Flash drive with a snap hook
AssigneePNY Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTai-Kao Hsieh, Hen-An Chen
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Abstract
A portable flash drive with snap hook for attaching the drive to an object such as a key, key chain, etc. is disclosed herein. The portable flash drive includes a housing defining a chamber, a memory unit disposed in the chamber of the housing, and a slot hook attached to an end of the housing. The slot hook includes an interior aperture, a blocking end, a pivoting end, and an opening therebetween, and a spring lever having a first arm and second arm of staggered lengths extending parallel from opposite ends of an abutment segment therebetween, the first and second arms attached to the hook at the pivoting end of the hook such that the spring lever is biased to a closed position across the opening.
Claims10
A portable flash drive, comprising:
- a housing defining a chamber;
- a memory unit disposed in the chamber of the housing;
- a slot hook attached to an end of the housing, the slot hook including:
- a hook defining an interior aperture and having a blocking end, a pivoting end, and an opening therebetween;
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- a spring lever having a first arm and second arm of staggered lengths extending parallel from opposite ends of an abutment segment therebetween, ends of the first and second arms attached to the hook at the pivoting end of the hook so as to form a vertical displacement of the ends of the first and second arms such that the spring lever is biased to a closed position across the opening due to the vertical displacement of the ends of the first and second arms;
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- the flash drive further comprising a retaining clip having a bottom portion, a top portion, a back wall segment interconnecting the bottom portion to the top portion, and a front wall segment connected to the bottom portion, the memory unit frictionally secured between the bottom portion and the top portion and the front wall segment preventing the memory unit from sliding out from between the bottom portion and the top portion, the retaining clip positioned and retained within the chamber of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.