Patent Application
20230223975
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The disclosure relates to case devices and more particularly pertains to a new case device for facilitating a user to view a smart phone while lying down. The device includes a smart phone case for receiving a smart phone, a lid hingedly coupled to the smart phone case and a mirror disposed on the lid. The mirror reflects a display of the smart phone when the lid is opened. In this way the user can view the display in the mirror while the user is lying down with the smart phone case lying on their body.
The prior art relates to case devices including a variety of smart phone stands for propping a smart phone up in an upright position to facilitate the smart phone to be viewed. The prior art discloses a variety of smart phone cases for protecting a smart phone from impact damage. The prior art discloses a smart phone case with a foldable element for containing a foldable smart device. The prior art discloses a cosmetics case which can be attached to a smart phone case and which includes a mirror.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a smart phone case for containing a smart phone such that a display of the smart phone is visible. A lid is hingedly coupled to the smart phone case and the lid is positionable in a closed position or an open position. A mirror is positioned in the lid such that the mirror reflects the display on the smart phone when the lid is in the open position. In this way the mirror facilitates a user to view the display in the mirror. A pocket is integrated into the lid to insertably receive a credit/debit card.
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
As best illustrated in
A lid 30 is hingedly coupled to the smart phone case 12 and the lid 30 is positionable in a closed position or an open position. The lid 30 has a top wall 32 and a peripheral wall 34 extending away from the top wall 32, and the peripheral wall 34 has a distal edge 36 with respect to the top wall 32. The distal edge 36 corresponding to a first side 38 of the peripheral wall 34 is hingedly coupled to the distal edge 28 corresponding to a first side 40 of the perimeter wall 20 of the smart phone case 12. Furthermore, the distal edge 36 of the peripheral wall 34 rests against the distal edge 28 of the perimeter wall 20 when the lid 30 is in the closed position. The top wall 32 has a first surface 42 and a second surface 44, and the peripheral wall 34 extends away from the first surface 42.
A mirror 46 is provided and the mirror 46 is positioned in the lid 30. The mirror 46 is comprised of a light reflecting material such that the mirror 46 reflects the display 16 on the smart phone 14 when the lid 30 is in the open position. In this way the mirror 46 facilitates a user 48 to view the display 16 in the mirror 46 while the user 48 is lying down, sitting at a table or a flat surface. The mirror 46 is bonded to the first surface of the top wall 32 of the lid 30 and the mirror 46 completely covers the first surface 42 of the top wall 32. A pocket 50 is integrated into the lid 30 to insertably receive a credit/debit card 51. The pocket 50 has a rear side 52 and a front side 54, and the rear side 52 is bonded to the second surface 44 of the top wall 32 of the lid 30. The front side 54 has a slot 56 extending into an interior of the pocket 50 to insertably receive the credit/debit card 51.
In use, the smart phone 14 is positioned in the smart phone case 12 such that the display 16 is visible in the smart phone case 12. The lid 30 is positioned in the open position at an angle that facilitates the mirror 46 to reflect the display 16. In this way, as is most clearly shown in
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, assembly 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.
