Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Reexamination Certificate
2008-09-19
2010-11-30
Ngo, Hung V (Department: 2831)
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
C174S563000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07842890
ABSTRACT:
A one-piece housing for the enclosure and protection of an optical imager or other device and a method for locking a one-piece housing assembly in a folded configuration. The housing comprises three segments permanently joined by flexible hinges that allow the housing to quickly fold into a box to enclose an optical imager. To releasably maintain the housing in closed position, the assembly contains two locking tabs that snap-fit into depressions on a platform extending away from the main housing segment. One tab snap-fits directly into a depression on the top surface of the platform while the other tab snap-fits into a depression on the reverse surface of the platform. By locking into depressions on the top and reverse surfaces of the platform, the opposing tabs tightly grip the surfaces and releasably maintain the housing in the folded configuration.
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Jost Richard Burnham
Rose, Jr. Harold Francis
Bettinger Blaine T.
Bond Schoeneck & King , PLLC
Jadak, LLC
Ngo Hung V
Nocilly David L.
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