MOBILE PHONE HOLDER WITH LATERAL CONNECTIONS, ESPECIALLY FOR A MECHANICAL VEHICLE

• US 20090186666A1
• Filed: 01/03/2009
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BURY Sp. z o.o.
• Original Assignee: BURY Sp. z o.o.
• Inventors: BURY, Henryk
• Granted Patent: US 8,078,237 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/573
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

A mobile phone holder with lateral connectors, especially for a mechanical vehicle, provided with a base (1) and a cover (4) and a slide (3), which is mounted slideably in the base and into which a mobile phone is inserted, the the holder is provided with an unlocking module (2) with lateral buttons (15), which are connected to an eccentric wheel (17) and which, when pressed, unlock the mobile phone, wherein its slide (3) is provided with a power plug (9), mounted slideably in it, and having a casing (39) and pins (34), which are concurrently guided both along the guides (8) of the base (1) and the cover (4), the the guides inclined towards the axis of the holder and along the guide (30) of the flat protrusion (29) of the holder (3), that is perpendicular to the holder axis, thus making the power plug (9) move perpendicularly to the A-A axis of the holder.

Claims

1. A holder for a mobile phone having sockets disposed on a lateral surface, said holder comprising:

a base (1) having guides (8);

a cover (4);

a slide (3) adapted for holding the mobile phone, said slide (3) having a power plug (9) with a casing (39) and pins (34), and a flat protrusion (29) with a guide (30); and

an unlocking module (2) having lateral buttons (15) and an eccentric wheel (17);

wherein said power plug (9) is mounted slideably in said slide (3);

said slide (3) is mounted slideably in said base (1);

said slide (3) and said power plug (9) are slideable perpendicularly to an A-A axis of the holder;

said lateral buttons (15) are connected to said eccentric wheel (17);

said guides (8) are inclined with respect to an A-A axis of the holder; and

when said lateral buttons (15) are pressed the mobile phone is unlocked, and said casing (39) and said pins (34) are guided along said guides (8) and said cover (4) and along said guide (30).

2. The holder according to claim 1 comprising further signal plugs, wherein the casing (39) of the power plug (9) serves also as a casing for said signal plugs, and said signal plugs are adapted to engage with sockets disposed on a lateral surface of the mobile phone.

3. The holder of claim 1, comprising further a catch (22) with a spring (23), wherein said slide (3) is provided with an insert (36), said insert (36) being mounted slideably in said slide (3) in the parallel direction;

and said catch (22) is mounted on said insert (36) and is adapted to hold an upper edge of the mobile phone.

4. The holder of claim 3, wherein said catch (22) further comprises a blocking protrusion (24);

said unlocking module (2) further comprises a body (11) with protrusions (14) having guides (25); and

said blocking protrusion (24) is adapted to engage said guides (25) and to block said catch (22) when said slide (3) is in its lowest position with respect to said base (1).

5. The holder of claim 4, wherein said slide (3) comprises further a plate (19) having a hole (27);

said protrusion (14) is provided with a slot (35);

a guide pin (26) is mounted slideably in said hole (27), is guidable perpendicularly to the surface of the plate (19) in said slot (35), and is adapted to release said protrusion (14) when the mobile phone is inserted into the holder, whereby causing said slide (3) to move to its lowest position with respect to said base (1).

6. The holder of claim 1, wherein said unlocking module (2) comprises a body (11) having expanded arms (12), said expanded arms (12) serving as guides for said slide (3).

7. The holder of claim 1, wherein said cover (4) is provided in its lateral part with a guide (31) inclined with respect to the A-A axis of the holder, analogously to said guide (8), and adapted to guide said pin (34).

8. The holder of claim 5, wherein said plate (19) is provided with an antenna plug (33).