Data I/o Corporation

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Bradley Morris Johnson

Lev M Bolotin

Simon B Johnson

Glen Jason Tompkins

Bryan D Powell

Carl W Olson

Yi-Yaun Chen

Boyd Drew Allin

Janine Whan-Tong

Peter Wesley Bristol

Robert B Hubler

James Stocker Webb

Jason Andrew Higgins

Sharvil Shailesh Talati

George Leland Anderson

Andreas Preussner

Vincent Warhol

Benjamin Elliott Tunberg Rogoza

Richard Alan Bernard

Scott S Newell

Mark Sean Knowles

A handheld controller configured to be held by a user's hand. The handheld controller comprising a main body, and a handle extending from the main body, wherein the handle has a palm side and a finger side. A control button is positioned on the main body or handle, and a detection sensor is on the handle. The detection sensor is positioned to detect the presence of the finger or palm of a user's hand engaging the handle. The detection sensor can be a capacitive touch sensor, a proximity sensor or other detection sensor operative to detect the touch or spatial presence of the user's hand or fingers.

Handheld controller with hand detection sensors

An apparatus for creating haptic simulations is provided. The apparatus includes a body that defines an inner cavity, and a pair of connectors positioned adjacent to ends of the body. A wire electrically connects the connectors and is wound around a first portion of the body in a first direction and wound around a second portion of the body in an opposite direction. A ring magnet is secured to an outer surface of the body. An armature magnet is slidably positioned within the inner cavity aligned with the ring magnet due to its magnetic pull. When a current is driven through the wire, simultaneous push and pull forces are created, causing the armature magnet to oscillate within the inner cavity to create vibration. When a magnitude of the current driven exceeds a threshold, the armature magnet impacts a stop of the inner cavity to create a 'click' stimulation.

Haptic-feedback apparatuses that utilize linear motion for creating haptic cues

A thumbstick assembly is configured to receive user input. The thumbstick assembly receives input through depression of a thumbstick, lateral rotation of the thumbstick, or some combination thereof. The thumbstick comprises a first surface, a rod, a spherical magnet. The first surface receives contact with a user's skin. The rod comprises a first end coupled to the first surface and a second end coupled to the spherical magnet. The thumbstick assembly further comprises a cup and a ring magnet. The cup is configured to receive the spherical magnet, wherein the spherical magnet is configured to move about a pivot point within the cup. The ring magnet is positioned about an outer surface of the cup and is configured to provide a restoring torque to the movement of the spherical magnet. The thumbstick assembly comprises one or more sensors that detect movement of the thumbstick relative to the cup.

Magnetic user input assembly of a controller device

A hand-held controller for a head-mounted-display system may include (1) a printed circuit board, (2) an electronic component that is separate from the printed circuit board, and (3) at least one conductive spring. The at least one conductive spring may include (1) a circuit-board connection portion electrically coupled to the printed circuit board and (2) a component connection portion electrically coupled to the electronic component. The at least one conductive spring may include an electrically conductive material that electrically couples the electronic component to the printed circuit board. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Hand-held controllers including electrically conductive springs for head-mounted-display systems

A hand-held controller includes a handle extending in a longitudinal direction. The handle is shaped and dimensioned to be grasped by a user's hand. A trigger protrudes from an outer surface of the handle and moves relative to the handle responsive to pressing of the trigger by a finger of the user's hand. The trigger includes a touch surface that comes into contact with the finger of the user's hand to detect sliding of the finger of the user's hand on the touch surface.

Hand-held controller using segmented capacitive touch trigger

An automated programming system that includes providing a smart interface system for recognizing an intelligent module installed within the automated programming system. Configuring the intelligent module with a composite connection for transmitting information between the intelligent module and the smart interface system, and linking the intelligent module to the smart interface system for communicating information.

Automated programming system employing smart interfaces

An automated processing system that includes providing an intelligent module with a composite connection for transmitting information and configuring the intelligent module within the automated processing system for automatic recognition.

Automated processing system employing intelligent module automatic recognition

A control system and method are provided having a control agent controlling a user interface, a robotic control, a programming control, and a job control. The control system is used with a feeder/programming/buffer system which has a feeder mechanism for receiving programmable devices, a robotic handling mechanism for manipulating the programmable devices among the other mechanisms, a programming mechanism for performing a programming operation on the programmable devices at a high rate of speed, and a buffer mechanism for providing the programmed programmable devices to a production assembly line on a continuous basis.

Feeder/programming/buffer control system and control method

A feeder/programming/buffer operating system is provided which controls a feeder mechanism, a programming mechanism, an electronic handling mechanism, a pneumatic handling mechanism, and a plurality of sensors. The operating system programs programmable devices and makes the feeder/programming/buffer system substantially independent of a production assembly system with which it is capable of being integrated yet fully responsive to the requirements of the production assembly system.

Feeder/programming/buffer operating system

A microdevice reject handling system is provided for in a microdevice processing/feeder system. The feeder mechanism is immediately adjacent to the processing mechanism for receiving and moving microdevices away from the processing mechanism. It uses a conveyor which has a dead space in which microdevices cannot be placed by a robotic transport system, which moves microdevices from the processing mechanism to the feeder mechanism. The microdevice reject handling system is partially positioned in the feeder mechanism dead space for receiving rejected microdevices. It includes a reject bin with a storage portion for storing rejected microdevices beside the feeder mechanism and rests on a bracket containing an optical sensor system for determining when the storage portion is full.

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Bradley Morris Johnson