Mouse pad

• US 6,258,444 B1
• Filed: 07/07/1999
• Issued: 07/10/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kitajima Craft Limited, Yoshihiko Muramoto
• Original Assignee: Kitajima Craft Limited, Yoshihiko Muramoto
• Inventors: Muramoto, Yoshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Loney, Donald J.
• Application Number:
  US09/297,566
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• Field of Search: 428/156, 428/172, 428/192, 428/81, 428/98, 428/423.4, 428/424.6, 248/346.01, 248/118.1, 248/918, 400/715, 2 1/6, 2 2/0
• US Class Current: 428/172
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0395 Mouse pads
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/918 Ancillary device support associated with a video display screen
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24612 Composite web or sheet

Abstract

A mouse pad which enables a mouse to be manipulated more easily and gives less fatigue to the wrist. A mouse pad (A) has a surface portion (10) and a thick base portion (20), the surface portion (10) having a mouse running surface (10a) inclined relative to a back surface of the thick base portion (20). The surface portion (10) is formed of vinyl chloride or a leather material, and thick base portion (20) is formed of a shock absorbing material such as urethane foam or the like.

Claims

1. A mouse pad for use in manipulating a mouse, comprising:

a surface portion having a mouse running surface on a front side of said mouse pad, said surface portion being made of vinyl chloride or leather material, and

a base portion supporting said surface portion, said base portion being made of polyurethane foam, said base portion having a back surface on a back side of said mouse pad, said back surface being for contact with a setting surface on which said mouse pad is to be placed,

wherein said mouse running surface is inclined at an angle between 3 and 10 degrees relative to the back surface of said mouse pad,

said mouse pad has a cross section of a triangular or trapezoidal shape, and

said mouse running surface is substantially rectangular and planar.

2. The mouse pad according to claim 1, wherein said mouse running a surface is square.

3. A mouse pad for use in manipulating a mouse, comprising:

a surface portion having a mouse running surface on a front side of said mouse pad, said surface portion being made of vinyl chloride or leather material, and

a base portion supporting said surface portion, said base portion being made of polyurethane foam, said base portion having a back surface on a back side of said mouse pad, said back surface being for contact with a setting surface on which said mouse pad is to be placed,

wherein said mouse running surface is inclined at an angle between 3 and 10 degrees relative to the setting surface on which said mouse pad is to be placed,

said mouse pad has a cross section of a triangular or trapezoidal shape, and

said mouse running surface is substantially rectangular and planar.

4. The mouse pad according to claim 3, wherein said mouse running surface is square.