MOBILE DEVICE HOLDER

• US 20120161406A1
• Filed: 12/27/2010
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Randy Mersky
• Original Assignee: Randy Mersky
• Inventors: MERSKY, Randy
• Granted Patent: US 8,474,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/33.992
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1428 Adaptations for calculators, memory aids or reading aids
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/105 the horizontal axis being the roll axis, e.g. for creating a landscape-portrait rotation
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/00 Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles heads thereof F16M11/02 ; undercarriages thereof F16M11/20 ; adapted to be stuck in the ground A45F3/44 ; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22; Means for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles supports for measuring instruments G01D11/30; supports for casings of remote control switching devices H01H9/025
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle

Abstract

A mobile device holder includes a lower holding portion having a pair of opposed lower holding portion channels, a shelf at the base of the lower holding portion, an upper holding portion having a pair of opposed upper holding portion channels, the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels diverging in a direction away from the lower holding portion and aligned with the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels, the upper holding portion affixed to the lower holding portion, and a base connected to the shelf of the lower holding portion.

Claims

1. A mobile device holder comprising:

a lower holding portion having a pair of opposed lower holding portion channels;

a shelf at the base of the lower holding portion;

an upper holding portion having a pair of opposed upper holding portion channels, the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels diverging in a direction away from the lower holding portion and aligned with the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels, the upper holding portion affixed to the lower holding portion; and

a base connected to the shelf of the lower holding portion.

2. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the lower holding portion is generally rectangular in shape and the upper holding portion is generally trapezoidal in shape.

3. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein each channel of the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels and each channel of the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels is generally U-shaped.

4. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein each channel of the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels and each channel of the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels is generally L-shaped.

5. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, further comprising a clearance section connected to the lower holding portion between the shelf and the base.

6. The mobile device holder according to claim 5, wherein the clearance section comprises a generally U-shaped channel.

7. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the base comprises a mount attachable to a shopping cart.

8. The mobile device holder according to claim 7, wherein the mount is attachable to a collapsible basket of the shopping cart.

9. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, further comprising a front section and a rear section defined between the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels, wherein one of the front section and the rear section is open.

10. The mobile device holder according to claim 9, wherein the other of the front section and the rear section is generally closed.

11. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the lower holding portion and the upper holding portion collectively define a general Y-shape.

12. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels is one of continuous and discontinuous with the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels.

13. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the lower holding portion is pivotable relative to the base.

14. The mobile device holder according to claim 13, further comprising a spring configured to pivotably bias the lower holding portion in a direction relative to the base.

15. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein one upper holding portion channel of the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels creates an oblique angle with one lower holding portion channel of the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels, the one upper holding portion channel and the one lower holding portion channel located on the same side of the mobile device holder.

16. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels is parallel.

17. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, further comprising an expansion holding portion removably insertable in the upper holding portion, the expansion holding portion comprising:

an upper expansion holding portion having a pair of opposed upper expansion holding portion channels; and

a lower expansion holding portion having a pair of opposed lower expansion holding portion channels, the pair of opposed lower expansion holding portion channels converging in a direction away from the upper expansion holding portion and aligned with the pair of opposed upper expansion holding portion channels, the upper expansion holding portion affixed to the lower expansion holding portion.

18. The mobile device holder according to claim 17, further comprising a front expansion section and a rear expansion section defined between the pair of opposed lower expansion holding portion channels the pair of opposed upper expansion holding portion channels, wherein one of the front expansion section and the rear expansion section is open.

19. The mobile device holder according to claim 17, wherein the pair of opposed lower expansion holding portion channels create the same angle as the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels when the expansion holding portion is inserted in the upper holding portion.

20. The mobile device holder according to claim 17, wherein an end of each channel of the pair of opposed lower expansion holding portion channels is open.

21. The mobile device holder according to claim 17, wherein the pair of opposed upper expansion holding portion channels is parallel.

22. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels create an angle different from that of the pair opposed lower holding portion channels.

23. The mobile device holder according to claim 1, wherein the shelf comprises a shelf channel aligned with the pair of lower holding portion channels.

24. The mobile device holder according to claim 17, wherein the distance between the pair of opposed upper expansion holding portion channels is adjustable.

25. A shopping cart comprising:

a main basket;

a secondary basket configured to swing upward relative to the main basket when the shopping cart is nested with another shopping cart; and

a mobile device holder comprising;

a lower holding portion having a pair of opposed lower holding portion channels;

a shelf at the base of the lower holding portion;

an upper holding portion having a pair of opposed upper holding portion channels, the pair of opposed upper holding portion channels diverging in a direction away from the lower holding portion and aligned with the pair of opposed lower holding portion channels, the upper holding portion affixed to the lower holding portion; and

a base connected to the shelf of the lower holding portion and attached to the secondary basket.