Universal mobile electronic device holder and carrying case

• US 7,040,590 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2003
• Issued: 05/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jeffrey D Carnevali
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey D Carnevali
• Inventors: Carnevali, Jeffrey D.
• Primary Examiner(s): BAXTER, GWENDOLYN WRENN
• Application Number:
  US10/607,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20040262481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 248/311.2, 248/314, 248/316.1, 248/313, 248/903, D76/20, D76/25, 297/188.04, 297/248, 297/188.06, 297/188.11, 297/188.12, 297/188.2, 379/455, 211/32, 224/411, 224/926, 220/903, 206/254
• US Class Current: 248/311.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/103 detachable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/108 with resilient holding elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0056 using suction cups
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0071 using latches, clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0075 using a containment or docking space
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0089 around three axes, i.e. universally mounted
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/903 Support reinforcement

Abstract

A single combined holding and carrying apparatus that is both permanently installable as a vehicle holding platform and removably attachable as by a belt to a user'"'"'s person as a personal carrying apparatus for a cellular telephone or other mobile electronic device. The apparatus is formed of a thin-walled rectangular tube-shaped body molded of a resiliently pliable material, the body being structured with an opening positioned adjacent to one end and a closure adjacent to an opposite end, whereby an interior cavity of the apparatus is formed. The apparatus includes a lip structure formed external to the tube-shaped body and contiguous with the opening; a plurality of pliable fins formed as projections from interior walls of the tube-shaped body; and a pair of spaced-apart fastener apertures formed in one exterior wall of the body.

Claims

1. A combined holding and carrying apparatus for a mobile electronic or other device, the apparatus comprising:

a cup-shaped body open at a first end and closed at a second opposing end, the cup-shaped body having a plurality of resiliently pliable members formed integrally with the cup-shaped body as a thin sheet of resiliently pliable material that is projected inwardly of the cup-shaped body from an interior wall surface, and one exterior wall surface being provided with an integral attachment structure;

an integral lip structure formed contiguous with the cup-shaped body at the first open end; and

a pair of bosses integrally formed in one exterior wall of the cup-shaped body, the pair of bosses being spaced-apart by one or more intervening stiffeners integrally formed in a diamond pattern with the bosses.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the thin sheet of resiliently pliable material project substantially perpendicularly from the interior wall surface of the cup-shaped body.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cup-shaped body further comprises a substantially rectangular tube-shaped body that is open at a first end and closed at a second opposing end.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a pair of opposing recesses formed in the cup-shaped body and contiguous lip structure.

5. A combined holding and carrying apparatus for a mobile electronic or other device, the apparatus comprising:

a thin-walled rectangular tube-shaped body molded of a resiliently pliable material, the body being structured with an opening positioned adjacent to a first end and being further structured with a closure positioned adjacent to a second end opposite from the opening;

an integral lip structure being formed contiguous with the opening and external to the tube-shaped body;

a plurality of fins being integrally formed as projections from each interior wall of the tube-shaped body;

a pair of spaced-apart fastener apertures integrally formed in one exterior wall of the tube-shaped body;

a pair of opposing relief slots formed in the opening of tube-shaped body; and

a pair of bosses integrally formed in one exterior wall of the tube-shaped body, the pair of bosses being spaced-apart by one or more intervening stiffeners integrally formed in a diamond pattern with the bosses.

6. A combined holding and carrying apparatus for a mobile electronic or other device, the apparatus comprising:

a cup-shaped body open at a first end and closed at a second opposing end, the cup-shaped body having a plurality of resiliently pliable members projected inwardly of the cup-shaped body from an interior wall surface and formed integrally therewith,

a pair of bosses integrally formed in one exterior wall of the cup-shaped body, the pair of bosses being spaced-apart by one or more intervening stiffeners integrally formed in a diamond pattern with the bosses;

an integral lip structure formed contiguous with the cup-shaped body at the first open end; and

a pair of opposing recesses formed in the cup-shaped body and contiguous lip structure.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein each of the resiliently pliable members further comprises a thin sheet of resiliently pliable material.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the thin sheets of resiliently pliable material project substantially perpendicularly from the interior wall surface of the cup-shaped body.

9. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the cup-shaped body further comprises a substantially rectangular tube-shaped body.

10. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the plurality of resiliently pliable members further comprise a plurality of cilia.

11. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the plurality of resiliently pliable members further comprise a plurality of conical knobs.