KR200349832Y1 - USB port-connected mouse device having means for vibration and sound output - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a mouse device for transmitting a user's request to a computer, comprising: an acoustic vibrator for generating an acoustic vibration wave corresponding to an audio signal; An audio signal module for processing an audio signal received from the computer and transmitting the processed audio signal to the acoustic vibrator; A mouse signal module for generating and processing a mouse input signal such as pointer location information and object selection information; A USB port connection cable for forming a single line between the computer and the mouse device for transmitting the mouse signal and the audio signal through the USB port of the computer; And a distributor for transferring a mouse input signal input from the mouse signal module to a USB port of a computer through the USB port connection cable, and for transmitting an audio signal transmitted from the computer to the mouse signal module. The acoustic vibrator is attached to the inner wall of the upper surface of the mouse device, and relates to a USB port-connected mouse having a vibration and sound output means, characterized in that the reproduced sound and vibration is output to the outside of the mouse device.

Description

USB port-connected mouse device having means for vibration and sound output

The present invention relates to a mouse, which is an input device of a computer, and more particularly, to a USB port-connected mouse device having a vibration and sound output means for receiving a sound signal as well as receiving a mouse signal through a computer USB port. It is about.

A mouse device having a sound output means designed to simultaneously perform the mouse function and the speaker function disclosed in Korean Utility Model Registration No. 319960 is connected to a sound card output terminal of a computer via a USB cable, which is a mouse signal cable, to receive an audio signal. Since the cables are connected, the wiring of the mouse device is complicated and there is a problem that a sound card must be mounted in the computer.

The present invention was devised in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a mouse device capable of transmitting and receiving mouse signals and audio signals through a single computer USB port.

In addition, according to the present invention it is possible to output an audio signal even if the computer does not have a separate sound card.

1 is a perspective view showing the configuration of a USB port-connected mouse device having a vibration and sound output means according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional view illustrating a coupled state of the acoustic vibrator in FIG. 1.

3 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of an acoustic vibrator.

4 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of a USB port-connected mouse device having vibration and sound output means according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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1. Body 5a.USB port connector

5.USB port connection cable 10. Mouse housing

20. Splitter 30. Mouse signal module

40. Audio signal module 50. Output terminal

60. Amplifier 70. Volume control dial

80. Acoustic vibrator 90. Acoustic vibrator support

In order to achieve the above object, a USB port-connected mouse device having vibration and sound output means according to the present invention is a mouse device for transmitting a user's request to a computer, which generates an acoustic vibration wave corresponding to an audio signal. Acoustic oscillator; An audio signal module for processing an audio signal received from the computer and transmitting the processed audio signal to the acoustic vibrator; A mouse signal module for generating and processing a mouse input signal such as pointer location information and object selection information; A USB port connection cable for forming a single line between the computer and the mouse device for transmitting the mouse signal and the audio signal through the USB port of the computer; And a distributor for transmitting a mouse input signal input from the mouse signal module to a USB port of a computer through the USB port connection cable, and for transmitting an audio signal transmitted from the computer to the mouse signal module.

Preferably, the acoustic vibrator further comprises attached to the inner wall of the upper surface of the mouse body housing.

According to another aspect of the present invention, it further comprises an amplifier for amplifying the audio signal output from the audio signal module and delivered to the acoustic vibrator.

Preferably, the acoustic vibrator further includes an acoustic vibrator support to prevent the acoustic vibrator from excessively vibrating when an excessive audio signal is applied and to prevent the acoustic vibrator from falling off due to falling.

The acoustic vibrator support is preferably formed of a center receiving portion for seating the acoustic vibrator and a bent thin plate is formed of both ends of the adhesive portion fixed to the mouse body housing by the fastening means.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, the terms or words used in this specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to their usual or dictionary meanings, and the inventors will properly describe the concept of terms in order to best explain their own design. Based on the principle that it can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a configuration of a USB port connection mouse device having a vibration and sound output means according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a partial cross-sectional view of the USB port connection mouse device having a vibration and sound output means Is shown.

Referring to the drawings, the USB port-connected mouse device having a vibration and sound output means according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a mouse body housing 10, the computer body 1 on one side of the housing 10 And a USB port connecting cable 5 for interfacing with a mouse.

In addition, the USB port connection cable 5 is provided with a USB port connection connector 5a jointed to a USB port of the computer main body.

In addition, referring to FIG. 4, the housing 10 separates a mouse signal module 30 for processing a mouse signal, an audio signal module 40 for processing an audio signal, and the mouse signal and an audio signal. The distributor 20 for transmitting and receiving through the port connection cable (5) is built-in.

The housing 10 is attached with an acoustic vibrator 80 for reproducing the acoustic vibration wave based on the audio signal transmitted from the computer body.

Preferably, the acoustic vibrator 80 is attached to the upper surface of the inner wall of the housing 10 so that the user can easily grip and feel a realistic sound.

Meanwhile, an acoustic vibrator support 90 for attaching the acoustic vibrator 80 to the inner wall of the upper surface of the housing 10 is attached to the housing 10.

The acoustic vibrator support 90 firmly attaches the acoustic vibrator 80 to the inner wall of the upper surface to smoothly transmit the acoustic vibration wave from the acoustic vibrator 80 to the housing 10, and when excessive audio signal is applied. The acoustic vibrator 80 is prevented from vibrating excessively.

In addition, when the mouse device is inadvertently dropped, the acoustic vibrator 80 serves to fix the upper surface inner wall.

The acoustic vibrator support 90 is formed of a central accommodating part for accommodating the acoustic vibrator 80 and two ends of adhesive parts fixed to the mouse body housing 10 by using fastening means such as bolts and adhesives. do.

Preferably both sides are made of an adhesive, one side of which is adhered to the central receiving portion and the other side of the cushion comprises a foam (foam) material bonded to the frame (80f) of the acoustic vibrator (80).

As the technical configuration of the acoustic vibrator 80, a structure as shown in FIG. 3 may be employed.

Referring to FIG. 3, the acoustic vibrator 80 includes a magnet 80a for supplying direct current magnetic flux, a plate 80b adhered to the magnet 80a to increase the density of the direct current magnetic flux, and the plate 80b. Voice coil (80c) is installed to form an alternating magnetic circuit to generate the vertical vibration, the damper (80d) serving as a support for the vertical vibration of the voice coil (80c), and the voice coil (80c) ) And a ring 80e which directly transmits the upper and lower vibrations to one side of the inner wall of the mouse body 10, and a frame 80f serving as a case for protecting these parts.

Therefore, when an audio signal is applied to the voice coil 80c to generate an alternating rotor magnetic field, the voice coil 80c and the ring 80e vibrate integrally by the interaction between the alternating rotor and the direct current magnetic flux. An acoustic vibration wave is applied to the mouse body housing 10, and as a result, sound is reproduced by vibration of the mouse body housing 10 itself.

4 is a functional configuration of a mouse device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 4, the mouse device according to the present invention is a dispenser (20); Mouse signal module 30; Audio signal module 40; Acoustic vibrator 80 is included.

The distributor 20 includes a control unit 21 for controlling a mouse signal and an audio signal and a relay unit 22 for transmitting the signals.

The controller 21 transmits information about the mouse signal module 30 and the audio signal module 40 to the computer main body 1. The computer main body 1, which has received the information from the mouse device, allocates an address on the memory via the USB port connection cable 5.

The USB port is serial, so it only accepts one signal per line. Therefore, it is impossible to send and receive data from multiple devices at the same time.

Therefore, the computer main body sends a command of SOF (Start Of Frame) every 1ms to give a command regarding packet transmission. That is, 1 ms is used as one frame to instruct the control unit 21 to send and receive packets. The control unit 21 separates the audio signal and the mouse signal into the memory address indicated in the header added to the packet.

The separated audio and mouse signals are transmitted and received with the computer main body 1 through the relay unit 22.

The mouse signal input to the computer main body 1 is composed of a positional information signal of a mouse pointer and object selection information (click signal or wheel signal). The mouse signal is generated by the mouse signal input unit 32 according to a user's manipulation, and the position information signal and the object selection information on the x and y coordinates moved by the mouse signal processor 31 are digitally processed and distributed through the distributor 20. It is input to the computer main body 1.

The digital audio signal output from the computer main body 1 is input to the audio signal module 40 via the distributor 20 via the USB port connecting cable 5. The input digital audio signal is signal-processed in the frequency domain by Fourier transform in the digital signal processor 41 and converted into an analog audio signal through the D / A converter 42.

The audio signal output from the audio signal module 40 is applied to the voice coil 80c of the acoustic vibrator 80.

On the other hand, it is preferable that the audio signal output from the audio signal module 40 is weak and amplified to a predetermined power level through the amplifier 60 and then applied to the voice coil 80c of the acoustic vibrator 80.

On the other hand, the present invention may further include an output terminal 50 provided on one side of the mouse body housing 10 to apply the audio signal output from the audio signal module 40 to an external headphone or a separate speaker system. .

In addition, the volume control dial 70 may adjust the size of the audio signal at a predetermined power level and transmit it to the acoustic vibrator 80.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the sound control dial 70 is preferably provided at one side of the housing 10, preferably at the point where the user's thumb is located for convenient operation.

On the other hand, in order to control the audio signal, the audio power switch 100 is preferably provided on one side of the mouse body housing (10).

Then, the operation of the mouse device according to the present invention having the configuration as described above will be described.

The mouse signal according to the user's operation is input to the computer main body 1 via the USB port connection cable 5 via the mouse signal module 30 and the computer audio signal is input to the audio signal module 40 through the cable 5. It is applied to the acoustic vibrator 80 via.

A distributor 20 is interposed between the modules and the computer body 1 to control the modules and to separate mouse signals and audio signals.

When the audio signal applied to the acoustic vibrator 80 is applied to the voice coil 80c and an AC rotor field is generated, the AC rotor and the interaction of the DC magnetic flux supplied from the magnet 80a and concentrated on the plate 80b As a result, the voice coil 80c and the ring 80e vibrate integrally, and this vibration is applied to the mouse body housing 10, and as a result, sound is reproduced by the vibration of the housing 10 itself.

The present invention transmits and receives not only a mouse signal but also an audio signal through a USB port connection cable, so that a separate sound card does not need to be installed in the computer body.

Therefore, other peripheral device cards can be added to the internal slots of the computer to add other functions, and the configuration of the device is simplified because the cable is connected to the computer.

And because the mouse function and the speaker function at the same time, there is no separate computer speaker, so you can use the office space efficiently and listen to the sound, and at the same time, you can feel the vibration with the grasping hand and enjoy the realistic sound.

The mouse device according to the present invention can be recognized by the vibration of the mouse itself when receiving a mail or a message when applied to interoperate with the normal messenger software.

Claims (4)

A mouse device for forwarding a user's request to a computer, the mouse device An acoustic vibrator for generating an acoustic vibration wave corresponding to the audio signal; An audio signal module for processing an audio signal received from the computer and transmitting the processed audio signal to the acoustic vibrator; A mouse signal module for generating and processing a mouse input signal such as pointer location information and object selection information; A USB port connection cable for forming a single line between the computer and the mouse device for transmitting the mouse signal and the audio signal through the USB port of the computer; And A distributor for transmitting a mouse input signal input from the mouse signal module to a USB port of a computer through the USB port connection cable, and for transmitting an audio signal transmitted from the computer to the audio signal module; The sound vibrator is attached to the inner wall of the upper surface of the mouse device, USB port connection mouse device having a vibration and sound output means, characterized in that the reproduced sound and vibration is output to the outside The method of claim 1, And an amplifier for amplifying an audio signal output from the audio signal module and transmitting the amplified audio signal to an acoustic vibrator. The method of claim 1, An acoustic vibrator support to prevent the acoustic vibrator from excessively vibrating when the acoustic vibrator receives an excessive audio signal and to prevent the acoustic vibrator from falling off due to a drop or the like; USB port connection mouse device having a vibration and sound output means further comprising. The method of claim 3, The acoustic vibrator support is formed of a central receiving portion for seating the acoustic vibrator and a bent thin plate, and is connected to the USB port having both ends of the adhesive portion fixed to the mouse body housing by the fastening means. Mouse device.