Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Patent
1996-02-05
1997-05-20
Chiu, Raleigh W.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
273148B, 345161, A63F 922
Patent
active
056307560
ABSTRACT:
A hand controller for playing video games comprises a base suitable for resting on a level surface, a shaft mounted for universal pivoting movement in the base, and a handle mounted at the upper end of the shaft, the handle having a main hand grip portion with an upper surface in the form of a convex ridge having front and rear surfaces sloping forwardly and rearwardly from a crest, and with the top of the crest sloping downwards from an upper end of the handle at an angle of between 10.degree. and 50.degree. to the level surface. The handle also has a wrist supporting plate which projects from its rear surface, the supporting plate being positioned for supporting the wrist of a right hand when the palm and fingers of the hand are grasping the main body portion with the thumb near to its upper end. The slope of the handle is adjustable. The controller also has a rotary member positioned at the front of the hand grip portion for rotation by the thumb of a right hand. The sensitivity of the controller can be adjusted both by moving the position at which potentiometers are attached to the shaft, and by altering the values of variable resistors in the potentiometer circuits.
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Thurston Keith E.
Thurston Kenneth G.
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