Patent ID: 7003333

Claim:
A latch mechanism for a flip cover of a hand held electronic device, said latch mechanism comprising: a rotatable shaft mounted in spaced slotted apertures of a track member to allow movement of said shaft in a direction transverse to a rotational axis of said shaft; a latch member mounted on said shaft for relative longitudinal movement along said shaft and relative rotational movement coaxially with said rotational axis, said latch member and said shaft being relatively moveable between a disengaged position in which said shaft is free to rotate relative to said latch member and an engaged position in which rotation between said shaft and said larch member is resisted by engagement between said latch member and a projection extending radially from said shaft; and a coupling that operatively couples said latch member with said track member, said coupling, in use, being operable to move said latch member between an engaged and a disengaged position by movement of said shaft in a direction transverse to said rotational axis.