STRAP DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

• US 20090219677A1
• Filed: 02/26/2009
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: TAKEMASA, Hirofumi, MORI, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,120,896 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.30
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/008 Hand articles fastened to the wrist or to the arm or to the leg
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0525 Personal portable computing devices, e.g. laptop, tablet, netbook, game boy, navigation system, calculator
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/14 Carrying-straps; Pack-carrying harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/00 Holders or carriers for hand articles; Holders or carriers for use while travelling or camping

Abstract

The present invention provides a strap device capable of, when used in a state of being attached to an electronic apparatus body including a display portion and a key input portion as an object, improving the visibility of the display portion and the operability of the key input portion and the touch panel without tilting the electronic apparatus body with the wrist. A strap device includes a substantially plate-shaped belt base to be attached to the object; and a strap belt formed in an annular shape and supported by a substantially center portion of the belt base rotatably within a plane substantially parallel to the belt base. The belt base includes a back part provided with a pivot fitting as a bearing member for supporting the strap belt rotatably and a front part facing the back part. The strap belt extends across the belt base from the front part to the back part of the belt base.

Claims

1. A strap device comprising:

a substantially plate-shaped belt base to be attached to an object; and

a strap belt formed in an annular shape and supported by a substantially center portion of the belt base rotatably within a plane substantially parallel to the belt base.

2. The strap device according to claim 1,

wherein the strap belt projects beyond each of opposing left and right outer edges of the belt base, and a notch is formed on at least either of upper and lower outer edges of the base belt coupling the left and the right outer edges from which the strap belt projects.

3. The strap device according to claim 2, wherein a concave notch is formed on each of the left and the right outer edges of the belt base.

4. The strap device according to claim 1, wherein the belt base includes:

a back part provided with a bearing member for supporting the strap belt rotatably; and

a front part facing the back part, the strap belt extending across the belt base from the front part to the back part.

5. The strap device according to claim 4, wherein a protrusion protruding toward the strap belt side is provided at a substantially center portion of the front part of the belt base.

6. The strap device according to claim 5, wherein the protrusion is rounded.

7. The strap device according to claim 1, wherein each corner portion of the outer edges of the belt base is provided with an attachment member for attaching the belt base to the object.

8. The strap device according to claim 7, wherein the attachment members provided at at least either a pair of upper left and upper right corner portions or a pair of lower left and lower right corner portions are attachable to and detachable from the object.

9. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an electronic apparatus body including a first enclosure including a control portion for controlling a display signal to be displayed on a display portion, a circuit board equipped with a signal processing circuit for processing an input signal received from the control portion and/or a display signal to be displayed on the display portion, and a second enclosure containing the circuit board and forming a housing together with the first enclosure; and

the strap device according to claim 1 attached to the second enclosure.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the display portion and the control portion are provided in the same plane of the first enclosure.