Cleaning cartridge for video games and computers
OwnerAbraham Aghachiinventor
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Abstract
A device for cleaning electrical contacts located within a cartridge receptacle of a video game. A manually-manipulable housing containing a slidable cleaner blade element is insertable into the receptacle, after which the blade element is moved back and forth to exert a scraping action on the electrical contacts; the housing is held stationary within the receptacle during the cleaning operation.
Claims22
A device for cleaning opposed spaced electrical contacts within a computer or video game cartridge receptacle, said cleaning device comprising:
- a manually manipulable housing adapted for slidable insertion into a cartridge receptacle, and
- a blade slidably mounted in said housing for motion parallel to the direction of housing insertion, said blade having a leading edge portion with at least one face area adapted to clean electrical contacts within the cartridge receptacle,
- said blade having a hand access opening for manual squeezing action on an edge portion of said blade access opening to move the blade relative to the electrical contacts, whereby manual movement of the blade causes said at least one face area to scrape against and clean the electrical contacts to provide a cleaning action.
A device for cleaning opposed spaced electrical contacts within a computer or video game cartridge receptacle, said cleaning device comprising:
- a manually manipulable housing adapted for slidable insertion into a cartridge receptacle, and
- a blade slidably mounted in said housing for motion parallel to the direction of housing insertion, said blade having a leading edge portion adapted to extend between the opposed electrical contacts within the cartridge receptacle, said blade having a retracted position withdrawn from engagement with the electrical contacts and an extended position in engagement with the electrical contacts, whereby manual reciprocating movement of the blade within the housing causes its leading edge area to scrape against the electrical contacts to provide a cleaning action,
- springs means trained between the blade and the housing to bias the blade to its extended position.
A device for cleaning opposed spaced electrical contacts within a computer or video game cartridge receptacle, said cleaning device comprising:
- a manually manipulable housing adapted for slidable insertion into a cartridge receptacle, and
- a blade slidably mounted in said housing for motion parallel to the direction of housing insertion, said blade having a leading edge portion adapted to extend between the opposed electrical contacts within the cartridge receptacle, whereby manual reciprocating movement of the blade within the housing causes its leading edge area to scrape against the electrical contacts to provide a cleaning action,
- surface areas of the blade leading edge portion are inclined relative to the general plane of the blade, whereby during reciprocating motion of the blade the inclined surface areas ride on the electrical contacts to exert a scraping action thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.