A car mobile phone connection device includes: a USB connector socket or a car cigarette lighter socket, and a mobile phone holder including a paired USB connector plug or a car cigarette lighter plug and a mobile phone connection holding mechanism; wherein the socket has one or more of sunken external thread, raised external thread, sunken bayonet slot, raised bayonet slot, screw holes; the plug has flange and internal thread locking cap, flange and bayonet locking cap, flange and screw through-hole plate and screws, or screw through-hole flange and screws; the mobile phone connection holding mechanism has a mobile phone connector plug, a wireless charging board, or an NFC communication board. The socket is installed in the car. The mobile phone is set on the mobile phone connection holding mechanism, fixed on the car through the plug and the socket, and connected to a power supply of the car.

An odometer comprises a housing having a vehicle mounting device attached thereto. In an embodiment, the vehicle mounting device configured to be connectable to and removable from the non-odometer equipped vehicle. The housing further comprises a doppler radar module disposed in the housing. A processor is disposed in the housing and operatively connected to the doppler radar module and memory. In turn, the memory comprises executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive, from the doppler radar module, velocity-indicative data relative to a surface traveled by the non-odometer equipped vehicle. Thereafter, the processor operates to determine a distance traveled by the non-odometer equipped vehicle based on the velocity-indicative data.

A mobile device mounting system includes a device case and a mount. The device case includes: an insert including a rectangular bore and defining a set of undercut sections about the rectangular bore; and a first set of magnetic elements arranged in a first pattern about the rectangular bore. The mount includes: a body; a polygonal boss extending from the body and configured to insert into the rectangular bore; a set of locking jaws arranged on the polygonal boss configured to transiently mate with the set of undercut sections to constrain the polygonal boss within the rectangular bore; and a second set of magnetic elements arranged in a second pattern about the polygonal boss and configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic elements to transiently retain the mount against the device case and to drive the set of locking jaws toward the set of undercut sections.

A vehicle system is disclosed herein. The vehicle includes a vehicle structure. A vehicle component is coupled to the vehicle structure via electromagnetic attraction. The controller is configured to generate a command to vary the amount of electromagnetic attraction between the vehicle structure and the vehicle component in response to a received vehicle threat signal.

A system for mounting an electronic device includes a socket and a stand, the stand having a ball portion. The socket and the ball portion include first magnetic material to hold the socket and the ball portion together in a position selected by a user, the socket further including a magnetic array, the magnetic array having magnetism to hold an electronic device to the socket. In one alternative, the first magnetic material is separate from the magnetic array.

A portable retainer for securing personal electronic devices on the backs of seats is provided. The portable retainer provides a core having communicating wire holes adjacent each end of thereof, through which an elastic wire protrudes for either hanging from a seatback in an upright hanging position or being supported in a pocket of the seatback in an inverted propped up position. The portable retainer provides front and rear endplates that are peripherally broader than the core for facilitating winding the elastic wire about the core in a stored position. The endplates may provide a slot for magnets, to which anchor plates can removably attach to a desired electronic device in either the hanging or the propped-up positions for viewing the anchored electronic device from selective angles and height, due in part to the rigidly malleable elastic wire.

A portable wireless charging system may include a charging case and at least one power bank received in the case. The charging unit can be charged when it is received in the case through an external charging cable. In one embodiment, the power bank can be taken out to attached to a back portion of a mobile device to charge the device. In another embodiment, the mobile device can be charged when being disposed on a front or back surface of the charging case when the charging unit is inside the case.

A method of operating a movable support for orienting and positioning a portable computing device in a vehicle includes supporting the portable computing device with the movable support, and receiving status data based on a status of the vehicle with a controller. The method also includes determining a target orientation of the portable computing device based on the status data with the controller, the target orientation including one of a portrait screen orientation and a landscape screen orientation, and determining a target angular position of the portable computing device based on the status data, the target angular position including one of a driver-oriented position and a passenger-oriented position. The method further includes using the controller to move the movable support to position the portable computing device in the target orientation and the target angular position.

A mobile device mounting system includes a device case and a mount. The device case includes: an insert including a rectangular bore and defining a set of undercut sections about the rectangular bore; and a first set of magnetic elements arranged in a first pattern about the rectangular bore. The mount includes: a body; a polygonal boss extending from the body and configured to insert into the rectangular bore; a set of locking jaws arranged on the polygonal boss configured to transiently mate with the set of undercut sections to constrain the polygonal boss within the rectangular bore; and a second set of magnetic elements arranged in a second pattern about the polygonal boss and configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic elements to transiently retain the mount against the device case and to drive the set of locking jaws toward the set of undercut sections.

A mobile device mounting system includes a device case and a mount. The device case includes: an insert including a rectangular bore and defining a set of undercut sections about the rectangular bore; and a first set of magnetic elements arranged in a first pattern about the rectangular bore. The mount includes: a body; a polygonal boss extending from the body and configured to insert into the rectangular bore; a set of locking jaws arranged on the polygonal boss configured to transiently mate with the set of undercut sections to constrain the polygonal boss within the rectangular bore; and a second set of magnetic elements arranged in a second pattern about the polygonal boss and configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic elements to transiently retain the mount against the device case and to drive the set of locking jaws toward the set of undercut sections.