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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dean R DeVolpi, Incline Villiage, NV (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345161 ; 159168 ;
Abstract
A low-cost miniature joystick pointing device with improved performance, which may be mass produced from a small number of component parts, and which lends itself to production by automated machinery. An inner conductive contact is disposed inside of and surrounded by one or more outer contacts where deflection of the inner or outer contact results in a measurable resistance which may be interpreted by analog to digital or RC timing circuitry to produce speed and directional output.