Mouse with adjustable sensing module

• US 10,241,594 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tsung-Ching Kao
• Original Assignee: Tsung-Ching Kao
• Inventors: Kao, Tsung-Ching
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Srilakshmi K
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kiyabu, Karin
• Application Number:
  US15/195,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20170371436A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0317 in co-operation with a patterned surface, e.g. absolute position or relative movement detection for an optical mouse or pen positioned with respect to a coded surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence

Abstract

A mouse with an adjustable sensing module is revealed. The mouse includes a mouse body with a round opening on a bottom surface thereof, a rotatable outer ring set on the round opening of the mouse body, a rotatable inner ring mounted in the outer ring, and a disk having a sensing module and vertically moveable in the inner ring. The disk is driven to move vertically relative to the inner ring for adjusting height of the sensing module relative to the working surface when the inner ring is rotated an angle clockwise or counterclockwise relative to the outer ring. The angle of the sensing module relative to a computer screen is adjusted when the outer ring is rotated an angle relative to the round opening of the mouse body and the inner ring together with the disk is rotated the angle along with the outer ring.

Claims

1. A mouse with an adjustable sensing module and operated on a working surface comprising:

a mouse body is disposed with a mouse circuit for executing functions of the mouse and a round opening on a bottom surface thereof;

an outer ring horizontally set on the round opening of the mouse body and having a penetrating central hole;

an inner ring having a central hole and horizontally rotatable in the central hole of the outer ring;

a disk having a sensing window on a surface thereof and being mounted in and vertically moveable in the central hole of the inner ring;

the disk is moved vertically relative to the inner ring, without rotation when the inner ring is rotated clockwise or counterclockwise relative to the outer ring;

thereby a height of the disk relative to the inner ring is changed; and

a sensing arranged at an inner surface of the disk that is facing the round opening of the mouse body, and electrically connected to the mouse circuit in the mouse body so that the mouse circuit obtains at least one input signal from the sensing module that detects movement of the mouse body on the working surface through the sensing window;

wherein the disk is vertically moved relative to the inner ring, without rotation when the inner ring is rotated clockwise or counterclockwise relative to the outer ring horizontally;

thus the sensing module and the sensing window are integrally moved along with the disk relative to the outer ring so as to change and adjust a height of the sensing module relative to the inner ring/or the working surface, and

wherein the outer ring is mounted and rotatable horizontally in the round opening on the bottom surface of the mouse body;

the outer ring is able to be rotated relative to the round opening;

the inner ring and the disk are rotated an angle along with the outer ring integrally and synchronously so as to adjust an angle of both the sensing module and the sensing window relative to a computer screen when the outer ring is operated to rotate the angle relative to the round opening of the mouse body.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one sloped inner slot having a central angle and extended from a low point to a high point is set around an inner circular surface of the central hole of the inner ring;

at least one short axle is disposed on an outer circular surface of the disk and is mounted and moveable in the sloped inner slot;

wherein the short axle of the disk is driven to move between the low point and the high point of the sloped inner slot by rotation of sloped inner slot of the inner ring so that the disk is moved vertically relative to the inner ring and the height of the disk relative to the inner ring/or the working surface is changed.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein three sloped inner slots are arranged at the inner circular surface of the central hole of the inner ring with an equal interval between the two adjacent sloped inner slots;

three short axles are disposed on the outer circular surface of the disk with an equal interval between the two adjacent short axles;

the short axles are mounted and moveable in the sloped inner slots correspondingly.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one inner thread is disposed around an inner circular surface of the central hole of the inner ring;

at least one short axle is arranged at an outer circular surface of the disk and is mounted and moveable in the sloped inner slot;

two protruding pins are disposed on intersections of an outer circular surface of the disk and a diameter of the disk respectively and symmetrically;

the protruding pins are mounted in the inner thread;

the disk is driven to move vertically by a slope of the inner thread of the inner ring when the inner ring is rotated clockwise/counterclockwise and horizontally relative to the outer ring and the disk remains still.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a guiding slot is disposed around an inner circular surface of the outer ring while a guiding protrusion is arranged around an outer circular surface of the inner ring;

the guiding protrusion is mounted in and sliding horizontally in the guiding slot of the outer ring.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one outer sliding groove having a central angle is disposed around an outer circular surface of the outer ring while at least one pin is arranged at an inner circular surface of the round opening of the mouse body and is mounted and moveable horizontally in the outer sliding groove of the outer ring correspondingly;

thereby the outer ring is rotated an angle relative to the round opening of the mouse body and the angle is controlled to be within the central angle of the outer sliding groove.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein three outer sliding grooves are disposed on the outer circular surface of the outer ring with an equal interval between the two adjacent outer sliding grooves;

three pins are arranged at the inner circular surface of the round opening of the mouse body with an equal interval between the two adjacent pins.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein graduations are set close to a periphery of the disk for indicating vertical movement of the disk;

the graduation shows the amount of the increased height of the disk relative to the inner ring when the inner ring is rotated an angle relative to the outer ring.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein angular graduations are arranged at the bottom surface of the mouse body, close to a periphery of the outer ring for indicating an angle of the outer ring rotated relative to the round opening of the mouse body.