Mouse Button Elastic Guiding Structure Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mice components, such as buttons, often suffer from assembling tolerances and size issues, leading to improper assembly, deflection, and interference between components, affecting the operation feeling and uniformity of the product.
Innovation Solution
A mouse device with an elastic guiding structure comprising first and second elastic bars at the hole edge, sandwiching the switch-triggering member, which provides an elastic force to guide the button to a predetermined position, preventing deflection and ensuring proper assembly and operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If buttons are assembled using conventional methods without guiding structures, then assembly is simple and quick, but the buttons become deflected or slantingly arranged due to tolerances, affecting operation feeling and product quality
Solution Approach 1:
The elastic guiding structure is pre-installed on the shell plate before button assembly. The guiding members extend through the through hole and are positioned in advance to guide the button during assembly, ensuring proper alignment before the button is fully installed.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic guiding structure acts as an intermediary component between the shell plate and the button. The guiding members extend through the through hole and interact with both components, mediating their relative positioning to prevent deflection and ensure proper alignment.
2Ease of operation
If elastic guiding structures are added to guide button assembly, then button alignment and operation feeling are improved, but the device complexity and number of components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The elastic guiding structure is pre-installed on the shell plate before button assembly. The guiding members extend through the through hole and are positioned in advance to guide the button during assembly, ensuring proper alignment before the button is fully installed.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic guiding structure acts as an intermediary component between the shell plate and the button. The guiding members extend through the through hole and interact with both components, mediating their relative positioning to prevent deflection and ensure proper alignment.
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 elastic guiding structure ensures proper button alignment, enhancing operation feeling and sensitivity while maintaining uniform spacing, thus improving product quality and appearance.
Implementation Method 1
the first elastic bar or the second elastic bar can provide elastic force to guide the button to a predetermined position of the button
Data Source
AI summary
A mouse device includes a casing, a button, and an elastic guiding structure. The casing includes a shell plate. The shell plate has a through hole, and the through hole has a hole edge. The button is disposed on the shell plate. The button includes a switch-triggering member, and the switch-triggering member is penetrated through the through hole. The elastic guiding member includes a first elastic bar and a second elastic bar. The first elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a first free end. The second elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a second free end. The switch-triggering member is sandwiched between the first free end and the second free end.