FR2785400A1 - Ergonomic device has an outer soft housing with suitable openings for fingers and thumb to activate start and stop buttons as well as electronics and display for use in stop-watch, time-keeping, games, counting applications, etc. - Google Patents

Abstract

Device comprises an outer housing (A) made of soft material with an opening for an electronic box (B) with a display screen (C). On the outside of the housing are five openings (D-H) arranged to hold thumb, index, middle, ring and little finger respectively. At the center of each opening is a trigger button (4-8) in order to activate some function of the electronic device (B) within the envelope.

Description

DEVICE
The present invention relates to an ergonomic device for operating a chronograph, a counting device or a gaming device with the five fingers of one hand.

 The device can be used indifferently with the right hand or with the left hand, due to its symmetry, similarly it can be adapted to practically all the dimensions of the hands given the material mainly constituting the device.

 The object of the invention is to obtain a practical, natural and comfortable grip of the device.

 The results of the device manipulations are displayed on a liquid crystal screen, the display of which is specific to the device.

 The device appears externally as a sphere, an oval or any other shape that can hold in one hand, it is made of dense and flexible foam.

 At the top of this sphere, oval or any other shape holding in one hand, 5 notches reserved for the locations of the fingers, at the base and in the center of these notches, pushers are flush, serving as triggers, contactors.

 The flexibility of the material constituting the sphere, the oval or other shape, allows it to adapt to the ergonomics of hands of different sizes and excellent grip.

 On the front side, in the center of the sphere, oval or other shape, a solid frame containing a liquid crystal screen for displaying the timings and the various switches for the functions.

 On the back side, a case serving as a receptacle for the battery.

 Inside the sphere, the oval or any other form that can hold in one hand is the frame containing the electronics and its display screen, therefore the active principle of the device. On the front of the box, the switch allowing the start or stop of the sound, the switch allowing to select the functions of the device and finally a press button allowing the reset to zero of the device.

 At the top of the case, the 5 triggers controlling the active principle of the device.

 Always on the front the LCD screen, which displays the scores, of each finger, of each hand and the total.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention for this we will take the example of a truncated sphere:
Figure 1 shows the device seen from the front.

Figure 2 shows the device seen in profile and from above.

FIG. 3 represents the device seen from the front including its active principle, the apparatus as a whole.

Figure 4 shows the device seen as a whole from the back.

FIG. 5 represents the relationships between the various commands and triggers and the display.

 By way of nonlimiting example, the device will have dimensions of the order of 10 cm in diameter in the case of a sphere.

 The device according to the invention is particularly intended for the operation of a game, timing or counting device.

 With reference to these drawings, the device comprises a shell (A) of hollow foam accommodating the housing containing the active principle of the device (B), on the contour of the shell, parallel to the screen frame (C) , five notches (D, E, F, G, H) in the center of which are flush with the five triggers (4,5,6,7,8). These five notches are distributed in such a way that the five fingers of one hand register naturally. The five triggers are integral with the box containing the active ingredient of the device. The screen and the function switches, sound switch (1), mode switch (2) are therefore visible on the front and center of the envelope. , reset switch (3). On the back, the compartment for the battery (ies) (32). On the contour, the triggers activated by the fingers (4,5,6,7,8).

Claims (5)

 CLAIMS 1) Ergonomic device for operating in particular a timing, playing and counting device characterized by a flexible envelope (A), hollowed out to accommodate an electronic unit (B) with a display screen (C). The outline of the envelope has five notches (D, E, F, G, H) to accommodate respectively: the thumb, index, middle finger, ring finger and little finger. At the center of each of these five notches (D, E, F, G, H), a trigger (4,5,6,7,8) used to activate the device (B) contained in the envelope. 2) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the device controlled by it can be actuated in a natural and comfortable manner by each of the fingers of one hand, and this in an orderly, independent, random or simultaneous manner. 3) Device according to claims 1 and 2 characterized in that its symmetry allows it to be used equally with the right hand as with the left hand. 4) Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the material of the flexible envelope (A) allows it to adapt to different morphologies of hands. 5) Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the screen (C) has a specific display making it possible to instantly display, without further manipulation, the results of the action of one, two, three, four and / or five fingers of one and / or two hands on the triggers (4,5,6,7,8).