WO2016101945A1 - Hand-held device having an improved operability and functional and operational reliability - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to handheld devices that have improved operability, functional and operational safety due to their spatial configuration and arrangement of the controls.
- Portable electronic display or control elements held in the hand and operated by hand or fingers when in use are known as handheld or handheld devices. These include portable computers, so-called electronic organizers, PDAs, and pocket computers and so-called tablet computers and mobile phones with advanced features, so-called smartphones (formerly “Communicator”) and “Phablets” but also portable game consoles, portable gauges or other data acquisition or display - devices and portable devices for playing music or multimedia content and navigation devices, GPS receivers.
- Handheld devices of recent design have in particular a substantially flat, plate-shaped or tabular basic shape with a known strictly rectangular profile, which shows at least two opposite parallel straight edges and only the outer corners are provided with a rounding radius of a few millimeters.
- a handheld be it as a smartphone, tablet computer, navigation device or the like, but has drawbacks in the usability and reliability. All these devices have in common that they are held during normal use in the operation in the hand, but at the same time just with the hand that holds them, be operated to achieve the desired functionality of the device.
- the operation takes place via touch-sensitive fields, so-called touchpads, or touch-sensitive display screens, so-called touchscreens.
- known handheld devices occasionally on other controls such as wheels or joysticks.
- Known operating operations are the typing of (alphanumeric characters and commands via a front-side keypad or, above all, so-called pointing and swiping movements on a touch-sensitive display screen (gesture control).)
- pointing and swiping movements on a touch-sensitive display screen (gesture control).
- anatomically-related restrictions which are the operability on the one hand or before Therefore, the technical reliability can not be guaranteed in certain operating operations: incorrect operation, accidental program start-ups that involve the consumption of resources, but also direct physical damage, because the device is out of operation Handles and falls to the ground are often observable.
- the invention is based on the technical problem of overcoming these disadvantages and improving the manageability, operability and reliability of such handheld devices.
- the technical problem is solved by a handheld device according to the main claim, in particular a handheld device with a tabular basic shape and front-side display screen, which according to the invention is characterized in that at least two opposite sides are convex. xes and have a particularly circular or ellipsoidal profile, so that a barrel-shaped or spherical cross-sectional profile is formed on the sheet shape.
- a plate-shaped or tabular basic form is understood here especially a substantially four- or rectangular and flat plate or panel, as is customary for generic Handheids.
- the plate or tablet has a main plane with an aspect ratio that is primarily oriented to the aspect ratio of the built-in front-side display screen.
- the aspect ratio of width to length of the panel is about 4: 3, 3: 2, 14: 9, 16: 9, 1, 85: 1, 2: 1 or 2.35: 1.
- the thickness (height) of the panel is preferably about 1% to about 10% of the length.
- a convex edge profile is to be understood here in particular as an edge following a circular shape or an ellipse.
- the dimensioning is as follows: If the (original) imaginary straight edge of the panel forms the circular chord, the convex edge according to the invention forms the associated circular arc.
- the circle radius is about 2 to 5 times the length of the chord and the distance of the chord from the circle center is about 0.9 to 0.95 of the circle radius: Corresponding dimensions apply to ellipsoidal edge shapes.
- the subject of the invention is therefore, in particular, a handheld device embodied as a smartphone with a typical size of its display screen of approximately 7 to 12.5 cm (cf., approximately 3 to 5 inches) screen diagonal which, as a rule, is held with one hand and with exactly this is also served.
- This also includes mobile navigation devices.
- Another object of the invention is particularly That is, a handheld computer designed as a tablet PC with a typical size of its display screen of about 20 to 28 cm (cf about 8 to 11 inches) screen diagonal, which usually needs to be held and operated ambidextrous for use.
- a further subject of the invention is in particular a handheld known as a "phablet" with a typical size of its display screen of about 13 to 18 cm (compare about 5.2 to 7 inches) screen diagonal, which is usually held ambidextrous for use and must be operated, but can also be held and operated with one hand, in which case the advantage of the design of the invention in a very special way comes to fruition and which significantly improves the operational and reliability especially in these versions.
- a hand-held device especially if it has this typical generic flat, tabular basic shape, can be held more securely in the hand by this special shape design and can be operated much better.
- the convex shape provides a non-slip grip and allows the fingers of the hand to reach a larger area of the front panel more securely, which improves the functional safety of the device and reduces the risk of operating errors.
- a control panel which generally coincides regularly with the display panel itself does not need to follow this barrel-shaped or crowned basic shape, but may itself continue to be formed in a strictly rectangular manner with straight edge profiles.
- at least the front-side control and / or display panel of the hand has a shape which is adapted to the anatomically possible and in particular meaningful range of motion of the fingers of the holding hand.
- the non-rectangular control and / or display panel is then fan-shaped or formed as a ring sector.
- the invention additionally provides special operating elements for facilitating operation, in particular in connection with the convex profile edges according to the invention, which further improve the operability and thus the functional and operational safety of the hand.
- the recess preferably comprises about 10 to 20 mm of the length of the edge in which it is formed.
- the recess is concave and preferably circular or elliptical.
- the radius of curvature is about 20 to 100 mm.
- This particular invention arranged in the recess control is preferably designed as a touch-sensitive control element as an optical position sensor, touch panel or finger scanner or as a displaceably mounted ball (trackball).
- This control element is alternatively preferably designed as a rotary wheel (Scrall wheel) in the form of a so-called “jog dial” or as a pendulum wheel in the form of a so-called “shuttle dial”.
- this operating wheel may have another, touch-sensitive operating element, for example in the simplest configuration in the form of a key or sensor key, in an alternative embodiment in the form of an optical position sensor, touch panel or finger scanner.
- the invention thus preferably additionally provides a rotatable operating element set back from the convex profile edge, via which, preferably with the thumb of the hand holding the handheld device, essential operating functions can be performed on the device, wherein At the same time the secure hold of the device in the hand is ensured.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic oblique view of a first embodiment of the inventive device, particularly as a tablet computer or game console with longitudinal edges 12 and frontal edges 14 and at least one front display screen 30, which additionally has a touch-sensitive display and control panel (touch screen).
- both the longitudinal edges 12 and the frontal edges 14 have a convex, that is to say outwardly arched, and in particular ellipsoidal profile.
- at least at the front edge 14 and as shown here preferably, but not necessarily, on the longitudinal edge 12 each have a recess 18 or 16 is present, wherein a control wheel 24 or 22 is arranged, which in the invention preferably from the edge 14 or 12 is reset.
- the operating wheel 22, 24 is here preferably designed as a detent scroll wheel in the manner of a toothed clock crown.
- the operating wheel 22, 24 has a touch-sensitive control panel 26, 28 on the front side.
- FIGS. 2A, 2B and 2C each show further views of the embodiment according to FIG. 1:
- FIG. 2A shows the frontal plan view, the outlines of the at least one front-side display screen are drawn in dashed lines.
- Figure 2B shows the side view;
- Figure 2C shows the top view of the back of the hand.
- FIG. 3 and 4 each show further embodiments of the invention according to the invention, in particular in the design as a so-called "smart phone” or navigation device with front panel and control panel, which is held in one hand only. see above).
- Figures 5 to 8 each show schematically further embodiments for the arrangement of the operating wheels 22 and other elements in a handheld device according to the invention.
- FIG. 5 shows an embodiment in which only the longitudinal edges 12 show the convex ellipsoidal profiling according to the invention.
- FIGS. 6 to 8 the longitudinal edges 12 and the front edges 14 are profiled in a convexly elliptical manner.
- FIG. 9 schematically shows a further embodiment of the operating element 22 in the recess 16 of a convex edge 12 in a handheld device according to the invention, namely as a displaceably mounted ball (trackball).
- FIG. 10 schematically shows a further embodiment of the operating element 22 in the recess 16 of a convex edge 12 in a handheld device according to the invention, specifically as a touch-sensitive touch panel.
- FIGS 11A and 11B show detailed views of the recessed profile edge 16 according to the invention for receiving an operating element 22.
- the operating element is set back clearly behind the outer edge 12 of the profile.
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