CN218788186U - Electronic pen and touch screen assembly - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses electronic pen and touch screen subassembly, this electronic pen includes: a pen body; the first pen point and the second pen point are arranged at the same end of the pen body, one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the other one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on a touch screen; and the pen point switching component is used for driving the first pen point or the second pen point to serve as the pen point of the electronic pen. By the mode, the electronic pen can be conveniently used for performing scanning and touch cooperation by a user.

Description

Electronic pen and touch screen assembly

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of intelligent hardware, in particular to an electronic pen and a touch screen assembly.

Background

The electronic pens have different corresponding functions. For example, the scanning pen can scan a text for follow-up reading, translation and the like, and the capacitance pen can perform touch operation on the touch screen so as to facilitate recording of a user and the like. With the further development of digital construction and internet technology, the situations that electronic pens with different functions are required to be matched for use are more and more frequent.

At present, electronic pens with different functions are generally independent electronic pens. When people need to use electronic pens with different functions for matching operation, the electronic pen with the current function needs to be put down first, and then the electronic pen with the other function needs to be found for use, wherein when the electronic pens with different functions are not placed at one position, the searching time needs to be spent, and the operation is very troublesome.

Therefore, how to improve the problem of the cooperation operation of the electronic pens with different functions is significant.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The technical problem that this application mainly solved provides an electronic pen and touch-control screen subassembly, can be convenient for the user utilize the electronic pen to carry out the cooperation operation of scanning and touch-control.

In order to solve the technical problem, the application adopts a technical scheme that: an electronic pen is provided. The electronic pen includes: a pen body; the first pen point and the second pen point are arranged at the same end of the pen body, one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the other one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on a touch screen; and the pen point switching component is used for driving the first pen point or the second pen point to serve as the pen point of the electronic pen.

The second pen point is nested in the first pen point, the first pen point is provided with a nesting opening, and the second pen point can extend out or retract from the nesting opening under the driving of the pen point switching assembly; when the second pen point extends out of the nesting opening, the second pen point is used as the pen point of the electronic pen, and when the second pen point retracts from the nesting opening, the first pen point is used as the pen point of the electronic pen.

The pen comprises a pen body, a pen head, a first pen head, a second pen head, a pen head switching assembly and a pen head switching assembly, wherein a holding cavity for holding the second pen head is arranged in a pen head setting end of the pen body, the first pen head is arranged on the pen head setting end and is provided with a hollow channel communicated with the holding cavity and the nested opening, and the second pen head can stretch out of the holding cavity to the nested opening or retract to the holding cavity from the nested opening under the driving of the pen head switching assembly.

The accommodating cavity is further provided with a stroke track, and the stroke track is used for guiding the motion track of the second pen point under the driving of the pen point switching assembly.

The pen head switching assembly and the second pen head are arranged in an accommodating cavity in the pen body, and the accommodating cavity is communicated with the nesting opening; the pen point switching assembly comprises at least one group of driving assemblies as follows: the physical driving assembly can drive the second pen point to extend out of or retract back from the nesting opening under the action of external force of the electronic pen; and the electronic driving component responds to the switching control signal to drive the second pen point to extend out of or retract back from the nesting opening.

The physical driving assembly comprises a physical switch and an elastic element, an operating part of the physical switch is exposed outside the pen body through an opening of the pen body, a driving part of the physical switch is connected with the second pen point through the elastic element, and the driving part drives the second pen point to move through the elastic element when the operating part receives external force application.

The electronic pen further comprises a control circuit used for generating a switching control signal, the electronic driving assembly comprises a motor and a transmission part connected with the motor, the motor is electrically connected with the control circuit, the transmission part is connected with the second pen point, the motor can receive the switching control signal sent by the control circuit, and the second pen point is driven to move through the transmission part according to the switching control signal.

Wherein the electronic pen further comprises a control circuit for generating a switching control signal, the electronic pen further comprising at least one of the following elements: the control key is arranged on the pen body and connected with the control circuit, and the control circuit can respond to the pressing condition of the control key to generate a corresponding switching control signal; the pen comprises a pen body, a touch screen, a control circuit and a power supply, wherein the touch screen is arranged on the pen body and is connected with the control circuit, and the control circuit can respond to the operation condition on the touch screen to generate a corresponding switching control signal; the pen comprises a pen body, a communication circuit arranged in the pen body, wherein the communication circuit is connected with a control circuit, and the control circuit can respond to an external control signal received by the communication circuit to generate a corresponding switching control signal.

The first pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on the touch screen; and/or the pen point for performing touch operation on the touch screen is a capacitance pen point.

In order to solve the technical problem, the other technical scheme adopted by the application is as follows: a touch screen assembly is provided. The electronic pen comprises a touch screen and an electronic pen arranged in an electronic pen accommodating area of the touch screen, wherein the electronic pen is the electronic pen.

In the above scheme, the electronic pen still includes written switching components including first nib and the second nib of locating the same end of the handwriting, and written switching components can drive first nib or second nib as the nib of electronic pen. The first pen point and the second pen point have different functions, one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the other one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on the touch screen. It can be understood that, in the electronic pen in the scheme of the application, under the condition that the user needs to perform the scanning and touch cooperating operation, the electronic pen does not need to be put down, and the pen body does not need to be rotated, and the pen head switching component can be directly utilized to drive the first pen head or the second pen head to perform scanning or touch as the pen head of the electronic pen, so that the scanning and touch cooperating operation is more convenient.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the description below are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts. Wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an electronic pen provided in the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of an embodiment of an electronic pen provided in the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating a process of the electronic driving assembly driving the second pen tip to extend or retract from the nesting opening;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a frame of a touch screen assembly provided in the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some but not all of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application without making any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application. The embodiments and features of the embodiments described below can be combined with each other without conflict.

If in the embodiments of the present application there is a description referring to "first", "second", etc., the description of "first", "second", etc. is for descriptive purposes only and is not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, technical solutions between various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be realized by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present application.

In summary, the application provides an electronic pen, this electronic pen still includes the nib switching component including locating the first nib and the second nib of the same end of the handwriting, and the nib switching component can drive first nib or second nib as the nib of electronic pen. The first pen point and the second pen point are different in purpose, one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the other one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on a touch screen. It can be understood that, in the case that the user needs to perform the scanning and touch cooperating operation, the electronic pen in the embodiment of the present application does not need to put down the electronic pen, or rotate the pen body, and the pen head switching component can be directly utilized to drive the first pen head or the second pen head to perform the scanning or touch as the pen head of the electronic pen, so that the scanning and touch cooperating operation is more convenient.

Please refer to fig. 1 and fig. 2 in combination, wherein fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an electronic pen provided in the present application; fig. 2 is a schematic internal structure diagram of an embodiment of an electronic pen provided in the present application. In this embodiment. The present application provides an electronic pen 100, where the electronic pen 100 includes a pen body 110, a first pen point 120 and a second pen point 130 disposed at the same end of the pen body 110, and a pen point switching assembly 140 (as shown in fig. 2). The pen tip switching assembly 140 is used for driving the first pen tip 120 or the second pen tip 130 to serve as the pen tip of the electronic pen 100.

In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the tip switching assembly 140 is used to drive the second tip 130 as a tip of the electronic pen 100. Of course, in another embodiment, the tip switching assembly 140 can also be used to drive the first tip 120 as the tip of the electronic pen 100.

It should be noted that the first pen tip 120 and the second pen tip 130 have different functions, one of the pen tips is used for scanning an external object, and the other pen tip is used for performing touch operation on the touch screen. In one embodiment, the first pen head 120 is used for scanning an external object, and the second pen head 130 is used for performing a touch operation on the touch screen; in another embodiment, the first pen tip 120 is used for performing a touch operation on the touch screen, and the second pen tip 130 is used for scanning an external object. The pen point for performing touch operation on the touch screen can be a capacitive pen point or other pen points capable of performing touch operation on the touch screen; the tip for scanning an external object may be any tip capable of scanning, and the specific first tip 120 and the second tip 130 are not limited herein.

It can be understood that the electronic pen 100 provided by the present application can perform both scanning on an external object and performing touch operation on a touch screen. When the user needs to perform the scanning and touch cooperating operation, the pen point for scanning the external object may be used as the current pen point of the electronic pen 100 to perform scanning, and when the user needs to perform touch on the touch screen, the pen point for performing touch operation on the touch screen may be used as the current pen point of the electronic pen 100 to perform touch on the touch screen. In the scanning and touch-control cooperation operation process, a user does not need to put down the electronic pen or rotate the pen body, and the two pen points can be switched by using the pen point switching component.

With continued reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, in one embodiment, the second nib 130 is nested within the first nib 120, and the first nib 120 defines a nesting opening 150. The second pen tip 130 can extend out or retract from the nesting opening 150 under the driving of the pen tip switching assembly 140, when the second pen tip 130 extends out from the nesting opening 150, the second pen tip 130 serves as the pen tip of the electronic pen 100, and when the second pen tip 130 retracts from the nesting opening 150, the first pen tip 120 serves as the pen tip of the electronic pen 100. It is understood that, in the embodiment, the pen point switching component 140 can drive the second pen point 130 to extend and retract, so as to switch the first pen point 120 and the second pen point 130, and enable the electronic pen 100 to implement the above-mentioned scanning and touch functions. It should be noted that the size of the nesting opening 150 is suitable for extending or retracting the second nib 130 from the nesting opening 150, and the size of the nesting opening 150 is not particularly limited.

In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the first tip 120 is disposed on the tip end. The first nib 120 may be integrally disposed with the pen body 110, and the first nib 120 may also be fixedly disposed at one end of the pen body 110. In this embodiment, in order to accommodate the second pen tip 130, the pen tip setting end of the pen body 110 is provided with an accommodating cavity 160 for accommodating the second pen tip 130, the first pen tip 120 is provided with a hollow channel communicating the accommodating cavity 160 and the nesting opening 150, and the second pen tip 130 can extend out from the accommodating cavity 160 to the nesting opening 150 or retract from the nesting opening 150 to the accommodating cavity 160 under the driving of the pen tip switching assembly 140.

Furthermore, in order to facilitate the movement of the second pen tip 130, a travel track (not shown) may be further disposed in the receiving cavity 160, so as to guide the movement track of the second pen tip 130 driven by the pen tip switching assembly through the travel track.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 2, the nib switching assembly 140 and the second nib 130 are disposed in a receiving cavity 160 in the pen body 110, and the receiving cavity 160 is communicated with the nesting opening 150. In this embodiment, the tip switching assembly 140 includes at least one of a physical driving assembly and an electronic driving assembly, wherein the physical driving assembly can drive the second tip 130 to extend or retract from the nesting opening 150 under the external force of the electronic pen 100; the electronic driving assembly can drive the second nib 130 to extend or retract from the nesting opening 150 in response to the switching control signal. That is, when the electronic pen 100 has an external force, the physical driving component can drive the second pen tip 130 to extend out or retract from the nesting opening 150 according to the external force; when the electronic driving assembly receives the switching control signal, the electronic driving assembly can drive the second pen tip 130 to extend out of or retract into the nesting opening 150.

In one embodiment, the tip switching assembly 140 that drives the second tip 130 to extend or retract from the nesting opening 150 is a physical drive assembly. As shown in fig. 2, the physical driving assembly includes a physical switch (partially shown in fig. 2) and an elastic element 141, and the elastic element 141 may be a spring or other elastic object. The physical switch includes an operating portion (not shown in the figure) and a driving portion 142, the operating portion is exposed outside the pen body 110 through the opening of the pen body 110, the driving portion 142 of the physical switch is connected to the second pen head 130 through an elastic element 141, and the driving portion 142 drives the second pen head 130 to move through the elastic element 141 when the operating portion receives an external force.

Illustratively, in one embodiment, the operation portion is, for example, an operation key 170 as shown in fig. 1, wherein the operation key 170 can move up and down under external force, and the driving portion 142 is, for example, a connecting rod connected to at least one end of the elastic element 141. In this embodiment, when the operation key 170 receives an external force, the connecting rod drives the elastic element 141 and the second pen point 130 to move together according to the moving direction of the operation key 170.

Of course, in other embodiments, the physical driving assembly may include only a physical switch (including an operating part and a driving part), wherein one end of the driving part 142 is connected to the operating part, and the other end is connected to the second pen point 130, and when the operating part receives an external force, the driving part 142 and the second pen point 130 are driven to move together according to the external force.

In another embodiment, the tip switching assembly 140 that drives the second tip 130 to extend or retract from the nest opening 150 is an electronic drive assembly. In this embodiment, the electronic pen 100 further comprises a control circuit (not shown) for generating a control signal for the electronic driving component, wherein the control signal is a control signal enabling the electronic driving component to drive the second pen tip 130 to extend or retract from the nesting opening 150.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the electronic driving assembly includes a motor 143 and a transmission member 144 connected to the motor 143, the motor 143 is electrically connected to the control circuit, the transmission member 144 is connected to the second pen tip 130, and the motor 143 can receive a switching control signal sent by the control circuit and drive the second pen tip 130 to move through the transmission member 144 according to the switching control signal, so that the second pen tip 130 can extend out of or retract into the nesting opening 150. Specifically, after receiving a switching control signal sent by the control circuit, the motor 143 may perform forward rotation or reverse rotation, where the forward rotation or reverse rotation of the motor 143 is related to the control signal received by the motor 143, and when the motor 143 performs forward rotation, the transmission member 144 may drive the second pen tip 130 to move toward the first pen tip 120, so that the second pen tip 130 extends out of the nesting opening 150; when the motor 143 is rotating reversely, the second pen tip 130 can be driven by the transmission part 144 to move towards the opposite direction of the first pen tip 120, so that the second pen tip 130 retracts from the nesting opening 150. The control circuit is, for example, a processor in the electronic pen 100, the transmission component 144 may be any structure (for example, a cam) capable of moving the second pen tip 130, the switching control signal sent by the control circuit received by the motor 143 is, for example, a PWP square wave, and the structure and the control signal of the transmission component 144 are not specifically limited herein.

In an embodiment, the electronic pen 100 may further include at least one element (not shown in the figures) of a control key provided on the pen body 110, a touch screen provided on the pen body, and a communication circuit provided inside the pen body, in addition to the control circuit for generating the switching control signal, wherein the at least one element is connected to the control circuit. The electronic pen 100 is provided with a control key and/or a touch screen, which can facilitate a user to switch between two pen points directly through the electronic pen 100, and the control key may be a pressing key or a shifting key. Illustratively, when a user presses a control key or the user operates the touch screen, the control circuit can generate a corresponding switching control signal in response to a pressing condition of the control key or an operating condition on the touch screen, so that the electronic driving component drives the second pen tip 130 to extend out or retract from the nesting opening 150 when receiving the switching control signal, where the pressing control key may refer to either a pressing control key or a toggling control key, and the meaning of a specific pressing control key may be determined according to a specific key structure, which is not specifically limited herein.

Specifically, referring to fig. 2 and fig. 3 in combination, fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart illustrating the process of the electronic driving assembly driving the second pen tip to extend or retract from the nesting opening. It should be noted that the present embodiment is not limited to the flow sequence shown in fig. 3. As shown in fig. 3, after the user presses the control button or operates the touch screen to provide a signal for using the second pen tip 130, the control circuit receives the signal for using the second pen tip 130 and generates a corresponding switching control signal (for example, PWP square wave) to the electronic driving component, so that the electronic driving component drives the second pen tip 130 to extend out of the nesting opening 150; when the user presses the control key again or the user operates the touch screen to give a signal to use the first pen tip 120, the control circuit receives the signal to use the first pen tip 120 and generates a corresponding switching control signal to the electronic driving component, so that the electronic driving component drives the second pen tip 130 to retract from the nesting opening 150, so that the first pen tip 120 serves as the current pen tip of the electronic pen 100. The signal using the second pen tip 130 and the signal using the first pen tip 120 are, for example, an IO signal, an INT signal, or a 12C signal, which is not limited herein.

In an embodiment, a communication circuit (not shown in the figure) may be further disposed inside the pen body 110, wherein the communication circuit is connected to the control circuit, and generates and sends a corresponding switching control signal to the control circuit after receiving an external control signal sent by the communication circuit, and the control circuit sends the control signal to the electronic driving assembly after receiving the external control signal sent by the communication circuit, so as to drive the second pen tip 130 to extend or retract from the nesting opening 150.

In yet another embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the tip switching assembly 140 that drives the second tip 130 to extend or retract from the nesting opening 150 includes the electronic drive assembly and the physical drive assembly described above. In this embodiment, the electronic driving assembly includes a motor 143 and a transmission member 144 connected to the motor 143, wherein the transmission member 144 abuts against the second pen tip 130, such as a cam with different radius, so that the physical driving assembly can be driven without being affected by the electronic driving assembly during the process of using the physical driving assembly to drive the second pen tip 130 to extend from or retract into the nesting opening 150; furthermore, the physical driving assembly comprises a physical switch and an elastic element 141, the physical switch comprises the operating part and the driving part, the driving part of the physical switch is connected with the second pen point 130 through the elastic element 141, wherein the elastic element 141 can be stretched and compressed, it can be understood that when the electronic driving assembly is used for driving the second pen point 130 to extend from the nesting opening 150, the elastic element 141 is in a stretching state, and when the electronic driving assembly is used for driving the second pen point 130 to retract from the nesting opening 150, the elastic element 141 is in a compressing state, so that the electronic driving assembly is not influenced for driving the second pen point 130 to extend from or retract to the nesting opening 150.

In some embodiments, the electronic pen is provided with a front shell, a cavity and a rear shell, the front shell is provided with a display screen (or a touch screen), the cavity is provided with a second pen point, a stroke track, a chip, a circuit and the like, the front shell and the rear shell are provided with a plurality of control keys, and the first pen point is arranged at one end of the electronic pen.

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a schematic frame diagram of a touch screen assembly according to the present application. In this embodiment, the touch screen assembly 400 includes a touch screen 410 and an electronic pen 430 in an electronic pen accommodation area 420 of the touch screen 410, wherein the electronic pen 430 is the electronic pen 100.

The utility model provides an electronic pen still includes the nib switching component including locating the first nib and the second nib of the same end of the handwriting, the nib that the nib switching component can drive first nib or second nib as electronic pen. The functions of the first pen point and the second pen point are different, one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the other one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on the touch screen. It can be understood that, in the case that the user needs to perform the scanning and touch cooperating operation, the electronic pen in the solution of the present application does not need to put down the electronic pen, and does not need to rotate the pen body, and the pen point switching component can be directly utilized to drive the first pen point or the second pen point to perform the scanning or touch as the pen point of the electronic pen, so that the scanning and touch cooperating operation is more convenient.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating embodiments of the present application and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by the contents of the specification and the drawings of the present application or are directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are also included in the scope of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. An electronic pen, characterized in that the electronic pen comprises:

a pen body;

the pen comprises a first pen point and a second pen point which are arranged at the same end of the pen body, wherein one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the other one of the first pen point and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on a touch screen;

and the pen point switching component is used for driving the first pen point or the second pen point to be used as the pen point of the electronic pen.

2. The electronic pen according to claim 1, wherein the second pen point is nested inside the first pen point, the first pen point is provided with a nesting opening, and the second pen point can extend out of or retract into the nesting opening under the driving of the pen point switching component; when the second pen point extends out of the nesting opening, the second pen point is used as the pen point of the electronic pen, and when the second pen point retracts from the nesting opening, the first pen point is used as the pen point of the electronic pen.

3. The electronic pen as claimed in claim 2, wherein a receiving cavity is provided in the pen point setting end of the pen body for receiving the second pen point, the first pen point is provided on the pen point setting end, and the first pen point is provided with a hollow channel communicating the receiving cavity and the nesting opening, and the second pen point can be extended from the receiving cavity to the nesting opening or retracted from the nesting opening to the receiving cavity under the driving of the pen point switching assembly.

4. The electronic pen according to claim 3, wherein the accommodating cavity is further provided with a travel track for guiding a motion track of the second pen point driven by the pen point switching assembly.

5. The electronic pen according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the pen point switching assembly and the second pen point are both arranged in a containing cavity in the pen body, and the containing cavity is communicated with the nesting opening; the pen point switching assembly comprises at least one group of driving assemblies as follows:

the physical driving component can drive the second pen point to extend out or retract from the nesting opening under the action of external force of the electronic pen;

and the electronic driving component responds to a switching control signal to drive the second pen point to extend out of or retract into the nesting opening.

6. The electronic pen according to claim 5, wherein the physical driving assembly comprises a physical switch and an elastic element, an operating portion of the physical switch is exposed outside the pen body through an opening of the pen body, a driving portion of the physical switch is connected to the second pen point through the elastic element, and the driving portion drives the second pen point to move through the elastic element when the operating portion receives an external force.

7. The electronic pen according to claim 5, characterized in that the electronic pen further comprises a control circuit for generating the switching control signal, the electronic driving assembly comprises a motor and a transmission member connected with the motor, the motor is electrically connected with the control circuit, the transmission member is connected with the second pen point, and the motor can receive the switching control signal sent by the control circuit and drive the second pen point to move through the transmission member according to the switching control signal.

8. The electronic pen of claim 5, further comprising a control circuit for generating the switching control signal, the electronic pen further comprising at least one of:

the control key is arranged on the pen body and connected with the control circuit, and the control circuit can respond to the pressing condition of the control key to generate the corresponding switching control signal;

the touch screen is arranged on the pen body and connected with the control circuit, and the control circuit can respond to the operating condition on the touch screen to generate the corresponding switching control signal;

the pen body comprises a pen body, a communication circuit arranged in the pen body and connected with the control circuit, and the control circuit can respond to an external control signal received by the communication circuit to generate the corresponding switching control signal.

9. The electronic pen according to claim 1, wherein the first pen point is used for scanning an external object, and the second pen point is used for performing touch operation on a touch screen;

and/or the pen point for performing touch operation on the touch screen is a capacitance pen point.

10. A touch screen assembly, comprising a touch screen and an electronic pen disposed in an electronic pen receiving area of the touch screen, wherein the electronic pen is the electronic pen according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

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