Patents by Inventor Ramon Lamers
Ramon Lamers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Patent number: 9385771Abstract: A smart card receiving assembly for a handheld communication device includes a housing, a release arm, and a smart card receiver. The housing forms an access compartment for receiving a battery and a smart card. The release arm is slidingly coupled to the housing and includes an extension extending downward. The smart card receiver is adapted to receive a smart card and includes a channel adapted to receive the extension. The smart card receiver can be made of metal to provide rigidity to the handheld communication device. When the release arm is moved from a first position to a second position, the extension can force the smart card from a seated position to an unseated position with the smart card sliding at least partially out of the smart card receiver and into the access compartment.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Ramon Lamers
-
Patent number: 8698018Abstract: The present application provides a key assembly for use in an electronic device. The key assembly comprises a plurality of dome switches and one or more single-piece keycaps. Each keycap has a plurality of key portions separated by deforming portions. The key assembly further comprises a plurality of actuators for activating the dome switches. Each actuator has a stem portion and an enlarged rigid blocking portion. The key assembly also comprises one or more rigid blocking members disposed between the blocking portion of the actuators and the keycaps and in close proximity to the blocking portion of the actuators. The blocking members form a barrier to limit a rotational movement of the actuators away from the dome switches.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Ramon Lamers, Timothy Kyowski
-
Patent number: 8373985Abstract: Electronic device comprising frame and trim. Trim wrapped around at least three sides of the frame. Trim comprising an outer piece and an inner assembly. Outer piece of substantially continuous flexible tactile material comprising a substantially elongate first side portion, a substantially elongate second side portion substantially parallel to the first side portion, and at least one substantially elongate cross portion connecting the first and second side portions. The inner assembly comprising a substantially rigid first side inner piece substantially coextensive with the outer piece first side portion; a substantially rigid second side inner piece substantially coextensive with the outer piece second side portion; and at least one substantially rigid inner cross piece. Each cross piece substantially coextensive with the short dimension of the outer piece cross portion, and shorter than the long dimension of the outer piece cross portion, thereby creating at least one gap in the inner assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Ramon Lamers, Albert Pegg, Martin Mape
-
Patent number: 8320131Abstract: An actuator assembly for use in an electronic device is described. The actuator assembly includes a support tray, an actuator supported on the support tray, and a cover over the actuator and coupled to the support tray, a portion of the cover being movable relative to the support tray when the actuator is actuated.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Todd Robert Paleczny, Ramon Lamers, Timothy Herbert Kyowski
-
Publication number: 20120241299Abstract: The present application provides a key assembly for use in an electronic device. The key assembly comprises a plurality of dome switches and one or more single-piece keycaps. Each keycap has a plurality of key portions separated by deforming portions. The key assembly further comprises a plurality of actuators for activating the dome switches. Each actuator has a stem portion and an enlarged rigid blocking portion. The key assembly also comprises one or more rigid blocking members disposed between the blocking portion of the actuators and the keycaps and in close proximity to the blocking portion of the actuators. The blocking members form a barrier to limit a rotational movement of the actuators away from the dome switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Ramon Lamers, Timonthy Kyowski
-
Patent number: 8183478Abstract: The present application provides a key assembly for use in an electronic device. The key assembly comprises a plurality of dome switches and one or more single-piece keycaps. Each keycap has a plurality of key portions separated by deforming portions. The key assembly further comprises a plurality of actuators for activating the dome switches. Each actuator has a stem portion and an enlarged rigid blocking portion. The key assembly also comprises one or more rigid blocking members disposed between the blocking portion of the actuators and the keycaps and in close proximity to the blocking portion of the actuators. The blocking members form a barrier to limit a rotational movement of the actuators away from the dome switches.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Ramon Lamers, Timothy Kyowski
-
Publication number: 20120039057Abstract: An actuator assembly for use in an electronic device is described. The actuator assembly includes a support tray, an actuator supported on the support tray, and a cover over the actuator and coupled to the support tray, a portion of the cover being movable relative to the support tray when the actuator is actuated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Research in Motion LimitedInventors: Todd Robert Paleczny, Timothy Herbert Kyowski, Ramon Lamers
-
Publication number: 20110273823Abstract: Electronic device comprising frame and trim. Trim wrapped around at least three sides of the frame. Trim comprising an outer piece and an inner assembly. Outer piece of substantially continuous flexible tactile material comprising a substantially elongate first side portion, a substantially elongate second side portion substantially parallel to the first side portion, and at least one substantially elongate cross portion connecting the first and second side portions. The inner assembly comprising a substantially rigid first side inner piece substantially coextensive with the outer piece first side portion; a substantially rigid second side inner piece substantially coextensive with the outer piece second side portion; and at least one substantially rigid inner cross piece. Each cross piece substantially coextensive with the short dimension of the outer piece cross portion, and shorter than the long dimension of the outer piece cross portion, thereby creating at least one gap in the inner assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Ramon Lamers, Albert Pegg, Martin Mape
-
Publication number: 20110223447Abstract: A label for a power pack, the label including: a label body comprising a first side and a second side, the second side comprising an adhesive for coupling to an underside surface of the power pack; and a pull tab coupled to the label body for extending from the underside surface of the power pack to protrude from a power pack-receiving cavity of a portable electronic device when a cover of the power pack-receiving cavity is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Matthew Michael Ignor, Peter Carl Kanold, Ramon Lamers
-
Publication number: 20110183716Abstract: A smart card receiving assembly for a handheld communication device includes a housing, a release arm, and a smart card receiver. The housing forms an access compartment for receiving a battery and a smart card. The release arm is slidingly coupled to the housing and includes an extension extending downward. The smart card receiver is adapted to receive a smart card and includes a channel adapted to receive the extension. The smart card receiver can be made of metal to provide rigidity to the handheld communication device. When the release arm is moved from a first position to a second position, the extension can force the smart card from a seated position to an unseated position with the smart card sliding at least partially out of the smart card receiver and into the access compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventor: Ramon Lamers
-
Publication number: 20110094868Abstract: The present application provides a key assembly for use in an electronic device. The key assembly comprises a plurality of dome switches and one or more single-piece keycaps. Each keycap has a plurality of key portions separated by deforming portions. The key assembly further comprises a plurality of actuators for activating the dome switches. Each actuator has a stem portion and an enlarged rigid blocking portion. The key assembly also comprises one or more rigid blocking members disposed between the blocking portion of the actuators and the keycaps and in close proximity to the blocking portion of the actuators. The blocking members form a barrier to limit a rotational movement of the actuators away from the dome switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Ramon Lamers, Timothy Kyowski