Patent Application
20180367653
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The disclosure and prior art relates to support devices and more particularly pertains to a new support device for enhancing a service life of a charge cord.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a charge cord that is electrically coupled to an electronic device. A plug is electrically coupled to the charge cord. A support is positioned around the charge cord and the plug. The support is comprised of a resiliently flexible material such that the support inhibits the charge cord from bending on the plug thereby enhancing a service life of the charge cord.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A support 20 is provided and the support 20 is selectively positioned around the charge cord 12 and the plug 16. The support 20 is comprised of a resiliently flexible material such that the support 20 inhibits the charge cord 12 from bending on the plug 16. In this way the support 20 enhances a service life of the charge cord 12 by reducing the likelihood of conductors in the cord from breaking due to repeated bending.
The support 20 comprises a box 22 that has a first end 24, a second end 26 and a first lateral side 27. Moreover, each of the first 24 and second 26 ends and the first lateral side 27 is open. A tail 28 is coupled to and extends away from the second end 26 and the tail 28 has a distal end 30 with respect to the box 22. The tail 28 is twisted into a plurality of coils 32. Moreover, the coils 32 are spaced apart from each other such that the tail 28 forms a helix extending between the second end 26 and the distal end 30 of the tail 28. Indicia may be printed on the box 22 and the indicia may comprise a selected logo and image.
In use, the charge cord 12 is positioned between the distal end 30 of the tail 28 and an adjacent coil 32 to the distal end 30 of the tail 28. Moreover, the tail 28 is rotated around the charge cord 12 until the charge cord 12 extends through an entire length of the helix. The plug 16 is extended through the first lateral side 27 of the box 22 and the plug 16 is positioned in the box 22 having the distal end 18 of the plug 16 extending outwardly through the first end 24. Thus, the distal end 18 of the plug 16 is exposed for plugging into the electronic device 14.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, system and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
