Support apparatus for portable devices
AssigneeEvotek Engineering S.R.L.
InventorGian Luigi CAVANI
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Abstract
A support apparatus for portable devices, comprising: a first lever exhibiting a rest surface of a portable device; a second lever for constraining the portable device housed on the rest surface; the first lever and the second lever being hinged in order to be rotatable between a first reciprocally-neared position thereof in which the device is constrained to the first lever and the second lever and a second reciprocally-distanced position thereof in which the device is released from the first lever and the second lever.
Claims11
A support apparatus for portable devices, comprising:
- a first lever exhibiting a rest surface of a portable device;
- a second lever for constraining the portable device housed on the rest surface;
- the first lever and the second lever being hinged in order to be rotatable between a first reciprocally-neared position thereof in which the device is constrained to the first lever and the second lever and a second reciprocally-distanced position thereof in which the device is released from the first lever and the second lever.
The apparatus of the preceding claim, wherein the first lever and the second lever in the reciprocally-neared second position define a housing for the portable device;
- the housing being complementarily shaped with respect to a posterior portion of the portable device.
The apparatus of the preceding claim, wherein the first lever and the second lever respectively comprise reciprocally-facing lateral cavities for fitting lateral portions of the portable device in the second position of the first lever and the second lever.
The apparatus of the preceding claim, wherein the first lever comprises:
- a first end which is rotatably engaged to the support element;
- a second end opposite the first end and facing the second lever;
- and a coupling spring, arranged below the rest surface and at the second end.
The apparatus of the preceding claim, wherein the coupling spring comprises:
- an elastically-deformable body exhibiting a first end which is constrained to the first lever, and a second end which is free and facing the second lever;
- and a recessed seating afforded in the second end of the body and exhibiting a substantially arched profile.
The apparatus of the preceding claim, wherein the pusher element comprises a projection which extends from the second end of the second lever to below the rest surface, and which exhibits a cylindrical protuberance housed in the recessed seating of the spring.
The apparatus of the preceding claim, wherein the body of the spring is deformable by the thrusting action of the pusher during the movement of the first lever and the second lever between the first position and the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.