Security strip defining a security slot and attachable to mobile electronic devices

• US 9,476,229 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2014
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Original Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Inventors: Avganim, Meir
• Primary Examiner(s): MCNICHOLS, ERET C
• Application Number:
  US14/305,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20140366593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 70/14, 70/58
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0005 using chains, cables or the like chain- or cable-locks of the padlock type E05B67/003; lockable clothing hangers or hanger racks E05B69/006
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles

Abstract

A security strip or stick-on tab is attachable to the underneath of a very thin tablet or notebook device, with very little thickness added at the bottom of the device and not interfering with its resting on a flat surface. The strip or stick-on tab has a section protruding from underneath which becomes thickened and defines a standard security slot into which a lock with a cable are attachable to enable the cable to be irremovably attached to an immobile object, such as a chair or a desk, preventing theft of the secured device.

Claims

1. A security strip attachable to a thin mobile electronic device, the security strip comprising:

a strip body shaped as a thin, strip-shaped component with a length and a thickness dimension wherein the length of the strip body is at least ten times the width of the strip body, and the width of the strip body is at least 20 times the thickness of the strip body;

screw holes defined along the length of the strip body for enabling screwing the strip body to an underside of the mobile electronic device;

a security slot body protruding from the strip body and having a thickened portion thicker than the thickness dimension of the strip body and defining therein a security slot in which a locking element of a locking device is receivable, wherein said security slot has an opening that provides access into said slot, and said opening is rectangularly shaped and said thickened portion has a thickness substantially larger than the thickness of the strip body; and

left and right legs formed on the security strip for resting against a support surface of the mobile electronic device and for supporting said mobile electronic device on said left and right legs, wherein each said left and right legs is located nearer a respective one of a left side and a right side of said strip body and wherein the security slot has a trapezoidal shape within, said trapezoidal shape of said slot being defined by first and second sidewalls which abut and define an opening into said slot and said sidewalls tapering away from each other as said sidewalls extend away from said opening.

2. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the security slot opening measures about 3×

7 mm.

3. The security strip of claim 1, wherein said opening into the trapezoidal security slot has a length dimension that is not greater than 5 mm.

4. The security strip of claim 1, wherein the security slot body projects away from the strip body at an angle thereto from one side of said strip.