Boundary for switch apparatus

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Weight

Reexamination Certificate

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C200S345000, C200S520000, C482S051000, C482S057000, C434S055000, C434S037000

Reexamination Certificate

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07547854

ABSTRACT:
A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform according to the invention forms a dance platform on which a user steps to activate switches in accordance with instructions viewed on a video display device. A joining structure may by used to hold two platforms in a side-by-side competition arrangement. A security vault may be affixed to structure associated with platform to resist theft of a commercially available game controller adapted to operate the video display and to receive switch input from a platform. Certain aspects of the invention include one or more, typically inert, practice platforms structured to represent the user interface surface of an activatable platform. A method for using a system of active and inert platforms is also disclosed.

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Review From PSM, Issue 78, Dec. 2003, vol. 7.
Review From Wired, Dec. 2003.
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