Cover for mobile device with ecological lighter

• US 9,641,208 B2
• Filed: 04/22/2013
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lilach Sela
• Original Assignee: Sagi Sela
• Inventors: Sela, Sagi, Sharipov, Eli, Amshikashvili, Shalva
• Primary Examiner(s): Rivero, Alejandro
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEREZ, ANGELICA
• Application Number:
  US14/404,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20150141093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• Field of Search: 4556758, 455349, 4555561, 4555751, 361264-265, 219267, 219270, 219260, D14250, 431132, 431135
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 15/00 Purses, bags, luggage or other receptacles covered by groups A45C1/00 - A45C11/00, combined with other objects or articles A45C1/08, A45C3/14, A45C11/321, A45C13/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 2011/002 for portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: F23Q 2/32 Lighters characterised by being combined with other objects combinations with smokers' equipment A24F
• CPC Class Codes: F23Q 2/36 Casings
• CPC Class Codes: F23Q 7/16 with built-in battery
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/181 Enclosures for portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1633 Protecting arrangement for the entire housing of the computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/185 Improving the rigidity of the casing or resistance to shocks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads

Abstract

A portable electric cigarette lighter or mobile device accessory with integrated portable electric cigarette lighter, the mobile device accessory including: (a) a protective accessory for a mobile device; (b) an electric lighter mechanism integrated into the protective accessory, the lighter mechanism including: (i) a heating element, (ii) a power source, (iii) an actuator, adapted to activate the heating element by operationally coupling the heating element to the power source and (d) a slide shutter adapted to reversibly expose the heating element.

Claims

1. A mobile device accessory with integrated portable electric cigarette lighter comprising:

(a) a mobile device cover including a lip adapted to frictionally engage at least two peripheral edges of said mobile device and adapted to house said mobile device in such a manner that said mobile device can be removed there-from and replaced therein; and

(b) an electric lighter mechanism irremovably built into a back panel of said mobile device cover, said electric lighter mechanism including;

(i) a heating device, built in fixed relation to said back panel,

(ii) a power source, and

(iii) an actuator, adapted to activate said heating device by operationally coupling said heating device to said power source; and

(iv) a slide shutter, said slide shutter biased in a direction such that in a resting state, said slide shutter hides said heating device and in an activated state said slide shutter reveals said heating device and actuates said actuator, said slide shutter adapted to reversibly expose said heating device, wherein said slide shutter is further adapted to actuate said actuator when exposing said heating device.

2. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said power source is an independent power source.

3. The mobile device accessory of claim 2, wherein said independent power source is selected from the group including:

a rechargeable battery, a non-rechargeable battery, a solar powered battery, and a combination of any of the above.

4. The mobile device accessory of claim 2, wherein said lighting mechanism further includes:

(iv) a power port, adapted to receive a line from a power source to charge said independent power source.

5. The mobile device accessory of claim 4, wherein said power port is further adapted to charge a power source of a mobile device encased in said protective accessory.

6. The mobile device accessory of claim 4, wherein said power port is selected from the group comprising:

a mini Universal Serial Bus (USB) port and a micro USB port.

7. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said power source is adapted to receive power from said mobile device encased in said protective accessory.

8. The mobile device accessory of claim 7, further comprising:

(c) a coupling mechanism adapted to couple said encased mobile device to said heating device.

9. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said protective accessory is a mobile device case.

10. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said slide shutter is further adapted to actuate said actuator when hiding said heating device from view.

11. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said actuator is a slide shutter adapted to reversibly expose said heating device.

12. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said mobile device cover further includes a top member configured to removably engage an open edge of said front panel, such that in an engaged state said mobile device is immobilized in said mobile device cover.

13. The mobile device accessory of claim 1, wherein said mobile device cover further comprises:

a front panel, said front panel operationally coupled to said back panel, said front panel including said lip and wherein said front panel is interposed between said back panel and said mobile device.