Housing and clip assembly for portable electronics device

• US 8,180,410 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2008
• Issued: 05/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sandisk Technologies Incorporated (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Hyekyung
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O
• Application Number:
  US12/134,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20090305752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,439 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

The subject matter described herein includes a housing and clip assembly for a portable electronics device. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a housing for a portable electronics device is provided. The housing includes a housing member for holding components of a portable electronics device. The components include a display. The housing further includes a lens coupled to the housing member for allowing viewing of the display. The lens includes a first position at rest and pivots to a second position for controlling a function of the portable electronics device.

Claims

1. A housing for a media player with an integrated radio, the housing comprising:

a housing member for holding components of the media player with the integrated radio, the components including a display; and

a lens coupled to the housing member for allowing viewing of the display, the lens having a first position at rest and pivoting independently from the display to a second position for tuning the radio of the media player to a desired frequency.

2. The housing of claim 1 wherein the housing member comprises a unitary member forming five faces of substantially rectangular parallelepiped and wherein the lens comprises a unitary member that forms a sixth face of the substantially rectangular parallelepiped.

3. The housing of claim 1 wherein the lens pivots from the first position to a third position for tuning the radio of the media player.

4. The housing of claim 3 wherein the third position is pivotally opposite the second position.

5. The housing of claim 3 wherein the lens pivots from a range of about zero degrees to about one degree from the first position to the second position and from about zero degrees to about one degree from the first position to the third position.

6. The housing of claim 1 wherein the lens includes protrusions extending towards the housing member for activating switches in the housing member to tune the radio of the media player.

7. The housing of claim 6 comprising a coupling member for coupling the lens to the housing member, the coupling member including biasing members adjacent to the protrusions for biasing the lens to return to the first position from the second position.

8. The housing of claim 7 wherein the coupling member and the housing member form a pivot joint for allowing the lens to pivot from the first position to the second position.

9. The housing of claim 7 wherein the coupling member includes at least one slot for increasing flexibility of the coupling member in a direction of the pivoting of the lens.

10. The housing of claim 1 wherein the lens comprises a photonic crystal material.

11. The housing of claim 1 wherein the lens defines a face of the housing bounded by sidewalls of the housing member and wherein the entirety of the face defined by the lens pivots from the first position to the second position.

12. A housing for a media player with an integrated radio, the housing comprising:

a housing member for holding components of the media player with the integrated radio, the components including a display, the housing member comprising a unitary member that defines five faces of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped; and

a lens coupled to the housing member for allowing viewing of the display, the lens comprising a unitary member defining a sixth face of the substantially rectangular parallelepiped, wherein the lens has a first position at rest and pivots independently from the display towards the housing member to a second position and to a third position pivotally opposite the second position for tuning the radio of the media player to a desired frequency.