US 11,897,396 B2
Mobile device mounting system
Robb Jankura, San Francisco, CA (US); Matthew Thomas James, San Francisco, CA (US); Peter Dering, San Francisco, CA (US); Peter Lockett, San Francisco, CA (US); Arthur Viger, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew Wheeler Gans, San Francisco, CA (US); Kiran Malladi, San Francisco, CA (US); Adrienne Rowell, San Francisco, CA (US); Jaimee Erickson, San Francisco, CA (US); Max A. Maloney, San Francisco, CA (US); Joseph Cunningham, San Francisco, CA (US); Dane Jones, San Francisco, CA (US); Colin Maginnis, San Francisco, CA (US); and Rachel Roberts, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to PEAK DESIGN, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Peak Design, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,767.
Application 17/981,767 is a continuation of application No. 17/067,612, filed on Oct. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,548,451.
Application 17/067,612 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/945,687, filed on Jul. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,585,485.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/881,217, filed on Jul. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0054404 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60R 11/02 (2006.01); F16B 2/04 (2006.01); B62J 11/00 (2020.01); H02J 7/02 (2016.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.01); H02J 50/70 (2016.01); F16M 13/02 (2006.01); B60R 16/03 (2006.01); F16B 1/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/0241 (2013.01) [B60R 11/0252 (2013.01); B60R 16/03 (2013.01); B62J 11/00 (2013.01); F16B 1/00 (2013.01); F16B 2/04 (2013.01); F16M 13/022 (2013.01); H02J 7/0044 (2013.01); H02J 7/02 (2013.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H02J 50/70 (2016.02); B60R 2011/0071 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0078 (2013.01); F16B 2200/83 (2023.08); F16B 2200/93 (2023.08)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mounting system comprising:
a device case comprising:
a back side
an insert in the back side:
comprising a bore; and
defining at least one undercut section about the bore configured to transiently mate with a boss of a mobile device mount;
a first set of magnetic or ferromagnetic elements in the back side of the device case arranged in a first pattern about the bore; and
a mobile device mount comprising:
a body;
a boss:
extending from an inner face of the body; and
configured to insert into the bore of the device case;
a second set of magnetic or ferromagnetic elements
arranged in a second pattern about the boss; and
configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic or ferromagnetic elements in the back side of the device case to align the boss with the bore of the insert of the device case, to transiently retain the mount against a rear face of the device case; and
a guard or pad layer configured to abut the inner face of the body of the mobile device mount with the back side of the device case to stabilize the boss within the insert.