Patent Application
20240209978
In recent years, there has been an increase of “hands free” usage of cellular devices, specifically when operating an automobile, in effort to improve safer and attentive driving. To do this, individuals, are often required to purchase a new accessory or device to hold their mobiles which can be inconvenient and costly. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
An apparatus to increase the capability to use your mobile device “hands-free” both inside a vehicle and out, is not being met by any known device or system at present. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either.
The main purpose the protective case with kickstand is to provide users with a multi-purpose cell phone case with a rotating kickstand that also acts as a vent clip for cellphone replacement in vehicles.
A cell phone accessory, including a cell phone case having four lateral sides and a back configured to define a keyhole recess in a thickness thereof, a swivel joint configured flush with the back and to rotate three hundred and sixty degrees in a common plane with the back; and a leg configured to extend a first length from the swivel joint via a hinge and fold into the keyhole recess to be flush with the thickness and the back.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
The present disclosed protective case with kickstand, also known as “The Cellphone Kickstand Case”, offers a modern accessory that not only provides protection to a cell phone but will also eliminate the need of buying extra accessories to hold a phone at an ideal position within a car. Expanding on the initial design of an average phone case, the cellphone kickstand case introduces a novel safeguarding option that provides multiple uses. The cellphone case will provide drop impact protection to the phone while the kickstand/vent clip part will allow users to easily and conveniently prop the phone on any surface “hands-free”. Users can place the kickstand into the vent using the strategically designed slit which will act as a vent clip sustaining the phone in their car, independently, to support “hands-free” operations, such as GPS navigation. This innovative, top-quality product enhances the functionality of an average phone case and allows consumers to use their cases as a propping tool for cellular devices, at their leisure.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
