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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1997
Hiroki Hirai, Nagoya, JP;
Masashi Sugimoto, Nagoya, JP;
Shigeki Sakai, Nagoya, JP;
Yoshito Sakai, Nagoya, JP;
Nori Inoue, Nagoya, JP;
Tetsuji Tanaka, Nagoya, JP;
Yuichiro Tsutsumi, Nagoya, JP;
Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Yokkaichi, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A phone holder for detachably holding a mobile phone in an automotive vehicle is provided with a holder main body including an inner casing having a phone accommodating portion, a phone urging device having a phone actuating roller and the like for urging the mobile phone being inserted into the phone accommodating portion in a direction opposite from an inserting direction of the mobile phone, and a phone locking device which can be switched between a locking state where the mobile phone is locked in a specified accommodation position in the phone accommodating portion against a urging force of the phone urger and an unlocking state where the locking is released. The phone locking device is switched to the locking state as the mobile phone is inserted into the phone accommodating portion. The above locking is releasable by moving the mobile phone in its locked state in the inserting direction.