840 results about "Button pressing" patented technology

Apparatuses, methods and systems relating to at least one or more of golf club reminding and golf data collecting and recording. In one embodiment an apparatus on a golf club includes an integrated reminder and a stroke cancellation system and is semi-automatic in that the recording of the stroke is directly in response to changing the state (e.g. activating) of a switch which indicates that the golfer has pressed a button on the golf club. The pressing of the button indicates that the golfer will or has taken a stroke with the golf club and that the stroke is to be recorded, with the location of the stroke and an identifier of the club (e.g. 9 iron). The system may also be equipped with a missing club reminder and theft prevention function that notifies the golfer is a golf club has been left behind or if a club or golf bag has been removed without authorization.

Apparatus for use with a cable for interconnecting electronic devices is described. The apparatus includes an indicator for identifying a characteristic of the cable, and includes a mechanism operable to cause the indicator to identify the characteristic of the cable. The indicator can be for example an LED and can be used to identify the location of an end of the cable. The mechanism can be a pushbutton located at the other end of the cable. The LED is illuminated when the pushbutton is activated. A signal generator is responsive to the pushbutton and provides a signal to the LED to cause the LED to illuminate. The signal generator can be implemented with a DMTF encoder.

A substantially moisture-proof, airtight dispenser for both storing and dispensing several flattened articles such as diagnostic test strips. The inventive dispenser includes a novel pivotable housing that a user need merely grab and squeeze to eject a test strip. Independent movement of the user's fingers to push a button or turn a knob is unnecessary to dispense a strip, which makes the present invention well suited for diabetics suffering from nerve damage in their extremities and other complications resulting from the disease. The invention includes a novel flexible arm member and pusher head that engage and push an article from the dispenser as the two parts of the housing are pivoted together. The articles are dispensed through an exit that is configured with a novel flexible seal that maintains the dispenser substantially airtight. Several inventive seal embodiments and methods of making the same are disclosed.

An electrically activated emergency system for a patient bed comprises: an electrically powered linear actuator for driving a back rest of the patient bed from a lowered back rest position to a raised back rest position and operable to permit the back rest to lower from the raised back rest position to the lowered back rest position without being driven by the linear actuator; and, an independent emergency back rest lowering feature comprising an electrical activation means for activating the linear actuator to permit the back rest to lower from the raised back rest position to the lowered back rest position without being driven by the linear actuator, the electrical activation means not requiring continued operator attendance for continued lowering of the back rest. The present invention permits an attendant, for example a nurse, to press a single button to bring the back rest to a lowered back rest position without having to keep the button pressed so that the attendant is free to immediately begin administering emergency procedures while the back rest is lowering.

The present invention is designed to trigger activation of a gaming machine repeatedly without requiring a player to press and release a play button one time per play of the machine. A PCB incorporated between a conventional machine switch and a microprocessor causes a machine to immediately play a new game upon the machine's re-set. Preferably, the PCB causes an electrical switch to open and close at a predefined rate (e.g. one second) as long as the button is pressed. In another embodiment, a cable connected to, and extending from, said machine includes a button for a player to activate said repeat play. The cable houses wires connecting the cable button to the PCB. The cable button provides a player with an option of activating said machine from a more comfortable location (e.g. the player's lap area). The present invention also allows a player to play conventionally.

Provided is a handle assembly for carry-on luggage. The inverted U-shaped handle assembly comprises two handle units each comprising a handle rod comprising a fixed bottom support tube and a plurality of sliding tubes arranged telescopically about a tube therebelow; a locking device in the tubes; and a resilient device under of the support tube. Pressing the push button will unlock the handle units and resiliently move the handle rods upward a predetermined small distance prior to being able to fully extend the handle rods.

A computer control mouse including a housing, electronic circuitry within the housing, surface-tracking pointing control, i.e, ball or optical, a plurality of finger depressible buttons exposed on the housing and interfacing with sensors electrically connected with the circuitry. Some of the finger depressible buttons are for user selection of signals to be sent to the computer / software for variable rate window or screen scroll control. Some of the buttons are for communicating command signals to software, the signals activating display of information of a previously visited network address either Back or Forward, dependant on the mouse button, the activating of display of information of the previously visited network address with the mouse button occurring without a requirement of a pointer having to be located on a Back or Forward software shown button on the display.

An angle regulator (10) includes an outer shell (14) having a deflecting arm (146) and an inner supporting pole (15) received in the outer shell. The deflecting arm includes a main rod (1464), and a press-button (1462) and a hook (1466) respectively located at two opposite ends of the main rod. The press-button extends from the main rod and protrudes out of the outer shell. A plurality of spaced grooves (156) are defined in the inner supporting pole along an axial direction thereof. When the press-button is pressed, the hook is detached from one of the grooves that is engaged with the hook such that the inner supporting pole can slide with respect to the outer shell, and when the press-button is released, the hook is selectively engaged in another one of the grooves so that the inner supporting pole and the outer shell are fixed to each other.

An accessory holder that is to be used in such a way to securely hold ones accessories like keys (40), cameras (44), cellular phones, pagers, tape measures, and hand drills when they are not in use and to allow the person quick access to these accessories when they are needed. The preferred embodiment uses a modified seat belt buckle to carry A set of keys (40). Female end (25) is attached to the users belt (32) bag, or other convenient location. Male end (24) is attached to the accessory. When the accessory is needed, the user pushes button (26), and the accessory falls into the users hand. To return the accessory to female end (25), male end (24) must be inserted into opening (36). Male end (24) is pushed over the spring loaded locking mechanism and a distinctive "click" is heard once male end (24) is locked in place. The accessory can be conveniently carried in female end (25) until next time it is needed.

An armrest of a chair includes a fixing board, a first movable board, two limit plates, a second movable board, a positioning body, a restoring spring, a lining, a foam body, a push button, a bottom cap, and two shading plates. Thus, the horizontal position of the armrest is adjustable in a two-dimensional way, so that the horizontal position of the armrest is adjusted freely and optimally according to a user's practical requirement, thereby providing a comfortable sensation to the user. In addition, the horizontal position of the armrest is adjustable by pressing the push button, so that the horizontal position of the armrest is adjusted easily and quickly, thereby facilitating the user adjusting the horizontal position of the armrest.

A system and method for entering data on a portable device includes determining a tilt state (tilt sensor 304) as a button (keypad 306) is being pressed. The determined tilt state can be used to disambiguate from among a plurality of characters associated with the pressed button. In a preferred embodiment, the portable device is a mobile phone and the button is part of a standard 12-button keypad.

Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to lifting a user from a seated position to a raised position. This is performed by incorporating a lifting mechanism into a seat coupled to a movable base portion. Actuators coupled to drive shafts enable a plurality of linkages to be raised and tilted, enabling the seat to rise at the push of a button or other triggering mechanism. A plurality of compressible springs enables an even balance between the weight of the human and the pressure of the lifting mechanism underneath the seat. As the lifting portion lifts the seat, an angle of the seat changes from a substantially horizontal position to a relatively angled position, mimicking the natural motion of the hips and thighs for humans needing assistance. Embodiments disclosed include using the device as a bedside toilet, having a removable bowl attached to the seat, or using the device placed over a toilet.

A handle used to control movement of a medical instrument. The medical instrument may be coupled to a robotic arm that is connected to a controller. The medical instrument may have a plurality of functions such as wrist locking and motion scaling. One of the functions may be selected through a graphical user interface operated by the end user. The handle may have a plurality of buttons. One of the buttons may allow the end user to control the selected function. For example, when wrist locking / unlocking is selected, depressing the button can toggle the medical instrument wrist between a locked state and an unlocked state.

A push button latch release assembly includes a push button actuator and a latch cord which extends through the push button actuator and connects at its opposite ends to release arms of respective rotary spring latches. The push button actuator includes a housing having a base and a tubular barrel, and a button cylinder which is axially movable in the barrel. The button cylinder includes a shaft which extends through a hole in the base of the housing and the base mounts two posts which are located on opposite sides of the shaft. The latch cord extends through respective guide channels in the posts and a passageway through the shaft. Pressing the button cylinder moves the shaft so that the latch cord is extended between the posts and the ends of the latch cord are drawn in, releasing the release arms.

A rotary switch mechanism includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, a push button and a triggered switch. By rotating the first rotatable member, a first rotation command is executed. By rotating the second rotatable member, a second rotation command is executed. By moving a user's finger on the push button, a motion command is executed. By pressing down the push button to trigger the push switch, a pushing command is executed. In such way, the rotary switch mechanism may be used to input plural commands.

An improved padlock and particular an improved small padlock that has a shackle adjustable to a desired length includes a lock body and a steel cable. The steel cable can run through the lock body to form a closed shackle. The lock body includes a casing, a dial assembly, two pushbuttons, two thrust members and two latch members. Locking and unlocking operations can be accomplished by depressing the pushbuttons. The latch members can engage with the steel cable to form a locking condition, or be moved away from the steel cable to form a unlocking condition so that the shackle range formed by the steel cable and the lock body can be adjusted to meet user's requirements. It overcomes the problem of the conventional padlocks that provide a shackle which is not adjustable and often does not have an adequate length.

The invention relates to a voice song-selecting method, which belongs to song-selection application technology. The invention is characterized in that a data initialization module containing files of Chinese character database and a similarity metric value chart of initials and finals of Chinese syllables, a song database character pre-processing module containing character strings of target syllable chains corresponding to the name of the song or the name of the singer, a voice recognition module for converting the voice recording data of the name of the song or the name of the singer input from the sound card into the corresponding character strings of Chinese characters, a recognition result post-processing module for converting the character strings of Chinese characters into the character strings of source syllable chains, and a searching and matching module for calculating the difference value based on the metric of the similarity between initials and finals according to the character strings of target syllable chains corresponding to the name of the song or the name of the singer and the character strings of source syllable chains obtained from the recognition result post-processing module, Besides calculating the integral difference by using the dynamic programming method and outputting the result of the minimum difference value. The average button pressing time and the average operating time of song-selection are reduced, and the efficiency of song-selection operation is greatly enhanced.

A motorized racking mechanism for racking a circuit breaker into and out of switchgear / board equipment allows for breaker service without operator proximity to the switchgear. A motor fixed to a cradle that receives a circuit breaker is coupled to a power transmission system that turns a control screw. The control screw laterally moves a crown-wheel device that causes the circuit breaker to be moved among a remove, test, and connected positions in response to a button arm being depressed via a front panel of the cradle. The button arm can be depressed under wireless remote control. A solenoid is coupled to a crank detent actuator that includes the button arm, and a wireless module actuates the solenoid, which moves the button arm, causing the motorized movement of the circuit breaker as if the button arm had been manually depressed. Indicator lights are visible on the front panel to indicate the position of the circuit breaker relative to the cradle.

A retractable handle of wheeled luggage is provided. For the case of single pulling rod, pressing a push button will tighten a connecting rod to move a lower sliding block to a one direction so that an upright rod is pressed to lower a locking member and an upright member to clear the locking member from a toothed member, thereby unlocking both the swivel handle grip and the pulling rod. For the case of two pulling rods, there is further provided another transmission mechanism so that pressing the push button will further unlock locking devices in the pulling rods via coupling rods.

A grinder having a rotary shaft and a grinding disc mounted at a bottom end of the rotary shaft for grinding a work piece. A press button unit is disposed on a housing of the grinder. By means of pressing the press button unit, the rotary shaft of the grinder can be seized for replacement of the grinding disc. Before pressing the press button unit, a user must first angularly displace the press button unit. That is, the press button unit cannot be directly pressed without being first turned by a certain angle. Therefore, in operation, mis-touch of the press button unit can be avoided so as to avoid damage of the grinder.

A method and apparatus for providing distributed control of a home automation and control system is provided. Each device participating in a home automation and control system is equipped with control logic for providing distributed control. Through the control logic, each device maintains scene definitions describing the state of the device for each scene in which it participates. When any device in the system receives a request to launch a scene, such as a button press on one of the devices, the device broadcasts a scene state change message to all devices within the home automation and control system. The scene state change message identifies to each device that a particular scene that should be launched. Each device in the system receives the message and determines whether the device is a participant in the scene. If the device is a participant in the scene, the device adjusts its state according to a scene definition stored in the device associated with the scene. The device may adjust a controlled electrical load, such as a light, according to the scene definition by turning the load on, off, or setting the load to some intermediate value. If the device is a not participant in the scene, the device remains unaffected.

The invention discloses an application switching method. The method includes the following steps of obtaining sliding information of contact points used for conducting touch control operation in the edge partition preset in the touch control area, analyzing whether the sliding information reaches the preset switching critical condition or not, and switching the application running at present if the sliding information reaches the preset switching critical condition. The invention further discloses a mobile terminal. Users do not need to conduct operation on a main screen of the terminal or trigger buttons in the current application interface by mistake, the users do not need to conduct button pressing or selection or other operation, and the application switching can be easier and more rapid.

A substantially moisture-proof, airtight dispenser for both storing and dispensing several flattened articles such as diagnostic test strips. The inventive dispenser includes a novel pivotable housing that a user need merely grab and squeeze to eject a test strip. Independent movement of the user's fingers to push a button or turn a knob is unnecessary to dispense a strip, which makes the present invention well suited for diabetics suffering from nerve damage in their extremities and other complications resulting from the disease. The invention includes a novel flexible arm member and pusher head that engage and push an article from the dispenser as the two parts of the housing are pivoted together. The articles are dispensed through an exit that is configured with a novel flexible seal that maintains the dispenser substantially airtight. Several inventive seal embodiments and methods of making the same are disclosed.

A digital camera is presented in which images received on an image sensor are continually stored on a buffer before a button is depressed. Depressing the button causes the images stored immediately prior to pressing the button to be stored. When the buffer is filled, new images replace the oldest image on the buffer. If only a portion of the buffer is used at any one time, new images can immediately be acquired after pressing the button.

Taught herein is an identification device for golf club head covers comprising an outer shell having a front cover and a back cover; a window for displaying identifying indicia disposed on said front cover; a disk bearing a plurality of identification indicia; means for rotating the disk intermittently so that the identifying indicia are displayed through the window, one indicium at a time, the means being disposed within said outer shell; and means for connecting the identification device to a golf club head cover. Since a plurality of different identification indicia can be displayed at a push of a button, a convenient and easy to use identification device for golf club head covers is realized.

A sliding door actuator having a small electric motor and cable system is added to a standard sliding glass door for a residence. As the motor may be controlled by a remote, an individual could simply press a button to open the door. This convenience would be especially helpful to older individuals and those having limited mobility. The sliding door actuator having a winch spool drivingly connected to the drive motor. A drive cable is spoolably connected to the winch spool. The drive cable is connected to a sliding door. A return spring is connected to the drive cable for biasing the sliding door. An exit sensor is electrically connected to the drive motor to selectively actuate the sliding door.

The invention discloses a frameless terminal application switching method. The method comprises the following steps of obtaining sliding information of a touch control point conducting the touch control operation on the edge of a touch area of a frameless terminal; analyzing whether the sliding information meets the preset switching critical condition or not; if the sliding information meets the preset switching critical condition, switching an application running currently. The invention further discloses the frameless terminal. A user does not need to operate a main screen of the terminal, a button in a current application interface will not be touched by mistake, the user does not need to conduct button pressing or selection or other operations, and the application can be more easily and rapidly switched.