Patent Application
20110302595
The present application relates to a compact disc organizer, and more particularly to a temporary compact disc organizer for using in the workspace to organize and hold a discs temporarily.
Note that the points discussed below may reflect the hindsight gained from the disclosed inventions, and are not necessarily admitted to be prior art.
Compact discs (CDs) have been used for the storage of data, movies, music, games, software, and other media-related contents. But compact discs can be very easily scratched and damaged. Many complicated efforts have been made to provide storage and organization of compact discs. For example, US Patent Application No. 2004/0169446 A1 discloses an organization kit that contains multiple CD storage cases stacking together. The cases have a base and a top hinged with hinge tabs.
Another example is U.S. Pat. No. 6,588,609 B1 which discloses a cylindrical rotatable storage device that is placed underneath a monitor. The structure is sufficiently complicated that it is divided into several storage compartments having varying shapes.
US Patent Application No. 2009/0314670 A1 attempted to simplify the design by disclosing a spindled package tray for holding plurality of discs. However, the tray still includes a multi-layer structure: a depression, a spindle, and multiple holes and a cover.
Associated with these complicated design structures are the higher cost for purchasing and replacing such devices. They may not be suitable and convenient for temporary storage of CDs in a workspace where multiple CDs may be repeatedly played or used in several days or weeks.
The present application discloses a novel and simple design for temporary storage and protection of CDs in workspace for easy access and convenience for repeated play and access.
In an example embodiment, the CD organizer includes a spindle and a stable base. The base is a shape that provides sufficient stability with the spindle holding plurality of CDs.
In one aspect of embodiment, the base is of an elongated “J” shape with a wide angle, with the spindle vertically perpendicular to the base at the junction. The spindle is of cylindrical shape with a diameter smaller than the central hole of a CD.
Such a dramatically simpler CD holder provides cost efficiency and easy to use advantage than any other complicated designs. Users can simply place such CD organizer on the desk or the top of a gaming device, for temporary holding of CDs that are being repeatedly played in this period of time.
The disclosed invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which show important sample embodiments of the invention and which are incorporated in the specification hereof by reference, wherein:
The numerous innovative teachings of the present application will be described with particular reference to presently preferred embodiments (by way of example, and not of limitation). The present application describes several embodiments, and none of the statements below should be taken as limiting the claims generally.
For simplicity and clarity of illustration, the drawing figures illustrate the general manner of construction, and description and details of well-known features and techniques may be omitted to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the invention. Additionally, elements in the drawing figures are not necessarily drawn to scale, some areas or elements may be expanded to help improve understanding of embodiments of the invention.
The terms “first,” “second,” “third,” “fourth,” and the like in the description and the claims, if any, may be used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable. Furthermore, the terms “comprise,” “include,” “have,” and any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions, such that a process, method, article, apparatus, or composition that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to those elements, but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, apparatus, or composition.
In a game room or living room, most people have their favorite game or music CDs or movie CDs to play repeatedly. Or sometimes, people just want to try out some new games or movies without having to place them back to storage. The situation could become messy when multiple CDs are taking out to try. Without an organizer, these CDs may be scratched and damaged. The disclosed design provides such a CD organizer for a workspace to temporarily hold these CDs for trying out.
It is contemplated and intended that the disclosed design be made of any suitable material, preferably plastic. Other material may include metal, wood, rubber, glass, stone, and plexiglass (i.e. acrylic plastic resin), etc.
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As will be recognized by those skilled in the art, the innovative concepts described in the present application can be modified and varied over a tremendous range of applications, and accordingly the scope of patented subject matter is not limited by any of the specific exemplary teachings given. It is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and broad scope of the appended claims.
Additional general background, which helps to show variations and implementations, may be found in the US Patent Application No. 2009/0314670 A1, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein for all purposes.
None of the description in the present application should be read as implying that any particular element, step, or function is an essential element which must be included in the claim scope: THE SCOPE OF PATENTED SUBJECT MATTER IS DEFINED ONLY BY THE ALLOWED CLAIMS. Moreover, none of these claims are intended to invoke paragraph six of 35 USC section 112 unless the exact words “means for” are followed by a participle.
The claims as filed are intended to be as comprehensive as possible, and NO subject matter is intentionally relinquished, dedicated, or abandoned.
This application claims the benefit of the U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/397,234 filed on Jun. 8, 2010, the entirety of which is thereby incorporated by reference.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61397234 | Jun 2010 | US |
