Mobile device elastomeric support strap with visibly identifiable expandable logo imprints
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smartphone accessories fail to provide a secure, comfortable, and adjustable means to hold devices, often leading to drops, breakage, and hand strain, while also limiting personal expression and effective brand promotion due to bulky or semi-permanent designs that distort logos when expanded.
Innovation Solution
A flexible, adjustable elastomeric strap with hook and loop fasteners that fits most smartphone cases, allowing for customizable tension and easy installation/removal, featuring a durable and comfortable design that maintains logo visibility even when stretched, and enabling personal expression and brand promotion through printed logos on both sides.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional wrist strap is used, then the phone can be held securely, but the strap becomes bulky and uncomfortable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies this principle by using a thin elastomeric material (webbing) as the strap body, replacing traditional bulky wrist strap constructions. The elastomeric webbing provides the necessary flexibility and comfort while maintaining security through its elastic properties and integration with the case.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nesting by integrating the strap system within the smartphone case structure. The elastomeric webbing is positioned between the case and the user's hand, with fastening mechanisms integrated into the case, creating a nested configuration that eliminates external bulkiness.
2Reliability
If a semi-permanent attachment method is used, then the strap stays secure, but it cannot be easily removed or adjusted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by using an adjustable fastening system with movable components. The elastomeric webbing can be dynamically adjusted in length and position, and the fastening mechanism allows for easy attachment and detachment while maintaining security during use. This creates a system that transitions from a fixed state to an adjustable state as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements segmentation by dividing the strap into modular components: the elastomeric webbing, the fastening mechanisms, and the case integration points. This segmentation allows the strap to be easily assembled, disassembled, and adjusted while maintaining secure attachment when configured.
3Ease of operation
If the strap is made thin and flexible, then comfort is improved, but logo visibility may be compromised when stretched
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating a dedicated logo display area on the elastomeric webbing that is positioned and designed to maintain visibility during normal use. The logo is placed in a region of the strap that experiences minimal distortion when stretched, ensuring that the branding information remains clear and recognizable while the rest of the strap maintains its flexibility and comfort properties.
4Adaptability or versatility
If existing accessories are used, then basic phone holding is possible, but they limit personal expression and brand promotion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by designing the elastomeric strap system to serve multiple functions: it provides secure phone holding, offers comfort during extended use, enables personal expression through customizable logo placement and design, and allows for brand promotion. The universal design accommodates various smartphone cases and provides a platform for different branding and personalization options.
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
The elastomeric strap enhances phone handling security and comfort, reduces drops and hand fatigue, and provides a durable, adjustable solution for long-term use while maintaining logo visibility and promoting brands effectively, addressing the limitations of existing accessories.
Implementation Method 1
a thin, flexible, elastic, and comfortable structure
Data Source
AI summary
A method for infiltrating a substance into a heterogeneous solid of a material of an elastomeric strap to form a logo that includes providing a permeating substance and a heterogeneous solid of the elastomeric strap. The heterogeneous solid comprises a first region, a second region, and an interface region interposed between the first region and the second region. The method also includes applying an energy to the heterogeneous solid with the energy of an amount sufficient to render the interface region temporarily permeable; applying a driving force configured to infiltrate the permeating substance into the interface region to form the logo; and, modifying the application of the energy, thereby rendering the interface region impermeable and causing a portion of the permeating substance to disperse into the first region.