WIRELESS MOUSE, MOUSE PAD AND WIRELESS MOUSE APPARATUS

• US 20160085322A1
• Filed: 03/20/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: PARK, Sung Heum, CHO, Sang Ho, CHANG, Ki Won, SUNG, Jae Suk, CHO, Hyung Wook, HAN, Chang Mok, SEO, Duk Won
• Application Number:
  US14/664,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085322A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0383 Signal control means within the pointing device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0395 Mouse pads
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction

Abstract

There are provided a wireless mouse including: a charging unit receiving power in a non-contact manner to charge a battery with the received power; a movement detection unit detecting movements of the wireless mouse made by a user; and a controlling unit controlling whether or not a charging operation of the charging unit is performed, depending on the movements of the wireless mouse, a mouse pad including: a pad body having a predetermined area; a charging region provided on a portion of a surface of the pad body and transmitting power in a non-contact manner; and an operating region provided on the remainder of the surface of the pad body to be separated from the charging region and assisting in a pointing operation of the mouse, and a wireless mouse apparatus including the wireless mouse and the mouse pad.

Claims

1. A wireless mouse transmitting location data depending on movements thereof made by a user, the wireless mouse comprising:

a charging unit receiving power in a non-contact manner to charge a battery with the received power;

a movement detection unit detecting the movements of the wireless mouse; and

a controlling unit controlling whether or not a charging operation of the charging unit is performed, depending on the movements of the wireless mouse.

2. The wireless mouse of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit stops the charging operation of the charging unit when the movements of the wireless mouse are detected, and resumes the charging operation of the charging unit when the movements of the wireless mouse are not detected.

3. The wireless mouse of claim 1, wherein the charging unit includes:

a power receiving coil receiving power in the non-contact manner;

a rectifying unit rectifying the power received from the power receiving coil;

a regulator regulating the rectified power to charging power that enables the battery to be charged; and

a charging controlling unit controlling the charging power from the regulator to be charged in the battery.

4. The wireless mouse of claim 3, wherein the controlling unit controls the charging operation by controlling whether or not at least one of the rectifying unit and the regulator is operated.

5. The wireless mouse of claim 1, further comprising a user operation detecting unit determining whether or not the user is operating the mouse.

6. The wireless mouse of claim 5, wherein the user operation detecting unit includes at least one of a temperature detecting unit sensing user contact by detecting temperature and a piezoelectric detecting unit sensing user contact by detecting pressure.

7. A mouse pad comprising:

a pad body having a predetermined area;

a charging region provided on a portion of a surface of the pad body and transmitting power to a mouse in a non-contact manner; and

an operating region provided on the remainder of the surface of the pad body to be separated from the charging region and assisting in a pointing operation of the mouse.

8. The mouse pad of claim 7, wherein the operating region is a non-charging region.

9. A wireless mouse apparatus comprising:

a wireless mouse transmitting location data depending on movements thereof made by a user and receiving power in a non-contact manner depending on whether or not the movements of the wireless mouse are made;

a mouse pad transmitting power to the wireless mouse in the non-contact manner.

10. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 9, wherein the wireless mouse includes:

a charging unit receiving the power in the non-contact manner to charge a battery with the received power;

a movement detection unit detecting the movements of the wireless mouse; and

a controlling unit controlling whether or not a charging operation of the charging unit is performed, depending on the movements of the wireless mouse.

11. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controlling unit stops the charging operation of the charging unit when the movements of the wireless mouse are detected, and resumes the charging operation of the charging unit when the movements of the wireless mouse are not detected.

12. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 10, wherein the charging unit includes:

a power receiving coil receiving the power in the non-contact manner;

a rectifying unit rectifying the power received from the power receiving coil;

a regulator regulating the rectified power to charging power that enables the battery to be charged; and

a charging controlling unit controlling the charging power from the regulator to be charged in the battery.

13. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 12, wherein the controlling unit controls the charging operation by controlling whether or not at least one of the rectifying unit and the regulator is operated.

14. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 9, wherein the wireless mouse further includes a user operation detecting unit determining whether or not the user is operating the mouse.

15. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 14, wherein the user operation detecting unit includes at least one of a temperature detecting unit sensing user contact by detecting temperature and a piezoelectric detecting unit sensing user contact by detecting pressure.

16. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 9, wherein the mouse pad includes:

a pad body having a predetermined area;

a charging region provided on a portion of a surface of the pad body and transmitting the power to the wireless mouse in the non-contact manner; and

an operating region provided on the remainder of the surface of the pad body to be separated from the charging region and assisting in a pointing operation of the wireless mouse.

17. The wireless mouse apparatus of claim 16, wherein the operating region is a non-charging region.