Capacitive Stylus Body With Bayonet Tip Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Capacitive screens require specific and expensive styluses for interaction, limiting versatility and increasing costs due to the need for distinct tools for different applications.

Innovation Solution

A manual device with a removable end piece featuring a pad for capacitive screens, utilizing a bayonet connection for assembly and electrical contact, allowing for azimuthal alignment and snap-locking mechanisms, made from conductive plastics, enabling versatile use and cost-effective production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a specific capacitive screen stylus is used for a predetermined capacitive screen, then the interaction with the screen is reliable, but the cost increases and versatility decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinteraction reliabilityVSAvoidversatility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The manual device body is designed with a standardized bayonet connection interface that can accommodate multiple different end pieces (eraser, stylus tip, brush, etc.), allowing a single body to perform multiple functions across different capacitive screen applications, thereby achieving versatility without sacrificing interaction reliability through the standardized electrical contact interface

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If a specific capacitive screen stylus is used for a predetermined capacitive screen, then the interaction with the screen is reliable, but the cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinteraction reliabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The stylus is divided into two separable parts: a reusable body and interchangeable end pieces. This segmentation allows the expensive body (containing the electrical contact and connection mechanism) to be used multiple times with different end pieces, reducing the overall cost per use while maintaining reliable electrical contact through the standardized bayonet connection interface

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If a removable end piece is assembled by bayonet connection, then the ease of assembly and disassembly is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of assemblyVSAvoidconnection mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The complex electrical contact and connection mechanism is extracted into a standardized bayonet connection interface that is integrated into the body. This allows the end pieces to be simple, inexpensive components that can be easily assembled and disassembled by the user, while the complexity is confined to the reusable body, achieving ease of operation without excessive overall device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The device provides a cost-effective, versatile solution for interacting with capacitive screens by allowing interchangeable tips, ensuring reliable electrical contact and user comfort, while reducing the overall cost compared to using separate styluses.

Implementation Method 1

a bayonet connection, the pad and at least one part of the body being in electrical contact with each other

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical Fastener: Mechanical Fastener

Data Source

PatentEP3077894B1Manual device comprising a detachable tip for a capacitive screen
Publication Date: 2019.02.20 SOCIETE BIC SA
  • EP3077894B1 patent drawingFigure 1A~1B
  • EP3077894B1 patent drawingFigure 2A~2B
  • EP3077894B1 patent drawingFigure 2C

AI summary

The invention relates to a manual device (10) comprising a body (12) and a detachable tip (14) comprising a bearing for a capacitive screen, said detachable tip (14) being assembled to the body (12) by a bayonet connection, the bearing and at least part of the body (12) being in electrical contact with each other.