Patent ID: 7125602

Claim:
A frictional holding device in combination with a dashboard or console of a vehicle and receives and secures an item thereon, the combination comprising: (a) a dashboard or console of a vehicle; (b) a pad having a bottom disposed on the dashboard or console of the vehicle, and a top; (c) the top having a contoured top surface extending over a majority of the top; (d) the top surface including a plurality of protrusions or indentations; (e) the bottom having a bottom surface smoother than the top surface and configured to contact and frictionally cling to the vehicle surface; and (f) an item, removably disposed on the top surface of the pad, the item being selected from the group consisting of: a cell phone, a personal digital assistant, a writing instrument, a pen, a pencil, sunglasses, eye glasses, a global positioning system, a radio, a two-way radio, a citizens band radio, a walkie-talkie, a camera, a video recorder, a cassette player/recorder, a mini-cassette recorder, a DVD player, a mini-disk player, and a portable television.