Attachable Security Strip for Thin Mobile Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing thinness of modern mobile devices, such as notebooks and tablets, makes it impractical to incorporate standard security slots, which are necessary for securing these devices against theft.

Innovation Solution

The development of thin, attachable security strips and stick-on components that define a security slot compatible with both standard and thinner locking elements, along with a security plate that engages power plugs to prevent removal, providing enhanced security solutions for very thin mobile devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If standard security slots are incorporated into mobile devices, then security against theft is improved, but device thickness increases making it impractical for modern thin devices

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity against theftVSAvoiddevice thickness

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLength of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The security system is divided into separate components: a thin security strip that attaches to the device surface and a separate locking element. This segmentation allows the device to remain thin while still providing security functionality through the attached strip rather than embedding the slot within the device body.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The security slot is moved from a traditional embedded position within the device thickness to an external position on the device surface. By placing the security strip on the outer surface and extending backward, the system utilizes the third dimension (depth from surface) rather than requiring thickness through the entire device body.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Length of moving object

If thin security strips are used to maintain device thinness, then device thickness is reduced, but security reliability may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice thicknessVSAvoidsecurity against theft

Core Design Contradiction:

Length of moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The thin security strip contains a security slot that can receive and accommodate a locking element within its structure. The strip acts as a container or housing for the slot, allowing the locking mechanism to be nested within the thin profile of the strip rather than requiring the entire device to be thick.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The security strip is designed as a thin, flexible component that can be attached to the device surface. Despite its thinness, it provides structural integrity for the security slot and locking mechanism, demonstrating that thin film structures can maintain functional reliability for security applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS9476229B2Security strip defining a security slot and attachable to mobile electronic devices

Publication Date: 2016.10.25 AVGANIM MEIR

AI summary

A security strip or stick-on tab is attachable to the underneath of a very thin tablet or notebook device, with very little thickness added at the bottom of the device and not interfering with its resting on a flat surface. The strip or stick-on tab has a section protruding from underneath which becomes thickened and defines a standard security slot into which a lock with a cable are attachable to enable the cable to be irremovably attached to an immobile object, such as a chair or a desk, preventing theft of the secured device.