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US 9,802,118 B2Granted
Game controller with clamp for portable device
AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsEric Hirshberg, Lee Guinchard, Duncan Miller, Tim Clark
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Abstract
A game controller for use with handheld game devices, for example smartphones, includes a cradle for holding the smartphone. The cradle is pivotable between an open position, extending from a base of the game controller, and a closed position in which the cradle is about a bottom wall of the base.
Claims20
A videogame controller, comprising:
- a housing having a top wall and a bottom wall coupled by side walls;
- a plurality of input devices extending through the top wall of the housing;
- a cradle, dimensioned to hold a handheld device, pivotably coupled to the housing, the cradle pivotable from a position in a latitudinal cutout in the bottom wall of the housing to a position extending away from the housing.
A videogame controller, comprising:
- a housing having a top wall and a bottom wall coupled by side walls;
- a plurality of input devices extending through the top wall of the housing;
- a cradle, dimensioned to hold a handheld device, pivotably coupled to the housing, the cradle pivotable from a position about the bottom wall of the housing to a position extending away from the housing,
- wherein the cradle includes a backing and opposing first and second arms, the first arm extending from about a first end of the backing and the second arm extending from about a second end of the backing, the first and second ends of the backing being opposing ends of the backing,
- wherein the cradle is pivotably coupled about a first of the side walls of the housing,
- wherein a portion of the cradle is inset within a cutout of the first side wall, and further comprising a post coupled to the cradle, a foot of the post insertable into a cavity in a side of the cutout.
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A videogame controller device, comprising:
- a base including a plurality of input devices;
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- a cradle hingedly coupled to the base so as to be moveable from a closed to an open position, the cradle including a substantially square U-shaped bracket for receiving a smartphone, the cradle including a post insertable into a cavity of the base when the cradle is in the open position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.