Double locking device of a belt clip

• US 5,791,019 A
• Filed: 12/28/1995
• Issued: 08/11/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeong, Byeong-Ro
• Primary Examiner(s): Sholl, Linda J.
• Application Number:
  US08/579,821
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 224/667, 224/666, 224/668, 224/669, 224/670, 224/269, 224/930, 455/351, 24/3.11, 24/3.12
• US Class Current: 24/3.11
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0516 Portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/021 to the belt
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/088 with parts of the receiver detachable or collapsible
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/93 Attached to animate bearer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1391 Article held by clip with spring [e.g., leaf, coil] member

Abstract

A double locking device of a belt clip having a lever provided with a hinge opening through which a hinge shaft passes; a belt clip holder for engaging the lever with a pager housing, the belt clip holder being provided with the hinge opening, a guide projection, an groove, a hanging rib and a hanging projection; the pager housing including a guide rail into which the guide projection of the belt clip holder slides, a hanging recess, an opening provided with a tension part having a protrusion on a side of the guide rail, and a guide channel situated between the opening and the guide rail; a locker including a protrusion adapted to be in contact with the protrusion of the tension part and a stopper adapted to be slid into the guide channel and to be put into the groove of the belt clip holder, thereby to lock the belt clip holder into the pager housing, the locker being engaged into the opening of the pager housing and locking the belt clip holder slid into the guide rail; and a coil spring having the lever turning elastically around the hinge shaft within a predetermined angle after being engaged with the belt clip holder.

Claims

1. A belt clip assembly of fixing a lever to a housing, comprising:

said lever including a hinge opening through which a hinge shaft passes;

a belt clip holder for engaging the lever with the housing so that said lever is turned around said hinge shaft within a predetermined angle, said belt clip holder being provided with a hinge opening through which said hinge shaft passes such as said hinge opening, a guide projection slid into the housing, a groove formed at one side of said guide projection, an elastic hanging rib situated in a center of said belt clip holder, and a hanging projection integrally formed on a end of said elastic hanging rib;

the housing including a guide rail into which said guide projection of said belt clip holder is slid, a hanging recess into which a hanging projection of said belt clip holder is put around a top portion and a center portion between the left and right of said guide rail, an opening provided with a tension part having a protrusion and formed at one side of said guide rail, and a guide channel formed between said opening and said guide rail;

a lock including a protrusion adapted to be in contact with said protrusion of a tension part, and a stopper adapted to be slid into said guide channel and to be put into said groove of said belt clip holder, thereby to lock said belt clip holder into the housing, said lock being engaged with said opening of the housing and locking said belt clip holder slid into said guide rail; and

a coil spring having said lever turned elastically around said hinge shaft within a predetermined angle after being engaged with said belt clip holder,

said coil spring being situated between said lever and said belt clip holder, said hinge shaft passes through said respective hinge openings, and engaging said lever with said belt clip holder, said belt clip holder is slid into said guide rail of the housing with said aid of said guide projection so that said hanging projection of said hanging rib is put into said hanging recess, and said lock is engaged with said opening of the housing with said stopper of said lock slides into said guide channel of the housing and said protrusion of said lock is adapted to be in contact with said protrusion of said tension part.

2. A belt clip assembly, comprising:

a housing having a plurality of open regions;

a cam disposed in each of the open regions;

a first rectangular member, positioned within a first of said open regions of said housing and including a stopper and means for engaging the cam of said first of said open regions;

a second rectangular member, positioned within a second of said open regions of said housing, having guide projections extending along a periphery received by a pair of guide rails of said second of said open regions of said housing, and a groove formed on one of said guide projections accommodating and locking with said stopper of said first rectangular member, said second rectangular member including means for engaging the cam of said second of said open regions;

a coil spring; and

a lever rotatably engaging said second rectangular member by said coil spring, said coil spring turning said lever about a hinge shaft so that said lever engages with said housing.

3. The belt clip assembly of claim 2, comprising said first rectangular member moving in a direction orthogonal to said second rectangular member.

4. The belt clip assembly of claim 3, wherein said cam in said first open region comprises tension parts that are coplanar and flush to each other before, during and after camming action.

5. The belt clip assembly of claim 4, wherein said cam in said second open region comprises a hanging recess and said second rectangular member means for engaging the cam comprises a hanging projection, where said hanging recess and said hanging projection occur in different intersecting planes during and after camming action.

6. The belt clip assembly of claim 5, comprising a belt positioned between said lever and said housing.

7. The belt clip assembly of claim 2, wherein said first open region is orthogonal to said second open region.

8. The belt clip assembly of claim 7, comprising said cam of said thumblatch of said first open region is comprised of tension parts that are coplanar and flush to each other before, during and after camming action.

9. The belt clip assembly of claim 8 wherein said cam in said second open region includes a hanging recess and said second rectangular member means for engaging the cam includes a hanging projection where said hanging recess and said hanging projection occur in different intersecting planes during and after camming action.

10. The belt clip assembly of claim 9, comprising a belt lying between said lever and said housing.

11. A belt clip assembly, comprising:

a housing having a single continuous surface perforated by first and second rectangular open regions, each containing a locking cam, a thumblatch inserted into the first of said regions in an unlocked position, and a lever rotatably attached by a hinge to a belt clip holder;

said belt clip holder being inserted and locked into the second of said two open rectangular regions, said belt clip holder including means for engaging the cam of the second rectangular open region; and

said thumblatch slidable into a locking position by movement toward said belt clip holder positioned within said second open rectangular region causing a stopper section of said thumblatch to lock with a groove in said belt clip holder, said thumblatch including a means for engaging the cam of the first rectangular open region.

12. The belt clip assembly of claim 11, said two open rectangular regions being orthogonal to each other.

13. The belt clip assembly of claim 12, wherein said cam in said first open region comprises tension parts that are coplanar and flush to each other before, during and after camming action.

14. The belt clip assembly of claim 13 wherein said cam in said second open region comprises a hanging recess and said second rectangular member comprises a hanging projection, where said hanging recess and said hanging projection occur in different intersecting planes during and after camming action.

15. The belt clip assembly of claim 14, comprising a belt positioned between said lever and said housing.

16. A belt clip assembly, comprising:

a housing having a first and second rectangular recess, said second rectangular recess surrounded by guide rails;

a cam disposed in each recess;

a first rectangular member, positioned within said first rectangular recess, said first rectangular member having a stopper that interlocks and engages with said groove on said second rectangular member, said first rectangular member including means for engaging the cam of said first rectangular recess;

a second rectangular member, positioned within said second rectangular recess, said second rectangular member having guide projections extending along a periphery and received by said guide rails of said second recess, said second recess having a groove for receiving a stopper of said first rectangular member, said second rectangular member including means for engaging the cam of said second rectangular recess;

a coil spring; and

a lever rotatably engaging said second rectangular member by said coil spring, said coil spring turning said lever about a hinge shaft so that said lever engages with said housing.

17. The belt clip assembly of claim 16, said first rectangular recess being orthogonal to said second rectangular recess.

18. The belt clip assembly of claim 17, wherein said cam in said first recess comprises tension parts that are coplanar and flush to each other before, during and after camming action.

19. The belt clip assembly of claim 18, wherein said cam in said second recess comprises a hanging recess and said second rectangular member comprises a hanging projection, where said hanging recess and said hanging projection occur in different intersecting planes during and after camming action.

20. The belt clip assembly of claim 19, comprising a belt positioned between said lever and said housing.