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Control device with mobile component mounted on a ball pivot

US6737632B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 18, 2002
Grant dateMay 18, 2004
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 18, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0317
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A control device comprising a mobile component such as a lever mounted on a ball pivot, wherein the lever is displaceable in rotation around three different axes and the device comprises two arrays of photodetectors for detecting points uniformly distributed over supports with the shape of a portion of a sphere, the arrays being fixed and the supports being borne by the lever.

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