Handheld device holder for vehicle's steering wheel

• US 20110024470A1
• Filed: 07/29/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hamid Cyrus Hajarian
• Original Assignee: Hamid Cyrus Hajarian
• Inventors: Hajarian, Hamid Cyrus
• Application Number:
  US12/804,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20110024470A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 224/276
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0252 for personal computers, e.g. laptops, notebooks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0258 for navigation systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/001 Vehicle control means, e.g. steering-wheel or column
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0057 using magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0063 using adhesive means, e.g. hook and loop fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0077 using adhesive means, e.g. hook and loop fasteners

Abstract

A handheld device holder is placed over vehicle'"'"'s steering wheel. This device provide hands free operation for a handheld device in which the driver'"'"'s hands fully positions on steering wheel and driver have full attention to the road while driving. The holder apparatus include a rotatable platform which attachably connected to a base via a magnet or clips.

Claims

1. A handheld device holder to be used in conjunction with vehicle'"'"'s steering wheel comprising:

A platform, where the said platform'"'"'s top surface hold the handheld device and on the bottom side of the platform there is a housing that clips the platform onto a rotatable wheel;

said rotatable wheel is mounted on the center of a base via a shaft, where the said shaft is an integral part of a base. The said base bottom side is adhesively attached to the surface of the central portion of the vehicle'"'"'s steering wheel. The unique interaction of the base, the rotatable wheel, and the platform allows the handheld device to remain in its vertical original position while the steering wheel is turned in either direction.

2. A handheld device holder according to claim 1, wherein said platform can be built into the protective covers for the available handheld devices as one piece. Thus, the said handheld device available soft and hard covers act as the said platform.

3. A handheld device holder according to claim 1, wherein the base and the rotatable wheel components of the holder apparatus can be built into the center of the steering wheel by the vehicle'"'"'s manufacturers as a standard feature for securing, and utilizing handheld devices hands free.