Mobile device case and armband with fluid chamber

• US 9,634,707 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Superior Communications (Sinclair Broadcast Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Superior Communications (Sinclair Broadcast Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Greenough, Alexander, Cho, Adam, Pan, Jason, Li, Ming-Shiuan, Ng, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US14/798,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20160013828A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 4555756, 4555758
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3861 carried in a hand or on fingers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/185 Improving the rigidity of the casing or resistance to shocks

Abstract

A case for a mobile device including a body with a fluid chamber configured to retain fluid therein. An armband for a mobile device includes a band with a fluid chamber configured to retain fluid therein. The fluid chamber may serve to cushion the mobile device or wearer'"'"'s arm when in use.

Claims

1. A case for a mobile device comprising:

a body configured to couple to the mobile device and cover at least a portion of the mobile device, the body including;

a fluid chamber configured to retain fluid therein and be positioned upon the mobile device when the mobile device is coupled to the body;

a base wall configured to cover a surface of the mobile device; and

a plurality of side walls each configured to cover a respective side surface of the mobile device and extending from the base wall such that the plurality of side walls and the base wall form a recess for receiving the mobile device, and

at least one of the base wall or at least one of the plurality of side walls includes the fluid chamber.

2. The case of claim 1, wherein the fluid is selected from a group consisting of:

a gas, a liquid, a gel, and combinations thereof.

3. The case of claim 1, wherein the fluid chamber has flexible side walls.

4. The case of claim 1, wherein the fluid chamber is sealed fluid-tight.

5. The case of claim 1, wherein the fluid is within the fluid chamber.

6. The case of claim 5, wherein the fluid has a density that is less than the density of water.

7. The case of claim 1, wherein the body includes at least four corners each for covering a respective corner of the mobile device, the fluid chamber being positioned on at least one of the four corners of the body.

8. The case of claim 1, wherein the fluid chamber forms a raised portion of the body.

9. The case of claim 1, wherein the body includes a plurality of fluid chambers.

10. A case for a mobile device comprising:

a base wall configured to cover a surface of the mobile device; and

a plurality of side walls each configured to cover a respective side surface of the mobile device and foaming at least two corners of the case and extending from the base wall such that the plurality of side walls and the base wall form a recess for receiving the mobile device, one of the plurality of side walls including a plurality of fluid chambers each configured to retain fluid therein and being positioned between two of the at least two corners.

11. The case of claim 10, wherein the plurality of side walls at the at least two corners are configured to be positioned upon a respective corner surface of the mobile device, and each of the plurality of fluid chambers are configured to be positioned upon a side surface of the mobile device positioned between corner surfaces of the mobile device.

12. The case of claim 10, wherein the plurality of fluid chambers are in fluid isolation from each other.

13. The case of claim 10, wherein each of the plurality of fluid chambers extend through a respective opening in the at least one of the plurality of side walls.

14. The case of claim 10, wherein a connector portion couples the plurality of fluid chambers to each other;

and

wherein the at least one of the plurality of side walls includes;

an inner layer including an interior surface configured to face towards the mobile device when the recess receives the mobile device;

an outer layer including an exterior surface configured to face opposite the interior surface; and

an intermediate layer including the connector portion positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer.

15. A case for a mobile device comprising:

a base wall configured to cover a surface of the mobile device; and

a plurality of side walls each configured to cover a respective side surface of the mobile device and forming at least two corners of the case, one of the plurality of side walls including a fluid chamber configured to retain fluid therein and being positioned between two of the at least two corners,

wherein the plurality of side walls at the at least two corners are configured to be positioned upon a respective corner surface of the mobile device, and the fluid chamber is configured to be positioned upon a side surface of the mobile device positioned between corner surfaces of the mobile device.

16. The case of claim 15, wherein the fluid chamber extends longitudinally along a length of the one of the plurality of side walls between the two of the at least two corners.

17. The case of claim 15, wherein the fluid chamber extends through an opening in the one of the plurality of side walls.

18. The case of claim 15, wherein the fluid chamber extends over a least forty percent of the length of the one of the plurality of side walls between the two of the at least two corners.

19. A case for a mobile device comprising:

a body configured to couple to the mobile device and cover at least a portion of the mobile device, the body including a plurality of fluid chambers configured to retain fluid therein and be positioned upon the mobile device when the mobile device is coupled to the body.

20. A case for a mobile device comprising:

a base wall configured to cover a surface of the mobile device; and

a plurality of side walls each configured to cover a respective side surface of the mobile device and forming at least two corners of the case, one of the plurality of side walls including a fluid chamber configured to retain fluid therein and being positioned between two of the at least two corners,

wherein the fluid chamber extends over at least forty percent of the length of the one of the plurality of side walls between the two of the at least two corners.