Detachable Mouse Body With Segmented Touch Surface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Portable electronic devices, such as notebook computers, lack a touch pad that provides the same hand feeling as a traditional mouse, leading to users often carrying both devices for convenience, which is inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device design featuring a detachable mouse body with a touch surface and an auxiliary member that provides ergonomic grip and feedback, allowing the touch surface to be used in conjunction with a sensing surface for control, enhancing user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the touch pad is designed as a flat plate body to reduce overall structural space, then the dimension of the electronic device is reduced, but the hand feeling is degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The touch pad is divided into multiple independent buttons (first button, second button, third button, fourth button) arranged in a specific pattern. Each button can be independently pressed and detected, providing distinct tactile feedback while maintaining a compact flat structure. This segmentation allows the touch pad to occupy less space while still offering differentiated hand feeling for different input operations.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the touch pad are designed with distinct functional qualities - four corner buttons for directional or function selection, and a central button for confirmation or primary action. Each button area provides localized tactile feedback, creating varied hand feeling experiences across different zones of the same flat plate structure, thus resolving the contradiction between compactness and operational comfort.
2Volume of moving object
If the touch pad is made as a flat plate body, then the structural space is reduced, but the functionality is degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The flat touch pad with multiple buttons serves multiple functions: directional input through corner buttons, confirmation through the central button, and various shortcut operations. This multi-functional design allows the compact flat structure to replace not only a simple touch surface but also traditional mouse buttons and navigation controls, thereby maintaining versatility while reducing structural space.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch pad incorporates detectable pressing actions that provide dynamic feedback - when users press different buttons, the system detects the specific button pressed and responds accordingly. This dynamic interaction capability transforms a static flat plate into an active input device with multiple operational modes, enhancing functionality without increasing structural complexity.
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AI summary
The disclosure provides an electronic device, including a body and a mouse body. The body includes an accommodating area. The mouse body includes a touch surface and is detachably disposed in the accommodating area.