CORD ADJUSTMENT DEVICE

• US 20100224714A1
• Filed: 10/13/2008
• Published: 09/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Preggioni Ehf
• Original Assignee: Preggioni Ehf
• Inventors: Gudmundsson, Petur, Winther, Isak
• Application Number:
  US12/682,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20100224714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 242/400.100
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/34 electric cords or electric power cables
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/526 Magnets
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/446 for releasably or permanently attaching the frame to a wall, on a floor or on a post or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4473 without arrangements or adaptations for rotating the core or former
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/15 Protecting or guiding telephone cords
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/10 Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones H04R1/28 takes precedence; stereophonic headphones H04R5/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1033 Cables or cables storage, e.g. cable reels cord reels per se H02G11/02; arrangements for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of conductors or cables B65H75/34; extensible conductors or cables, e.g. self-coiling cords H01B7/06

Abstract

The present invention provides a cord adjustment device for adjusting and managing the additional length of the cord of earphones when being used with portable multi-media devices such as a music player. The cord adjustment device is a spool shaped piece comprising magnetic material and further comprising a mating member which has a magnetic attraction to the spool member. The cord adjustment device is attached to clothing by placing the mating member on the reverse side of the clothing and the spool member on the outer side of the clothing. The cord adjustment device may also comprise a microphone, transmitter/receiver or an audio player.

Claims

1. Cord adjustment device comprising:

a spool member, the spool member further comprising;

a central axial portion having a first distal end and a second distal end,

a front portion extending of the first distal end of the central axial portion having a larger circumference than the central axial portion, and

a back portion extending of the second distal end of the central axial portion having a larger circumference than the central axial portion,

wherein a slot is formed in the front portion to receive the cord after it has been enwrapped around the central portion and fasten, and

wherein the back portion further comprises a magnetic material to attach said spool member to a magnetic surface.

2. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the cord adjustment device further comprises a mating member comprising a magnetic material, configured to mate with the magnetic back portion.

3. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the back portion of the spool member comprises a ferromagnetic material.

4. The cord adjustment device according to claim 2, wherein the mating member comprises a ferromagnetic material.

5. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the spool member further comprises a cover portion which can be attached and detached from the front portion of the spool member.

6. The cord adjustment device according to claim 5, wherein the cover portion is made from transparent material.

7. The cord adjustment device according to claim 5, wherein the front portion is labeled.

8. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the front portion comprises an additional slot to receive the cable before wrapping.

9. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the device is dimensioned and configured for use with an earphone cord of portable media devices.

10. The cord adjustment device according to claim 9, wherein the media device comprises at least one of an mp3 player, compact disc player, portable DVD player, and iPOD.

11. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the device is dimensioned and configured for use with an earphone cord of portable telecommunication devices.

12. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a microphone.

13. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a plug.

14. The cord adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a transmitter unit and/or a receiver unit.

15. A communication device for attaching to clothing or any textile, the device comprising:

a spool member, the spool member further comprising;

a central axial portion having a first distal end and a second distal end,

a front portion extending of the first distal end of the central axial portion having a larger circumference than the central axial portion, and

a back portion extending of the second distal end of the central axial portion having a larger circumference than the central axial portion,

wherein the back portion further comprises a magnetic materiel to attach said spool member to a magnetic surface and wherein the device further comprises a mating member comprising a magnetic material, configured to mate with the magnetic back portion.

16. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein a cord can be “

enwrapped”

around the central portion of the spool member and wherein a slot is formed in the front member to receive the cord after it has been enwrapped around the central portion and fasten.

17. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein the front portion or the back portion of the spool member comprises a ferromagnetic materiel.

18. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein the device further comprises a microphone.

19. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein the device further comprises a plug.

20. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein the device further comprises a transmitter unit and/or a receiver unit.

21. The cord adjustment device according to claim 15, where the device further comprises an audio player.