Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-22
2010-02-16
Gandhi, Jayprakash N (Department: 2835)
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
C361S679300, C206S320000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07663879
ABSTRACT:
There is provided by this invention a protective enclosure for a personal electronic device that is generally comprised of a shell that is capable of enclosing and substantially surrounding the electronic device disposed to make the shell substantially watertight, substantially rigid and substantially crush-resistant. The enclosure has a transparent flexible protective membrane that is integrally fixed on the shell so that the flexible protective membrane is positioned over the touch screen of the electronic device when the electronic device is enclosed in the shell. The flexible protective membrane having a back side that has a substantially planar smooth surface that is adjacent to the touch screen of the electronic device wherein tactile inputs on a front side of the flexible protective membrane are communicated to the touch screen through the transparent flexible protective membrane. The enclosure also has a second transparent flexible protective membrane that is integrally fixed on the shell so that the flexible protective membrane is positioned over an alphanumeric keyboard of the electronic device forming a keyboard in the flexible protective membrane such that the flexible protective membrane has total interface with the enclosed keyboard allowing the user to use the keyboard of the enclosed electronic device through the flexible protective membrane.
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Kempel Douglas
Richardson Curtis R.
Cochran William W.
Cochran Freund & Young LLC
Edwards Anthony Q
Gandhi Jayprakash N
Otter Products, LLC
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