Data transmission blocking holder for personal data transmitting and receiving devices

• US 9,750,167 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Silent Solutions Inc.
• Original Assignee: Caged Idea's LLC
• Inventors: Nash, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Pickett, J. Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO
• Application Number:
  US12/876,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20120055824A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,548 Days
• Field of Search: 206320, 206377, 2064591, 2064595, 206725, 206727, 206203, 206 3, 206314, 206 14, 206305, 206523, 206719, 307113, 362 37, 362155, 232 5, 232 13, 63 118, 63 31
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0045 being rigid plastic containers having a coating of shielding material
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0047 being rigid plastic containers having conductive particles, fibres or mesh embedded therein

Abstract

A personal communication device (“PCD”) holder includes: an at least semi-rigid housing having a base wall and at least one side wall extending from the base wall so as to form a housing into which a user can place a PCD, the base wall and the at least one side wall including a conductive material so that the base wall and the at least one side wall bock are data signal blocking; and a lid configured to be moveable with respect to the housing so as to enable the user to (i) place the PCD into the housing and (ii) securely and releasably close the lid onto the housing, the lid also including a conductive material so that when the lid is closed onto the housing, the holder is data signal blocking, preventing a data signal from reaching the PCD.

Claims

1. A personal communication device PCD holder comprising:

an at least semi-rigid housing having a base wall and at least one side wall extending from the base wall so as to form a housing into which a user can place a PCD, at least one of the base wall and the at least one side wall including a conductive material so that the at least one of the base wall and the at least one side wall are data signal blocking;

a lid configured to be moveable with respect to the housing so as to enable the user to (i) place the PCD into the housing and (ii) securely and releasably close the lid onto the housing, the lid also including a conductive material so that when the lid is closed onto the housing, the holder is data signal blocking, preventing a data signal from reaching the PCD;

a separate material secured to and extending out from an interfacing edge of one of the housing and the lid so as to extend into the other of the lid and the housing when mated, the separate material (i) structured to have the same shape as an opening formed by the other of the lid and the housing and sized so as to fit snugly within each inner surface forming the opening and (ii) being conductive and data signal blocking, providing additional signal blocking protection between the lid and the housing; and

an illumination source configured to illuminate when the lid is closed onto the housing to indicate the PCD holder is data signal blocking.

2. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the lid is slideable with respect to the housing.

3. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the lid is hingedly connected to the housing.

4. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the lid is configured to be securely and releasably closed onto the at least one side wall.

5. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein at least one of the base wall, the at least one side wall and the lid is a rigid, bare metal wall having a thickness greater than one millimeter.

6. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein at least one of the base wall, the at least one side wall and the lid includes a conductive layer attached to at least one synthetic layer.

7. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein at least one of the base wall, the at least one side wall and the lid includes a metal-impregnated synthetic material.

8. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein at least one of the base wall, the at least one side wall and the lid includes a conductive layer coupled to an organic material.

9. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the housing is a first housing, and wherein the lid is part of a second housing, the first housing slidingly engaging the second housing.

10. The PCD holder of claim 9, wherein the lid is the only conductive material containing wall of the second housing.

11. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the housing is formed by placing a mandrel inside of the base wall and the at least one side wall and inserting a synthetic material between the mandrel and the base and side walls.

12. The PCD holder of claim 11, wherein the lid is translated onto and off of the housing.

13. The PCD holder of claim 1, an wherein the illumination source configured such that when the lid is opened the illumination source stops illuminating to indicate that the PCD holder is no longer signal data blocking.

14. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the conductive material of the base wall, the at least one side wall and the lid is continuous, discontinuous, perforated or meshed.

23. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the separate material is further configured to contact and hold the PCD snugly within the holder.

24. The PCD holder of claim 1, wherein the separate material is laminated to one of the housing and the lid.

15. A personal communication device PCD holder comprising:

a first housing having a first wall and at least one side wall extending from the first wall so as to form an opening into which a user can place a PCD, each of the first wall and the at least one side wall including a conductive material, the first housing further including structure that is (a) sized based upon a size of the PCD and (b) structured inside the at least one side wall so as to form-fit to a shape of a particular PCD to inhibit movement of the PCD within the first housing, providing at least one of scratch and impact protection to the PCD; and

a second housing having a base wall and at least one side wall extending from the base wall so as to form an open end bounded by the at least one side wall, the open end sized to receive only the two shortest of the length, width and height dimensions of the PCD so that the second housing receives the PCD in a tubular manner, the at least one side wall of the second housing including a conductive material, the second housing configured to be moveable with respect to the first housing so as to enable the user to (i) place the PCD into the first housing and (ii) releasably secure the open end of the second housing to the first housing, so that the PCD holder is data signal blocking, preventing a data signal from reaching the PCD.

16. The PCD holder of claim 15, wherein the first wall of the first housing includes an apparatus for grasping and pulling the first housing from the second housing.

17. The PCD holder of claim 15, wherein the first and second housings including mating structures for releasably securing the second housing to the first housing.

25. The PCD holder of claim 15, wherein the inhibiting structure is of a foam or gasket material.

26. The PCD holder of claim 15, wherein the inhibiting structure includes a cutout in the first housing.

18. A personal communication device PCD holder assembly comprising:

a plurality of PCD'"'"'s;

an at least semi-rigid housing having a base wall and at least one side wall extending from the base wall so as to form a housing, the housing including a divider such that multiple users can place and compartmentalize their PCD'"'"'s into the housing, the base wall and the at least one side wall including a conductive material so that the base wall and the at least one side wall are data signal blocking, the divider (i) being non-conductive and not signal blocking, (ii) extending from the base wall, and (iii) defining a plurality of rows and columns, the plurality of rows and columns forming compartments to hold the plurality of PCDs, each compartment including an indicium;

a plurality of portable markers associated with each compartment, each of the plurality of portable markers indicating one of the indicia of the compartments; and

a lid configured to be moveable with respect to the housing so as to enable the users to (i) place the PCD'"'"'s into the housing and (ii) securely and releasably close the lid onto the housing, the lid also including a conductive material so that when the lid is closed onto the housing, the holder is data signal blocking, preventing a data signal from reaching the PCD'"'"'s.

19. The PCD holder assembly of claim 18, which is configured to be bolted to or built as part of a larger structure.

20. The PCD holder assembly of claim 18, wherein each said indicium includes at least one of a unique visual (ii) number or (iii) image.

21. The PCD holder assembly of claim 18, wherein the base wall and the at least one side wall of the housing include a preexisting conductive layer forming the conductive material, the preexisting conductive layer fitted within a preexisting insulating layer.

22. The PCD holder assembly of claim 21, wherein the preexisting layers are adhered, heat sealed and/or manually pressed together.