US 11,897,396 B2Granted

Mobile device mounting system

AssigneePeak Design

InventorsRobb Jankura, Matthew Thomas James, Peter Dering, Peter Lockett, Arthur Viger, Andrew Wheeler Gans, Kiran Malladi, Adrienne Rowell, Jaimee Erickson, Max A. Maloney, Joseph Cunningham, Dane Jones, Colin Maginnis, Rachel Roberts

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Abstract

A mobile device mounting system includes a device case and a mount. The device case includes: an insert including a rectangular bore and defining a set of undercut sections about the rectangular bore; and a first set of magnetic elements arranged in a first pattern about the rectangular bore. The mount includes: a body; a polygonal boss extending from the body and configured to insert into the rectangular bore; a set of locking jaws arranged on the polygonal boss configured to transiently mate with the set of undercut sections to constrain the polygonal boss within the rectangular bore; and a second set of magnetic elements arranged in a second pattern about the polygonal boss and configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic elements to transiently retain the mount against the device case and to drive the set of locking jaws toward the set of undercut sections.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A mounting system comprising:

a device case comprising:
a back side
an insert in the back side:
comprising a bore;
and
defining at least one undercut section about the bore configured to transiently mate with a boss of a mobile device mount;
a first set of magnetic or ferromagnetic elements in the back side of the device case arranged in a first pattern about the bore;
and
a mobile device mount comprising:
a body;
a boss:
extending from an inner face of the body;
and
configured to insert into the bore of the device case;
a second set of magnetic or ferromagnetic elements
arranged in a second pattern about the boss;
and
configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic or ferromagnetic elements in the back side of the device case to align the boss with the bore of the insert of the device case, to transiently retain the mount against a rear face of the device case;
and
a guard or pad layer configured to abut the inner face of the body of the mobile device mount with the back side of the device case to stabilize the boss within the insert.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/981,767Filed 7 Nov 2022 · continuation
Priority: 31 Jul 2019
Published: US 2023/0054404 A123 Feb 2023
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification46 codes

B60R 11/02
Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for: for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement…
B60R 11/0241
For radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof: for telephones
B60R 11/0252
For radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof: for personal computers, e.g. laptops, notebooks
B60R 16/03
Electric constitutive elements: for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for

Family

Application62/881,217Us provisional application · filed 31 Jul 2019
Application16/945,687Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 31 Jul 2020
Application17/067,612Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Oct 2020
US 2023/0054404 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Feb 2023
US 11,548,451 B2Parent of this continuation
US 11,585,485 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application17/067,612Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2021/0041057 A1Published application
US 2021/0046885 A1Published application
US 11,897,396 B2This patent

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