US 12,259,752 B1
Case with segmented cradle assembly for a mobile communications device
David Huang, Elgin, IL (US); and Michael Liu, FoShan (CN)
Assigned to World Richman Manufacturing Corporation, Elgin, IL (US)
Filed by World Richman Manufacturing Corporation, Elgin, IL (US)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/805,409.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/574,620, filed on Apr. 4, 2024.
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04B 1/3877 (2015.01); H04B 1/3888 (2015.01); H04M 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1626 (2013.01) [H04B 1/3877 (2013.01); H04B 1/3888 (2013.01); H04M 1/04 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A case assembly for a mobile communications device, the case assembly comprising:
a segmented cradle assembly configured to adjustably cradle variously sized mobile communications devices, the segmented cradle assembly comprising an anterior panel, a posterior panel, and a plurality of device-holding cradle segments;
each device-holding cradle segment comprising a panel-opposing portion, a device-cradling portion, an outer anterior cradle surface and an inner anterior cradle surface;
the anterior panel being spaced from the posterior panel, the panel-opposing portions being sandwiched intermediate the anterior panel and the posterior panel and attached to the anterior panel and posterior panel by way of an elastic tether member;
the inner anterior cradle surfaces being offset from the outer anterior cradle surfaces such that the anterior panel extends into an offset space defined by each device-holding cradle segment, the anterior panel comprising an anterior panel surface, the anterior panel surface and the outer anterior cradle surfaces being coplanar;
the device-holding cradle segments being displaceable relative to the anterior panel and posterior panel and to one another via the elastic tether members for varying a distance between the device-holding cradle segments for adjustably receiving and cradling variously sized mobile communications devices.