Light pen

• US 8,066,397 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2008
• Issued: 11/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: K Laser Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: ERA Optoelectronics Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Chih-Hsiung
• Primary Examiner(s): Sawhney; Hargobind S
• Application Number:
  US12/007,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20110090668A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,418 Days
• Field of Search: 362/119, 362/120, 362/194, 362/195, 362/200, 362/202, 362/208, 362/394, 345/180, 345/183
• US Class Current: 362/118
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 29/10 with illuminating devices

Abstract

First and second magnets of a light pen according to the present invention are used for replacing a conventional spring to be a switch structure of the light pen. Whereby, the elastic fatigue problem is not yielded, the switch structure is enabled to be more durable and dependable and can be used as a switch structure for a light pen whose stroke between two electric contact points from a separation state to a contact state is shorter.

Claims

1. A light pen, adapted to allow a switch structure thereof to be more durable and dependable and have a shorter stroke, comprising:

a pen shell being tubular;

a luminescence element movably combined with said pen shell and provided with first and second pins;

a first magnet movably installed in said pen shell;

a second magnet fixed in said pen shell and positioned above said first magnet;

an insulation isolator respectively engaged to said first and said second pins to allow said first and said second pins not to contact with each other;

wherein, said pen shell is used for accepting a battery;

two adjacent sides of said first and said second magnets have different magnetism, said first and said second magnets are always separated, and approach each other once an external force is exerted thereon;

said first pin and said second pin of the luminescence element ordinarily respectively do not turn on a circuit which is constituted by a first terminal and a second terminal of the battery to allow said luminescence element not to radiate;

when said first and said second magnets are near, said first pin and said second pin of said luminescence element respectively turn on said circuit constituted by said first terminal and said second terminal of said battery to allow said luminescence element to radiate;

wherein a light guiding element is further installed in said pen shell and used for guiding light;

a front end of said light guiding element is extended out of a lower end of said pen shell, a rear end thereof is thicker, and is lodged in said pen shell;

said luminescence element is movably installed in said pen shell, a bottom thereof is positioned above said light guiding element;

wherein said first pin is longer than said second pin;

said first magnet is annular and disposed around an outside portion of said first pin and above said second pin.

2. The light pen according to claim 1, wherein said pen shell is constituted by a lower shell, a middle shell and an upper shell.

3. The light pen according to claim 1, wherein said second magnet is annular;

a upper end of a conducting tip is used for electrically connected to a first terminal of said battery, and a lower end thereof is passed through a lower end of said second magnet;

when said first and said second magnets approach each other, said conducting tip touches said second pin to turn on said circuit.

4. The light pen according to claim 3, wherein said pen shell is made from metal and used for allowing said second pin of said luminescence element to be electrically connected to said second terminal of said battery through said pen shell.

5. The light pen according to claim 4, wherein a lower cover is accepted in said pen shell;

said lower cover is engaged with an outer rim of a lower end of said luminescence element.

6. The light pen according to claim 3, further comprising a leading wire used for allowing said pin of said luminescence element to electrically connected to said second terminal of said battery through said leading wire.

7. The light pen according to claim 6, wherein a lower cover is accepted in said pen shell;

said lower cover is engaged with an outer rim of a lower end of said luminescence element.

8. The light pen according to claim 7 wherein said luminescence element is a photodiode.

9. The light pen according to claim 8, wherein said photodiode is a laser diode.

10. The light pen according to claim 9, wherein said light guiding element is a light guiding element emitting a cross type laser beam or a particular type beam.

11. The light pen according to claim 10, wherein said pen shell is formed by combining said lower shell, said middle shell and said upper shell.