Detachable multi functional control knob assembly
AssigneeImpulse Labs, Inc.
InventorsJacob Russell DAVIS, Samuel Redmond D'AMICO, Samuel William LENIUS, Bradley James TALLON
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Abstract
A knob assembly for a coupled appliance includes a base static part and an actionable cap part, where the base static part includes a substrate base, a bearing holder fixed to the substrate base, a sleeve bearing fixed to the bearing holder, and a set of coupling magnets disclosed between the bearing holder and the substrate; the actionable cap part includes a covering cap, a rotor shaft attached to the covering cap, and a control magnet fastened to the rotor shaft. The knob assembly is capable of detachably attaching to a surface of the coupled appliance.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
An apparatus, comprising:
- a knob having a base portion and an actionable cap portion coupled to the base portion,
- the base portion having a substrate base and a plurality of magnets disposed about an outer circumferential portion of the substrate base, the plurality of magnets including a first subset of magnets having a first polarity and a second subset of magnets having a second polarity opposite of the first polarity, each magnet from the first subset of magnets being disposed between two magnets from the second subset of magnets along the outer circumferential portion of the substrate base,
- the knob configured to be detachably attached to a surface of an appliance.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a knob having a base portion, an actionable cap portion coupled to the base portion, and a control magnet,
- the base portion having a substrate base and at least one coupling magnet disposed in an outer circumferential portion of the substrate base,
- the control magnet rotatably coupled to a central portion of the substrate base and fixedly coupled to the actionable cap portion, and
- the knob configured to be removably attached to a surface of an appliance via a magnetic coupling between the at least one coupling magnet of the knob and at least one coupling magnet of the appliance.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a knob having a base portion, an actionable cap portion fixedly coupled to the base portion, and a control magnet,
- the base portion including a bearing holder and a substrate base fixedly coupled to the bearing holder,
- the control magnet rotatably coupled to a central portion of the bearing holder and fixedly coupled to the actionable cap portion, and
- the knob configured to be detachably attached to a surface of an appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.