# US 11,439,898 B2 · Game controller > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,439,898 B2 - Document ID: US11439898B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/027,075 - Filed: 2020-09-21 - Published: 2021-01-07 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2018-05-25 - Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Masaya Takei; Shinta Minagawa; Kazuhiro Maruyama; Kohei Odanaka - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11439898B2 ## CPC - A63F 13/24: Constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles - A63F 13/211: using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes - A63F 13/219: for aiming at specific areas on the display, e.g. light-guns - A63F 13/235: using a wireless connection, e.g. infrared or piconet - A63F 13/245: specially adapted to a particular type of game, e.g. steering wheels - A63F 13/285: Generating tactile feedback signals via the game input device, e.g. force feedback - A63F 13/92: Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing - G06F 3/016: {Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user} - G06F 3/017: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)} - A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery holder in the housing; and a second substrate, where the rechargeable battery holder is between the second substrate and the second operation device, the second substrate including an inertia sensor thereon. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising a vibrator in the housing, wherein the vibrator and the second substrate are indirectly connected to each other by another component other than the vibrator and the second substrate interposed therebetween. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery holder in the housing; a terminal; and a second substrate, where the rechargeable battery holder is between the second substrate and the second operation device, the second substrate including the terminal thereon. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery in the housing; and a vibrator in the housing, wherein a distance from a center of the housing to the rechargeable battery is shorter than a distance from the center of the housing to the vibrator. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising an inertia sensor in the housing; and a vibrator in the housing, wherein a distance from a center of the housing to the inertia sensor is shorter than a distance from the center of the housing to the vibrator. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a vibrator in the housing, wherein the second operation device is on an opposite side from the vibrator with respect to a center of the housing. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a terminal, wherein screw holes are formed in the housing on opposite sides of the terminal. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising at least a portion of one of a rechargeable battery or a rechargeable battery holder overlaps with a center of the circular cross section; and a terminal on one side with respect to the center of the circular cross section, wherein the first operation device is on an opposite side from said one side with respect to the center of the circular cross section; and at least a portion of the second operation device is aligned with the center of the circular cross section as viewed in the first direction and the portion being above the center of the circular cross section.