Mobile phone holder

{
  "publication_number": "US9729186B1",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B1",
  "title": "Mobile phone holder",
  "abstract": "A mobile phone holder. The mobile phone holder provides a device for securing a cellular communications device to clothes. The holder includes a housing having an open upper end, a rear wall, arcuate side walls, and a bottom end forming a pocket configured to slidably receive and secure a phone in the housing. The sidewalls include cut-out portions and the bottom end includes a slot for providing access to inputs and outputs of a cell phone. A pair of opposing straps are disposed on an exterior surface of the rear wall that are configured to secure the holder to a user's clothing. In this way, a user may attach a cell phone to his or her clothes in order to communicate over the phone without compromising his or her hands.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A holder for a mobile phone, comprising: a housing comprising; an open upper end; a rear wall having an exterior surface; arcuate sidewalls, each of the arcuate sidewalls having a first portion, a second curved portion, and a third portion; wherein the first portion is integrally connected to the rear wall; wherein the second curved portion is integrally connected to the first portion; wherein the third portion is integrally connected to the second curved portion and parallel relative to the first portion and the rear wall; wherein the first portion, second portion, and third portion form an arch sized to slidably receive a side of a mobile phone; wherein the third portion is parallel relative to the first portion and the rear wall; cut-out portions disposed on the second curved portions of the arcuate sidewalls, the cut-out portions extending vertically along a linear length of the arcuate sidewalls; a bottom end including a bottom wall having an opening and a front wall; wherein the opening comprises an interior lip disposed around a perimeter thereof; wherein the interior lip is sized to receive a bottom perimeter edge of the mobile phone; wherein the front wall is integrally connected to a bottom end of the third portions of the arcuate sidewalls, thereby forming a front opening; a slot disposed on the front wall, the slot extending horizontally across the front wall; a pair of opposing straps including a first strap disposed on an upper end of the exterior surface of the rear wall and a second strap disposed on a lower end of the exterior surface of the rear wall, each of the first strap and the second strap comprising a first end and a second end; wherein the first strap extends vertically upwards relative to the rear wall; wherein the second strap extends vertically downwards relative to the rear wall; and a pair of clips each disposed on the seconds end of each of the first strap and the second strap.",
    "2. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, further comprising a magnetic portion disposed on the rear wall, wherein the magnetic portion is constructed of a ferromagnetic material.",
    "3. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, wherein the rear wall comprises a center portion having a raised central area.",
    "4. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, wherein the cut-out portions are elongated and oblong in shape.",
    "5. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, wherein the slot is elongated and oblong in shape.",
    "6. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, wherein the first ends of the first and second straps are attached to the exterior surface of the rear wall via a fastener.",
    "7. The mobile phone holder of claim 6, wherein the fastener is a pin.",
    "8. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, wherein the first strap is centrally disposed on the upper end of the exterior surface of the rear wall and the second strap is centrally disposed on the lower end of the exterior surface of the rear wall such that they are aligned with one another.",
    "9. The mobile phone holder of claim 1, further comprising a first eyelet centrally disposed on the upper end of the exterior surface of the rear wall and a second eyelet centrally disposed on the lower end of the exterior surface of the rear wall such that they are aligned with one another, the first eyelet threadably receiving the first strap therethrough and the second eyelet threadably receiving the second strap therethrough."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention relates to mobile phone holders. More specifically, the present invention provides a new mobile phone holder for securing the holder to the clothes of a user such that a use may utilize a telephone while performing normal tasks.\n\nThe use of a holder for a mobile phone is known in the prior art. More specifically, a holder for a cell phone heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.\n\nKnown prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 6,176,401; U.S. Pat. No. 7,810,683; U.S. Pat. No. 6,665,524; U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2012/0046083; and U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2012/0248160.\n\nWhile these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new mobile phone holder. The inventive device includes a housing having an open upper end, a rear wall, arcuate side walls, and a bottom end for forming a pocket configured to slidably receive and secure a phone in the housing. The sidewalls and bottom end include cut-out portions for providing access to inputs and outputs of a cell phone. A pair of opposing straps are disposed on an exterior surface of the rear wall, wherein the straps include clips configured to secure the device to a user's clothes.",
  "cpc": [
    "H04B 1/3888"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "H04B 1/38",
    "H04B 1/3888",
    "H04M 1/00"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Allen Dill"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2016-08-29",
  "publication_date": "2017-08-08",
  "grant_date": "2017-08-08",
  "priority_date": "2016-08-29",
  "application_number": "US-201615249532-A",
  "family_id": "59411415",
  "cited_by_count": 10,
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