Carrying apparatus for automobile portable electronic device

• US 7,984,886 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2008
• Issued: 07/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rocky Yi-Ping Lin
• Original Assignee: Rocky Yi-Ping Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Rocky Yi-Ping
• Primary Examiner(s): BAXTER, GWENDOLYN WRENN
• Application Number:
  US12/332,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20100148030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 248/663, 248/181.1, 248/288.31, 248/288.51, 248/918, 248/160, 248/346.06, 224/553, 224/282, 224/42.38, 224/548, 224/557, 224/929, 108/44, 108/45, 108/138, 108/145, 108/150
• US Class Current: 248/181.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0252 for personal computers, e.g. laptops, notebooks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0071 using latches, clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0089 around three axes, i.e. universally mounted
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/918 Ancillary device support associated with a video display screen

Abstract

A carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device includes a carrying module, a support rod, a quick release mechanism and a universal joint. The carrying module includes a tray, and the support rod is installed under the tray. The quick release mechanism is installed between the tray and the support rod. The quick release mechanism includes a clamping module and a binder turning rod, and the clamping module is connected to the support rod, and the binder turning rod is passed and disposed at the clamping module. An end of the universal joint is connected to the tray, and another end of the universal joint is covered and clamped by the clamping module, and the tray can be turned and deviated in two-dimensional directions with respect to the support rod.

Claims

1. A carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device, comprising:

a carrying module, including a tray;

a support rod, installed under the tray;

a quick release mechanism, installed between the tray and the support rod, and comprising;

a clamping module, coupled to the support rod;

a binder turning rod, passed and disposed at the clamping module;

a universal joint, with an end coupled to the tray, and another end covered and clamped by the clamping module, such that the tray can be turned and deviated in two-dimensional directions with respect to the support rod; and

a support module coupled to the bottom side of the tray, and the support module comprising a bushing coupled to the bottom side of the tray and a contractible rod passed into the bushing and contractible with respect to the bushing being pivotally coupled to a plate at the bottom of the contractible rod and a binding screw secured to a lateral side of the bushing.

2. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 1, wherein the clamping module comprises a first clamp and a second clamp coupled to the first clamp, and each of the first and second clamps has a ball socket, and the universal joint includes a connecting end coupled to the tray and a spherical ball coupled to the connecting end, and the spherical ball is covered and held by the ball socket.

3. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 2, wherein the first clamp and the second clamp include a bump formed separately at the bottom of the first clamp and the bottom of the second clamp, and a slot is formed around the periphery of an end of the support rod for embedding the bump.

4. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 3, wherein the first clamp and the second clamp have connected to the bottom of the ball sockets respectively, and the cylindrical pillars are provided for forcibly passing and pressing the binder turning rod.

5. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 4, wherein the binder turning rod comprises a screw pillar pivotally coupled to a turning rod at an end of the screw pillar and a nut, and the screw pillar is passed through the cylindrical pillars, and the nut is secured at another end of the screw pillar.

6. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 5, wherein the turning rod includes a binding arc pillar abutted against an outer surface of the cylindrical pillar for forcibly pressing the first clamp and the second clamp.

7. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 1, wherein the carrying module further comprises a carrying plate fixed onto the tray, and the carrying plate has a size larger than the tray.

8. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 1, wherein the carrying module further comprises a plurality of positioning frames coupled to the tray and a plurality of binding screws for fixing the positioning frames and connecting the tray.

9. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 8, wherein the positioning frame comprises a support plate and a binding plate coupled to both ends of the support plate respectively, and the support and binding plates are substantially in a U-shape, and the binding plate is fixed to the support plate by a binding screw.

10. The carrying apparatus of an automobile portable electronic device as recited in claim 1, wherein the carrying module comprises a plurality of shock absorbers coupled to the tray.