Mobile radio terminal adapted to receive a protective cover

• US 6,081,595 A
• Filed: 09/13/1996
• Issued: 06/27/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel Mobile Phones
• Inventors: Picaud, Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiang, Jack
• Application Number:
  US08/713,699
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• Field of Search: 379/446, 379/426, 379/454, 379/447, 379/455, 379/449, 455/348, 455/349, 455/344, 455/347, 455/351, 455/89, 455/90, 248/316.4, 224/929, 224/930, 224/269
• US Class Current: 379/446
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts

Abstract

A mobile radio terminal is adapted to receive a protective cover and includes guides that cooperate with fixing arrangements on the cover. The guide is accessible to the fixing arrangements via one face of the terminal so that the cover is removable.

Claims

1. In combination, a mobile radio terminal and a separably removable cover, said cover having three parallel integral faces, comprising a cover main face between two opposite cover lateral faces and having an open end, said cover slidably insertably receiving said terminal within said open end, covering three corresponding parallel faces of the terminal including an operating face between two opposite terminal lateral faces, said terminal also comprising a back face opposite to that of said operating face, wherein said two opposite parallel faces of said terminal and of said cover comprise, integral therewith, respective engageable rims and grooves from said open end so that the initially separated cover is removably coupled to the terminal simply by inserting rims into grooves and sliding the cover onto at least a portion of the terminal, and wherein respective engageable rims and grooves are symmetrically disposed with respect to said operating and back faces, so that said cover can be inserted to overlie either of said operating and back faces of said terminal.

2. A mobile radio terminal and cover combination in accordance with claim 1, wherein said terminal and said cover comprise locking means including an elastic lock on one of said cover and terminal engaging a lock receiving part on said other of said cover and terminal, for removably locking the inserted cover in position where it covers said portion of the terminal.