Holder for hard-wired tablet/smartphone as equipment console

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10801662-B2
Application number	US-201716311841-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 23, 2017
Priority date	Jun 30, 2016
Publication date	Oct 13, 2020
Grant date	Oct 13, 2020

Abstract

A holder for hard-wired tablet/smartphone as equipment console is provided. The holder provides (a) 6 degrees of freedom (3 translational and 3 rotational) adjustments for locking the tablet/smartphone position and orientation; (b) provision for emergency-stop and or any other important hardwired button such Has RESET, ON/OFF, etc; (c) concealed cabling for tablet/smartphone charger and E-stop and or any other important hardwired button such as RESET, ON/OFF, jog-wheel arrangement etc; (d) swivel corners matching edges of the various tablet/smartphone sizes; and (e) provision for jog-wheel or thumb-wheel arrangement for actuator or cross-head movement.

First claim

We claim:

1. A device for holding an electronic gadget, comprising:
a gadget holder mounting bracket;
a height adjustable tube;
a height adjustable lock, wherein bottom end of height adjustable tube is secured at the gadget holder mounting bracket and top end of the height adjustable tube comprises a gadget rotational lock;
a gadget gripper secured to a clamp connected to a top end of the height adjustable tube and comprising swivel corners configured to hold diagonal ends of the electronic gadget; and
a jog-wheel configured to control an actuator movement or a cross-head movement to open or close the gadget gripper and to vary the distance between the swivel corners;
wherein the gadget gripper comprises a rotary encoder and related electronic hardware configured to facilitate the actuator movement or the cross-head movement based on input to the jog-wheel;
wherein the device is configured to conceal one or more wires coupled to one or more of the jog-wheel, the rotary encoder, or the electronic gadget, by routing the one or more wires internally to at least one component of the device.

Assignees

• Illinois Tool Works

Inventors

• Lebedev N
• Raina Vishal
• Ammanagi Somayya
• Ramasubbu Sunder

Classifications

• F16M11/041

  Allowing quick release of the apparatus · CPC title

• F16M2200/025

  for translational movement · CPC title

• F16M11/06

  allowing pivoting · CPC title

• A47B23/02

  releasably mounted on the bedstead {or another item of furniture} · CPC title

• G06F1/1633

  Constructional details or arrangements of portable computers not specific to the type of enclosures covered by groups G06F1/1615 - G06F1/1626 · CPC title