ILLUMINATED MOUSE PAD

• US 20130058129A1
• Filed: 09/07/2011
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jamie Limber
• Original Assignee: Jamie Limber
• Inventors: Limber, Jamie
• Granted Patent: US 8,408,779 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/605
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/325 Power saving in peripheral device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0395 Mouse pads
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An illuminated mouse pad having a light guide having a top side, a bottom side and a perimeter side, a light source for directing emitted light through a first portion of the perimeter of the light guide, and an array of light diffusers located on the bottom side of the light guide, said light diffusers capable of diffusing or spreading out or scattering light emitted by the light source to give a soft back light to the top side.

Claims

1. (canceled)

5. An illuminated mouse pad comprising a light guide having a top side, a bottom side and a perimeter side, a light source for directing emitted light through a first portion of the perimeter of the light guide, and an array of light diffusers located on the bottom side of the light guide, said light diffusers capable of diffusing or spreading out or scattering light emitted by the light source to give a soft back light to the top side and wherein the array of light diffusers comprises individual light diffusers that increase in size as they are further away from the light source.

2. The illuminated mouse pad according to claim 5, wherein the mouse pad receives power from a connected computer via an information/power port.

3. The illuminated mouse pad according to claim 2, wherein the mouse pad includes additional information/power ports to connect peripheral devices to a connected computer.

4. The illuminated mouse pad according to claim 5, wherein the array of light diffusers is a random array or an ordered array.

6. The illuminated mouse pad according to claim 5, wherein the array of light diffusers comprises individual light diffusers that increase in size as they are further away from the light source for the first 40 millimeters and are constant in size after a distance of 40 millimeters.

7. The illuminated mouse pad according to claim 5, wherein the array of light diffusers comprises individual light diffusers that vary in size from 0.1 millimeters to 3 millimeters.