THEFT-PROTECTING ASSEMBLY FOR RECHARGEABLE HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20110080137A1
• Filed: 03/18/2009
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Original Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Inventors: Avganim, Meir
• Granted Patent: US 8,881,560 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/115
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5004 For antitheft signaling device on protected article
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/554 Cover, lid, cap, encasing shield
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5562 Removable

Abstract

A theft-protecting electronic device (16;116) recharging assembly comprising a block-shaped stand (12; 112) having a cavity (14;122c) into and from which the device can be partly inserted and retrieved by a substantially linear sliding movement. A rigid jacket (30;130) embracing the device from at least three sides thereof is provided, one of which being the side opposite the one inserted into said cavity. A lock-receiving porting (30e;130g) is integrally formed with the jacket. A lockable device (20,120) is associated with the stand, being manipulatable between a locking position wherein it engages the said lock-receiving portion, thereby arresting the electronic device within said cavity, and an unlocked position wherein the electronic device is freely retrievable from said cavity. The stand is adapted to be secured by a cable (40;140) to an immovable object (42,142).

Claims

1. A theft-protecting assembly for hand-held electronic devices having a casing with back, front and four side walls, comprising:

a rigid jacket adapted to embrace the electronic device casing from at-least the back and three side walls so that the jacket can be dressed over the casing by a sliding movement;

a lock receiving portion provided at the back wall of the jacket;

a block-shaped cradle;

a key-operated lockable device mounted to the cradle, manipulateable between a locking position wherein it engages the said lock receiving portion, thereby arresting the jacket against the cradle, and an unlocked position wherein the jacket is released from the cradle; and

first means for securing the cradle to an immoveable object.

2. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 further comprising second means for securing the jacket to an immoveable object.

3. The assembly as claimed in claim 2 wherein said second securing means comprise a security cable releasably connectable to the jacket.

4. The assembly as claimed in claim 3 wherein the jacket is provided with a tubular channel open along a side thereof facing the back wall of said casing, said cable having a head larger than the diameter of the cable so that the cable is adapted to be inserted into the channel through said open side and become arrested therein after sliding the casing into the jacket.

5. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein the said lock receiving portion of the jacket comprises a bulge formed with an opening.

9. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said lock receiving portion of the jacket comprises a bulge defining a hollow space distanced from the back wall of the casing.

10. The assembly as claimed in claim 9 wherein the said lockable device comprises a pivotable member with a hook-like extension adapted, in one position thereof, to become inserted into said hollow space, and in another position, to move away from the hollow space, means being provided to lock the pivotable member in said one position thereof.

11. The assembly as claimed in claim 10 wherein the said pivotable member is mounted to the cradle.

12. The assembly as claimed in claim 11 wherein a key operated lock device is mounted to the cradle adapted to lock the pivotable member in said one position thereof.

13. The assembly as claimed in claim 6 or 12 wherein the lock device is of the push-button type.

14. The assembly as claimed in claim 13 wherein the pivotable member comprises a recess configured to receive a head extended by a security cable so that in the said one position of the pivotable member the head remains trapped and the other end of the cable being adapted to be secured to said second immoveable object.

15. The assembly as claimed in claim 14 wherein the cradle is formed with a cavity configured to house a standard recharging stand comprising a built-in charging plug internally wired to an external charging socket.

6. The assembly as claimed in claim 6 wherein said lockable device comprises a projectable lock pin adapted to become inserted into said opening in said locked position.

7. The assembly as claimed in claim 6 wherein the lockable device is installed at an upright portion of the cradle.

8. The assembly as claimed in claim 7 wherein at-least one hook-like projection is mounted to said up-right portion, configured to limit the sliding movement of the casing within the jacket.