Patent ID: 7308290

Claim:
A mobile electronic device for attachment to a support element comprising: a latch including a central circular opening; a housing having a top end, a bottom end, a front face for mounting a display adjacent the top end and a keypad, and a rear face having a battery door, the housing defining a plane; a communication circuit contained within said housing and coupled to the display and the keypad; the battery door for covering a battery compartment within the housing, the battery door comprising: a circular recessed area; a centered circular projection forming an island-shaped structure disposed within the circular recessed area for frictionally receiving the central circular opening of the latch; a pivoting connection device for attaching the latch to the battery door at the bottom end of the housing spaced a substantial distance from the display; and the latch including a carabiner type latch having a J-shaped hook portion with a beveled tip portion and a spring biased latch portion with a beveled tip portion adapted to engage the beveled tip portion of the J-shaped hook portion to form a closed loop configuration for linking the carabiner type latch with the support element, the latch portion and the J-shaped hook portion cooperating to form a smoothly-rounded generally semi-circular U-shaped configuration when the carabiner type latch is closed and a D-shaped closed loop for linking with the support element, enabling a user to suspend the mobile electronic device in an inverted position from the support element for storage purposes and quickly and conveniently pivot the mobile electronic device about the support element from the inverted position by a hand of the user to permit the user to read information contained on the display of the mobile electronic device, the latch defining a plane and having the central circular opening such that the latch is seated within the circular recessed area when the pivoting connection device is in a closed position, the pivoting connection device allowing the latch to rotate from at least a closed position wherein the latch is seated in the circular recessed area, a position where the plane defined by the latch is substantially perpendicular to the plane defined by the housing, and an open position wherein the latch extends below the housing, where the plane defined by the latch is substantially coplanar with the plane defined by the housing.