Laptop keyboard and mouse track pad protection sleeve

• US 9,241,552 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2014
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Marcellus Duvall Hunter
• Original Assignee: Marcellus Duvall Hunter
• Inventors: Hunter, Marcellus Duvall
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US14/485,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20150189961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 150/154, 400/496, 400/713, 400/714, 235/145.R, 206/320, 312/208.3, 312/208.4, 361/679.02, 361/679.26, 361/679.55, 455/575.8
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/00 Receptacles for purposes not provided for in groups A45C1/00-A45C9/00 specially adapted for toiletry or cosmetic equipment A45D29/20, A45D44/18; travelling sewing kits A45F3/48
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 2011/003 for portable computing devices, e.g. laptop, tablet, netbook, game boy, navigation system, calculator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0202 Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2223/044 Protecting cover

Abstract

A protection sleeve for use in covering an electronic device includes a flexible body portion having an upper surface defining a plurality of receptacles configured to overlie respective keys of the keyboard and defining a recessed area configured to nest in the mouse track pad of the electronic device. The protection sleeve includes a sleeve portion coupled to a bottom surface of the body portion, the sleeve portion having a front wall coupled to a front edge of the body portion and having a bottom wall extending rearwardly from the front wall that is generally parallel to the upper surface of the body portion. The upper surface of the body portion, the front wall, and the bottom wall together define an open area configured to receive the electronic device and define an open inlet in communication with the open area to selectively receive the electronic device into the open area.

Claims

1. A protection sleeve for use in covering an electronic device that includes a keyboard having a plurality of keys and a mouse track pad so as to prevent water damage, comprising:

a generally flexible body portion having a generally planar configuration defining a plurality of receptacles configured to overlie respective keys of the keyboard and defining a recessed area configured to nest in the mouse track pad of the electronic device; and

a sleeve portion coupled to a bottom surface of said body portion, said sleeve portion having a front wall coupled to a front edge of said body portion and extending downwardly therefrom and having a bottom wall extending rearwardly from said front wall that is generally parallel to an upper surface of said body portion;

wherein;

said bottom surface of said body portion, said front wall, and said bottom wall together define an open area configured to selectively receive a partial section of the electronic device and define an open inlet in communication with said open area that is configured to receive the electronic device into said open area;

said body portion includes a front end and a rear end opposed from said front end;

said body portion includes a pair of opposed side edges extending between said front end and said rear end; and

said sleeve portion includes a pair of side walls opposed from one another that extend downwardly from respective side edges of said body portion and that extend rearwardly from said front wall so as to further enclose said open area of said sleeve portion;

said body portion includes a plurality of spaced apart tabs coupled to a respective side edge of said body portion, each tab having a flexible construction and being movable between a closed configuration hanging downwardly from said respective side edge and a open configuration extending outwardly away from said respective side edge so as to expose a portion of the electronic device when the electronic device is received in said sleeve portion.

2. The protection sleeve as in claim 1, wherein said body portion includes an auxiliary tab coupled to another respective side edge of said body portion, said auxiliary tab having a flexible construction with an elongate configuration that is movable between a closed configuration hanging downwardly from said another side edge and an open configuration extending outwardly away from said respective side edge so as to expose a portion of the electronic device when the electronic device is received in said sleeve portion.

3. The protection sleeve as in claim 2, wherein:

said plurality of tabs is adjacent said rear end of said body portion and displaced from respective side walls of said sleeve portion;

said auxiliary tab is adjacent said rear end of said body portion and displaced from respective side walls of said sleeve portion.

4. The protection sleeve as in claim 3, wherein said body portion is constructed of an opaque material.

5. The protection sleeve as in claim 1, wherein said body portion is constructed of an opaque material.

6. The protection sleeve as in claim 1, wherein said body portion is constructed of a waterproof material.

7. The protection sleeve as in claim 1, wherein:

said upper surface of said body portion that is adjacent said recessed area forms an upper wall of said sleeve portion; and

said recessed area is positioned atop said open area of said sleeve portion.

8. The protection sleeve as in claim 1, wherein:

said plurality of receptacles is proximate said rear end of said body portion; and

said recessed area is proximate said front end of said body portion.