Fingertip pen/stylus

• US 6,527,464 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2001
• Issued: 03/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Prime Global Enterprises, LLC
• Original Assignee: Winston Delano Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Winston Delano
• Primary Examiner(s): Walczak, David J.
• Application Number:
  US09/999,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20020034412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: 401/6, 401/7, 401/8, 401/17, 401/18, 401/20, 401/37, 401/213, 401/48, 401/2, 401/258, 401/21
• US Class Current: 401/8
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 23/012 Holders for attachment to finger tips B43K23/004 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 5/005 Pen barrels

Abstract

A multi-purpose fingertip pen/stylus comprising a flexible shaft having first and second ends made of a bendable material, which retains a twisted shape, said shaft sized of sufficient length to wrap and secure about the fingertip of a writing digit or to be used in a straightened position as a conventional pen; the first end adapted as a stylus tip for use with pressure sensitive computer screens, and the second end adapted as a writing tip to extend sufficiently beyond the fingertip of the writing digit stylus to contact and write on a writing surface.

Claims

1. A fingertip pen comprising:

a flexible shaft having first and second ends made of a bendable material, which retains either a straight or a twisted shape according to the preference of a user, said shaft sized of sufficient length to wrap and secure about the fingertip of a writing digit;

or to be extended and used in a straightened position to be either gripped by the digits of the hand for writing in an extended gripping mode, or wrapped around a writing digit for writing in an extended single digit mode, and

a writing tip attached to the first end structured to extend sufficiently beyond the fingertip of the writing digit to write on a surface.

2. A fingertip pen according to claim 1, including a removable writing tip cap with a cap end structured to cover the writing tip when not in use.

3. A fingertip pen according to claim 1, wherein the shaft and writing tip are colored or patterned to suit the preference of a user.

4. A fingertip pen according to claim 1, wherein the writing tip is a liquid graphite ball point pen.

5. A fingertip pen according to claim 4, wherein the shaft second end includes an eraser.

6. A fingertip pen according to claim 1, including a second writing tip with a removable connection structured to piggy back on and cover the shaft writing tip to provide a different writing tip to suit the preference of a user.

7. A fingertip pen according to claim 6, wherein the second writing tip is a ball point pen having a different color ink, or liquid graphite than that of the shaft writing tip.

8. A fingertip pen according to claim 6, wherein the second writing tip is a felt tip.

9. A fingertip pen according to claim 1, wherein the shaft second end is structured as a pointing stylus to contact a touch sensitive computer screen to input desired information into a computer.

10. A fingertip pen/stylus according to claim 1, including a pen cap coupling with an end structured to insert onto an antenna of a cell phone, the other end structured to fit over the fingertip pen tip and thereby removably secure the fingertip pen tip within the pen cap coupling.

11. A fingertip pen/stylus comprising:

a flexible shaft having first and second ends made of a bendable material, which retains either a straight or a twisted shape according to the preference of a user, said shaft sized of sufficient length to wrap and secure about the fingertip of a writing digit;

said shaft structured to be either straightened and extended to be gripped by the digits of the hand for writing in a gripping mode, or wrapped around a writing digit for writing in an extended single digit mode, and

a stylus tip attached to the first end structured to extend sufficiently beyond the fingertip of the writing digit stylus to contact a touch sensitive computer screen to input desired information into a computer.

12. A fingertip pen/stylus according to claim 11, including a writing tip with removable connection structure to piggy back on and cover the shaft stylus to provide a writing tip to suit the preference of a user.