Cellular phone with an integrated earphone storage apparatus

• US 9,520,913 B1
• Filed: 03/22/2016
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2016
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tomeka Jones
• Original Assignee: Tomeka Jones
• Inventors: Jones, Tomeka
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Brandon
• Application Number:
  US15/077,557
• Time in Patent Office: 266 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0258 for a headset device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/15 Protecting or guiding telephone cords
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1033 Cables or cables storage, e.g. cable reels cord reels per se H02G11/02; arrangements for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of conductors or cables B65H75/34; extensible conductors or cables, e.g. self-coiling cords H01B7/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's

Abstract

A cellular phone with an integrated earphone storage apparatus including a cellular phone and an earbud storage compartment attached to a back side of the cellular phone. The earbud storage compartment has a pair of slots including a right slot and a left slot. Each of the right slot and the left slot is continuously disposed from the front area to the back area proximal the right area and the left area, respectively. A circumference of each of the pair of slots substantially conforms to a circumference of each of a pair of earbuds of an earphone. One of the pair of earbuds is removably disposed within an opening of one of a pair of circular inner membranes disposed within an interior circumference of each of the right slot and the left slot, respectively. An earphone cord storage compartment is optionally attached to the back side of the cellular phone.

Claims

1. A cellular phone with an integrated earphone storage apparatus comprising:

a cellular phone having a front side, a back side, a display screen disposed on the front side, a top side, a bottom side, a right side, and a left side;

a substantially rectangular earbud storage compartment attached to the back side of the cellular phone proximal the top side and medially between the right side and the left side, the earbud storage compartment having a front area, a back area, a right area, a left area, and a pair of slots comprising a right slot and a left slot, wherein each of the right slot and the left slot is continuously disposed from the front area to the back area proximal the right area and the left area, respectively;

wherein a circumference of each of the pair of slots substantially conforms to a circumference of each of a pair of earbuds of an earphone; and

a pair of rubberized circular inner membranes comprising a right inner membrane and a left inner membrane, each of the right inner membrane and the left inner membrane disposed within an interior circumference of each of the right slot and the left slot, respectively, of the earbud storage compartment, wherein each of the right inner member and the left inner member has an opening having a ridged inner surface around the opening;

wherein one of the pair of earbuds is removably disposed within one of the pair of slots.

2. The cellular phone with an integrated earphone storage apparatus of claim 1 wherein the pair of earbuds of the earphone is wireless.

3. The cellular phone with an integrated earphone storage apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

a hollow circular disc-shaped earphone cord storage compartment attached to the back side of the cellular phone underneath the earbud storage compartment, the earphone cord storage compartment having a top portion, an aperture medially disposed through the top portion, and a spring-loaded spool medially disposed within the earphone cord storage compartment; and

an earphone cord of the earphone having a pair of first ends attached to the pair of earbuds and a second end electrically connected to an audio output port of the cellular phone disposed on a portion of the cellular phone covered within a circumference of the earphone cord storage compartment, wherein the earphone cord is retractable and, alternately, extendable on the spring-loaded spool of the earphone cord storage compartment with the earphone cord disposed through the aperture of the earphone cord storage compartment.