Patent Application
20190227595
In one or more aspects, an apparatus includes, but is not limited to a case including a first frame shaped and sized to receive a tablet-shaped computing device; and a second frame shaped and sized to receive the first frame. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the disclosure set forth herein.
In addition to the foregoing, various other aspects are set forth and described in the teachings such as text (e.g., claims and/or detailed description) and/or drawings of the present disclosure. The foregoing is a summary and thus may contain simplifications, generalizations, inclusions, and/or omissions of detail; consequently, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the summary is illustrative only and is NOT intended to be in any way limiting. Other aspects, features, and advantages of the devices and/or processes and/or other subject matter described herein will become apparent in the teachings set forth herein.
For a more complete understanding of embodiments, reference now is made to the following descriptions taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The use of the same symbols in different drawings typically indicates similar or identical items, unless context dictates otherwise.
With reference now to the figures, shown are one or more examples of portable electronic device case based articles of manufacture, compositions of matter, systems for producing and/or methods for producing same that may provide context, for instance, in introducing one or more processes and/or devices described herein.
In the following detailed description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof. In the drawings, similar symbols typically identify similar components, unless context dictates otherwise. The illustrative embodiments described in the detailed description, drawings, and claims are not meant to be limiting. Other embodiments may be utilized, and other changes may be made, without departing from the spirit or scope of the subject matter presented here.
Portable electronic devices, such as electronic tablets, along with their conventional cases, can pose challenges in ease of use for holding such cases.
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Front frame 12 includes outer periphery 16, outer wall 18, inner ledge 20, outer lip 22, threaded stem 24, inner periphery 26, inner wall 28, and inner lip 30. Outer periphery 16 with outer wall 18, inner ledge 20, and outer lip 22 is sized and shaped to mate with rear frame 14. Thread stem 24 used in part for securing front frame 12 with rear frame 14. Inner periphery 26 with inner wall 28 and inner lip 30 is sized and shaped to receive a device to be held therein.
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Outer ledge 44 is recessed from upper edge 41 such that grip 56 is flush with upper edge 41 when handle assembly 54 is in the retracted position. As depicted, grip 56 is shaped and positioned to be in alignment with outer edge 44. Bands 58 are shaped and sized to be received by channels 52, which allow bands 58 to slide there through for movement of grip 56 between retracted (e.g.
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An exemplary device, such as a table-shaped computing device referred to herein as tablet 100 is shown in
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Front frame 12 can generally be made from first materials as polycarbonate materials or other hard materials such as other hard opaque plastic material and/or along with rear frame 14 can be made from combinations of first materials as polycarbonate materials or other hard materials such as other hard opaque plastic material and second materials as thermoplastic polyurethane, thermoplastic elastomer, silicone materials, or other soft material such as other soft plastic material, which provides shock absorption and surfaces for handling qualities. These first and second materials can be either co-molded or single molded. For instance, if front frame 12 were to be solely of one or more first materials, single molding would be performed. For instance, if rear frame 14 were to have various portions of first materials and other portions of second materials, co-molding would be performed. The harder first materials would provide more structural rigidity and the softer second materials would provide more shock impact characteristics and more surface texture to possibly aid its grip characteristics. Generally, first materials could have a hardness value greater than the hardness value of second materials. Hardness value is a material characteristic that is known to be generally expressed in terms of Shore A, Shore D, Rockwell, or other hardness measurement standards. General manufacturing considerations for co-molding can include use of tools to create metal (e.g. steel) moldings to first receive heated-melted material for solidification to form first-material-based portions and subsequently receiving other heated-melted material to be over-molded for solidification to form second-material-based portions. Single molded processes can be used to form for instance front frame 12 from a single material. Other molding processes can be used to manufacture front frame 12 or rear frame 14 as well.
While particular aspects of the present subject matter described herein have been shown and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that, based upon the teachings herein, changes and modifications may be made without departing from the subject matter described herein and its broader aspects and, therefore, the appended claims are to encompass within their scope all such changes and modifications as are within the true spirit and scope of the subject matter described herein. It will be understood by those within the art that, in general, terms used herein, and especially in the appended claims (e.g., bodies of the appended claims) are generally intended as “open” terms (e.g., the term “including” should be interpreted as “including but not limited to,” the term “having” should be interpreted as “having at least,” the term “includes” should be interpreted as “includes but is not limited to,” etc.). It will be further understood by those within the art that if a specific number of an introduced claim recitation is intended, such an intent will be explicitly recited in the claim, and in the absence of such recitation no such intent is present. For example, as an aid to understanding, the following appended claims may contain usage of the introductory phrases “at least one” and “one or more” to introduce claim recitations. However, the use of such phrases should not be construed to imply that the introduction of a claim recitation by the indefinite articles “a” or “an” limits any particular claim containing such introduced claim recitation to claims containing only one such recitation, even when the same claim includes the introductory phrases “one or more” or “at least one” and indefinite articles such as “a” or “an” (e.g., “a” and/or “an” should typically be interpreted to mean “at least one” or “one or more”); the same holds true for the use of definite articles used to introduce claim recitations. In addition, even if a specific number of an introduced claim recitation is explicitly recited, those skilled in the art will recognize that such recitation should typically be interpreted to mean at least the recited number (e.g., the bare recitation of “two recitations,” without other modifiers, typically means at least two recitations, or two or more recitations). Furthermore, in those instances where a convention analogous to “at least one of A, B, and C, etc.” is used, in general such a construction is intended in the sense one having skill in the art would understand the convention (e.g., “ a system having at least one of A, B, and C” would include but not be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and C together, etc.). In those instances where a convention analogous to “at least one of A, B, or C, etc.” is used, in general such a construction is intended in the sense one having skill in the art would understand the convention (e.g., “ a system having at least one of A, B, or C” would include but not be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and C together, etc.). It will be further understood by those within the art that typically a disjunctive word and/or phrase presenting two or more alternative terms, whether in the description, claims, or drawings, should be understood to contemplate the possibilities of including one of the terms, either of the terms, or both terms unless context dictates otherwise. For example, the phrase “A or B” will be typically understood to include the possibilities of “A” or “B” or “A and B.”
With respect to the appended claims, those skilled in the art will appreciate that recited operations therein may generally be performed in any order. Also, although various operational flows are presented in a sequence(s), it should be understood that the various operations may be performed in other orders than those which are illustrated, or may be performed concurrently. Examples of such alternate orderings may include overlapping, interleaved, interrupted, reordered, incremental, preparatory, supplemental, simultaneous, reverse, or other variant orderings, unless context dictates otherwise. Furthermore, terms like “responsive to,” “related to,” or other past-tense adjectives are generally not intended to exclude such variants, unless context dictates otherwise.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62620385 | Jan 2018 | US |
