US 12,251,003 B2
Eyewear device charging case
Jinwoo Kim, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Jun Lin, Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/299,977.
Application 18/299,977 is a continuation of application No. 17/535,158, filed on Nov. 24, 2021, granted, now 11,659,908.
Application 17/535,158 is a continuation of application No. 16/115,273, filed on Aug. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,219,287.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/647,064, filed on Mar. 23, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/551,039, filed on Aug. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0248130 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H02J 7/00 (2006.01); A45C 11/04 (2006.01); H02J 7/34 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H01M 50/20 (2021.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.01); H02J 50/70 (2016.01)
CPC A45C 11/04 (2013.01) [H02J 7/0044 (2013.01); H02J 7/342 (2020.01); A45F 2200/0541 (2013.01); G06F 1/1632 (2013.01); H01M 50/20 (2021.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H02J 50/70 (2016.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A holder for a portable electronic device, the holder comprising:
a body that defines a storage chamber for holding the device, the body comprising:
a front wall and a rear wall that are hingedly displaceable relative to one another; and
a flexible wall that forms part of the holder body and that at least partially defines the storage chamber, the flexible wall extending transversely between the front wall and the rear wall and having a fold portion configured automatically to move inwards towards the storing space responsive to hinged movement of the front wall and the rear wall towards one another from a maximally opened condition of the holder;
a power arrangement configured to provide electrical power for charging an onboard battery of the device while the device is held in the storage chamber; and
a charging contact mounted on the fold portion of the flexible wall for engagement with a complementary contact formation on the device, the charging contact being conductively connected to the power arrangement to enable charging of the device via the charging contact,
wherein the charging contact and the device contact formation are configured to be magnetically attractive towards one another, such that conductive contact after reception of the device in the storage chamber when the holder is in the maximally opened condition is facilitated both by movement of the fold portion towards the device responsive to hinged movement of the front wall and the rear wall towards one another and by permission of movement under magnetic action of the charging contact towards the device via deformation of the flexible wall on which it is mounted.