Patent ID: 7448495
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: A45C,B65D

Abstract:
1. An impact-absorbing cushioned carrying case for use in protectively transporting a laptop computer, the case having opposing front and rear walls joined by at least three peripheral sidewalls and being fitted with a pressurized, permanently inflated, generally tubular bolster fabricated from an air-impervious inextensible polymeric material and divided into a plurality of contiguous bolster sections by transverse regions of reduced cross-section that form hinge portions, the improvement comprising: at least two diagonal bolster sections, each of which extends diagonally to span a corner formed by adjacent sidewalls and is spaced away from and does not contact the interior corner of the case, thereby forming a generally triangular open space with the corner portion of the case, each of the diagonal bolster sections being flanked by an adjoining sidewall bolster section that is positioned adjacent to, and extends continuously along a sidewall of the case, the sidewall bolster sections being in close-fitting relation to the interior surface of, and substantially coextensive with the sidewalls of the case.