CABLE ORGANIZER AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE WITH SAME

• US 20130140394A1
• Filed: 12/02/2011
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sky Tech Worldwide, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sky Tech Worldwide, Inc.
• Inventors: CHENG, Chin-Hung
• Granted Patent: US 8,668,160 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 242/400.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/3919 USB, earphones, audio or video cables, e.g. for connecting small electronic devices such as MP3 players or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/536 Arrangements for protecting connectors attached to the wound material
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4473 without arrangements or adaptations for rotating the core or former
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/72 Means for accommodating flexible lead within the holder
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/06 Intermediate parts for linking two coupling parts, e.g. adapter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/94
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/02 using take-up reel or drum

Abstract

A cable organizer in accordance with the present invention has a top seat, a separating plate and a base plate. The top seat has two plug slots, a winder and a longitudinal slot. The separating plate is mounted to a bottom of the winder and has a slit corresponding to and communicating with the longitudinal slot. The base plate is detachably mounted to a lower portion of the separating plate and has a spindle having a top mounted in the slit of the separating plate. The present invention also relates to an electronic appliance with the cable organizer. The electronic appliance has two sliding slots to which the base are slidably mounted, wherein the base plate has a mounting slot and the electronic appliance has a positioning bead selectively protruding from the side of the electronic appliance and detachably inserted in the mounting slot of the base plate.

Claims

1. A cable organizer comprising:

a top seat having

two plug slots separately formed on a top surface of the top seat and each having an opening defined through a sidewall of the top seat;

a winder formed on a bottom portion of the top seat and having an outer radius smaller than an outer radius of the top seat; and

a longitudinal slot recessed in a bottom surface of the winder and having an end penetrating through a sidewall of the winder;

a separating plate mounted to a bottom of the winder and having

a top surface connected to the bottom surface of the winder;

a slit corresponding to and communicating with the longitudinal slot and having an end penetrating through a side of the separating plate; and

an outer radius larger than the outer radius of the winder; and

a base plate detachably mounted to a lower portion of the separating plate and having

a top surface a distance away from a bottom surface of the separating plate;

a spindle protruding from the top surface of the base plate and having

a top mounted in the other end of the slit of the separating plate, wherein the top of the spindle is a distance from an inner wall of that other end of the slit of the separating plate.

2. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base plate has multiple positioning slots recessed in a peripheral surface of the base plate at intervals.

3. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the separating plate has a hooking slot formed on a side of the separating plate below one of the plug slots.

4. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 2, wherein the separating plate has a hooking slot formed on a side of the separating plate below one of the plug slots.

5. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 3, wherein the other end of the longitudinal slot is defined in a center of the bottom surface of the winder;

and

the other end of the slit is defined in a center of the separating plate.

6. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 4, wherein the other end of the longitudinal slot is defined in a center of the bottom surface of the winder;

and

the other end of the slit is defined in a center of the separating plate.

7. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 5, wherein the winder has a connector protruding from the bottom surface of the winder through the separating plate down to below the separating plate and having a connecting hole;

and

the base plate has a connecting shaft formed on the top surface of the base plate and detachably inserted in the connecting hole of the connector.

8. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 6, wherein the winder has a connector protruding downwards from the bottom surface of the winder through the separating plate and having a connecting hole;

and

the base plate has a connecting shaft formed on the top surface of the base plate detachably inserted in the connecting hole of the connector.

9. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 7, wherein the winder has multiple mounting holes formed on the bottom surface of the winder;

and

the separating plate has multiple mounting shafts formed on a top surface of the separating plate inserted in the multiple mounting holes respectively.

10. The cable organizer as claimed in claim 8, wherein the winder has multiple mounting holes formed on the bottom surface of the winder;

and

the separating plate has multiple mounting shafts formed on a top surface of the separating plate inserted in the multiple mounting holes respectively.

11. An electronic appliance with the cable organizer as claimed in claim 1 comprising:

two sliding slots formed on a side of the electronic appliance, wherein the distance between the two sliding slots corresponds to the distance between two opposite sides of the base plate; and

the two opposite sides of the base plate are slidably mounted to the two sliding slots.

12. The electronic appliance as claimed in claim 11, wherein the base plate has a mounting slot recessed in the bottom surface of the base plate;

and

the electronic appliance has a positioning bead selectively protruding from the side of the electronic appliance and detachably inserted in the mounting slot of the base plate.