Mobile phone housing for a vehicle

• US 6,056,175 A
• Filed: 04/13/1999
• Issued: 05/02/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Becker Group Europe GmbH (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Becker Group Europe GmbH (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Roughton, Charles, Schidan, Alexander, Mieglitz, Hans-Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Vidovich, Gregory M.
• Application Number:
  US09/291,253
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 224/282, 224/539, 224/544, 224/483, 224/545, 224/553, 224/929, 224/926, 296/37.5, 296/37.8, 296/37.12, 379/441, 379/446, 379/455, 248/27.1, 248/311.2
• US Class Current: 224/282
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/50 Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle B60K35/231 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3877 Arrangements for enabling portable transceivers to be used in a fixed position, e.g. cradles or boosters
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/929 Article carrier for electrical device

Abstract

In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, an installation device for a vehicle is disclosed which in particular is for the releasable mounting of a handheld mobile phone. The installation device is designed with a housing (2) which is opened toward the front and is to be arranged on a receiving shaft of a vehicle part (1), such as an instrument panel, console, or the like, with a carrying part (16) which can be pivoted into, and out of, the housing (2) via a substantially vertically aligned axis of rotation (5), with a bearing plate (7) which is arranged on the carrying part (16) and is intended for the mobile phone (12) when the carrying part (16) has been pivoted out of the housing (2), and with a substantially horizontally aligned pivot axis (11) between the carrying part (16) and a bearing plate (7).

Claims

1. An installation device for the releasable mounting of a handheld mobile phone in a vehicle, said installation device comprising:

a housing having an open end engagable in a receiving shaft of the vehicle;

a carrying part pivotally attached to the housing such that the carrying part is pivotal into, and out of, the housing about a substantially vertically aligned axis of rotation; and

a bearing plate adapted to support the mobile phone when the carrying part has been pivoted out of the housing, said bearing plate being pivotally attached to the carrying part about a substantially horizontally aligned pivot axis.

2. The installation device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the substantially vertically aligned axis of rotation is located in a front corner region of the housing.

3. The installation device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the bearing plate is movable into an oblique position counter to the force of a restoring spring.

4. The installation device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the length of the bearing plate is less than the length of the mobile phone.

5. The installation device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the bearing plate has a stop at its free end for supporting the mobile phone.

6. The installation device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising buffers laterally arranged on the carrying part to support the mobile phone.

7. The installation device as claimed in claim 1 wherein, when the carrying part has been pivoted into the housing, the housing opening is closed off by a first screen, which is formed rigidly with the carrying part, and by a second screen, which is articulated on the housing in the region of the vertical axis of rotation about a substantially horizontally aligned axis of rotation.

8. The installation device as claimed in claim 7, further comprising a run-on slope arranged on the carrying part engagable with the second screen to pivot the second screen into an open position.