Bendable Protective Cover with Integrated Keyboard for Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing protecting covers for electronic devices limit touch input functionality when used as typing cradles, as users must directly interact with the screen multiple times, making tasks like document creation and social media networking cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A protecting cover with bendable cover portions that allow for detachable mounting of both electronic devices and keyboards, enabling use as a cradle and facilitating attachment/removal through magnetic, Velcro, or attachment/removal members, enhancing portability and convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a protecting cover is used as a typing cradle, then the electronic device is protected and portable, but touch input becomes difficult and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the protecting cover with a keyboard device into an integrated unit. The keyboard is embedded within the cover structure, allowing users to type without removing the cover or directly touching the screen. This merging resolves the contradiction by enabling efficient keyboard input while maintaining the protective and portable nature of the cover.
Solution Approach 2:
The protecting cover is designed to serve multiple functions: it protects the electronic device, provides a stable viewing angle through adjustable structure, and incorporates a keyboard for efficient input. This multi-functionality allows the single device to address both protection needs and input efficiency requirements simultaneously.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a keyboard is added to the protecting cover, then keyboard input capability is improved, but the device becomes more complex and bulky
Solution Approach 1:
The keyboard is nested within the protecting cover structure, with the keyboard keys integrated into the cover's internal design. This nesting approach allows the keyboard functionality to be contained within the existing cover boundaries, adding versatility without significantly increasing external dimensions or structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The cover is segmented into functional zones: a protective outer shell, an integrated keyboard section with keys, and a display viewing area. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently while maintaining an organized and manageable overall structure.
3Ease of operation
If the cover is made adjustable for different angles, then viewing comfort is improved, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cover incorporates a dynamic adjustable structure that allows the viewing angle to be changed according to user needs. The cover can be folded or rotated to different positions, providing ergonomic viewing comfort while maintaining a relatively simple hinge-based mechanism rather than complex adjustment systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient performance of tasks requiring keyboards without direct screen interaction, improving the usability and portability of electronic devices by providing a stable cradle for both touch screen and keyboard inputs.
Implementation Method 1
a magnetic force portion provided on one of the first cover portion and the second cover portion and an attachment/removal portion provided on the other of the first cover portion and the second cover portion, to lock and fasten or unlock the electronic device and the keyboard to or from the protecting cover
Data Source
AI summary
A protecting cover is provided. The protecting cover includes a first cover portion which is bendable and to which a first electronic device may be detachably coupled, a second cover portion which is bendably connected with the first cover portion and to which a second electronic device may be detachably coupled, and a third cover portion which is bendably connected with the first cover portion, in which the first cover portion, the second cover portion, and the third cover portion may be used as a cradle by being bent.