Protective apparatus for a portable device

• US 7,822,448 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2007
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ensky Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ensky Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Hsieh, Kuan-Hong, Lin, Tay-Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US11/759,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20070287514A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90.3, 455347-349, 455/351, 4555751-5754, 455/575.8, 455/66.1, 455/550.1, 4555561-5562, 455/559, 455/566, 455/569.1, 455/575.6, 340/7.63, 340/693.3, 340/391.1, 340/396.1, 340/815.49, 340/815, 340/51, 34087573-81574, 312185-188, 312/246, 24/15, 24/411, 24 42- 47, 150/105, 150/109, 150/112, 206/434, 206389-390, 206461-468, 206/471, 206701-702, 206758-761, 206/778, 206/745
• US Class Current: 455/575.8
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/15 Protecting or guiding telephone cords
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/18 Telephone sets specially adapted for use in ships, mines, or other places exposed to adverse environment H04M1/19 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention provided a protective apparatus for a portable device and accessories of the portable device. The protective apparatus includes a sleeve housing for accommodating the portable device, a cable retainer for coiling at least part of a cable portion of the accessory of the portable device, and a receptacle for receiving at least part of a bulky portion of the accessory of the portable device. The cable retainer is fixed on a back panel of the sleeve housing includes a cable holder for coiling the cable portion therearound, and a slidable ring movable relative to the cable holder and configured for securing the coiled cable portion in position around the cable holder. The protective apparatus has a simple design for easy manipulation and removal of the cable portion as well as the bulky portion.

Claims

1. A protective apparatus for retaining a portable device and at least one accessory of the portable device, the protective apparatus comprising:

a sleeve housing for accommodating the portable device, the sleeve housing comprising a front panel and a back panel;

a cable retainer for coiling at least part of a cable portion of the at least one accessory therearound; and

a receptacle for receiving at least part of a bulky portion of the at least one accessory;

wherein the cable retainer is provided at the back panel of the sleeve housing, and the cable retainer comprises a cable holder for coiling the cable portion of the at least one accessory therearound, and a slidable ring movable relative to the cable holder and configured for securing the coiled cable portion in position around the cable holder.

2. The protective apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sleeve housing further comprises at least one elastic connecting portion interconnecting the front panel and the back panel.

3. The protective apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at least a part of the front panel is made of transparent material.

4. The protective apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the cable holder has a slightly flared cylindrical shape, and the slidable ring has a substantially uniform cylindrical shape.

5. The protective apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a smaller base end of the cable holder is fixed to or integrally extends from the back panel, and an opposite larger end of the cable holder is connected with the slidable ring of the cable retainer such that the slidable ring is slidable relative to the cable holder.

6. The protective apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the slidable ring is slidable between an extended position in which the slidable ring is spaced from the back panel of the sleeve housing, and a retracted position in which the slidable ring is adjacent to the back panel of the sleeve housing.

7. The protective apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the receptacle comprises a clasp fixed on or integrally extending from the back panel of the sleeve housing, and the clasp is configured for accommodating the bulky portion of the at least one accessory.

8. The protective apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the clasp is an elastic, elliptical, openable ring with two ends that abut each other.

9. The protective apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the clasp defines a central through opening for accommodating the bulky portion of the at least one accessory, and when the ends of the clasp are separated from each other, the ends define an entrance therebetween, the entrance is in communication with the central through opening, and the bulky portion of the at least one accessory is able to be received in the central through opening via the entrance.

10. The protective apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a pedestal fixed on or integrally extending from the back panel of the sleeve housing, wherein the receptacle is configured in the pedestal.

11. The protective apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the receptacle comprises a pair of earpiece sockets.

12. The protective apparatus according to claim 11, wherein a diameter of an outmost end of each of the earpiece sockets is a little less than a diameter of an inmost end of the earpiece socket.

13. The protective apparatus according to claim 11, wherein an inner wall of each of the earpiece sockets comprises magnetic material.

14. The protective apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the receptacle comprises a pair of grooves defined at an outmost main surface of the pedestal.

15. The protective apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a transverse width of an opening of each of the grooves at the outmost main surface of the pedestal is narrower than a corresponding width of a midsection of the groove inside the pedestal.

16. The protective apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sleeve housing has a hole defined therein, for attaching of a detachable handle to the sleeve housing.