Chip card holder with protective cover for portable electronic devices

• US 9,118,140 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chang, Ming-Shiung, Lin, Chih-Lung, Sun, Kuo-Heng, Li, Xin-Yi, Tseng, Chao-Kun
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, Adrian S
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARANOWSKI, IZAK J
• Application Number:
  US13/753,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20130237086A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/005 the record carrier comprising an arrangement to facilitate insertion into a holding device, e.g. an arrangement that makes the record carrier fit into an etui or a casing ticket holders A45C11/18
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/46 Bases; Cases

Abstract

A chip card holder includes a housing, a printed circuit board, a seat, a pivotable shaft, a protective cover, a receiving frame, and a tray. The housing defines an opening. The seat is slidably received in the housing. The protective cover is rotatably connected to the seat with the pivotable shaft configured for covering the opening. The receiving frame is mounted on the printed circuit board. The tray is positioned on the seat, and is slidably received in the receiving frame.

Claims

1. A chip card holder comprising:

a housing defining an opening;

a printed circuit board received in the housing;

a seat slidably received in the housing and defining a guiding groove with an inner wall;

a pivotable shaft;

a protective cover rotatably connected to the seat by the pivotable shaft and is configured for covering the opening;

a receiving frame mounted on the printed circuit board; and

a tray positioned face down on the seat and forms a retaining tab;

wherein the protective cover is pulled to move the seat to extend from the opening until the retaining tab is slid to abut against the inner wall of the guiding groove, and the seat and the tray are pulled together to slide out of the opening.

2. The chip card holder of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises opposite rails;

the seat comprises a seat body and opposite extending plates, located at opposite sides of the seat body, and a longitudinal slot is defined in each extending plate; and

the rails of the housing are slidably received in the slots.

3. The chip card holder of claim 2, wherein one end of each extending plate has a projection;

a limiting block is located in one side of the housing and adjacent to each rail; and

the projections are stopped by the limiting blocks in the housing for preventing the seat from separating from the housing.

4. The chip card holder of claim 1, wherein the protective cover comprises a first plate portion and a second plate portion, wherein the first plate and the second plate are integral;

and at least one first barrel is located at one end of an inside surface of the first plate portion, one end of the seat has at least one second barrel, and the pivotable shaft is inserted into the first barrel and the second barrel for rotatably connecting the protective cover to the seat, and the at least one first barrel and the at least one second barrel are hidden by the protective cover.

5. The chip card holder of claim 1, wherein the tray comprises a rectangular plate portion, an end edge, and two opposite side edges;

and the rectangular plate portion, the end edge, and the two side edges cooperatively define a receiving groove, to receive a chip card.

6. The chip card holder of claim 5, wherein each side edge has a positioning groove, each receiving frame comprises a frame body and two opposite edges, each of the two opposite edges defines a cutout and a latching portion exposed from the cutout, and the latching portion is latched in the positioning groove.

7. The chip card holder of claim 5, wherein the retaining tab is located on the rectangular plate portion.

8. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a housing defining an opening;

a printed circuit board received in the housing; and

a chip card holder, the chip card holder comprising;

a seat slidably received in the housing and defining a guiding groove with an inner wall;

at least one pivotable shaft;

a protective cover rotatably connected to the seat by the at least one pivotable shaft and is configured for covering the opening

two receiving frames mounted on the printed circuit board; and

two trays positioned face down on the seat, each tray forms a retaining tab;

wherein the protective cover is pulled to move the seat to extend from the opening until the retaining tabs are slid to abut against the inner wall of the guiding groove, and the seat and the trays are pulled together to slide out of the opening.

9. The portable electronic device of claim 8, wherein the protective cover comprises a first plate portion and a second plate portion, wherein the first plate and the second plate are integral;

at least one first barrel is formed at one end of an inside surface of the first plate portion, one end of the seat has at least one second barrel;

the pivotable shaft is inserted into the first barrel and the second barrel for rotatably connecting the protective cover to the seat, and the at least one first barrel and the at least one second barrel are hidden by the protective cover.

10. The portable electronic device of claim 8, wherein each tray comprises a rectangular plate portion, an end edge, and two opposite side edges, the rectangular plate portion, the end edge and the two side edges cooperatively define a receiving groove to receive a chip card.

11. The portable electronic device of claim 10, wherein each side edge has a positioning groove, each receiving frame comprises a frame body and two opposite edges, each of the two opposite edges defines a cutout and a latching portion exposed from the cutout, and the latching portion is latched in the positioning groove.

12. The portable electronic device of claim 10, wherein the retaining tab is located on the rectangular plate portion of each tray.

13. A chip card holder comprising:

a housing defining an opening;

a printed circuit board received in the housing;

a protective cover comprising a plurality of first barrels;

a seat slidably received in the housing, the seat comprising a plurality of second barrels and defining a guiding groove with an inner wall;

at least one pivotable shaft inserted into the first barrels and the second barrels for rotatably connecting the protective cover to the seat;

a tray positioned face down on the seat and forms a retaining tab; and

a receiving frame mounted on the printed circuit board, the tray slidably received in the receiving frame;

wherein when in a closed state, the seat and the tray are received in the housing, the protective cover covers the opening and the first barrels and the second barrels are hidden by the protective cover;

wherein the protective cover is pulled from the closed state to extend the seat from the opening and is rotated about the at least pivotable shaft until the retaining tab is slid to abut against the inner wall of the guiding groove, the seat moves the tray and the tray slides relative to the receiving frame to allow the tray to be exposed from the opening.