Joystick with built-in fire button
AssigneeWico Corporation
InventorSyng N. Kim
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Abstract
A joystick apparatus includes a tiltably mounted tube and a rod reciprocally movably axially therethrough. The tube has a frustoconical first actuator at one end thereof for operating engagement with a selected one or more of a plurality of first switches as the tube is tilted. The adjacent end of the rod carries a part-spherical second actuator for operating engagement with a second switch when the rod is extended from the tube, the shape of the second actuator keeping it in proper operating relationship with respect to the second switch regardless of the position of the tube.
Claims10
Joystick apparatus comprising a tube having an axis, a rod reciprocally movable in said tube axially thereof between a withdrawn position and an extended position, first actuator means mounted on said rod, second actuator means attached to said tube, first switch means disposed for operation by said first actuator means when said rod is disposed in the extended position thereof, a plurality of second switch means disposed around said second actuator means, and mounting means disposed intermediate the ends of said tube and defining a fulcrum point thereat and supporting said tube for tilting movement about said fulcrum point to effect movement of said second actuator means for operation of a selected one or more of said second switch means, said first actuator means being constructed and arranged for cooperation with said rod to be in position to operate said first switch means in any tilting orientation of said tube.
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