| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D510928 |
Receiver for a wireless remote control |
October 25, 2005 |
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| D509481 |
Remote device |
September 13, 2005 |
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| D506982 |
Remote device |
July 5, 2005 |
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| D493150 |
Remote device |
July 20, 2004 |
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| D493149 |
Remote device |
July 20, 2004 |
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| D489361 |
Remote control |
May 4, 2004 |
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| D448358 |
Remote control |
September 25, 2001 |
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| D410909 |
Pointing device |
June 15, 1999 |
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| D390211 |
Combined computer control and touch pad |
February 3, 1998 |
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| D377343 |
Mouse |
January 14, 1997 |
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| D376789 |
Electronic control device |
December 24, 1996 |
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| 7573464 |
Shape adaptable resistive touchpad |
August 11, 2009 |
| A touchpad includes a first substrate and a second substrate, at least one of which is flexible. A resistor on the first substrate has a narrow shape dividing the first substrate into two regions. A set of conductors in electrical contact with the resistor extend from the resistor into t |
| 7554531 |
Annular potentiometric touch sensor |
June 30, 2009 |
| The present invention determines angular position using a potentiometric touch sensor. The sensor has an annular pattern of resistive material on a portion of a bottom substrate top surface. Conductive drive lines and fixed potential conductive traces radially traverse the bottom substra |
| 7310089 |
Annular potentiometric touch sensor |
December 18, 2007 |
| The present invention determines angular position using a potentiometric touch sensor. The sensor has an annular pattern of resistive material on a bottom substrate top surface. Conductive drive lines radially traverse the resistive material so as to make electrical connection with the |
| 7213323 |
Method of forming an electronic pressure sensitive transducer on a printed circuit board |
May 8, 2007 |
| The cost and complexity of an electronic pressure sensitive transducer are decreased by constructing such a transducer directly on a printed circuit board containing support electronics. Conductive traces are formed on the printed circuit board to define a contact area. A flexible substr |
| 7176889 |
Force sensing pointing device with click function |
February 13, 2007 |
| An input device for an electronic system includes a force sensor having conductive interdigitated traces on a bottom substrate and a flexible substrate spaced apart from the bottom substrate. The flexible substrate has a resistive layer deposited on a bottom side facing the interdigi |
| 7113179 |
Force sensing resistor with calibration element and method of manufacturing same |
September 26, 2006 |
| A force sensing resistor includes two substrates. Conductive traces including first, common, and calibration fingers are on the first substrate and define a contact area. A spacer surrounds the contact area and attaches the substrates together such that a cavity separates the substra |
| 7050045 |
Miniature highly manufacturable mouse pointing device |
May 23, 2006 |
| A pointing device may be directly soldered to a printed circuit board. In one embodiment, a bottom substrate defines a sensing region with a plurality of interdigitated conductive trace regions. Each trace region includes interdigitated common and sense traces. At least one via passes |
| 6909354 |
Electronic pressure sensitive transducer apparatus and method for manufacturing same |
June 21, 2005 |
| The cost and complexity of an electronic pressure sensitive transducer are decreased by constructing such a transducer directly on a printed circuit board containing support electronics. Conductive traces are formed on the printed circuit board to define a contact area. A flexible substr |
| 6850221 |
Trigger operated electronic device |
February 1, 2005 |
| A device particularly for use with a computer comprises a housing for location at least partly between two fingers of a user's hand and an electronic circuit mounted on a board within the housing. The circuit includes a switch responsive to pressure selectively to open and close an e |
| 6820804 |
Method and system for performing a purchase transaction using a remote control and a television |
November 23, 2004 |
| A method and system for performing purchase transactions such as credit and charge card transactions includes a home entertainment (HE) device having a display screen. A signature capturing sensor such as a remote control having a touch pad is operable for generating touch pad signals as |
| 6765557 |
Remote control having touch pad to screen mapping |
July 20, 2004 |
| A remote control for controlling a home entertainment (HE) device such as an Interactive television having a display screen. The remote control includes a touch pad mapped to the display screen of the HE device as a function of the ratio of the areas of the touch pad and the display scre |
| 6758689 |
Wireless adapter having foldable geometrically loop-like antenna |
July 6, 2004 |
| A system and a method for protecting a connector and a body of a wireless adapter with a geometrical loop antenna. The loop antenna folds over the body of the wireless adapter to protect the connector and the body. The wireless adapter may be used to connect a peripheral device to a host |
| 6750803 |
Transformer remote control |
June 15, 2004 |
| A remote control includes a touch pad operable in two or more touch pad modes and a switching mechanism for controlling devices having display screens such as home entertainment (HE) devices, slide projectors, and computers. The switching mechanism is operable with the touch pad for |
| 6538643 |
Remote control having a touch pad operable in a pad-to-screen mapping mode for highlighting pres |
March 25, 2003 |
| A method and system for presenting slides and images includes a display screen for displaying the slides one at a time, and a software program operable for enabling an operator to associate highlighting with preselected parts of the slides. A remote control includes a touch pad opera |
| 6396523 |
Home entertainment device remote control |
May 28, 2002 |
| A remote control for controlling a home entertainment device having a display screen provided with a movable object includes a touch pad. The touch pad is operable with the display screen such that the display screen is mapped to the touch pad area. The touch pad generates a signal in |
| 6225976 |
Remote computer input peripheral |
May 1, 2001 |
| A hand-held remote computer input peripheral is operable to be held by a human operator with one hand while both hands harmoniously manipulate a touch pad, function keys, and a click button provided with the input peripheral. The touch pad is positioned in a housing to be held by one |
| 6084572 |
Isometric pointing device with integrated click and method therefor |
July 4, 2000 |
| A computer input device that has the click function incorporated into a pointing device, rather than as a separate switch. The pointing device implements the operations of pointing, clicking and dragging based solely upon an evaluation of the pressure applied thereto. An array of sensors |
| 5982519 |
Infrared communications scheme |
November 9, 1999 |
| Infrared communications scheme for an infrared transmitting device having a light emitting diode (LED) ramps up the power of a carrier frequency signal applied to the LED in a given time interval to a given value. The carrier frequency signal is then frequency modulated with a data messa |
| 5907419 |
Infrared communications scheme |
May 25, 1999 |
| Infrared communications scheme for an infrared transmitting device having a light emitting diode (LED) ramps up the power of a carrier frequency signal applied to the LED in a given time interval to a given value. The carrier frequency signal is then frequency modulated with a data messa |
| 5828363 |
Force-sensing pointing device |
October 27, 1998 |
| A thermally stable, mass-producible pointing device (10) producing an analog signal proportional to an applied force comprises actuator (20), including an arm (22) and a force transfer member (26), a connector (44), and a sensor (50). The connector maintains the force transfer member in |
| 5670988 |
Trigger operated electronic device |
September 23, 1997 |
| A device particularly for use with a computer comprises a housing for location at least partly between two fingers of a user's hand and an electronic circuit mounted on a board within the housing. The circuit includes a switch responsive to pressure selectively to open and close an e |
| 5659334 |
Force-sensing pointing device |
August 19, 1997 |
| A thermally stable, mass-producible pointing device (10) producing an analog signal proportional to an applied force comprises actuator (20), including an arm (22) and a force transfer member (26), a connector (44), and a sensor (50). The connector maintains the force transfer member in |
| 5510783 |
Adaptive keypad |
April 23, 1996 |
| An adaptive keypad which has one or more keys includes, for each key, a pressure transducer positioned below a semi-rigid faceplate where the pressure transducer has a resistance which decreases as the pressure compressing the transducer increases. The transducer is connected in seri |
| 5365671 |
Inclinometer |
November 22, 1994 |
| A two-axis tilt sensor, or inclinometer (10), uses a spherical reference element (18) floating in an inert fluid (20) and including a magnet (42) to produce an asymmetrical weight distribution. The asymmetrical weight distribution maintains the spherical reference element at a constant |
| 5302936 |
Conductive particulate force transducer |
April 12, 1994 |
| A pressure transducer includes a base ply, a resistance ply disposed on the base ply and at least two spaced apart contacts juxtaposed in relation to the resistance ply whereby at least one of the contacts may be pressed against the surface of the resistance ply. The resistance ply is ma |
| 5296837 |
Stannous oxide force transducer and composition |
March 22, 1994 |
| A pressure transducer includes a base ply, a resistance ply disposed on the base ply and at least two spaced apart conductors juxtaposed in relation to the resistance ply whereby at least one of the conductors may be pressed against the resistance ply. The resistance ply is made by spray |
| 4963702 |
Digitizer pad featuring spacial definition of a pressure contact area |
October 16, 1990 |
| A digitizer pad apparatus includes at least one digitizer ply where each digitizer ply has a first and a second resistor strip, each with a resistance gradient along its length, oriented in spaced apart relationship. A plurality of conductor traces are interconnected along the length |
| 4810992 |
Digitizer pad |
March 7, 1989 |
| A digitizer pad includes at least two base plys, each having thereon at least three terminals, a resistor ply disposed between two of the terminals with a plurality of conductors extending from each resistor ply which are spaced apart and interleaved with a plurality of conductors ex |
| 4739299 |
Digitizer pad |
April 19, 1988 |
| A digitizer pad includes at least two sets of terminals where each set has at least a first and second terminal positioned to define a parameter dimension therebetween. A resistor ply is disposed between the terminals of each set. The resistor ply has an electrical contact surface with a |
