Disposable protector case for cell phone with touchable lens to be used with a touchscreen cell phone

• US 20100048267A1
• Filed: 04/29/2009
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Major Communications, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Beyond Electronics Incorporated, Dba Beyond Cell
• Inventors: Lin, Alan Nathan
• Application Number:
  US12/387,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20100048267A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.800
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133331 Cover glasses
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/185 Improving the rigidity of the casing or resistance to shocks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

The present invention is designed to provide the ability to protect the LCD screen of a touchscreen cell phone from being scratched by incorporating into a protector case for the touchscreen LCD a thin transparent lens so that an individual'"'"'s fingers or a stylus do not directly come in contact with the touchscreen of the LCD phone but instead, are shielded by the lens so that in the event that there are scratches on the lens, the case can be easily discarded and replaced with another inexpensive case which contains the protector case to protect the cell phone and the lens to protect the touchscreen LCD.

Claims

1. A protector case for use in conjunction with a cell phone having a touchscreen comprising:

a. a top half having an opening therein and a mating bottom half, a cell phone being retained between the top half and the bottom half so that the touchscreen of the cell phone is aligned with the opening in the top half of the protector case;

b. a thin transparent protective lens affixed to an exterior of the top half of the protector case and aligned with the touchscreen of the cell phone so that when the cell phone is retained within the top and bottom portions of the protector case, manual input can be made to the touchscreen of the cell phone by touching the thin transparent lens so that information can be transmitted manually to the touchscreen; and

c. the protector case and thin transparent protective lens made of inexpensive material so that in the event the thin transparent protective lens and/or the protector case becomes damaged, the protector case can easily be discarded and replaced with an inexpensive new protector case.

2. The protector case in accordance with claim 1, wherein the thin transparent protective lens is made of thin transparent plastic.

3. The protector case in accordance with claim 1, wherein the thin transparent protective lens includes a multiplicity of film coatings so that information inputted through the protective lens onto the touchscreen of the LCD cannot be seen unless the person is looking directly at the cell phone as the information is being inputted.

4. A protector case for use in conjunction with a cell phone having a touchscreen comprising:

a. a top half having an opening therein and a mating bottom half, a cell phone being retained between the top half and the bottom half so that the touchscreen of the cell phone is aligned with the opening in the top half of the protector case;

b. a touchable thin transparent protective lens affixed to the top half of the protector case and aligned with the touchscreen of the cell phone so that when the cell phone is retained within the top and bottom portions of the protector case, manual input can be made to the touchscreen of the cell phone by touching the touchable thin transparent lens so that information can be transmitted manually to the touchscreen; and

c. the protector case and touchable thin transparent protective lens made of inexpensive material so that in the event the touchable thin transparent protective lens and/or the protector case becomes damaged, the protector case can easily be discarded and replaced with an inexpensive new protector case.

5. The protector case in accordance with claim 4, wherein the touchable thin transparent protective lens is made of thin transparent plastic.

6. The protector case in accordance with claim 4, wherein the thin transparent protective lens includes a multiplicity of film coating so that information inputted through the protective lens onto the touchscreen of the LCD cannot be seen unless the person is looking directly at the cell phone as the information is being inputted.