JP3186391U - Case for mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a case for a portable terminal that has the same overall size as a case containing only a smartphone and can use the IC card while containing the IC card.
A mobile terminal holder 11 having a space surrounded by a flat base portion 12 and a frame portion 13 as a storage space S of a mobile terminal 20 and the storage space S can be opened and closed by using a flange 16. A cover plate portion 15. A recess 19 for accommodating the non-contact type IC card 30 is formed in the base portion 12.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal case applied to a mobile terminal made of a smartphone, and more particularly to a mobile terminal case in which measures for accommodating a non-contact type IC card are taken together with the mobile terminal.

  For electronic devices as mobile terminals called smartphones, web browsing with web browsers, sending and receiving of e-mails, acquisition and display of location information, creation and browsing of document files, and taking photos and videos In addition, it has a function that can perform music / video playback / browsing, videophone calls, and the like. With such portable terminals being rapidly spread recently, various types of portable terminal cases used for housing portable terminals are commercially available. According to a prior example, a portable terminal case having a function of charging a portable terminal is known (for example, see Patent Document 1).

  On the other hand, the spread of IC cards having a function of reading and writing electronic data by wireless technology is also remarkable. Among IC cards, an IC card that has an antenna inside the card and uses a weak radio wave transmitted from an external terminal (such as a reader / writer) to send and receive data in a contactless manner is called a contactless IC card. It is used in a wide range of applications such as electronic payments at various stores and transportation facilities.

  Conventionally, when a user of a smartphone as the above-described mobile terminal carries a non-contact type IC card together with the smartphone, it has been necessary to hold them separately. For this reason, there is a problem that the number of small items and baggage to be carried increases, which is inconvenient.

JP 2010-110195 A

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and although the non-contact type IC card can be accommodated together with a smartphone as a mobile terminal, the entire size can accommodate only the smartphone. And a portable terminal case (smart phone case) that is devised to be the same size as the case configured as described above and that can be used while the IC card is accommodated. Objective.

  A case for a mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a mobile terminal holder in which a space surrounded by a flat base portion and a frame portion provided on the base portion is a storage space for the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal holder A lid plate portion that is provided continuously and can open and close the accommodation space. A recess for receiving a non-contact type IC card is formed in the base portion.

  According to the portable terminal case configured as described above, the smartphone as the portable terminal is housed in the housing space of the portable terminal holder, and the recess formed in the base portion of the portable terminal holder is not It is possible to accommodate a contact type IC card. In this case, since the non-contact type IC card is accommodated in the recess formed in the base portion of the mobile terminal holder, the size of the mobile terminal holder is set in the base portion. It is possible to easily form the same as a portable terminal holder that does not have a place. Therefore, although the case for portable terminals according to the present invention can accommodate a non-contact IC card together with a smartphone as a portable terminal, the overall size can accommodate only the smartphone. It has the advantage that it is the same size as the constructed case. Further, since the IC card accommodated in the base part is limited to the non-contact type IC card, it is possible to use the IC card while the IC card is accommodated in the portable terminal holder.

  In the present invention, the portable terminal holder is a resin molded body, and the cover plate portion is extended from the backing material with the same material as the backing material fixed to the back surface of the portable terminal holder. It is possible to adopt a configuration such as With this configuration, the degree of freedom of adopting various materials for the backing material and the lid plate part extended from it, and applying various designs and patterns to the backing material and lid plate part Therefore, there is an advantage that it is possible to provide a case for a mobile terminal having a decoration according to the user's preference.

  As described above, according to the present invention, since a non-contact type IC card can be accommodated together with a smartphone as a mobile terminal, the smartphone and the non-contact type IC can be separately provided for the user as in the past. This is convenient because it eliminates the need to carry it to the center. Nevertheless, since the overall size has been devised to be the same size as a case that can accommodate only smartphones, the case for mobile terminals does not become bulky when carrying, Moreover, since the IC card can be used while the IC card is housed in the case, the convenience of the IC card is not lowered.

It is the schematic perspective view which illustrated the case for portable terminals concerning this invention with the smart phone and the non-contact type IC card. It is sectional drawing which showed the use condition of the case for portable terminals illustratively. It is the schematic perspective view which illustrated the case for portable terminals by other embodiment.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view illustrating a mobile terminal case 10 according to the present invention, a smartphone 20 as a mobile terminal, and a non-contact type IC card 30.

  The smartphone 20 includes a touch screen monitor screen 22 on one side of a substantially rectangular flat casing 21, and various necessary devices such as a control button 23, a connection connector 24 for an external device such as an audio device, and a charging connector 25. It has elements. These control buttons 23, connection connectors 24, charging connectors 25, and other various elements are not necessarily provided on the surface of the casing 21, but are distributed to the left and right end faces and the front and rear end faces of the casing 21. May be deployed.

  The non-contact type IC card 30 is configured in a substantially rectangular plate shape, and has a function of transmitting / receiving data to / from an external terminal by a non-contact method. This type of non-contact type IC card 30 is a prepaid card used for electronic payments at various stores and electronic payments at transportation facilities such as railways and buses by simply holding it over a reading terminal as an external device. In addition to those used in company employee ID cards. This type of non-contact type IC card 30 is generally smaller in vertical and horizontal sizes than the smartphone 20.

  The mobile terminal case 10 includes a mobile terminal holder 11. The portable terminal holder 11 includes a substantially rectangular flat plate-like base portion 12 and a rib-like frame portion 13 raised from an outer edge portion of the base portion 12. The base portion 12 and the frame portion 13 are connected to each other. It consists of a hard molded resin molded integrally. In this portable terminal holder 11, the space surrounded by the base portion 12 and the frame portion 13 is the accommodation space S of the smartphone 20, and the height and length and width of the accommodation space S are the thickness of the smartphone 20. The dimensions are approximately the same as the dimensions and length and width dimensions. Therefore, the smartphone 20 can be accommodated without rattling in the accommodation space S, and the smartphone 20 is not easily dropped from the accommodation space S in the accommodated state. Further, the backing material 14 is fixed to the back surface of the portable terminal holder 11 by using appropriate means such as bonding with an adhesive, and a substantially rectangular lid plate portion 15 extends from one side portion of the backing material 14. Has been. The base part of the cover plate part 15 is a flange part 16, and when the cover plate part 15 is folded back using the flange part 16, the accommodation space S is closed by the cover plate part 15, and vice versa. When the cover plate portion 15 that closes the S is expanded using the flange portion 16, the accommodation space S is opened. The frame portion 13 and the lid plate portion 15 are provided with a magnet portion 17 and a magnetic portion 18 that can be attracted and separated from each other, and when the housing space S is closed by the lid plate portion 15, both of them are provided. It is configured to lock so that the cover plate portion 15 is not opened by suction.

  In this embodiment, a rectangular recess 19 is formed in the base portion 12 of the mobile terminal holder 11. The depth and length of the recess 19 are substantially the same as the thickness and length and length of the non-contact type IC card 30. Therefore, the non-contact type IC card 30 can be well accommodated in the recess 19 and, in the accommodated state, the non-contact type IC card 30 does not protrude outside the recess 19.

  FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the mobile terminal case 10 that contains the smartphone 20 and the non-contact type IC card 30 in an explanatory manner. In the mobile terminal case 10 configured as described above, as shown in FIG. 2, the smartphone 20 is stored in the storage space S of the mobile terminal holder 11, and the non-contact IC card 30 is connected to the mobile terminal holder 11. It is accommodated in a recess 19 formed in the base portion 12. When the smartphone 20 and the non-contact IC card 30 are accommodated in the portable terminal holder 11 in this manner, the non-contact IC card 30 is pressed by the smartphone 20, so that the non-contact IC card 30 is No rattling occurs inside the recess 19.

  It is desirable to close the cover plate portion 15 and protect the smartphone 20 during carrying. And when touch-operating the monitor screen 22 of the smart phone 20, the cover board part 15 is opened and the monitor screen 22 of the smart phone 20 is exposed. Further, when the non-contact type IC card 30 is used, it is only necessary to hold the portable terminal case 10 over the reading terminal while the cover plate portion 15 is closed. Data is exchanged with the terminal.

  In this embodiment, in order to adapt to the external form of the smartphone 20, a plurality of portions of the frame portion 13 of the mobile terminal holder 11 are removed to form the opening windows W. And various elements 26... Such as connectors arranged on the side end face of the smartphone 20 accommodated in the accommodation space S of the mobile terminal holder 11 and the front and rear end faces the opening windows W. Therefore, it is possible to connect an external device to those elements 26 while the smartphone 20 is housed in the housing space S.

  In this embodiment, the backing material 14 and the material of the lid plate portion 15 are given a high-grade appearance by adopting leather. Although not shown in the drawing, materials other than leather, for example, cloth, resin sheets, wood, etc., can be used as appropriate for the backing material 14 and the cover plate portion 15. It is also possible to give decorativeness by giving a pattern or the like to the cover plate portion 15.

  Although the case 10 for the portable terminal described above is an example in which the lid plate portion 15 is a laterally open type, the lid plate portion 15 can be easily opened in a vertical manner. In FIG. 3, the case 10 for portable terminals provided with the vertical opening type cover-plate part 15 is illustrated with the schematic perspective view.

  In the mobile terminal case 10 of FIG. 3, the frame portion 13 of the mobile terminal holder 11 is formed by projecting pieces that confront each of the four corners of the smartphone, and the space between these projecting pieces is an open window. It is formed as W. Further, the cover plate portion 15 is made of the same material as the backing material 14 fixed to the back surface of the mobile terminal holder 11 and extends from the backing material 14 in the vertical direction. Since other matters are the same as those described with reference to FIG. 1 or FIG. 2, in order to avoid duplication of description, detailed description is given by attaching the same reference numerals to the same or corresponding elements. Omitted.

  In each embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3, the recess 19 provided in the flat base portion 12 of the mobile terminal holder 11 is formed so as to penetrate the base portion 12 in the thickness direction. Even if it is formed by the opened opening, it may be formed by forming a part of the base portion 12 thin. FIG. 2 shows an example in which the recess 19 is formed by the opening formed in the base portion 12.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Case for portable terminals 11 Portable terminal holder 12 Base part 13 Frame part 14 Backing material 15 Cover plate part 19 Recessed part 20 Portable terminal (smart phone)
30 Non-contact type IC card S Mobile terminal storage space

Claims (2)

A portable terminal holder in which a space surrounded by a flat base portion and a frame portion provided on the base portion serves as an accommodation space for the portable terminal, and the accommodation space can be opened and closed by being connected to the portable terminal holder. A cover plate part,
A case for a portable terminal, wherein a recess for accommodating a non-contact type IC card is formed in the base portion.   The said portable terminal holder consists of resin moldings, The said cover board part is extended from the backing material with the same raw material as the backing material fixed to the back surface of the said portable terminal holder. Mobile phone case.

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