Mirror for a mobile device

• US 9,730,506 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2015
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Geanine M. Lamberger
• Original Assignee: Geanine M. Lamberger
• Inventors: Lamberger, Geanine M.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRA, TUYEN Q
• Application Number:
  US14/854,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20160077401A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 359263, 359245, 3592012, 359318, 359359, 359449, 35948404, 349113, 345173
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 42/08 Shaving mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 42/10 illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 42/24 Flexible mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0808 having a single reflecting layer G02B5/0883, G02B5/0891 take precedence

Abstract

A mirror for a mobile device, the mirror configured as a flexible multilayered laminate electrostatically and removably adhered to a viewing screen or other smooth surface of the mobile device. The laminate has at least one reflective layer adhered to an optically transparent bottom layer made of a plastic-silicone material and the laminate includes a middle switchable film layer that when current is applied becomes optically opaque, allowing a split screen use of the viewing screen. For instance, when current is applied to the laminate, half of the viewing screen is a mirror and the other half allows use of software and other features of the mobile device.

Claims

1. A mirror laminate for use with a mobile device, the mobile device having a viewing screen and an outer case having a back side, the mirror laminate comprising:

a reflective top layer; and

an optically transparent bottom layer laminated to the reflective top layer,

wherein the bottom layer is at least one of a flexible plastic layer and a flexible vinyl layer and is electrostatically charged;

whereby the mirror laminate is removably electrostatically adhered to at least one of the viewing screen and the outer case; and

a middle layer sandwiched between the top layer and the bottom layer,

wherein said middle layer is a switchable film, and

further comprising power means to supply current to the middle layer;

wherein supplying current to the middle layer creates an optically opaque laminate and removing current to the middle layer creates an optically transparent laminate.

2. The mirror laminate of claim 1, wherein power means to supply current to the middle layer is comprised of electrical wires housed in a frame adhered to the mirror laminate.

3. The mirror laminate of claim 1, wherein power means to supply current to the middle layer is controlled by a switch.

4. The mirror laminate of claim 1, wherein the middle layer is applied to a portion of the laminate, such that the mirror laminate is three layers thick in the portion and two layers thick in another portion.

5. The mirror laminate of claim 1, further comprising an LED array strip adhered to a perimeter of the viewing screen.

6. The LED array strip of claim 5, wherein said strip houses electrical power and supply means.

7. The LED array of claim 5, wherein current to the array is controlled by a switch.