US 10,540,016 B1Granted

Unlimited reach and touch tablet

AssigneeJeffrey Thomas Johnson

InventorJeffrey Thomas Johnson

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Abstract

The embodiment of an Unlimited Reach and Touch Tablet comprises a computer peripheral device with which two or more internet users may, through their respective Tablets and software application, physically connect by transmitting 3-dimensional hand impressions, made into each Tablet's surface button array, to form the hands' reciprocal shape on a remote receivers' Tablet button array (11) which raises when a remote user[s] press[es] their hands (29) into their Tablets' surface button array (11). The Tablet is a device housing an array of polymer buttons (20) that comprises two polymer springs per button (26,28), a shape memory alloy spring per button (27), an electric switch per button (24), and two circuit boards (22,23) that react to, and signal up and down button movements made by each users' pressing the devices' surface button arrays. With the Tablets' elements functioning together, this device creates a tool and medium for distant users of the Tablet, software application, and internet connection to remotely feel and share the idiosyncrasies of the human touch via the rise and fall of the tablets' surface array buttons FIG. 2, FIG. 3, and FIG. 4.

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Dependent claims

An interactive computer peripheral tablet comprising:

(a) a surface array of uniform buttons consisting of three springs, a switch, and two circuit boards;
(b) a switch for each button of the array attached to a lower circuit board and used to signal the expansion of a Nitinol spring on an identical button of a remote users' Tablet;
(c) a first polymer spring is made attached to the end of each button in the array and, when compressed, it signals a switch on a bottom circuit board and, using a computer with connecting software and internet connection, the switch causes the rise and fall of an identical button in a remote users' Tablets' surface button array;
(d) a second spring is a shape memory alloy that is connected to a top circuit board by which, when the remote users' Tablet's switch is pressed, a signal activates the identical springs expansion by sending an electric current through a receiving Tablets' top circuit board activating the shape memory ahoy spring causing it to expand and simultaneously create a rise in the receivers' Tablets' button array mirroring the pressed button displacements of the senders' interactive computer peripheral tablet;
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(e) a third polymer spring is made attached to each button functioning as a median keeper returning said surface button array to a middle, neutral and at rest position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/164,575Filed 18 Oct 2018 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Jun 2018
Published: US 2020/0042099 A16 Feb 2020
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 3/014
Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality: hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
G06F 3/0202
Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials: constructional details or processes of manufacture of the…
G06F 3/0227
Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials: cooperation and interconnection of the input arrangement with…
G06F 3/023
Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials: arrangements for converting discrete items of information into…