Granted Patent B1

US 9,226,559 · App. 13/841,151 · Granted Jan 5, 2016

Inventors: Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA); Scott Davis (Fairfax, CA); Luke Arthur Pushee (San Francisco, CA); Bruce Owyoung (San Francisco, CA); Timothy Ahn (Dublin, CA)

Assignee: Incase Designs Corp.

A45C11/00B65D25/24A45C2013/025B65D85/64G06F1/1628

Abstract

Claims (35)

1. A case comprising:

a back cover, comprising a plurality of retaining clips to hold an electronic device against an inside of the back cover;

a front cover, coupled to the back cover, wherein a first fold line is between the front cover and back cover that allows the front cover to swing between covering a front of the electronic device and an outside of the back cover, and

the front cover comprises three triangles having two fold lines between the three triangles, a first and second of the triangles comprise the same area and touch at a first vertex at an edge of the front cover that is opposite of the first fold line, and a third triangle has twice the area of the first triangle; and

a flap, coupled to the front cover along the edge of the front cover that is opposite of the first fold line, wherein there is a second fold line between the flap and front cover, and an outer edge of the flap is opposite the second fold line, and wherein the edge of front cover that is opposite of the first fold line is a front edge and the second fold line is coupled to the front edge; and

in a first stand position for the case, the flap is rotated about the second fold line to be at an angle relative to the front cover, and the back cover rests against the outer edge of the flap, that holds the back cover away from the front cover; and

in a second stand position for the case, the first triangle is rotated about a third fold line, between the first and third triangles, and the second triangle is rotated about a fourth fold line, between the second and third triangles, so that at least a portion of the front edge touches the second fold line, and the flap is rotated about the second fold line to fold over the portion of the front edge that touches the second fold line.

2. The case of claim 1 wherein the first triangle comprises a second vertex at an edge of the front cover comprising the first fold line.

3. The case of claim 2 wherein the first triangle comprises a third vertex touching the same edge as the first vertex, but at a corner of the front cover.

4. The case of claim 1 wherein a third fold line is between the first and third triangles, and a fourth fold line is between the second and third triangles.

5. The case of claim 1 wherein the flap comprises a trapezoid shape.

6. The case of claim 1 comprising:

an elastic band, coupled to touch the outside of the back cover.

7. The case of claim 1 wherein in the second stand position, the flap overlaps only the first triangle or the second triangle.

8. The case of claim 1 wherein in the second stand position, the flap overlaps the first triangle, and

in a third position for the case, the flap overlaps the second triangle and not the first triangle.

9. The case of claim 1 wherein the flap comprises:

a first flexible layer, forming an outer surface of the flap;

a rigid layer; and

a second flexible layer, forming an inner surface of the flap, wherein the rigid layer is coupled between the first and second flexible layers.

10. The case of claim 1 wherein the flap comprises a first embedded magnet, and the first triangle comprises a second embedded magnet, and

in the second stand position, the flap overlaps the first triangle, and the first embedded magnet of the flap couples to a second embedded magnet of the first triangle.

11. The case of claim 1 wherein the flap magnetically couples to the first triangle, thus latching the second triangle together to the first triangle.

12. A case comprising:

a back cover, comprising a plurality of retaining clips to hold an electronic device against an inside of the back cover;

a front cover, coupled to the back cover, wherein a first fold line is between the front cover and back cover that allows the front cover to swing between covering a front of the electronic device and an outside of the back cover, and

the front cover comprises three triangles having two fold lines between the three triangles, a first and second of the triangles comprise the same area and touch at a first vertex at an edge of the front cover that is opposite of the first fold line, and a third triangle has twice the area of the first triangle;

a front edge of the front cover comprising an edge of the front cover that is opposite of the first fold line;

a flap, coupled to the front cover along the edge of the front cover that is opposite of the first fold line, wherein a second fold line is coupled to the front edge and between the flap and the front cover, and an outer edge of the flap is opposite the second fold line;

a third fold line between the first and third triangles;

a fourth fold line between the second and third triangles;

in a first stand position for the case, the flap is rotated about the second fold line to be at an angle relative to the front cover, and the back cover rests against the outer edge of the flap, that holds the back cover away from the front cover; and

in a second stand position for the case, the first and second triangles are rotated towards each other so that a portion of the second fold line touches a portion of the front edge, wherein the first triangle is rotated about the third fold line and the second triangle is rotated about the fourth fold line, and the flap is rotated about the second fold line, wherein the flap overlaps the first triangle, thus retaining the first and second triangles together in position, and the back cover rests against the first and second triangles.

13. The case of claim 12 wherein an angle between the front and back covers while in the second stand position is an acute angle.

14. The case of claim 12 wherein the flap magnetically couples to the first triangle, thus latching the second triangle together to the first triangle.

Assignments (10)

Continuity (2)