Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-27
2007-02-27
Hotaling, II, John M. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
C345S161000, C463S036000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09968725
ABSTRACT:
Directional haptic feedback for a haptic feedback interface device. A haptic feedback interface device, in communication with a host computer, includes a housing physically contacted by a user operating the interface device, and a plurality of actuators producing inertial forces when the actuators are driven by control signals. Each of the actuators includes a rotatable eccentric mass positioned offset on a rotating shaft of the actuator, where the actuators are rotated simultaneously such that centrifugal forces from the rotation of masses combine to output the inertial forces substantially only along a single axis having a desired direction approximately in a plane of rotation of the masses.
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Immersion Corporation
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman and Steiner LLP
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