Mini 3D orientation sensor

A mini 3D spherical shaped resistive touchscreen integrated into a mechanical orientation sensor device comprising:

• two flexible sheet conducting layers formed into a spherical configuration and coated with a resistive material separated by an air gap or microdots;
• each conducting sheet layer having an array of electrode conductor lines on substrates, electrode surfaces facing each other with conducting filament lines are more or less perpendicular forming a grid where superimposed on each other;
• an internal placed unconstrained ball with weight sufficient to place into contact the conducting layer circuits upon ball's physical contact on the internal sphere sensor surface;
• contacting conducting sheets providing closed circuits switch on voltage gradient discharge from the first end of the conducting layers into the contacting line fiber of the second conducting layer establishing a new resistance or voltage drop;
• the second layer circuit with time delay discharges and the second layer circuit resistance is read providing two measured resistances representing the coordinate location of the ball inside the sphere sensor;
• processor and logic coupled to the sensor maintaining voltage on the two conducting layers and control management functions for alarms and circuitry I/O;
• the ball impinging on the inside layer, causing circuit resistance changes from the point of contact followed by a circuit potential switch to the other conducting layer for a second layer discharge changing the second layer circuit resistance, the two resistance changes representing the coordinate location of the contacting ball inside the sphere sensor and registering the ball location data in the logic for processing,
• whereby at the point of conducting layer contact, the voltage will be diverted from the x layer into the corresponding filament of the y layer revealing the y coordinate and reversing the discharge to obtain the x coordinate, analogous to a normal size flat touchscreen but with modifications to the spherical curvature and the small size.