GAME CONTROLLER

• US 20140323220A1
• Filed: 04/25/2013
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Lee, Tsung Shih
• Application Number:
  US13/870,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20140323220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/24 Constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles

Abstract

A game controller includes a lower shell, an upper shell matched with the lower shell for receiving magnets therein and defining a battery-holding chamber, and a top cover removably attached on the upper shell to cover the battery-holding chamber. A bottom side of the upper shell protrudes downward to form at least one positioning pillar sheathed with a rubber sleeve of which an inside wall defines a first fixing structure. A through aperture extends vertically to penetrate through the positioning pillar and the upper shell. A bottom side of the top cover protrudes downward to form a fixing pillar of which a lower part defines a second fixing structure. The fixing pillar passes through the through aperture to be inserted in the rubber sleeve, and the first fixing structure is snapped with the second fixing structure. The top cover is equipped with metal blocks attracted with the magnets.

Claims

1. A game controller, comprising:

a lower shell;

an upper shell matched with the lower shell for receiving a plurality of magnets therein, the upper shell defining at least one battery-holding chamber, a bottom side of the upper shell protruding downward to form at least one positioning pillar, a through aperture extending vertically to penetrate through the positioning pillar and the upper shell, the positioning pillar being sheathed with a rubber sleeve of which an inside wall defines a first fixing structure; and

at least one top cover removably attached on a top face of the upper shell to cover the battery-holding chamber, a bottom side of the top cover protruding downward to form a fixing pillar of which a lower part defines a second fixing structure fit in with the first fixing structure of the rubber sleeve, the fixing pillar passing through the through aperture to be inserted in the rubber sleeve, and the first fixing structure being snapped with the second fixing structure, the top cover being equipped with a plurality of metal blocks attracted with the magnets respectively.

2. The game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rubber sleeve defines a fastening aperture at one end thereof and a fixing hole at the other end thereof, the fixing hole is communicated with and coaxial with the fastening aperture and has a smaller diameter than the fastening aperture, the rubber sleeve is sleeved around the positioning pillar of the upper shell by virtue of the positioning pillar being fastened in the fastening aperture with the fixing hole being coaxial and communicated with the through aperture, the inside wall of the fixing hole defines the first fixing structure, the fixing pillar of the top cover passes through the through aperture to be inserted in the fixing hole of the rubber sleeve.

3. The game controller as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first fixing structure is a plurality of ring-shaped fixing grooves arranged coaxially and apart, the second fixing structure is a plurality of ring-shaped fixing ribs apart protruded around the outside of the lower part of the fixing pillar and snapped with the fixing grooves of the rubber sleeve.

4. The game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first fixing structure is a plurality of ring-shaped fixing grooves arranged coaxially and apart, the second fixing structure is a plurality of ring-shaped fixing ribs apart protruded around the outside of the lower part of the fixing pillar and snapped with the fixing grooves of the rubber sleeve.

5. The game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second fixing structure of the fixing pillar of the top cover is made of rubber material.

6. The game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the upper shell defining a plurality of through holes, the magnets received between the upper shell and the lower shell are disposed corresponding to the through holes and exposed through the through holes, the metal blocks of the top cover are attracted with the magnets through the through holes respectively.