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US 9,871,900 B2Granted
Cellphone with contoured surfaces
AssigneeHoudiniX LLC
InventorsJames H. Jannard, Peter Jarred Land
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Abstract
Disclosed is a housing for a portable handheld electronic device such as a cellphone. The device has a housing, having a left side and right side. At least one of the left side and right side is provided with integral surface features or surface structures to enhance gripping the cellphone, preferably along the entire length of the phone or within about the top half or one third of the phone.
Claims25
A cellphone with enhanced grip surface structures, the cellphone comprising:
- a body having a front surface with a display, a rear surface, a first side provided with enhanced grip surface structures that comprise at least three extensions projecting from the first side that define at least first and second concavities of the first side, and a second side, the body further having a top half above a bottom half;
- wherein at least the first concavity of the first side is positioned within the top half of the body;
- wherein at least the second concavity of the first side is positioned within the bottom half of the body;
- and
- wherein the first and second concavities of the first side are at least about 0.5 inches wide and have a substantially continuous radius of curvature with a range of about 0.5 inches to about 2.0 inches.
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A cellphone comprising:
- a touch screen display;
- electronics connected to the touch screen display;
- a housing enclosing the electronics and connected to the touch screen display, the housing comprising a first side and a second side;
- wherein the first side of the housing includes at least two exposed projections defining at least one concavity of the first side therebetween, the at least one concavity of the first side is at least about 0.5 inches wide, and the at least one concavity of the first side provides at least one enhanced grip surface structure for the housing.
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A housing for a cellphone having a touch screen display, the housing comprising:
- at least first, second, third, fourth and fifth projections defining first, second, third, and fourth concavities;
- wherein each of the first, second, third, and fourth concavities has a substantially continuous radius of curvature with a range of about 0.5 inches to about 2.0 inches;
- and
- wherein the first and second concavities are disposed on an upper half of a body of the cellphone and the third and fourth concavities are disposed on a lower half of the body of the cellphone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.