Wireless cursor control device

• US 7,557,737 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2006
• Issued: 07/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Primax Electronics Limited
• Original Assignee: Primax Electronics Limited
• Inventors: Chiang, Hsiao-Lung
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dang, Hung Q
• Application Number:
  US11/365,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20070132730A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 341/20, 341/22, 710/62, 710/1, 710/64, 710/303, 710/105, 345/163, 345/169, 455/557, 455/88
• US Class Current: 341/20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

A wireless cursor control device for use with a computer system includes a main body, a wireless signal receiver, a storing portion and a supporting member. The main body generates a wireless signal to control a cursor of the computer system. The wireless signal receiver is swappable to be electrically connected to the computer system for receiving the wireless signal. The storing portion is disposed in the main body for accommodating the wireless signal receiver. The storing portion includes a first indentation structure and a second indentation structure in the bilateral side thereof. The supporting member has a first part and a second part to be respectively engaged with the first indentation structure and the second indentation structure according to a restoring force per se, and includes a first protrusion structure and a second protrusion structure to be sustained against the wireless signal receiver.

Claims

1. A wireless cursor control device for use with a computer system, comprising:

a main body for generating a wireless signal to control a cursor of said computer system;

a wireless signal receiver for receiving said wireless signal;

a storing portion disposed in said main body for accommodating said wireless signal receiver, wherein said storing portion comprises a first indentation structure and a second indentation structure in the bilateral side thereof and a third indentation structure and a roof structure above said third indentation structure for facilitating positioning said wireless signal receiver within said storing portion;

a supporting member having a first part and a second part to be respectively engaged with said first indentation structure and said second indentation structure according to a restoring force per se, and comprising a first protrusion structure and a second protrusion structure to be sustained against said wireless signal receiver and a third protrusion structure to be engaged with said third indentation structure when said first part and said second part of said supporting member are engaged with said first indentation structure and said second indentation structure, respectively.

2. The wireless cursor control device according to claim 1 wherein said main body is a main body of a wireless mouse, and said computer system is selected from one of a personal computer and a notebook computer.

3. The wireless cursor control device according to claim 1 wherein said wireless signal receiver is swappable to be electrically connected to said computer system via a universal serial bus port.

4. The wireless cursor control device according to claim 1 wherein said wireless signal receiver further comprises a first notch and a second notch to be engaged with said first protrusion structure and said second protrusion structure of said supporting member.

5. The wireless cursor control device according to claim 1 wherein said supporting member is a resilient supporting rod produced from stainless steel, so that said first part and said second part of said resilient supporting rod are respectively engaged with said first indentation structure and said second indentation structure according to a restoring force per se.

6. The wireless cursor control device according to claim 1 wherein said wireless signal receiver is stored within said storing portion by a depressing approach and said first protrusion structure and said second protrusion structure of said supporting member are sustained against said wireless signal receiver after said supporting member is engaged within said storing portion, wherein the length of said storing portion is slightly greater than that of said wireless signal receiver, and a remaining space generated when said wireless signal receiver is stored within said storing portion facilitates a user to withdraw said wireless signal receiver from said storing portion.

7. The wireless cursor control device according to claim 1 wherein said storing portion has an inclined plane and the length of said storing portion is slightly greater than that of said wireless signal receiver, so that said wireless signal receiver is slidable to be stored within said storing portion and said first protrusion structure and said second protrusion structure of said supporting.