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US 7,802,746 B2Granted
Hanging device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTomohiro Ito, Jun Ishikawa
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a hanging device including: a reeling portion which includes a reel adapted to reel a cord connected to an electronic device or component part and in which the reel is turned to pull out the cord from an orifice portion of a casing and to reel the cord through the orifice portion; an engaging portion disposed in the vicinity of the orifice portion of the reeling portion; and a connecting member attached to the cord so as to be engageable with and disengageable from an engaging portion of the orifice portion.
Claims16
A hanging device, comprising:
- a reeling portion which includes a reel adapted to reel a cord, the reel is turned to pull out the cord from an orifice portion and to reel the cord through the orifice portion by means of a spiral spring connected to the reeling portion;
- an engaging portion including a circumferential groove disposed around the orifice portion of the reeling portion;
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- a connecting member attached to the cord, the connecting member including:
- a lower piece having a hook disposed thereon, and
- a movable clip that is configured to engage the circumferential groove, so as to be engageable with and disengageable from the engaging portion of the orifice portion, a bottom portion of the movable clip being hooked by the hook on the lower piece of the connecting member, such that a force applied to the lower piece of the connecting member disengages the movable clip from the circumferential groove.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.