Patent ID: 7290740
Filing Date: 2007-11-06
Classification: B60R,F16B,F16M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A portable stand assembly for removably securing a camera phone thereto, said camera phone supporting a universal mounting button having neck portion and a head portion, said head portion having a transverse width dimension sufficiently greater than that of the neck portion to form a retaining shoulder at an interface therebetween, the button neck portion having a proximal end for coupling to the camera phone and a distal end thereof mounted to the head portion, said stand assembly comprising: a portable stand device; a camera mount device including a body having an upper support surface and an opposed mounting cooperatively mounted to the portable stand device in a manner enabling articulation of the mount device, said mount device further including a front face and an opposed rear face, said front face defining an opening into a receiving socket of the body extending longitudinally along said body from said front face toward said rear face, said body further defining an elongated slot extending generally along and into said receiving socket from said upper support surface, said elongated slot having a transverse width dimension less than that of said receiving socket and that of the mounting button head portion, but suitable to slideably receive a transverse width dimension of the neck portion of the mounting button, and said receiving socket being formed and dimensioned for sliding receipt of the transverse width dimension of said head portion as said neck portion slides along the elongated slot to a dock position such that said shoulder portion of the mounting button prevents upward passage of the mounting button through the elongated slot; and a lock assembly selectively engaging the mounting button in a manner causing frictional contact of the shoulder portion against said body to retain and lock the mounting button to the mount device in the dock position.