JPH0579640U - mouse - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] The mouse is divided into an upper casing and a lower casing, and the elastic member expands and contracts the gap between the upper casing and the lower casing to improve operability, and It is to improve portability and convenience. [Structure] Lower casing 5 that moves by rotationally driving a sphere
And an upper housing 3 for operating the driving direction of the rotational driving of the sphere of the lower housing 5, and the upper housing 3 and the lower housing are integrally formed to form the upper housing and the lower housing. Stretchable elastic members 13 and 19 for expanding and contracting a space, and the upper casing is locked to the lower casing when the elastic members are compressed, and the upper casing and the lower casing are expanded when the elastic member is extended. A locking member 15, which is unlocked from the body so that the upper housing is separated from the lower housing,
21 and an instruction member 2 for instructing the locking member to lock the upper housing and the lower housing or unlock the lower housing.
3 is provided.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention is to move a plane and draw a desired figure. In particular, the mouse is divided into an upper case and a lower case, and an elastic member expands and contracts the upper case and the lower case. Thus, the present invention relates to a mouse that has good operability, is excellent in portability, and improves convenience.

[0002]

[Prior Art]

 In recent years, personal computers (hereinafter, referred to as personal computers) have tended to be compact book-type or notebook-type computers that have excellent portability.

Along with the downsizing of the personal computer, there is a demand for downsizing of a mouse as a position input device that moves on a plane and draws a desired figure. The mouse is provided with a sphere in the substantially central portion of the housing, detects the amount of movement in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction corresponding to the movement of the housing, and outputs the detected movement amount to the personal computer body. Therefore, the mouse is provided with a spherical body in the housing and moves on a plane corresponding to the desired figure, so that it is not easy to operate when the housing becomes too small.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 However, since the mouse moves on a plane and draws a desired figure, if the mouse itself is made too compact, it becomes difficult to draw the desired figure, and there is a problem that operability is deteriorated.

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a conventional problem, and an object thereof is to divide a mouse into an upper case and a lower case, and use an elastic member to separate the upper case and the lower case. An object of the present invention is to provide a mouse that has excellent operability, is excellent in portability, and improves convenience by expanding and contracting a space between the mouse and the case.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a lower casing that moves by rotational driving of a sphere, an upper casing that controls the driving direction of the rotational driving of the spherical body of the lower casing, and the upper casing and the lower casing. An expandable elastic member that integrally forms a housing and expands and contracts the gap between the upper housing and the lower housing; and when the elastic member is compressed, the upper housing is locked to the lower housing. A locking member that releases the lock between the upper housing and the lower housing when the elastic member is extended, and separates the upper housing from the lower housing; and The gist of the present invention is to provide an instruction member for instructing unlocking with the lower housing or unlocking with the lower housing.

[0007]

[Action]

 According to the above configuration, when the mouse is stored, when the upper housing is pressed and the elastic member is compressed, the upper housing is locked and connected to the lower housing by the locking member. On the other hand, when the mouse is used, the upper housing and the lower housing are unlocked by the instruction of the pointing member, the elastic member extends, and the upper housing separates from the lower housing. The operability is good, the portability is excellent, and the convenience can be improved.

[0008]

【Example】

 An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

1A and 1B are configuration diagrams showing an embodiment of a mouse of the present invention. FIG. 1A is a side view and FIG. 1B is a plan view.

First, in FIG. 1A, in a mouse 1, an upper cover (upper casing) 3 having a switch portion 9 described later and a lower cover (lower casing) 5 are superposed, and an operator manually operates the mouse 1. As a result, the sphere 7 provided in the substantially central portion of the lower housing 5 is driven to rotate corresponding to the desired figure.

A switch portion 9 for controlling ON / OFF of the movement of the mouse 1 is arranged on a curved surface on the left end of the upper cover 3 in the figure, and a support point 11a is provided on the lower cover of the switch portion 9 on the upper cover 3. It is fixed. A leaf spring 13 is fixed to the support point 11a by connecting the upper cover 3 and the lower cover 5 and having a spring in the approximate center. A support point 17a is fixed to the upper cover 3 near the curved surface of the tip on the right side of the upper cover 3 in the figure. Is fixed to the leaf spring 19. The lock key 21 fixed to the upper cover 3 adjacent to the right side of the support point 17a in the figure is fixed to and interlocks with a release button 23 that releases the lock key 21. On the other hand, the upper end of the lock key 15 is fixedly adjacent to the left side of the support point 11a of the upper cover 3 in the figure.

At the left end of the lower cover 5 in the figure, a member 25a to be locked with the lock key 15 is provided in the lower cover 5, and the lock key 15 is locked to the member 25a. Adjacent to the lock key 15, a support point 11b that supports the other end of the leaf spring 13 is fixed to the lower cover 5. On the other hand, a member 25b provided on the right side of the lower cover 5 in the figure locks the lock key 21. A support point 17b that supports the other end of the leaf spring 19 adjacent to the lock key 21 that is locked to the member 25a is fixed to the lower cover 5. At the right end of the lower cover 5, a signal cable 27 for transmitting the movement amount of the mouse 1 in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction to a host computer, for example, a main body of a personal computer is connected. A plan view of the mouse 1 described above is shown in FIG. 1 (b).

FIG. 2A is a sectional view of the mouse 1 when drawing a desired figure.

When operating the mouse 1, the operator presses the release button 23 to release the lock of the lock key 21 from the member 25b, and the leaf springs 13 and 19 are extended to cause the upper cover 3 to move to the position shown in FIG. It works in the upper middle position.

Here, the configurations of the lock key 21 and the release button 23 will be described. A spring (not shown) attached to the release button 23 moves the release button 23 to the right in the opposite direction due to the spring energy stored after being pressed in the left direction of the arrow in the figure when operating the mouse 1. It is what makes them. A spring (not shown) is also attached to the upper end of the lock key 21 to hold the lock key 21 at a constant vertical distance. The lower end of the lock key 21 is formed with a substantially triangular member that is locked to the members 25a and 25b, and the triangular key is fitted to the members 25a and 25b to lock the lock key 21.

When the mouse 1 having the above configuration is used, the operator pushes the release button 23 to drive the release button 23 to the left side in the figure. The release button 23 is driven to the left and the lock key 21 is also driven to the left, so that the lock key 21 is unlocked from the members 25a and 25b. When the locking of the lock key 21 is released, the leaf spring 19 extends and the release button 23 side of the upper cover 3 operates upward from the lower cover 5 around the switch portion 9 side. When the release button 23 side is actuated, the lock key 15 on the switch section 9 side is released from the member 25a and the leaf spring 13 extends away from the member 25a. When the leaf spring 13 is extended, the operator manually moves the mouse 1 and presses the switch section 9 to draw a desired figure while visually recognizing the figure displayed on the CRT (not shown).

When the mouse 1 is housed after moving the mouse 1 to draw a desired figure, the upper cover 3 is pushed vertically downward by the operator, and the substantially triangular shape of the lower end of the lock key 21 is a member. 25b, the lower end of the lock key 15 is locked to the member 25a, and the upper cover 3 and the lower cover 5 are connected.

As a result, when the mouse 1 is used, it is easily extended and easily operated, and when it is stored, it becomes compact, so that the operability is good and the portability is excellent and the convenience can be improved.

[0019]

[Effect of the device]

 As described above, in the present invention, the mouse is divided into the upper housing and the lower housing and the elastic member expands and contracts the space between the upper housing and the lower housing, thereby improving the operability. In addition, it is excellent in portability and can be improved in convenience.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a mouse of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a mouse of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 mouse 3 upper cover 5 lower cover 11a, 11b, 17a, 17b support point 13, 19 leaf spring 15, 21 lock key 23 release button 25a, 25b member

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A lower housing that moves by the rotational driving of a sphere, an upper housing that controls the driving direction of the rotational driving of the sphere of the lower housing, and an upper housing and a lower housing that are integrally formed. Then, an elastic member that expands and contracts the space between the upper housing and the lower housing, and when this elastic member is compressed, the upper housing is locked to the lower housing and the elastic member is extended. Then, the locking between the upper housing and the lower housing is released and the upper housing separates from the lower housing, and the locking member locks the upper housing and the lower housing. Alternatively, a mouse comprising: an indicating member for instructing to release the lock with the lower housing.