Screen protector with lip for mobile device case

• US 8,923,937 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ballistic Products Limited
• Original Assignee: A.G. Findings and Mfg.
• Inventors: Tages, Fernando, Kleinman, Alan, Acero, Daniel, Sotelo, Jorge
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAHEED, KHALID W
• Application Number:
  US13/705,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20130295310A1
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 206/304.2, 206/305, 206/471, 206/521, 455/550.1, 455/575.1, 455/575.4, 455/575.8
• US Class Current: 455/575.8
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1634 Integrated protective display lid, e.g. for touch-sensitive display in handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/185 Improving the rigidity of the casing or resistance to shocks
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0086 portable, e.g. battery operated apparatus casings for switching devices H01H9/02
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/03 Covers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1397 Single layer [continuous layer]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24008 including fastener for attaching to external surface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24653 Differential nonplanarity at margin

Abstract

A screen protector for a mobile device case in which the mobile device case is sized to receive a mobile device having a screen. The screen protector has a perimeter portion and a lip disposed on at least a portion of the perimeter portion.

Claims

1. A screen protector for a mobile device case sized to receive a mobile device having at least six faces and a screen disposed on one of the at least six faces, the screen protector being sized to at least partially cover the face including the screen and at least partially cover two other faces of the mobile device when the mobile device is inserted with the mobile device case.

2. The screen protector of claim 1, wherein a portion of the screen protector is substantially planar.

3. The screen protector of claim 2, wherein the screen protector further includes a lip, and wherein the lip is disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter portion of the screen protector.

4. The screen protector of claim 3, wherein the lip extends away from the screen protector in a direction orthogonal to the screen protector.

5. The screen protector of claim 4, wherein the screen protector further includes a ridge, and wherein the ridge is disposed around the portion of perimeter portion of the screen protector on around which the lip is disposed, and wherein the ridge extends a distance away from the screen protector in the opposite direction from which the lip extends.

6. The screen protector of claim 5, wherein at least a portion of the ridge and the lip are concealed within a portion of the mobile device case when the mobile device is inserted within the mobile device case.

7. The screen protector of claim 1, wherein the screen protector is substantially transparent.

8. The screen protector of claim 1, wherein the screen protector is composed of polycarbonate.

9. The screen protector of claim 1, wherein the screen protector defines a cavity sized to receive a portion of the mobile device when the mobile device is inserted within the mobile device case.