SECURITY STRIP DEFINING A SECURITY SLOT AND ATTACHABLE TO MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20140366593A1
• Filed: 06/16/2014
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Original Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Inventors: Avganim, Meir
• Granted Patent: US 9,476,229 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 70/58
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0005 using chains, cables or the like chain- or cable-locks of the padlock type E05B67/003; lockable clothing hangers or hanger racks E05B69/006
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles

Abstract

A security strip or stick-on tab is attachable to the underneath of a very thin tablet or notebook device, with very little thickness added at the bottom of the device and not interfering with its resting on a flat surface. The strip or stick-on tab has a section protruding from underneath which becomes thickened and defines a standard security slot into which a lock with a cable are attachable to enable the cable to be irremovably attached to an immobile object, such as a chair or a desk, preventing theft of the secured device.

Claims

1. A security strip attachable to a thin mobile electronic device, the security strip comprising:

a strip body shaped as a thin, strip-like component with a length and a thickness dimension;

screw holes defined along the length of the strip body for enabling screwing the strip body to an underside of the mobile electronic device; and

a security slot body protruding from the strip body and having a thickened portion thicker than the thickness dimension of the strip body and defining therein a security slot in which a locking element of a locking device is receivable.

2. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the security slot is rectangularly shaped and measures about 3×

7 mm.

3. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the security slot has a trapezoidal shape within.

4. The security strip of claim 3, wherein an opening into the trapezoidal security slot has a rectangular shape with a length dimension that is not greater than 5 mm.

5. The security strip of claim 1, including left and right legs formed thereon for resting against a support surface of the mobile electronic device.

6. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the security strip has left and right sides and the security slot body projects away from the strip body at an angle thereto from one of the sides.

7. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the length of the strip body is at least ten times the width of the strip body, and the width of the strip body is at least twenty times the thickness of the strip body.

17. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the mobile electronic device is a tablet computer.

8. A security tab adhesively attachable to a mobile electronic device, the security tab comprising:

a tab body having a length, a width and a thickness, and further having a resting surface and a contacting surface, the contacting surface comprising an adhesive layer for enabling attachment of the tab body to the mobile electronic device;

a thickened portion protruding from said tab body at an edge side thereof; and

a security slot formed in said thickened portion, the security slot being shaped and configured to receive therein a locking element of a locking device.

9. The security tab of claim 8, wherein the thickness dimension is in the range of from about a half a millimeter, to one and one-half millimeters.

10. The security tab of claim 8, wherein the thickness dimension is about one millimeter.

11. The security tab of claim 10, wherein the adhesive layer is covered by a protective covering which is peelable away to expose the adhesive layer.

12. The security tab of claim 8, wherein the security slot is rectangularly shaped and measures 3×

7 mm.

13. The security tab of claim 8, wherein the security slot has a trapezoidal shape within.

14. The security tab of claim 8, wherein an opening into the trapezoidal security slot has a rectangular shape with a length dimension that is not greater than 5 mm.

15. The security tab of claim 8, wherein the tab body is square shaped.

16. The security tab of claim 8, wherein the mobile electronic device is a tablet computer.

18. A security mechanism in combination with a mobile electronic device, the combination comprising:

a rear wall with an opening for insertion therethrough of an electrical cable formed at a wall of the mobile electronic device, said mobile electronic device further comprising a security slot formed thereon in spaced relationship to said opening,

said security mechanism comprising a security cover plate that is substantially yoke-shaped at an upper portion thereof, defining a yoke opening; and

a lock access opening provided in the cover plate in spaced relationship to said yoke opening and so placed relative to the yoke opening, that the yoke opening fits over the opening of the mobile electronic device while the lock access opening registers with the security slot in the mobile electronic device.

19. The security mechanism of claim 18, wherein the openings measure 3×

7 mm.

20. The security mechanism of claim 18, wherein the security slot has a trapezoidal shape within.