Mouse

• US 20060181512A1
• Filed: 09/26/2005
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Original Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Inventors: Chang, Jung-Wen, Wang, Ching-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US11/234,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20060181512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/163
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0333 Ergonomic shaped mouse for one hand
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence

Abstract

A mouse comprises a body and a supportive housing. The supportive housing is disposed on the body and shifted between a first position and a second position, wherein when the supportive housing is in the first position, the supportive housing contacts and supports the palm of a user.

Claims

1. A mouse, comprising:

a body; and

a supportive housing, disposed on the body and shifted between a first position and a second position, wherein when the supportive housing is in the first position, the supportive housing contacts and supports a palm of a user.

2. The mouse as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body comprises a front portion and a rear portion, and the supportive housing is disposed on the rear portion.

3. The mouse as claimed in claim 2, wherein a distance between the first position and the rear portion is greater than a distance between the second position and the rear portion.

4. The mouse as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first position is higher than the second position.

5. The mouse as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supportive housing is shifted between the first position and the second position by elastic force.

6. The mouse as claimed in claim 5, further comprising an elastic structure disposed between the supportive housing and the body, the elastic structure comprising:

a fixing element, disposed on the body;

a moveable element, disposed on the supportive housing;

an elastic element, disposed between the fixing element and the moveable element, contacting the fixing element and the moveable element,

wherein the elastic element pushes the supportive housing from the second position to the first position.

7. The mouse as claimed in claim 6, wherein the fixing element comprises a guide groove which is an enclosed inverted heart-shape, the guide groove is formed on a surface of the fixing element, and comprises a first groove position and a second groove position.

8. The mouse as claimed in claim 7, wherein the moveable element comprises a guide portion, extending into the guide groove, and reciprocates between the first groove position and the second groove position in a guide direction, wherein when the guide portion abuts against an inner wall of the guide groove and stays in the first groove position, the supportive housing is in the first position, and when the guide portion abuts against the inner wall of the guide groove and stays in the second groove position, the supportive housing is in the second position.

9. The mouse as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a control interface disposed on the body.

10. The mouse as claimed in claim 7, wherein the body comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion connecting the second portion, the control interface disposed on the first portion, and the supportive housing is disposed on the second portion.