Ericsson Gmbh

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

John Thomas Sadler

Gregory S Patterson

Jason Donald Mareno

Gerard James Hayes

Thomas D Snyder

Robert A Sadler

Roy Attride

Matthew Paul Hanssen

A hinge mechanism pivotally connects first and second housings of an electronics device. The hinge includes a bracket, a floating shaft, a cam member, and a biasing system. The cam member is mounted on the floating shaft. The biasing system is disposed within the first housing, and includes one or more biasing members that allow the cam member and the floating shaft to move axially in a first direction. The one or more biasing members also bias the cam member and the floating shaft in a second, opposing direction. Biasing the floating shaft and the cam member in the second direction maintains the pivotable connection between the first and second housings, and generates the force necessary to yieldingly resist a user pivoting at least one of the first and second housings.

Self-contained floating shaft hinge mechanism

A hinge mechanism movably connects two housings of a wireless communication device such that the housing move relative to each other between open and closed positions. The hinge mechanism include a magnetic detent that initially resists the housing moving between the open and closed positions. However, the magnetic detent yields to move the housing between the open and closed positions whenever a user applies an amount of force that is sufficient to overcome the initial resistance.

Magnetic hinge mechanism for wireless communication devices

A cantilever latch mechanism includes a base and a pair of arms extending from the base. The arms are spaced a distanced apart and selectively positionable between an open orientation wherein an opening is formed between the arms, and a closed orientation where the arms are positioned in a closer relation. Each of the arms may include a jaw extending inwardly into the opening. Preferably, the jaws are positioned on different vertical planes on each arm such that they overlap when the arms are in the closed orientation.

Cantilever latch mechanism

An assembly for supporting a personal electronic device includes a base and a holder. The holder is adapted to hold the device. The holder is removably connected to the base such that the holder may be selectively removed from and replaced on the base. Also, the holder is adjustably movably connected to the base such that the holder may be repositioned relative to the base. The device may thereby be reoriented relative to the base and, thus, a support surface, when mounted in the holder. A method for handling a personal electronic device includes mounting the device in a holder, mounting the device and the holder on a base, repositioning the holder relative to base to position the device as desired while the holder is mounted on the base, and removing the device and the holder from the base.

Support assembly for personal electronic device and method for using the same

A latch assembly includes a body member defining a cavity and including at least two spaced apart, opposed, relatively displaceable arms. A latch structure is located on at least one of the arms. A deformable elastomeric core is disposed in the cavity to resist convergent displacement of the arms. The elastomeric core is responsive to convergent displacement of the arms to provide a spring force biasing the arms apart.

Latch assembly and connector assembly including the same

A mobile radio telephone system includes a hands free kit which allows the audio signal to be output through a car stereo system. The mobile radio telephone system includes a hand held unit, a cassette adapter, and a coupling unit. The hand held unit is a fully functional mobile telephone including a receiver and transmitter capable of transmitting and receiving voice and/or data signals. The cassette adapter is configured to load into a cassette player of a car stereo system. The cassette adapter includes a record head for contacting a play-back head in the cassette player when the cassette adapter is loaded into the cassette player. A coupling unit attached to the hand held unit and includes a coupling circuit for electrical connecting the cassette adapter to the hand held unit. When the cassette adapter is coupled to the hand held unit, audio signals are output from hand held unit to the cassette adapter and picked up by the cassette player.

Cassette adapter for mobile telephones

An antenna for a communication device including a first flip having an antenna element and pivotally mounted on a housing to move from a closed position adjacent to the housing to an operational position angularly space from the housing. A second flip having a conductive element as a ground plane is pivotally mounted on the housing and moves between a closed position adjacent the housing and an open position angularly spaced from both the housing and the first flip. When the first and second flips are in the closed position, they cover the controls and no antenna is exposed on the exterior of the housing. In the operational position, the antenna element and the conductive element form an antenna optimally tuned to the frequency of the wireless network that is less subject to interference by the user.

Flip open antenna for a communication device

Relatively moveable portions of a flexible printed circuit member are interconnected by a web that extends between the moveable portions and is disposed in a cavity within a hinge interconnecting separately moveable parts of a split keypad assembly. The web portion of the flexible printed circuit is folded so that it is coaxially aligned with the axis of rotation of the moveable portions of the keypad assembly. The design and arrangement of the flexible printed circuit member avoids bending the flexible printed circuit member about an axis perpendicular to the member when the keypad assembly is opened or closed, and provides a vertically assemblable structure that completely encloses the interconnecting web portion of the printed circuit member, thereby avoiding the need for external connectors between the moveable elements of the keypad assembly.

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John Thomas Sadler