EXTENSION ROD DEVICE WORKING WITH FIXER FOR HANDHELD, PORTABLE, MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20150267863A1
• Filed: 06/05/2015
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michael Chau-Lun Chang
• Original Assignee: Michael Chau-Lun Chang
• Inventors: CHANG, Michael Chau-Lun
• Granted Patent: US 9,206,943 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 1/00 Sticks with supporting, hanging or carrying means
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 2200/1009 combined with other objects
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 2200/1054 with containers for storing objects, e.g. box
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 3/00 Sticks combined with other objects
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0516 Portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0525 Personal portable computing devices, e.g. laptop, tablet, netbook, game boy, navigation system, calculator
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/00 Holders or carriers for hand articles; Holders or carriers for use while travelling or camping
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/12 using sliding jaws
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/041 Allowing quick release of the apparatus
• 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 11/16 Details concerning attachment of head-supporting legs, with or without actuation of locking members thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/2057 for tilting and rolling F16M11/2078 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/28 Undercarriages for supports with one single telescoping pillar
• 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 13/022 repositionable

Abstract

An extension rod device working with a fixer for handheld, portable, mobile devices, and includes a rod body whose two ends are detachably attached with a positioning frame and a securing member. The positioning frame is adjustable to hold a mobile device, and the securing member secures the rod body and the positioning frame onto an external article, so as to suspend the mobile device. The extension rod device is capable of being easily and quickly mounted on or dismounted from any nearby handrail. When the positioning frame and the securing member are detached from the two ends of the rod body, the rod body can function as a portable personal article.

Claims

1. An extension rod device working with a fixer for handheld, portable, mobile devices, the extension rod device comprising:

a rod body having two ends that are respectively detachably attached with a positioning frame and a securing member, the positioning frame serving to hold and position an external mobile device;

a first connecting portion formed on the positioning frame for engaging a first linking portion, one end of the first linking portion connected to one end of the rod body; and

a second connecting portion connected with the securing member for engaging a second linking portion that is connected to another end of the rod body;

wherein the securing member comprises at least two movable clamping jaws and a threaded bolt, each of the clamping jaws having a clamping arm, a pivoting arm, a pivoting end formed at one end of the pivoting arm for being pivoted on the second connecting portion, and a pivot formed with a thread hole on the pivoting arm, the threaded bolt comprising an outer rod and an inner rod screwed to the outer rod, the outer rod having threads spiraling in a direction opposite to that of the inner rod, the outer rod and the inner rod respectively screwed to the pivots of the pivoting arms for adjusting an included angle between the clamping jaws, so as to secure or release the rod body and the positioning frame onto an external article.

2. The extension rod device of claim 1, wherein the positioning frame comprises abase and an extending board, the base forms a receiving space therein where a gearing portion is disposed therein, and the extending board comprises a track formed on and along the extending board, the track having a plurality of tooth portions for being engaged with the gearing portion, so that the extending board is engageably movable into and out of the receiving space for holding or releasing the external mobile device.

3. The extension rod device of claim 2, wherein the base further comprises at least a restraining apparatus disposed in the receiving space, the restraining apparatus comprising at least a depressed portion exposed to the base for being pressed, at least a restraining arm, and an elastic element connecting the depressed portion and the restraining arm, the restraining arm being engageable with the gearing portion and capable of being disengaged from the gearing portion by depressing the depressed portion.

4. The extension rod device of claim 3, wherein the gearing portion has an upper gear wheel and a lower gear wheel, the upper gear wheel is engageable with the tooth portions of the track of the extending board, the lower gear wheel is engageable with the restraining arm, where the restraining arm is capable of restraining the movement of the extending board when the depressed portion is not being depressed so as to allow the extending board to only move into the receiving space.

5. The extension rod device of claim 1, wherein the rod body forms a hollow portion therein which penetrates one end of the rod body for receiving one end of the first linking portion, the first connecting portion forms a connecting hole thereon which comprises a plurality of tooth-like grooves radially extending outward from peripheries of the connecting hole, the first linking portion disposed in the hollow portion and comprising at least a first engaging leg and at least a second engaging leg respectively extending out of the hollow portion and spaced apart from the rod body, the at least a first engaging leg and a second engaging leg correspondingly passing through the plurality of tooth-like grooves of the connecting hole, so as to connect the rod body and the positioning frame and allow the positioning frame to be rotatable upon the first linking portion.

6. The extension rod device of claim 5, wherein an interference portion is formed on one side of the first engaging leg or the second engaging leg, a plurality of embedding portions are formed on an inner wall of the connecting hole, and the interference portion is embedded into either one of the embedding portions relative to rotation of the positioning frame.

7. The extension rod device of claim 5, wherein the first linking portion further comprises an upper arm, a lower arm and a coupling arm coupling the upper and lower arms, the upper arm forming the at least a first engaging leg at a free end of the upper arm opposite to the coupling arm, the lower arm forming the at least a second engaging leg at a free end of the lower arm opposite to the coupling arm, and the upper and lower arms being spaced apart from each other with respect to a vertical middle portion of the coupling arm.

8. The extension rod device of claim 7, wherein a reinforcing element is formed between the upper and lower arms, the reinforcing element comprising two opposite ends respectively connected to the at least a first engaging leg and the at least a second engaging leg, and the reinforcing element comprising at least a bending portion bending the reinforcing element.

9. The extension rod device of claim 1, wherein the outer rod has right hand threads, and the inner rod has left hand threads.