JPH08211990A - Electronic pen device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an electronic pen device capable of coping with various application and efficiently performing application operations. CONSTITUTION: An electronic pen device main body 1 and an external device main body 9 are connected by the bus connection terminal 8 of the electronic pen device main body 1 and the bus connection terminal 10 of an external device. A control and storage device part 12 inside the external device main body 9 is bus-connected to the arithmetic operation/storage device part 7 of the electronic pen device main body 1 and digital information stored in the control and storage device part 12 is read by control signals from the arithmetic operation/storage device part 7 of the electronic pen device main body 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cordless electronic pen device used in a pen input computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a cordless electronic pen device used in a conventional pen input computer.
Reference numeral 1 is an electronic pen device body, 2 is a pen tip, 3 is a writing pressure detection switch section, 4 is an antenna coil, 5 is a radio wave transmission control circuit section, and 6 is a power supply battery. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a functional block configuration of the pen input computer. 16 is a pen signal receiving antenna part, 17 is an X-axis direction position detection antenna output signal (X1 to Xn), 18 is a Y-axis direction position detection antenna output signal (Y1 to Yn), 19 is a pen detection signal, 20 Is a pen signal detection circuit, 21 is a pen position detection circuit, 22 is a system bus connection signal, and 23 is a system bus.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. When pen input is performed by the electronic pen device, FIG.
The pen tip 2 is pressed, the writing pressure detection switch unit 3 is turned on, the radio wave transmission control circuit unit 5 generates a signal, and the antenna coil 4 radiates the signal as an electromagnetic wave. on the other hand,
In the pen input computer, the radiated electromagnetic wave is received by the pen signal receiving antenna unit 16 of FIG. 8, and the X axis direction position detection antenna output signal (X1 to Xn) 17 and the Y axis direction position detection antenna output signal (Y1 Through Yn) 18, and a signal for pen detection signal 20 through pen detection signal 19
To the pen position detection circuit 21
Is converted into XY coordinate information and output to the system bus 23. In such a conventional pen input computer, an electronic pen type coordinate input device is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-115.
There are many examples, such as No. 219.

[0004]

Since the conventional electronic pen device is constructed as described above, it has only an electronic input function to the dedicated pen input computer of the electronic pen device. Furthermore, in the portable pen input computer, the function could not be easily expanded without increasing the number of constituent devices.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and can deal with various work.
It is an object of the present invention to obtain an electronic pen device that can efficiently perform business work.

[0006]

An electronic pen device according to the present invention is arranged such that an arithmetic / storing device unit capable of performing data processing on an electronic pen device main body, and data processed by the arithmetic / storing device unit between the outside. It has a connection terminal that can be transferred.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention further has a connected terminal which is a connection terminal of another device connected to the connection terminal and a control and storage device section, and should be processed into an arithmetic / storage device section. And an external device capable of giving data.

In the electronic pen device according to the present invention, the external device further includes an external device having a connection terminal for connecting another external device.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention further comprises a temperature sensor section as a sensor for collecting data,
The calculation / storage device unit that processes the data collected by the temperature sensor unit is provided.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention further comprises a radio wave transmission control unit which is a radio wave communication means capable of transmitting the data processed by the calculation / storage device unit to the outside.

[0011]

The electronic pen device according to the present invention can be connected to an external device by including the arithmetic / storage device section and the connection terminal.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention can further have an additional function by including an external device.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention can further have an additional function by including the external device having the connection terminal.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention further comprises a sensor and a calculation / storage device section for processing the collected data, thereby enabling collection of external information.

The electronic pen device according to the present invention is further provided with the radio wave communication means, thereby enabling the transmission of information to the outside.

[0016]

【Example】

Example 1. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic pen device and an external device of this embodiment. 1 is an electronic pen device main body, 2 is a pen tip, 3 is a writing pressure detection switch section, 4 is an antenna coil, 5 is a radio wave transmission control circuit section, 6 is a power supply battery, and 7 is provided in the electronic pen apparatus main body 1. The computing / storing device portion 8 is a bus connection terminal provided at the tail end of the pen body case 1 and connected to the computing / storing device portion 7. Further, 9 is an external device body, 10 and 11 are bus connection terminals of the external device, and 12 is a control and storage device section. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the connection between the electronic pen device of the present embodiment and the pen input computer main body. In FIG. 2, 13 is a pen input computer main body,
Reference numeral 14 is a bus connection terminal for an external device.

The details of the function will be described. The electronic pen device body 1 and the external device body 9 are connected by the bus connection terminal 8 of the electronic pen device body 1 and the bus connection terminal 10 of the external device.
A control and storage device unit 12 provided inside the external device body 9 is connected to the arithmetic / storage device unit 7 of the electronic pen device body 1 by a bus. The calculation / storage device unit 7 of the electronic pen device body 1 outputs a control signal to the control and storage device unit 12, and reads the digital information stored in the control and storage device unit 12 according to the control signal. For example, it is possible to automatically specify the user of the electronic pen device main body 1 by reading the password for electronic verification, which is conventionally input by a person for each user, from the control and storage device section 12. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the bus connection terminal 11 of the external device body 9 of the electronic pen device body 1 and the bus connection terminal 14 for the external device of the pen input computer body 13 may be connected. In accordance with a request from a program executed in the pen input computer main body 13, the arithmetic / storage device section 7 of the electronic pen device main body 1 inputs a signal from the pen input computer main body 13. Pen input computer body 1
The computing / storing device section 7 of the electronic pen device main body 1 receiving the signal from the electronic pen device 3 receives the information stored in the control and storage device part 12 of the external device main body 9, for example, the data for electronic verification. Transfer to the main body 13.

Example 2. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the electronic pen device and a plurality of external devices according to this embodiment. In FIG. 3, 1 to 12 are the same parts as those in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 28 is a second external device body, 29 and 30 are bus connection terminals of the second external device, 31 is a second external device body 28
It is a control and storage unit provided inside.

In the first embodiment, an example in which one external device is added to the electronic pen device body 1 has been described, but in the present embodiment, another external device is added to the bus connection terminal of the already connected external device. The device is connected as a second external device to realize a plurality of functions as an electronic pen device. For example, the external device body 9 having the electronic verification information of the first embodiment is connected to the second external device body 28 having the pen input computer body 13 initialization information. In this case, the user of the electronic pen device is specified, and an electronic pen device having an initialization function dedicated to the user is realized, and when the pen input computer main body is carried around, the computer main body is stolen, etc. However, if there is no electronic pen device, the information in the pen input computer body cannot be read out, and the confidentiality can be protected.

Example 3. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the electronic pen device with the temperature sensor according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 4, 1 to 12 are the same parts as in the first embodiment shown in FIG. Reference numeral 15 denotes a temperature sensor unit provided inside the external device body 9 and connected to the control and storage unit 12.

The temperature sensor unit 15 converts the sensed temperature information into a voltage and inputs it to the control and storage unit 12. The control and storage unit 12 digitally converts the input voltage value, further converts the voltage value into temperature information, and the temperature information from the arithmetic / storage unit 7 of the electronic pen device body 1 is the same as in the first embodiment. And transfers it to the pen input computer main body 13. As a result, in maintenance work such as environmental temperature, room temperature, temperature of articles and machinery, inspection work, etc., the work conventionally performed by an operator reading a thermometer and writing it with a pen or the like can be performed with the electronic pen device body 1 and the pen. Since it is automatically performed between the input computer main bodies 13, it is possible to prevent human input mistakes and shorten the work time.

Example 4. In the first and second embodiments, the case where the information is transferred to the main body of the pen input computer by using the bus connection terminal has been described, but in the present embodiment, the information is transferred to the main body of the pen input computer by using electromagnetic waves. A case will be described below. Figure 5
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic pen device having a radio wave emission switch section according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 5, 1 to 12 are the same parts as those in the embodiment shown in FIG. Reference numeral 32 denotes a modulation circuit unit provided inside the electronic pen device body 1 for sending the information of the arithmetic / storage device unit 7 to the radio wave transmission control unit 5, and 33 a radio wave emission switch unit for controlling the output of the modulation circuit unit 32. Is. FIG. 6 is a functional block configuration diagram of the electronic pen device according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 6, 16 to 23 are shown in FIG.
These are the same parts as in the conventional embodiment shown in FIG. Reference numeral 24 is a pen detection signal branched from the pen detection signal 19, 25 is an external device signal detection circuit for inputting the pen detection signal 24, and 26 is a signal detected by the external device signal detection circuit 25 and converted into data. External device data detection circuit, 27
Is a system bus connection signal that connects the external device data detection circuit 26 and the system bus 23.

The electronic pen device body 1 and the external device body 9 are
Bus connection terminal 8 of electronic pen and bus connection terminal 1 of external device
0, and the control and storage device unit 12 of the external device body 9 is connected to the calculation / storage device unit 7 of the electronic pen device body 1.
And the bus. In the first embodiment, the information from the electronic pen device main body 1 is transferred to the pen input computer main body 13 through the bus connection terminal 11 and the bus connection terminal 14 of the pen input computer main body 13. However, in the present embodiment, the external device 9 is used. Information is sent to the arithmetic and storage unit 7 of the electronic pen device body 1 through the bus connection terminal 10 of the electronic pen device body 1 and the bus connection terminal 8 of the electronic pen device body 1, and the digital data in the modulation circuit unit 32 is different from that for pen position detection. Modulates the frequency and sends the modulated wave to the radio wave transmission control circuit 5 only when the radio wave emission switch 33 is ON, and the antenna coil 4
It radiates more electromagnetic waves. On the other hand, the radiated electromagnetic wave is received by the pen signal receiving antenna unit 16 of FIG. 6, the pen detection signal 24 is separated from the frequency for pen position detection by the external device signal detection circuit 25, and the external device data detection circuit 26. External device data is detected by and output to the system bus. Therefore, it becomes possible to receive data while detecting the position of the pen, and the information is transferred to the main body of the pen input computer by radio waves, so that work can be performed efficiently. Also,
Wear and failure of bus connection terminals can be prevented.

Example 5. In the first and second embodiments, an example in which the user of the pen input device is specified is given.
Information other than user information may be stored in the control and storage unit of the external device.

Example 6. In the third embodiment, the temperature sensor unit detects the environmental temperature, the room temperature, the temperature of the article or the machine, and the maintenance / inspection work is automatically performed. However, as another example, the body temperature, the water temperature, etc. It may be sensed by the temperature sensor unit.

Example 7. In the fourth embodiment, the transmission of data is controlled using the radio wave emission switch unit 33.
The transmission of data may be controlled by turning on the writing pressure detection switch unit 3.

[0027]

Since the electronic pen device of the present invention is provided with the calculation / storage device section and the connection terminal, it can be connected to the outside, so that the work can be performed efficiently.

Since the electronic pen device of the present invention can be provided with an external device to have an additional function, the function corresponding to the business work can be expanded.

Since the electronic pen device of the present invention is further provided with the external device having the connection terminal, the electronic pen device can further have additional functions, so that it is possible to have a plurality of functions corresponding to the business work. .

Since the electronic pen device of the present invention is further provided with the sensor and the arithmetic / storage device section for processing the collected data, external information can be collected, so that various kinds of work can be handled and work can be performed. It becomes possible to carry out efficiently.

Since the electronic pen device of the present invention is further provided with the radio wave communication means, it is possible to transmit information to the outside, so that it is possible to deal with various works and to perform work efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic pen device and an external device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a connection between an electronic pen device and a pen input computer main body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic pen device and a plurality of external devices according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of an electronic pen device having a temperature sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic pen device having a radio wave emission switch unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a functional block configuration diagram of an electronic pen device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a cordless electronic pen device used in a conventional pen input computer.

FIG. 8 is a functional block configuration diagram of a conventional pen input computer.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 electronic pen device main body, 2 pen tip, 3 writing pressure detection switch unit, 4 antenna coil, 5 radio wave transmission control circuit unit, 6 power supply battery, 7 arithmetic / storage device unit, 8 bus connection terminal, 9 external device body, 10 bus connection terminals for external devices, 11 bus connection terminals for external devices, 12 control and storage device section.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An electronic pen device having the following elements: (a) a calculation / storage device unit capable of data processing; (b) a connection for transferring data processed by the calculation / storage device unit to the outside. Terminal. 2. The electronic pen device further includes an external device having a connected terminal connected to the connection terminal and a control and storage device unit for supplying data processed by the arithmetic / storage device unit. The electronic pen device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic pen device is provided. 3. The external device further comprises a connection terminal for connecting another external device.
The electronic pen device described. 4. The electronic pen device further comprises a sensor for collecting predetermined data, and the arithmetic / storage device section processes the data collected by the sensor. An electronic pen device according to claim 1. 5. The electronic pen device further comprises radio wave transmitting means for transmitting data processed by the arithmetic / storage device section to the outside by radio waves. Electronic pen device.