by said booklet casing and is electrically connected to said circuit board.

6. The information book, as recited in claim 1, further comprising a computer communication terminal which is provided at a peripheral edge of said front cover and is adapted for electrically connecting to said PDA so as to communicatively connect said PDA with an external computer device via said computer communication terminal.

7. The information book, as recited in claim 1, further comprising a controlling keyboard provided on said front cover for controllably connecting to said PDA and a circuit board which is provided in said front cover and is electrically connected to said controlling keyboard.

8. The information book, as recited in claim 1, wherein said front cover is adapted for said PDA detachably mounting thereto.

9. The information book, as recited in claim 8, wherein said front cover has a PDA window, wherein said booklet casing further comprises a mounting arrangement for detachably mounting said PDA within said PDA window, wherein said mounting arrangement contains a plurality of terminal slots spacedly formed along a top edge and a bottom edge of said PDA and comprises at least two pairs of PDA connectors movably provided along an upper edge and a lower edge of said PDA window in a reciprocating manner, wherein said PDA connectors are slidably fit to said terminal slots for detachably locking said PDA within said PDA window.

10. The information book, as recited in claim 9, wherein each of said PDA connectors comprises an elongated mounting head, an elongated holding tail and an enlarged supporting base integrally extended between said mounting head and said holding tail, wherein said mounting arrangement further contains a plurality of guiding slots spacedly formed on said upper and lower edges of said PDA window for said mounting heads slidably passing through said guiding slots respectively, wherein said mounting arrangement further comprises a plurality of resilient elements and a plurality of connector seats mounted in said front cover and aligned with said guiding slots respectively, wherein each of said connector seats has a seating slot for said respective resilient element disposed therein, wherein said seating slots of said connector seats are aligned with said guiding slots of said window frame, wherein said holding tail of each of said PDA connectors is slidably disposed in said seating slot of said respective connector seat to engage with said resilient element such that said resilient element applies an urging force against said supporting base to push said mounting head within said PDA window through said guiding slot so as to insert said mounting head into said terminal slot for mounting said PDA within said PDA window.