Mouse used with mouth

• US 8,760,402 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Xu, Zhen-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chanh
• Assistant Examiner(s): RABINDRANATH, ROY P
• Application Number:
  US13/337,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20130076627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/157, 345159-163, 463 40- 60, 341 21- 22, 340/4.1, 379/52
• US Class Current: 345/163
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 4/00 Methods or devices enabling patients or disabled persons to operate an apparatus or a device not forming part of the body operating or control means for prostheses A61F2/48, A61F2/68
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A mouse includes a main body and a control circuit. A left button, a number of pressure sensors, a right button, and a control button are positioned on the main body. The control circuit includes a control unit, an acceleration sensor, and a wireless transmitter. The left button, the pressure sensors, the right button, the control button, the acceleration sensor, and the wireless transmitter are connected to the control unit. When the mouse is placed in the mouth of a user, the left button, the pressure sensors, and the right button are operated by the tongue of the user. The control button is bitten by the teeth of the user, to turn on the acceleration sensor. The acceleration sensor senses movement of the head of the user, and cooperates with the control unit and the wireless transmitter to control a cursor of a computer to move.

Claims

1. A mouse comprising:

a main body comprising a plurality of pressure sensors and a control button; and

a control circuit received in the main body, the control circuit comprising a control unit, an acceleration sensor, and a wireless transmitter;

wherein the pressure sensors, the control button, the acceleration sensor, and the wireless transmitter are connected to the control unit;

wherein when the mouse is placed in the mouth of a user, the pressure sensors sense pressure of the tongue of the user pressing the pressure sensors, and transmit sensed pressure signals to the control unit, the control unit controls the wireless transmitter to transmit a first signal to a computer according to a time sequence of receiving the pressure signals from the pressure sensors, to control an image displayed on a monitor of the computer to move;

wherein the control button turns on the acceleration sensor when the teeth of the user bite the control button, the acceleration sensor senses movement of the head of the user, and transmits sensed movement signal to the control unit, the control unit controls the wireless transmitter to transmit a second signal to the computer according to the movement signal received from the acceleration sensor, to control a cursor displayed on the monitor to move with movement of the head; and

wherein the main body is substantially T-shaped, and comprises a tongue pressing portion and a bite portion extending perpendicularly from a first side surface of the tongue pressing portion, a left button, a sliding member, and a right button are positioned on a second side surface of the tongue pressing portion opposite to the bite portion, the pressure sensors are positioned on the sliding member, the control button is positioned on the top of the bite portion, the left button and the right button function as the left button and right button of an existing mouse, and are operable by the tongue.

2. The mouse of claim 1, wherein the main body is sealed and made of soft waterproof material, and the tongue pressing portion is substantially oval-shaped and arced, and bent toward the bite portion, to facilitate the mouse being placed in the mouth.

3. The mouse of claim 1, wherein the pressure sensors are linearly positioned on the sliding member from top to bottom.