US 7,743,495 B2Granted

Method of manufacturing cord management device

AssigneeBelkin International, Inc.

InventorsKenneth Mori, Barry Sween, Yoko Iida, John Wadsworth

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Abstract

A method of manufacturing a cord management device. The method includes: (a) providing a power strip; (b) physically and electrically coupling a power cord to the power strip; (c) providing a stationary portion, providing the stationary portion includes: (1) providing a first wall; (2) providing two or more slots in the first wall configured to contain a first portion of a single electrical cord; and (3) providing a second wall spaced part from the first wall, the first wall and second wall defining a first space there between; (d) providing a cover; (e) hingedly attaching the cover to the stationary portion, thereby defining a second space; (f) integrating the power strip into the second space; and (g) locating a portion of the power cord in the first space.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method of manufacturing a cord management device, the method comprising:

providing a power strip;
physically and electrically coupling a power cord to the power strip;
providing a stationary portion having a first space and a second space and comprising:
providing a first wall between the first space and the second space;
providing two or more slots in the first wall, the two or more slots are configured to contain a first portion of one or more electrical cords;
providing a second wall spaced apart from the first wall, the first wall and second wall defining the first space there between, the first space is configured to contain a second portion of the one or more electrical cords;
and
providing one or more apertures in the stationary portion with each of the one or more apertures configured to allow a third portion of the one or more electrical cords to exit the first space and out of the cord management device;
providing a cover;
coupling the cover to the stationary portion, thereby defining the second space between the cover and the first wall, the stationary portion and the cover are coupled such that the second space can contain a fourth portion of the one or more electrical cords while the first space contains the second portion of the one or more electrical cords and the two or more slots contain the first portion of the one or more electrical cords;
and
locating the power strip in the second space.

9 more elements

A method of manufacturing a cord management device, the cord management device configured to manage two or more electrical cords, the method comprising:

providing a power strip;
providing a first portion of the cord management device and comprising:
providing a floor;
providing a wall adjacent to the floor such that the wall divides an interior space of the cord management device into a first part and a second part;
and
providing a cord management feature at the wall such that the cord management feature allows a first section of the two or more electrical cords to be located in the first part of the interior space of the cord management device while a second section of the two or more electrical cords are located in the second part of the interior space of the cord management device;
providing a second portion of the cord management device, comprising:
providing a front panel;
providing a top panel adjacent to the front panel;
providing a first side panel adjacent to the top panel and the front panel;
and
providing a second side panel spaced apart from the first side panel and
adjacent to the top panel and the front panel;
physically coupling the power strip to the first portion of the cord management device;
and
coupling the second portion to the first portion such that the second portion and the first portion define the interior space of the cord management device there between.

13 more elements

A method of manufacturing a cord management device, the method comprising:

providing a power strip;
providing a stationary portion having at least two openings such that each of the one or more openings allows a first portion of two or more cords to exit out of the cord management device, providing the stationary portion comprises:
providing a first wall with two or more slots;
and
providing a second wall spaced part from the first wall;
providing a cover, the cover and the stationary portion defining an interior space;
physically coupling the power strip to the stationary portion;
and
attaching the cover to the stationary portion such that the cover is capable of movement between a first position relative to the stationary portion, in which the cover encloses the interior space, and a second position relative to the stationary portion, in which the interior space is exposed,
wherein:
each of the at least two openings are sized large enough to permit the first portion of the two or more cords to exit the interior space simultaneously.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/811,366Filed 7 Jun 2007 · division
Priority: 7 Jun 2005
Published: US 2007/0294887 A127 Dec 2007
Granted: 29 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H02G 3/105
For surface mounting on a wall: in association with a plinth, channel, raceway or similar
Y10T 29/49117
Electrical device making: conductor or circuit manufacturing
Y10T 29/49162
Manufacturing circuit on or in base: by using wire as conductive path
Y10T 29/49174
Conductor or circuit manufacturing: assembling terminal to elongated conductor

Family

Application11/147,597Parent of this division · filed 7 Jun 2005
US 2007/0294887 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Dec 2007
US 7,247,799 B2Parent of this division
US 2006/0272849 A1Published application
US 7,743,495 B2This patent

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