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Protective enclosure for touch screen device

  • US 9,010,537 B2
  • Filed: 09/02/2012
  • Issued: 04/21/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A protective enclosure for a device responsive to a tactile stimulus, the enclosure allowing operation of the device while the device is disposed in the enclosure, the enclosure comprising:

  • a tray comprising an interior device seating area and a rim around the device seating area, the tray adapted for receiving the device on the device seating area and oriented with a portion thereof responsive to a tactile input facing away from the device seating area; and

    a lid movable relative to the device seating area of the tray between an open position and a closed position, the lid comprising;

    a rim around an aperture, the aperture positioned for viewing an interior portion of the enclosure there through, anda substantially transparent pliable membrane positioned in the viewing aperture of the lid, the membrane comprising an interior window portion that is projected outwardly of the rim around the aperture of the lid;

    a continuous pliable seal positioned between the rim of the lid and the rim of the tray when the lid is in the closed position relative to the tray;

    wherein the enclosure comprises a protective case portion adapted to hold the touch screen device and allowing operation of the touch screen and of one or more actuators on a side of the touch screen device; and

    wherein the device seating area of the tray is further adapted to position at least a portion of the touch screen device outwardly of the rim of the lid and through the aperture thereof, with the touch screen of the touch screen device and the one or more actuators thereof being positioned substantially outwardly of the rim of the lid and through the aperture thereof when the lid is in the closed position relative to the tray.

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