HIGHLY RELIABLE POINTING DEVICE OF THE MOUSE TYPE Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC G06F3/354 

FIELD: pointing devices.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to pointing devices moved by the user. The technical result consists in providing higher reliability by dividing the mouse into two identical and isolated from each other pairs of modules, connected into a single pointing device system and representing digital microcircuits, and each microcircuit has two independent modules, from which the electromechanical connectors of the modules with each other are removed, reducing the overall weight of the mouse, lowering the complexity of its design. Its batteries are not connected to each other to perform joint work, but are used independently only to capture the user's fingers while lifting the mouse and moving it relative to the supporting surface, not counting the back battery that also provides power. To do this, the device consists of two housings, carrying on/ in itself, with the help of two cartridges made on their upper sides, a pair of electric batteries, one of which is designed to grab the user's fingers and move the mouse, and the second is also for supplying consumers of the module with electricity, which are simultaneously common housings for all electrical and electronic components of the modules. To ensure that the housings do not rotate relative to each other, grooves of the appropriate width and depth are provided on their lower side for connecting the housings with each other bottom to bottom into a single mouse device using a screw and a nut, and these housings are unified component parts and pairs of modules for the mouse bearing on/ in a wide variety of electrical and electronic components, that mouse cartridges with internal thread and a central contact pad are connected through conductors laid in the material of the modules, to consumers of electricity in the modules, are installed behind each other at a distance and together with batteries with external threads screwed into cartridges forming a vertical ridge for clamping between two fingers (index and middle) of the user's hand and two vertical recesses for the same fingers of the user's hand to move the mouse along the support surface and transfer it over the support surface. At the same time, the mouse controls are located on the upper sides of the modules, namely, in the lugs of the housing material combined with the cartridges, they track the direction to the paired batteries of the housings or their dummies, where the user's fingers act when operating the mouse, and develop the corresponding signals for the microcontrollers of the modules, which are then transmitted as commands to the computer.

EFFECT: higher reliability.

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