Jacket-Case with Handle Cutouts for Tray-Holder Stability

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current portable electronic device holders lack a system that combines a tray-holder with a separable jacket-case, providing handles and feet for manipulation and stability while allowing storage and transport, and enabling full use of handles even when enclosed.

Innovation Solution

A portable electronic device retaining system comprising a tray-holder assembly with handles and feet, and a jacket-case that encases the tray-holder, allowing it to be securely stored and transported while maintaining handle accessibility, with a latch mechanism and adjustable strap for convenience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a tray-holder assembly with handles and feet is enclosed in a jacket-case for storage and transport, then protection and portability are improved, but accessibility to handles and feet deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection during storage and transportVSAvoidaccessibility to handles and feet

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The tray-holder assembly is nested within the jacket-case, with the tray-holder fitting inside the protective outer shell. This nesting arrangement allows the smaller tray-holder to be protected by the larger jacket-case during storage and transport, while still enabling access to the tray-holder's functional elements through strategically positioned openings in the jacket-case.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Reliability

If a jacket-case completely encases the tray-holder assembly, then protection is improved, but manipulation and stability functions deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection of deviceVSAvoidmanipulation and stability functions

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The jacket-case is designed with non-uniform properties: it is solid and protective in most areas, but features localized openings (handle cutouts and feet clearance holes) in specific regions where functionality is needed. This allows the jacket-case to provide comprehensive protection while maintaining local accessibility for manipulation and stability functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Ease of operation

If handles and feet are made accessible through cutouts and clearance holes, then ease of operation is improved, but structural integrity and protection deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to handles and feetVSAvoidstructural integrity of jacket-case

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of removing portions of the jacket-case structure, the design extracts only the minimal necessary access points (cutouts for handles, clearance holes for feet) while preserving the overall structural integrity of the jacket-case. The openings are strategically sized and positioned to provide just enough access for functionality without compromising the protective enclosure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10531723B2Portable electronic device retaining system

Publication Date: 2020.01.14 LEA WES

AI summary

A portable electronic device retaining system is provided. The portable electronic device retaining system embodies a tray-holder assembly for securing the electronic device and a jacket-case adapted to operatively associate with the tray-holder assembly for easy transport and storage thereof. The tray-holder assembly provides side handles and bottom feet for stably securing the tray-holder assembly by hand and on a supporting surface. The jacket-case is adapted to encase the tray-holder assembly in a closed and locked mode for transport or storage, yet the jacket-case allows the handles and feet of the tray-holder assembly to operatively protrude therethrough.