US 11,439,898 B2Granted

Game controller

AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.

InventorsMasaya Takei, Shinta Minagawa, Kazuhiro Maruyama, Kohei Odanaka

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Abstract

An example game controller includes a spherical housing, a vibrator, an inertia sensor, an operation device, and a transmitter. The vibrator is inside the spherical housing and configured to generate a vibration to vibrate the spherical housing. The inertia sensor is at a position inside the spherical housing such that a distance from a center of the spherical housing to the inertial sensor is shorter than a distance from the center of the spherical housing to the vibrator. The operation section has an operation surface. The operation surface is capable of being depressed and is at the spherical housing on an opposite side from the vibrator with respect to the center of the spherical housing. The transmitter configured to transmit, to outside, information regarding an operation on the operation section and information output from the inertia sensor.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising a housing configured to be held in one hand of a user, wherein

the electronic device comprises a first operation device and a second operation device;
the first operation device is exposed from a side portion of the housing;
the second operation device is on an upper portion of the housing;
the second operation device is configured to be pressed in a first direction, the first direction being from the second operation device toward a center of the electronic device;
a cross section of the housing taken along a plane that includes the first operation device and that is perpendicular to a straight line extending in the first direction from the second operation device is a circular cross section, said straight line passing through a center of the circular cross section;
and
the electronic device comprises a first substrate that is between the second operation device and the circular cross section and parallel to the circular cross section, and the first substrate includes thereon a contact for the second operation device and an antenna.

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Facts

Application: 17/027,075Filed 21 Sep 2020 · continuation
Priority: JP JP2018-10107625 May 2018
Published: US 2021/0001213 A17 Jan 2021
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A63F 13/24
Input arrangements for video game devices: constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles
A63F 13/211
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
A63F 13/219
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: for aiming at specific areas on the display, e.g. light-guns
A63F 13/235
For interfacing with the game device, e.g. specific interfaces between game controller and console: using a wireless connection, e.g. infrared or…

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Application16/377,791Parent of this continuation · filed 8 Apr 2019
US 2021/0001213 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Jan 2021
US 10,843,070 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0358531 A1Published application
US 11,439,898 B2This patent

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