Carrying case with internal sliding-member spring clip to grasp and hold diverse portable electronic devices including personal digital assistants

A personal digital assistant carrying case comprising:

• an enclosure defining a volume sufficient to contain each of a plurality of differently-sized substantially-rectilinear parallel epiped-bodied personal digital assistants (PDAs) having greater width than thickness, certain smaller ones of the PDAs being subject to undesirably move within the volume unless motionally constrained;
• a spring clip, affixed to and at an interior of the enclosure at a position behind where each PDA is desirably held, the spring clip having
• a central member, mounted to the enclosure and constraining for sliding motion each of two
• sliding jaws dimensionally sliding relative to the central member and to each other so as to extend so wide apart so as to receive between them an entire width of a substantially-rectilinear parallel epiped-bodied PDA, the jaws then contracting under spring force so as to hold squeezed between them, and motionally held to and within the enclosure, the PDA,
• at least one spring between the sliding jaws for producing the spring force that urges the sliding jaws to contract together, squeezing and holding the PDA between them;
• wherein nothing needs be permanently affixed to the PDA, which is held across its width and not across its thickness by action of the squeezing jaws of the spring clip.

A carrying case for any one of a number of differently-sized and -shaped portable substantially parallelepiped-body electronic devices having a front, a rear, and sides, the case comprising:

• a enclosure defining within its interior a volume suitable to contain any one of a number of differently-sized and -shaped portable electronic devices, certain smaller ones of the devices being undersize to the enclosure which is at the same time oversize to these smaller ones of the devices;
• and
• an adjustable spring-loaded clip with grasping elements mounted to the enclosure at its interior, the clip's grasping elements spreading under force of human hands and fingers wide against an internal spring force so as to permit entry of a substantially parallepiped-body electronic device between the grasping elements, and then, when spreading force of the human hands and fingers is relieved, moving to squeeze and to grasp the sides of portable electronic device between them, holding fast the portable electronic device within the enclosure and within the carrying case, the grasping elements including
• a substantially rectangular piece of sheet metal having at opposed side edges curled lips defining a channel in which channel each of left and the right jaw members is held, and within which each of the left and the right jaw members does slide, and
• substantially symmetrical left and right jaw members each of which consists essentially of a substantially rectangular piece of sheet metal bent substantially at a right angle of “L” cross section, one planar leg of the “L” sliding within the channel of the central member while the remaining planar leg of the “L” extends to engage a side surface of the PDA, the planar leg of the “L” extending to engage a side surface of the PDA being bent inward at its terminus edge so as to better compressively engage and hold a side surface of the PDA.