Protective frame for mobile communication device

• US 8,634,887 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2012
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Taer Innovation Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Core Design Communications Ltd.
• Inventors: Hu, Li-Ming, Lu, Yu-Chun, Wang, Chin-Sheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US13/398,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20130088815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90.3, 455/575.1, 455/575.8, 455/550.1, 455/575.4
• US Class Current: 455/575.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1628 Carrying enclosures containing additional elements, e.g. case for a laptop and a printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3883 Arrangements for mounting batteries or battery chargers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers

Abstract

The invention relates to a protective frame for a mobile communication device having a power charging port. The protective frame has a retractable frame body, including a main frame body; a sliding element for reciprocatingly sliding along a direction with respect to the main frame body between a retracted protection position where the mobile communication device is fixedly framed by the retractable frame body and a stretched auxiliary power supply position; and a fastening element for fixing the sliding element with respect to the main frame body at the retracted protection position and the stretched auxiliary power supply position. The protective frame also includes an auxiliary battery adapted for being detachably installed in the retractable frame body and electrically connected to the power charging port of the mobile communication device, when the sliding element are fixed with respect to the main frame body at the stretched auxiliary power supply position.

Claims

1. A protective frame for a mobile communication device provided with a power charging port, comprising:

a retractable frame body, including

a main frame body;

a sliding element, adapted for reciprocatingly sliding along a retraction direction with respect to the main frame body between a retracted protection position where the mobile communication device is fixedly framed by the retractable frame body and a stretched auxiliary power supply position; and

a fastening element for fixing the sliding element with respect to the main frame body at the retracted protection position and the stretched auxiliary power supply position; and

an auxiliary battery adapted for being detachably installed in the retractable frame body and electrically connected to the power charging port of the mobile communication device, when the sliding element are fixed with respect to the main frame body at the stretched auxiliary power supply position;

wherein the main frame body includes a top edge section and two lateral edge sections extending from the top edge section and arranged in substantially parallel to each other, in which each of the lateral edge sections is formed at its end remote from the top edge section with a through hole and a fixing trough having an opening, and wherein the sliding element comprises a closure section having two end edges and two sliding arms extending from the two end edges towards the two fixing troughs, and wherein the top edge section of the main frame body or the closure section of the sliding element is formed with a perforated insertion hole, and wherein the auxiliary battery further comprises an insertion connection port arranged opposite in position to the power charging port and corresponding to the perforated insertion hole.

2. The protective frame according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device includes a display side and a back side opposite to the display side, and wherein the auxiliary battery further includes a connector part clipped within the retractable frame body and a power storing part extending from the connector part and at least partially shielding the back side of the mobile communication device.

3. The protective frame according to claim 1, wherein the respective sliding arms are formed with two fixing holes corresponding to the through holes, so as to permit the sliding element to be positioned at either the retracted protection position or the stretched auxiliary power supply position with respect to the main frame body.

4. The protective frame according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the main frame body and the sliding element is formed with a sliding groove extending along the retraction direction, and the fastening element comprises at least one bolt extending through the sliding groove and adapted for releasably securing the sliding element to the main frame body.

5. The protective frame according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the main frame body and the sliding elements is formed with a buckling trough for buckling the connector part of the auxiliary battery to the mobile communication device when the sliding element is positioned at the stretched auxiliary power supply position with respect to the main frame body.