Protection device of personal digital assistant

• US 6,536,589 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2001
• Issued: 03/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tery Chih-Hao Chang
• Original Assignee: Tery Chih-Hao Chang
• Inventors: Chang, Tery Chih-Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US09/835,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20020148745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 206/305, 206/320, 206/701, 206/722, 455/90, 455/128, 455/351
• US Class Current: 206/320
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1633 Protecting arrangement for the entire housing of the computer

Abstract

The present invention provides a protection device of a personal digital assistant (PDA). The protection device comprises a protection shell and a protection cover body. The protection shell has a receiving space therein to receive a PDA. The protection shell has a window at the front side thereof so that an electronic panel of a PDA can be exposed through the window. One end of the protection shell forms an opening so that a PDA can be conveniently placed into the receiving space. One end of the protection cover body is pivotally connected to the protection shell so that the protection cover body can cover on the window or be unfolded. A protection device of a PDA is thus formed. The present invention can effectively prevent the electronic panel of a PDA from abrasion and breakage and facilitate the use and keeping of a PDA.

Claims

1. A protection device for a personal digital assistant, comprising:

a protection shell having a front end and a rear end; and

a protection cover body having a front portion and a rear portion, said rear portion of said protection cover body being pivotally coupled to said rear end of said protection cell, said protection shell including;

a pair of opposite side members extending between said front and rear ends of said proteciton shell, said side memebrs respectively forming therebetween a front opening and a rear opening at said front and rear ends of said protection shell, each said side member having an upper wall and a lower wall connected to said upper wall by a side wall extending along the length of said upper and lower walls, said upper, side and lower walls of each said side member forming a receiving channel extending between said front and rear ends of said protection shell, sides of a personal digital assistant being slidably received in said receiving channels, and the personal digital assistant being accessible at said front and rear openings of said protection shell; and

a pair of mounting tabs respectively extending towards each other from said upper wall of said side members of said protection shell at said rear end thereof, each said mounting tab having an edge portion with a pivotal hole formed therein;

said protection cover body including a pivotal seat at said rear portion thereof, said pivotal seat being disposed between said edge portions of said mounting tabs of said protection shell, said pivotal seat having a pair of pivot pins respectively extending from opposing sides thereof in pivotal engagement with said pivotal holes of said mounting tabs.

2. The protection device of a personal digital assistant as claimed in claim 1, wherein said front and rear openings of said protection shell form through holes.

3. The protection device of a personal digital assistant as claimed in claim 1, wherein said protection cover body includes an area made of a transparent material.

4. The protection device of a personal digital assistant as claimed in claim 1, wherein said protection cover has sides thereof and lock bodies located at said sides of said protection cover body, and wherein said protection shell includes lock grooves disposed on said upper walls of said side members in alignment with said lock bodies of said protection cover body for clamping engagement therewith.