Patent 7802746 was granted and assigned to Sony on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed herein is a hanging device including: a reeling portion which includes a reel adapted to reel a cord connected to an electronic device or component part and in which the reel is turned to pull out the cord from an orifice portion of a casing and to reel the cord through the orifice portion; an engaging portion disposed in the vicinity of the orifice portion of the reeling portion; and a connecting member attached to the cord so as to be engageable with and disengageable from an engaging portion of the orifice portion.