NL1036867C2 - Computer mouse with improved optical and mechanical contact with the mouse pad. - Google Patents

Computer mouse with improved optical and mechanical contact with the mouse pad. Download PDF

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NL1036867C2
NL1036867C2 NL1036867A NL1036867A NL1036867C2 NL 1036867 C2 NL1036867 C2 NL 1036867C2 NL 1036867 A NL1036867 A NL 1036867A NL 1036867 A NL1036867 A NL 1036867A NL 1036867 C2 NL1036867 C2 NL 1036867C2
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
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    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
    • G06F3/03—Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
    • G06F3/033—Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor
    • G06F3/0354—Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
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    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
    • G06F3/03—Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
    • G06F3/033—Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor
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Computer mouse with improved optical and mechanical contact with the mouse pad.
Field of the invention 5 Generally, the invention relates to the field of the computer mouse and mouse pad where the mouse is put on the top of the surface of the mouse pad and moves over this surface, to register the movement and generate data to displace the virtual cursor across the monitor screen.
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Background of the invention
The conventional mouse pad of today has a hard or a soft top surface. A common hard mouse pad is made from steel or hard plastic or glass. The metal (steel) surface gives the best 15 reflection of the LED- or Laser light beam from the computer mouse.
The soft mouse pad has a textile coating. The fibres of the textile can be made from Cotton, Nylon, Teflon, Glass etc. These 20 fibres can be flexible pushed together because by the space between the fibres and makes the textile resilient. Therefore, small vibrations during the mouse movement can be absorb and stabilized by the flexible textile coating of a soft mouse pad. This is not possible by using a mouse pad with a hard surface.
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The today's mouse feet under the bottom of the computer mouse are made from a soft greasy material like soft Teflon or soft Polytetrafluoroethyleen etc. to lubricate the mouse movement over the mouse pad. However, these soft mouse feet can get 30 easily scratched and hard dirt particles can get stick into the soft material, which will increase the roughness of the feet and irregularities of the resistance during the mouse movement.
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In detail, resistance by friction means a catching grip of the roughness of two surfaces, like the mouse feet and pad, into each other. With enough (muscle) strength, the catching grip will break loose and the two surfaces moves over each other.
5 With a high moving speed, the roughness of one surface has no time to catch grip into the roughness of the other surface. The resistance is almost absent then. With a certain low speed, the roughness of the two surfaces grips into each other and the movement stops immediately. Therefore, friction has a very 10 irregular resistance which causes irritation when the cursor has to be displaced precisely.
If we have to displace the cursor more precisely, our physical system (locomotion) does stiffening the muscles automatically, 15 to create an inner, statically resistance that is much stronger then the irregular resistance of friction, to suppress this. However, stiffening the muscles statically during a dynamic movement is unnatural and unhealthy after a long period of time.
20 The invention
The invention makes it possible to have a light-reflection on a metal substrate for an optimal tracking, to have a resilient textile mouse pad to stabilize vibrations and to have no irregular resistance between the mouse and pad. This can be done 25 by using a hard and mirror-smooth contact-surface on the mouse for the contact with the mouse pad. This contact-surface can be the whole bottom of the mouse or mouse feet attached to the mouse bottom. "Hard" means at least as hard as common glass. "Mirror-smooth" does not mean "greasy" but a certain roughness 30 of the surface. A "mirror-smooth" surface means that it is able to reflect an image of an object, like a cube for example, and can be recognizing clearly as a cube in the mirror-smooth contact-surface of the mouse.
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Small hairs of the fibres, the fibres itself, dirt particles or other roughness can not get a catching grip on the hard and mirror-smooth contact-surface of the mouse. Therefore, we can change the structure of the textile mouse pad with small, thin 5 (sharp) metal particles on or through the fibres of the textile. These metal particles can be massive or other material with metal coating. The metal particles will reflect the LED- or Laser light beam of the mouse most clearly, to get an optimal tracking. The small, thin metal particles will move along with 10 the fibres and vibrations, maintaining the flexibility of the textile mouse pad.
The invented hard and mirror-smooth contact-surface of the mouse has no catching grip and the mouse moves regular over the mouse 15 pad, even with sharp metal particles in or on this pad. These sharp particles would cut into the conventional soft, greasy mouse feet.
The surface of the new hard and mirror-smooth mouse feet, can be 20 made from sorts of metal, sorts of silicon or sorts of stone.
These materials are hard and can be polished to a mirror-smooth surface. The metal sort can be a mixture (alloy) of metals or a single metal like Chrome. Silicon can be massive glass or a glass-layer like enamel, natural or hardened glass, or a silicon 25 junction like the hard silicon carbonate. The stone sorts can be natural or synthetics including unnatural material.
The principle of the invention can also be constructed contrary, with a hard, mirror-smooth substrate and flexible textile mouse 30 feet.
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1. Contact-oppervlak aan de onderkant van een computermuis, voor het contact van de genoemde computermuis bovenop een ondergrond 5 waarover de genoemde computermuis verplaatst wordt, is daardoor gekenmerkt dat dit contact-oppervlak minstens zo hard als glas is en spiegelend glad is.1. Contact surface on the underside of a computer mouse, for the contact of said computer mouse on top of a surface on which said computer mouse is moved, is characterized in that this contact surface is at least as hard as glass and is mirror-smooth. 2. Als conclusie 1) daardoor gekenmerkt dat dit contact- 10 oppervlak in structuur zo glad is dat de vorm van een kubus duidelijk herkenbaar weerspiegeld kan worden in het contactoppervlak.2. As claimed in claim 1), characterized in that this contact surface is so smooth in structure that the shape of a cube can be clearly recognized in the contact surface. 3. Als conclusie 1) daardoor gekenmerkt dat het contact- 15 oppervlak uit metaal-houdend en/of silicium-houdend en/of steen-houdend materiaal bestaat.3. Claim 1) characterized in that the contact surface consists of metal-containing and / or silicon-containing and / or stone-containing material. 4. Als conclusie 1) daardoor gekenmerkt dat het contactoppervlak uit chroom of chroomhoudend materiaal bestaat. 204. Claim 1) characterized in that the contact surface consists of chromium or chromium-containing material. 20 5. Contact-oppervlak aan de onderkant van een computermuis met inwendige tracking, voor het contact van de genoemde computermuis op de ondergrond waarover de genoemde computermuis verplaatst wordt, is daardoor gekenmerkt dat dit contact- 25 oppervlak uit een flexibel verende vezelverbinding zoals textiel bestaat.5. Contact surface on the underside of a computer mouse with internal tracking, for the contact of said computer mouse on the substrate over which said computer mouse is moved, is characterized in that this contact surface consists of a flexible resilient fiber connection such as textile. 6. Muismat met textiel bekleding is gekenmerkt door metaaldeeltjes en/of gemetalliseerde deeltjes die verbonden zijn 30 met de vezels van de genoemde textiel bekleding en van buitenaf komend LED-licht of Laser-licht weerkaatsen. 10368676. Mouse pad with textile covering is characterized by metal particles and / or metallized particles which are connected to the fibers of said textile covering and reflect LED light or Laser light coming from outside. 1036867
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Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2844076A1 (en) * 2002-08-30 2004-03-05 Nova COMPUTER OPTICAL MOUSE PAD
US20040265546A1 (en) * 2002-05-08 2004-12-30 Acco Brands, Inc. Pad for wireless optical mouse
EP1548555A2 (en) * 2003-11-19 2005-06-29 Manolito Kupilas Sliding surfaces for mouses and mouse provided with the same
WO2006096064A2 (en) * 2005-03-11 2006-09-14 Marcel Petrus Simons Computer input device with improved control perfomance
WO2006100866A1 (en) * 2005-03-02 2006-09-28 Shinko Inoue Pad for optical mouse
US20070069088A1 (en) * 2005-09-29 2007-03-29 Logitech Europe S.A. Input device with reduced friction
KR20070098066A (en) * 2006-03-30 2007-10-05 홍기복 Nano metal of mouse pad
FR2921167A1 (en) * 2007-09-18 2009-03-20 Nova Sarl Computer mouse and mouse pad assembly, has micro beads with average diameter of specific mm, and mouse including sliding blocks each comprising surface with curvature radius of specific mm, where blocks and beads are made of glass/ceramics

Patent Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20040265546A1 (en) * 2002-05-08 2004-12-30 Acco Brands, Inc. Pad for wireless optical mouse
FR2844076A1 (en) * 2002-08-30 2004-03-05 Nova COMPUTER OPTICAL MOUSE PAD
EP1548555A2 (en) * 2003-11-19 2005-06-29 Manolito Kupilas Sliding surfaces for mouses and mouse provided with the same
WO2006100866A1 (en) * 2005-03-02 2006-09-28 Shinko Inoue Pad for optical mouse
WO2006096064A2 (en) * 2005-03-11 2006-09-14 Marcel Petrus Simons Computer input device with improved control perfomance
US20070069088A1 (en) * 2005-09-29 2007-03-29 Logitech Europe S.A. Input device with reduced friction
KR20070098066A (en) * 2006-03-30 2007-10-05 홍기복 Nano metal of mouse pad
FR2921167A1 (en) * 2007-09-18 2009-03-20 Nova Sarl Computer mouse and mouse pad assembly, has micro beads with average diameter of specific mm, and mouse including sliding blocks each comprising surface with curvature radius of specific mm, where blocks and beads are made of glass/ceramics

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