POWER DEVICE TO COMPUTER TO CONTROL VIRTUAL AIRCRAFT Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A63F13/12 

FIELD: games.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to devices for entering commands into the PC and can be used in computer games to control the flight of the virtual aircraft. The power device to a computer to control the virtual aircraft, comprising a device with the engine control levers and flaps, and pedals to control the rudder of the virtual aircraft with a sensor of their tilting, and arcs for fixing the legs slidably connected to the traction consoles, and mounted on a rotary beam connected a return mechanism and movably mounted on a platform with a pedal rod mounted on it, and the platform is mounted on the baseplate; the control handles of throttle and flaps are made with the ability to rotate about the axis of their attachment. Each pedal is made with a movable brake pad, rotating around the pins within the cutouts in the cheeks of the arc made with side curved up collars and a free end resting on a spring mounted in a self-mounted plate. The rotary beam is made of L-shaped cross section, it is mounted on a support bearing mounted in the baseplate and has an ear for connection with a rod of drawing type of power cylinder of a retracting mechanism. The baseplate is made in the form of a T-shaped base with stiffening ribs, on which cross-bar console there is an ear for fastening the power cylinder of a retracting mechanism. The pedal tilting sensor is a potentiometre which housing is fixed to a platform mounted on the thrust on the right or left from the axis of rotation, on the shaft of the potentiometre there is a leash coupled with groove to the rod of the bracket mounted on the fixed axis of rotation rod. The device with handles of control the engine, flaps and landing gear (HCE) is a housing consisting of a base with the curved up areas, front and rear, and the left wall, on the outer side of which on the axis of rotation a set of handles of engine control is fixed, made with the ability to adjust them in height, with a partition and two handles, on which common fixed axis the shafts of their potentiometres are mounted which housings are connected to the respective handles, parallel to the left wall on the base another partition is mounted, on one side of which there is a four-position handle of the flaps with a ring gear interacting with a lobe of micro switch node, on the axis of which on the other side the control handle of landing gear is mounted with the ability to rotate and skew relative to the axis, moved along the cutout in a tilted "П"-shaped frame, and a spring mounted on the same axis and pressing both handles to the partition, each of the handles has a recoil mechanism, at the base of the HCE housing a node of fixation is made, which is a rectangular cutout at the bottom of the housing base, which passes into the window in front with a ball lock fixed inside the housing diagonally above the cutout.

EFFECT: enhanced functionality of the power device with increased realism, convenience to use it during the game and the accuracy of control of the virtual aircraft, as well as improving manufacturability of the device.

8 cl, 14 dwg