WO2000043948A1 - Souris d'ordinateur - Google Patents

Souris d'ordinateur

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WO2000043948A1
WO2000043948A1 PCT/EP2000/000356 EP0000356W WO0043948A1 WO 2000043948 A1 WO2000043948 A1 WO 2000043948A1 EP 0000356 W EP0000356 W EP 0000356W WO 0043948 A1 WO0043948 A1 WO 0043948A1
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Prior art keywords
computer mouse
mouse according
housing
grip
grip surface
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PCT/EP2000/000356
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Ulrich Schmidt
Thomas Schäfer
Original Assignee
Ulrich Schmidt
Schaefer Thomas
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Publication date
Application filed by Ulrich Schmidt, Schaefer Thomas filed Critical Ulrich Schmidt
Priority to EP00902607A priority Critical patent/EP1062629A1/fr
Publication of WO2000043948A1 publication Critical patent/WO2000043948A1/fr

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • 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
    • G06F3/03543—Mice or pucks
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F2203/00—Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/00 - G06F3/048
    • G06F2203/033—Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/033
    • G06F2203/0334—Ergonomic shaped mouse for vertical grip, whereby the hand controlling the mouse is resting or gripping it with an attitude almost vertical with respect of the working surface

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  • the invention relates to a computer mouse, the housing of which has an outwardly curved grip surface with at least two keys arranged in the front area and carries a rotatably mounted ball on its underside.
  • the computer mouse is relatively flat and the buttons are on the top.
  • the steering hand is placed on the curved top. Even if, in individual cases, a well-known computer mouse is slightly bulged and the keys are laterally offset at a lower level than the back line, working with the computer mouse results in a physiologically unfavorable hand, arm and body position.
  • the hand is constantly angled backwards (dorsal extension). This not only leads to cramping and irritation symptoms, but also results in poor power transmission of the muscles of the extensor group to the fingers, whereby it must be taken into account that in certain applications the index finger has to be moved up to 50 times per minute.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a computer mouse, which is suitable to avoid the aforementioned various disorders and diseases, and to solve this problem, the invention proposes that the grip surface is a side surface of the housing, which is at least essentially the shape a section of a cone shell with a tip angle of at most 40 °, the center of the uppermost button is at least about 55 mm above the rolling surface of the ball and the upper edge region of the grip surface at least from the height of the buttons to the rear at an angle of about 25 to 35 ° drops substantially evenly to less than half the height.
  • the hand rests on the steep, cone-shaped, curved side surface of the housing and can be supported with the outer edge of the hand on the table or rolling surface of the ball during breaks.
  • abductor minimi muscle i.e. a soft tissue structure that distributes pressure optimally guaranteed.
  • the piriform bone is completely relieved.
  • the wrist assumes an extended, relaxed rest position, in which the force of the extensive muscle group is transferred to the fingers without loss of effectiveness.
  • the elbow joint is also in an almost zero position between pronation and supination, so that there is a great deal of scope for extension and flexion without bringing the spine into a forced position.
  • the cone-shaped grip surface in the vertical cross section offers an essentially flat contact surface for the hand. In this way, the tweezer grip that was previously common is avoided by rolling the entire hand in with the thumb coming closer to the little finger.
  • the specified slope of the upper edge area of the grip surface roughly follows the so-called lifeline in the palm of the hand.
  • the computer mouse thus nestles into the side-fitting hand, whereby the thumb can grip over the upper edge area of the surface of the cone and rest relaxed on the top of the computer mouse or grasp it on the side surface opposite the grip surface.
  • the grip surface is at least a portion of the lateral surface of a cone that slopes away from the keys
  • the housing has approximately the shape of a ship's bow in the front region, the "deck” being inclined and concavely curved from the upper edge region of the grip surface to the opposite side surface, while at the same time falling off to the rear with the upper edge region of the grip surface.
  • the "side wall” can extend essentially vertically on the side opposite the gripping surface.
  • the computer mouse shaped in this way has a plan view of the shape of a tadpole with the tail curved to one side in continuation of the rounded body.
  • the upper edge area of the gripping surface preferably drops to zero, as in the case of a curved ramp.
  • the rearmost, lowest end is not necessarily used as a grip surface, so that the housing can also end at the rear.
  • the grip surface can have a slight outward or inward curvature even in the vertical cross section. In the horizontal cross-section, i.e. in the operating position parallel to the table surface and rolling surface of the ball on a mouse pad instead of the circular arc resulting from a truncated cone
  • a more spiral course of the cutting line of the gripping surface can be selected, corresponding to a gripping surface formed from a plurality of mutually adjacent lateral surfaces of different truncated cones.
  • the lower edge area of the grip surface should have a radius of at least 8 cm, preferably about 11 to 12 cm, in horizontal section. However, it can also be made even larger, for example 15 to 18 cm, at least in a partial area of the length of the grip surface.
  • the arc length of the lower edge of the grip surface should be at least about 12 cm, preferably about 15 to 17 cm.
  • the grip surface has a button-shaped, protruding palm rest at about half the height of the uppermost button and about half the length measured.
  • its position can also be defined so that it is at the pivot point of the hand on the os capitatum. Thanks to the sensitive nerves in the palm of your hand, it makes it easier to position the computer mouse in your hand.
  • the keys it has been found to be expedient to give the keys the shape of narrow bars or ribs, which, at an acute angle, fall obliquely to the longitudinal direction of the grip surface and parallel to one another, with space in and between the keys on the grip surface Finger width should be available.
  • the index and middle fingers can relax there rest when the buttons do not need to be pressed temporarily.
  • Figure 1 is a side view of a computer mouse with a view of its grip surface.
  • FIG. 2 shows a side view of the computer mouse, viewed from the front
  • FIG. 3 shows a further side view of the computer mouse looking towards the side surface opposite the gripping surface
  • FIG. 4 shows a plan view of the computer mouse according to FIGS. 1 to 3;
  • Fig. 5 is a view of the computer mouse from behind
  • Fig. 6 is a view of its underside.
  • the computer mouse shown has a housing which, in its front region according to FIG. 6, has almost a circular base area which is only flattened on one side. On this flattened side is the 10 drew the surface of the handle against which the palm of the hand guiding the computer mouse rests.
  • This gripping surface 10 has approximately the shape of a section of a cone shell. As can be seen in FIG. 2, the cone is relatively steep, ie it has an upper, relatively small apex angle of at most approximately 40 °, so that the gripping surface 10 has an incline of at least approximately 70 ° in the vertical cross section.
  • the hand resting on the gripping surface 10 thus rests on the outer edge of the hand on the table surface or the mouse pad, insofar as it is not supported by the ball of the top of the computer mouse.
  • the grip surface 10 has a radius of approximately 10 to 12 cm and an arc length of approximately 15 to 17 cm.
  • the height of the grip surface 10 is approximately 8 cm at the front end and drops to zero at the rear end.
  • the housing of the computer mouse On the side opposite the gripping surface 10, the housing of the computer mouse has a vertical, cylindrical wall 12 which extends approximately over half the circumference and which, according to FIGS. 1, 2 and 6, also around the round front end of the computer mouse in the lower front region extends to the side of the grip surface 10 and forms part of the same. 6, the diameter of the cylindrical wall 12 is approximately half the length of the computer mouse.
  • the transition edge, designated 14 in FIGS. 1 and 2 between the cone-shaped grip surface 10 and the opposite cylindrical side surface 12 extends from the foremost, highest point 16 of the housing, which is rotatably mounted on the underside of the computer mouse in relation to the rolling surface Ball 18 has a height of about 8 cm, obliquely to the side of the grip surface 10 downwards.
  • the height of the cylindrical surface 12 decreases faster from the highest point 16 to the rear than the cone-shaped handle surface 10, so that the top of the housing in the front area by a front to back together with the upper edge area of the handle surface 10 and additionally inclined at an angle of, for example, 20 to 40 ° to the side of the cylindrical side wall 12 towards the top surface 20 is formed, which has approximately the shape of a circular surface flattened on the side of the gripping surface in plan view.
  • This upper surface is also concave, ie it forms a slight depression.
  • the thumb rests on her when working with the computer mouse. There he can actuate a scroll wheel which is arranged more on the side of the grip surface 10 and projects with its circumference above the upper surface 20, the axis of rotation of which extends essentially transversely to the longitudinal direction of the computer mouse.
  • the opposite side wall surface, which adjoins the cylindrical surface 12 towards the rear, has moved close to the grip surface 10 to save weight. In this way, a tail-like projection is formed on the side of the gripping surface 10 that adjoins the can-shaped part to the rear and that tapers towards its rearmost end 26 in the exemplary embodiment.
  • the end 26 forms a rounded tip lying on the level of the lower edge region of the housing, from which the upper, rounded edge edge of the gripping surface 10 rises uniformly up to its highest, foremost point 16 in the exemplary embodiment. From this evenly rising line in the foremost and rearmost areas it could go up or down. be given way without the function of the relatively steep, lateral gripping surface 10 being impaired.
  • a slight depression of the upper edge of the grip surface 10 could be provided, which can be used to position the hand on the computer mouse, but in principle the upper edge of the grip surface should drop relatively evenly from the front to the rear in such a way that on the steep grip surface 10 of the palm at the front end at the top, the outer limb of the index finger touches and the hand can grip over the upper edge of the gripping surface with the thumb and ball halfway to the rear, while the outer edge of the hand rests on the rolling surface for the ball.
  • the keys 28, 30 of the computer mouse are located in the foremost upper region of the grip surface 10. Instead of the two buttons shown, there could also be three. They are relatively narrow, are spaced parallel one above the other at intervals and extend mainly in the longitudinal direction of the grip surface, but with a slight downward slope downwards. The index finger and the middle finger also extend in this direction when the hand is lifted off the table surface when the computer mouse is moved and the ball of the thumb engages over the upper edge region of the grip surface 10. Between the keys 28 and 30 and above the upper key 30 there is enough space on the grip surface 10 to allow the index finger and the middle finger to rest there.
  • a palm rest 32 in the form of a button-shaped projection directly behind the can-shaped front housing part, in the upper region of the grip surface 10. At this point, the center of rotation lies against the hand. The one you can feel in the palm of your hand Palm rest makes it easier to position the hand relative to the housing of the computer mouse.
  • the proposed computer mouse also has a cable connection at its front end.
  • the cable 34 is plugged into a suitable socket 38 at the front lower end of the computer mouse by means of a plug 36.
  • the detachable cable connection on the computer mouse can make it easier to take the computer mouse from one computer to another.
  • the interior of the front, can-shaped housing of the computer mouse is accessible after removal of an essentially circular base plate 40 which is flattened on the side of the gripping surface 10. This is e.g. B. connected by screws to the upper housing part.
  • the base plate 40 carries the rotatably mounted ball 18. This protrudes somewhat downward from the base plate 40.
  • the computer mouse can rest either on an overall straight, horizontal lower edge of the gripping surface 10 or, as in the example, on a rounded, relatively small projection 42 which projects downward relative to the lower edge.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une souris d'ordinateur dont le boîtier présente une face de manipulation bombée (10) avec au moins deux boutons (28, 30) situés dans la zone avant et comporte une bille logée rotative sur sa face inférieure. L'invention vise à diminuer la sollicitation de la main. A cet effet, la face de manipulation (10) correspond à une face latérale du boîtier ayant pratiquement la forme d'au moins un segment d'une génératrice de cône avec un angle au sommet de 40 DEG au plus. Le centre du bouton supérieur (30) se situe au moins à 55 mm environ au-dessus de la surface de roulement de la bille. Le bord supérieur de la face de manipulation (10) décline au moins de la hauteur du bouton supérieur (30) vers l'arrière, avec un angle d'environ 25 à 35 DEG , pratiquement régulièrement jusqu'à moins que la demi-hauteur.
PCT/EP2000/000356 1999-01-19 2000-01-18 Souris d'ordinateur WO2000043948A1 (fr)

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EP00902607A EP1062629A1 (fr) 1999-01-19 2000-01-18 Souris d'ordinateur

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DE19901861.8 1999-01-19
DE1999101861 DE19901861A1 (de) 1999-01-19 1999-01-19 Computermouse

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EP1500073A4 (fr) * 2002-05-02 2008-10-01 Hung-Ying Shih Dispositif de pointage informatique de forme ergonomique

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