USB device with a cap
AssigneeVasco Data Security, Inc.
InventorsMaya Agreda de Ro, Rudy Waltniel
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Abstract
An electronic device, which may be a USB device, includes a body part that is removably connected to a cap. The body part includes a connector for plugging the device into a host computing device. The cap includes a lever part and a main part. The lever part of the cap is attached to the main part and pivots at least partially around a pivot axis. The lever part includes an anchor part on one side of the pivot axis and an unlock part on the other side of the pivot axis. The anchor part includes a hook that engages a cavity in the body part when the cap is connected to the body part. Depressing the unlock part of the cap causes the lever to pivot around the pivot axis thereby disengaging the hook from the first cavity, and thereby releasing the cap from the body part.
Claims15
An electronic device comprising a body part and a cap that is removably connected to the body part, the body part comprising a connector for plugging the device into a host computing device, said connector being concealed by the cap when the cap is connected to the body part, the cap comprising a lever part and a main part, the lever part of the cap being attached to the main part, the lever part being able to pivot at least partially around a pivot axis with respect to the main part, the lever part comprising an anchor part on one side of the pivot axis and an unlock part on the other side of the pivot axis, the anchor part of the cap comprising one of a first hook and a first cavity, the body part comprising the other of the first hook and the first cavity, said first cavity for receiving the first hook when the cap is plugged on the body part of the device, the first hook being configured to lock the cap onto the body part of the device when the first hook is positioned in the first cavity, the unlock part being configured to be depressed by a user of the device to cause the lever to pivot around the pivot axis thereby disengaging the first hook from the first cavity so that the cap can be released from the body part of the device.
A USB device comprising a body part and a cap that is removably connected to the body part, the body part comprising a USB connector for plugging the device into a host computing device, said connector being concealed by the cap when the cap is connected to the body part, the cap comprising a lever part and a main part, the lever part of the cap being attached to the main part, the lever part being able to pivot at least partially around a pivot axis with respect to the main part, the lever part comprising an anchor part on one side of the pivot axis and an unlock part on the other side of the pivot axis, the anchor part of the cap comprising one of a first hook and a first cavity, the body part comprising the other of the first hook and the first cavity, said first cavity for receiving the first hook when the cap is plugged on the body part of the device, the first hook being configured to lock the cap onto the body part of the device when the first hook is positioned in the first cavity, the unlock part being configured to be depressed by a user of the device to cause the lever to pivot around the pivot axis thereby disengaging the first hook from the first cavity so that the cap can be released from the body part of the device;
- a fulcrum extending from a surface of either the cap or the body part about which the lever part is configured to pivot on a surface of the body part;
- a second hook positioned on the main part of the cap, the body part comprising a second cavity for receiving the second hook of the main part of the cap when the cap is plugged on the body part of the device, the second hook of the main part of the cap is configured to lock the cap onto the body part of the device when the second hook of the main part is positioned in the second cavity;
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- a first alignment element defined on a surface of one of the cap and the body part, and a second alignment element defined on a surface of the other of the cap and the body part, said alignment elements being configured to operate together for aligning the cap with the body part upon mating the cap with the body part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.