42 results about "Left thumb" patented technology

A control system for operation of a remote vehicle comprises a twin-grip hand-held controller having a volume of less than 1 liter and a weight of less than 1 lb. The twin-grip hand-held controller includes: a left grip shaped to be held between a user's left little finger, ring finger, and the ball of the thumb, leaving the user's left index finger, middle finger, and thumb free; a left control zone adjacent to the left grip, including a first analog joystick and a first 4-way directional control manipulable by the left thumb, and a left rocker control located on a shoulder portion of the controller; a right handed grip shaped to be held between the user's right little finger, ring finger, and the ball of the thumb, leaving the user's left index finger, middle finger, and thumb free; a right control zone adjacent the right grip, including a second analog joystick and a second 4-way directional control manipulable by the right thumb, and a right rocker control located on a shoulder portion of the controller; a tether zone between the left control zone and the right control zone, including a tether anchor configured to tether the hand controller between the left grip and the right grip and to permit the hand controller to hang with the left grip and right grip pointing upward; a tether extending from the tether anchor to the right shoulder of an operator, the tether including a strain relief section. A quick-release pad is worn on an operator's chest, the quick-release pad including a first fastener for affixing the quick-release pad to available mounts on the operator, and a second quick-release fastener for holding the hand-held controller to the quick-release pad to be readily removable by pulling on the hand-held controller.

Provided herein are an ambidextrous thumb safety and apparatuses for providing the same for a handgun. The ambidextrous thumb safety and apparatuses generally comprise right and left thumb safeties pivotally mounted in opposition to a handgun frame, means for pivotally interconnecting the mounted right and left thumb safeties on the handgun frame and means for initiating pivotal movement of the right and left side plates upon application of a force thereto. Particularly, a secondary pin with a threaded end extends from the sear contact surface on the right thumb safety and is connected to the left thumb safety via a screw at a counterbored hole through the left thumb safety.

A character input keyboard (20; 20A) of a typewriter style for an electronic information processing apparatus having high frequency in ENTER operation is provided at the right and the left thumbs' home positions for finger operation in front and the center of an operator with a pair of front keys (21, 22) which can be depressed directly by the respective thumb rested thereon as the right and the left thumbs' home positions, one of the centrally juxtaposed right and left front keys (21, 22) being allocated to a front ENTER / RETURN key and the other to a SPACE key as a normal state of the keyboard, whereby direct enter / return operation by either of thumbs rested thereon as thumbs' home positions is physically possible.

The present invention is a golf club which induces proper grip and suitable swing by removing the thumb-covering portion of a golf glove so as to extend the Skin Contact Length between the thumb and forefinger. Due to the absence of a thumb covering, structural problems with the glove covering stretching from the thumb area toward the palm may arise when centrifugal force is imparted by the golf club. If the glove covering has been stretched, the covering will become folded when the club is gripped; this causes a pull on the left thumb when gloves are worn and leads to improper grip. Therefore, in order to provide elasticity with regard to stretching, in place of sheepskin the area subject to stretching is processed with a Spandex material having excellent elasticity and flexibility.

A keypad-based alphanumeric user interface, data entry process and method specifically designed for thumb typing on a handheld electronic device, with a left-thumb / right-thumb accessible and symmetrical key distribution of consonant letters placed in alphabetical order on a six columns / six rows square-shaped surface, omitting all vowels in some key distribution mode (e.g., default and SHIFT modes), and offering the option of replacing some or all said vowels in any word with a generic vowel mark instead of any specific vowel.

A pair of gloves for keeping fingers clean during the eating of juicy foods includes a left-hand glove having a first pocket for receiving a left thumb, a second pocket for receiving a left index finger, and a third pocket for receiving a left middle finger and a right-hand glove having a first pocket for receiving a right thumb, a second pocket for receiving a right index finger, and a third pocket for receiving a right middle finger. The ring and little fingers of a user's hands are not protected and are held in spaced apart relation to the food during consumption. The gloves are made from whole gloves formed of a thin vinyl by cutting off the pockets for receiving the ring and little fingers of each hand.

The invention relates to data input equipment, in particular to a keyboard used as electronic computer input equipment. The invention relates to the industrial design of keyboards, an embedded controller and embedded software which are built in the keyboards, keyboard interface control circuits and the drive programs of computer hosts, operation systems or internal parts of an application program for processing keystroke information. In the invention, the spacebar on conventional keyboards is divided into a left part and a right part which are respectively controlled by the left thumb and the right thumb. The keyboard comprises a plurality of working modes and can switch the modes by the special move sequences of the two thumbs, namely, the respective knocking of the right and the left spacebars by the thumbs still means the spacebar, and the mode switching possibly exists when the time of the knocking of the spacebars approaches.

The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for inputting characters. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining corresponding candidate characters according to characters input by a user; obtaining holding information of a mobile terminal and displaying the candidate characters in a screen area which can be easily touched by a thumb according to the holding information, wherein the holding information shows that the mobile terminal is held by a left hand or the mobile terminal is held by a right hand. By virtue of the character input method, the candidate characters are specifically displayed in the screen area which can be easily touched by the thumb of the user by detecting the holding information of the mobile terminal in the character input process, for example, the candidate characters are displayed in the screen area which can be easily touched by the left thumb if the mobile terminal is held by the left hand; the candidate characters are displayed in the screen area which can be easily touched by the right thumb when the mobile terminal is held by the right hand; the user can more conveniently and quickly select the candidate characters; the misoperation is low in occurrence possibility; the input efficiency is improved; the user experience is improved.

A control box and operator interface for an industrial vehicle includes a left thumb joystick controller, a right thumb joystick controller, and integrated handles positioned adjacent the left thumb joystick controller and the right thumb joystick controller, respectively. The integrated handles are ergonomically positioned relative to the left and right thumb joystick controllers such that when an operator grasps the handles, the operator's thumbs are naturally positioned adjacent the left and right thumb joystick controllers, respectively. An enabling mechanism is associated with each of the integrated handles and includes a switch that serves to activate operational functionality of the left and right thumb joystick controllers.

The invention relates to a speed recording and coding method, the basic principle is that two or a plurality of key areas which are mutually separated are utilized to present the value of each portion which is contained by one time input of an input method to finish the one time input of the input method. The invention also relates to a speed recording keyboard, six non-function keys are arranged on a left thumb and a right thumb to be thumb press key areas, the number of keys which can be touched as long as lifting hands are more, fingers are not needed to be moved frequently, and typewriting speed can be effectively improved, which is suitable for a matching keyboard of the speed recording and coding process of the invention. In addition, the invention also relates to five input methods for using the speed recording and coding method, the front four are encoded by spelling, and the fifth classifies all the Chinese characters according to derivation and similarity on the basis of the characters of fonts, and classification value is used to code.

The present invention is a golf club which induces proper grip and suitable swing by removing the thumb-covering portion of a golf glove so as to extend the Skin Contact Length between the thumb and forefinger. Due to the absence of a thumb covering, structural problems with the glove covering stretching from the thumb area toward the palm may arise when centrifugal force is imparted by the golf club. If the glove covering has been stretched, the covering will become folded when the club is gripped; this causes a pull on the left thumb when gloves are worn and leads to improper grip. Therefore, in order to provide elasticity with regard to stretching, in place of sheepskin the area subject to stretching is processed with a Spandex material having excellent elasticity and flexibility.

The invention provides a method for detecting a nervous system and multiple intelligences interpretated by dermatoglyphic. The method covers the fields of medical genetic dermatoglyphic, neuroscience and behavior science. Connection between dermatoglyphic and the nervous system is integrated by dermatoglyphic features by different geneogenous patients with neurologic deficit. For example, if a central chief execution weaker is projected by a left thumb by dermatoglyphic detecting, the invention shows the same situations appearing in the fields of autism, sense organ disorder, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc. Weakened moral function causes low stress tolerance and depression trait, which has important reference value for evaluating the possibility of suffering from mental disorder. And the attention deficit disorder also causes learning disability easily. Therefore, the method for detecting the nervous system and multiple intelligences interpretated by dermatoglyphic has higher utility value on the whole use.

The invention provides an artificial nail finger stall for plucked instruments. Eight finger stall parts are a set, four for a left hand, and four for a right hand. The artificial nail finger stall comprises a left thumb stall part, a right thumb stall part, forefinger stall parts, middle finger stall parts and ring finger stall parts, wherein the finger stall parts comprise finger guards; nail tips are connected with the front ends of the finger guards by plug-in strips; and finger rings are connected with the rear ends of the finger guards by connecting belts. The artificial nail finger stall for the plucked instruments overcomes the insufficiency in the prior art, is suitable for fingers in different thicknesses, and is flexible, convenient and comfortable to wear, simple and convenient to use, safe and environment-friendly, and the finger flexibility after wearing is high.

The invention discloses a wheelchair for medical rehabilitation. The wheelchair comprises an integral supporting frame, driving mechanisms are arranged on the integral supporting frame and can drive walking wheels to move forwards or backwards, steering mechanisms are arranged in trundle sleeves and can drive trundles to turn, brake mechanisms are arranged on the walking wheels, a left thumb control area and a right thumb control area are arranged at the front ends, close to two elastic parts, of the integral supporting frame, and a controller controls the driving mechanisms, the steering mechanisms and the brake mechanisms according to measurement data of a left diffusion silicon pressure sensor and a right diffusion silicon pressure sensor. Compared with a control rod or a control panelin the prior art, the wheelchair for medical rehabilitation has the advantages that instructions of a user are sensed through the left thumb control area and the right thumb control area, the starting, accelerating, decelerating, steering, braking operation and the like of the wheelchair is completed, and the wheelchair is simple in device, good in control performance, safe and convenient.

The invention provides a computer keyboard, on which a numeric area, a letter area and other function areas are arranged; the computer keyboard is characterized in that a rectangular numeric area is translated from the right side of a conventional keyboard to the middle part of the letter area, and all rows of keys are vertically arranged; the computer keyboard has the advantages that the space on the right side of the keyboard is markedly reduced and a right hand of a user can easily operate the keyboard without extending far when a mouse is moved, which is good for health. The '-' key and the '+' key are more close to a first finger, and a backspace key is directly operated by a left thumb, and the numeric area is provided with a '=' key, which are all convenient for the operation and effectively reduce the appearance of the error stroke; moreover, the keyboard of the invention reserves all functions of a conventional keyboard and has little modification on the layout of the keyboard, thereby people can quickly adapt to the keyboard and are willing to accept the keyboard.

A wrist and thumb brace comprised of:a wrist brace portion for stabilizing a user's wrist, the wrist portion having a first aperture adapted for a user's right thumb when the brace is on a user's right hand, and a second aperture adapted for a user's left thumb when the brace is on a user's left hand, the first and second apertures configured to facilitate ambidextrous use of the brace; anda thumb brace portion for stabilizing a user's thumb, the thumb brace portion removeably attachable to the wrist brace portion at a first location adjacent to the first aperture when the brace is on a user's right hand, the thumb brace portion removeably attachable to the wrist brace portion at a second location adjacent to the second aperture when the brace is on a user's left hand.

A musical instrument comprising a mouthpiece and an elongated body, the elongated body comprises a plurality of finger contacts. The finger contacts comprise a first set of contacts arranged such that they may be simultaneously contacted by the little, ring, middle and index finger of the right hand and a second set of contacts arranged such that they may be simultaneously contacted by the little, ring, middle and index finger of the left hand. It further comprises a first thumb contact for contact by the right thumb and a second thumb contact for contact by the left thumb. The instrument comprises a tone generator controlled by the plurality of contacts, such that a first set of successive half tones is generated under control of the second set of contacts when the first thumb contact is operated, a second set of successive half tones is generated under control of the first set of contacts when the second thumb contact is operated, a third set of successive half tones is generated under control of the second set of contacts when the first thumb contact is freed; and a fourth set of successive half tones is generated under control of the first set of contacts when the second thumb contact is freed.

The invention discloses wearable violin educational equipment. A chest fixing mechanism, a left hand exoskeleton mechanism and a right hand exoskeleton mechanism. The left hand exoskeleton mechanism comprises a left shoulder base, a left shoulder outer mechanism, a left big arm mechanism, a left forearm rear mechanism, a left forearm front mechanism, a left palm mechanism and a left finger mechanism which are sequentially rotationally connected. The chest fixing mechanism is fixedly connected with the left shoulder base, the left shoulder base is provided with a clamping block for clamping a violin, the left big arm mechanism is provided with a left big arm tie tape, the left forearm front mechanism is provided with a left forearm tie tape, the left palm mechanism is provided with a left palm tie tape, and the left finger mechanism comprises a left thumb mechanism, a left index finger mechanism, a left middle finger mechanism, a left ring finger mechanism and a left little finger mechanism. By means of the wearable violin educational equipment, a beginner can be assisted in violin holding posture grasping, and the learning interest is improved.

An electric vehicle for persons with disabilities with double upper limbs, a battery pack is installed under the seat, a motor is installed under the frame, rear double wheels are installed behind the frame, the front of the frame is connected to a faucet frame, and the bottom of the faucet frame is connected to the front double wheels. The left foot is installed on the left above the faucet frame, and the right foot is installed on the right above the faucet frame. The disabled with both upper limbs sits on the parking space. His left foot is placed on the left foot, and his right foot is placed on the right foot. In the position, the battery switch is installed at the toe of the left foot, and the battery switch can be controlled with the thumb of the left foot. The brake switch is installed at the toe of the right foot, and the brake switch can be controlled with the thumb of the right foot. You can control the direction by stretching back and forth. The present invention can enable the handicapped persons with both upper limbs to drive by themselves, and the persons with both upper limbs can use two feet to control the direction, battery switch and brake. The present invention provides convenience for such persons to travel.

The invention relates to a method for adjusting virtual keyboard position. The method includes prompting users to use left thumb to move to left from the left portion of a screen or use right thumb to move to right from the right portion of the screen to unlock the screen; judging if unlocking succeeds or not; if succeeds, dividing the virtual keyboard into two auxiliary keyboards; displaying the two auxiliary keyboards on two ends of the screen, and setting equal horizontal length of the two auxiliary keyboards according to actual movement slided by left thumb or right thumb of users on the screen. After the horizontal length of the two auxiliary keyboards is adjusted via the method for adjusting virtual keyboard position, users with different hand shaped are facilitated to input information.

A violin thumb pad that facilitates the optimal positioning of violin relative to the player's thumb supporting the violin neck, for teaching purpose and for increased comfort and reduced physical stress, is introduced. Assuming the violin player uses left hand to play the violin finger board, and used right hand to hold the bow, the violin thumb pad forces the left thumb and palm to turn towards the player so the player's fingers are inline with the violin string naturally. The violin thumb pad also forces the left thumb and to be comfortably straight. And it forces the left elbow to stay close with the player's body. The violin thumb pad also makes it easier to place the violin neck between the thumb and index finger and not letting the violin neck drop to the bottom of the thumb. The violin thumb pad comprises an elongated pad that has one side conformable to the thumb and one side conformable to the violin neck, and at least one harnesses or loops that fastens the pad to the thumb.

The disclosure concerns a wrist and thumb brace with a wrist brace portion for stabilizing a user's wrist, the wrist brace portion having a first aperture adapted for a user's right thumb when the brace is on a user's right hand, and a second aperture adapted for a user's left thumb when the brace is on a user's left hand, the first and second apertures facilitating ambidextrous use of the brace; and a thumb brace portion for stabilizing a user's thumb, the thumb brace portion removably attachable to the wrist brace portion at a first location adjacent to the first aperture when the brace is on a user's right hand, the thumb brace portion removably attachable to the wrist brace portion at a second location adjacent to the second aperture when the brace is on a user's left hand.

A computer keyboard wrist pad is comprised of right and left ulnar support surfaces, and right and left wrist support surfaces respectively angled up from the inner sides of the ulnar support surfaces. The wrist support surfaces are angled toward each other in a bottom-to-top direction, and also angled toward each other in a front-to-back direction. Right and left thumb pad support surfaces are respectively angled up from the right and left ulnar support surfaces forward of the wrist support surfaces. The thumb pad support surfaces are angled toward each other more sharply than the wrist support surfaces. An intermediate portion of a front edge of the wrist pad is generally level with the ulnar support surfaces. A forwardly extending concavity is positioned between the wrist support surfaces.

The embodiment of the invention provides a motor winding wire embedding method, which comprises the following steps that after a binding wire of a winding is unfastened, a thumb and an index finger of a left hand pinch a part, close to a left corner, of a straight line side, a left effective side is rotated by 90 degrees by a right hand, the thumb and the index finger of the left hand pinch a part, close to a right corner, of the straight line side, and the right effective side is rotated by 90 degrees by the right hand; the left side effective edge and the right side effective edge rotate in the same direction, the right hand fixes the winding, the thumb and the index finger of the left hand pinch the lower layer edge close to the corner to be flat, then the upper layer edge close to the corner is pinched to be flat, the left hand does not move, the right hand cards the two side effective edges into a flat shape, the carded winding serves as a winding to be embedded, and the two side effective edges of the winding are rotated by 90 degrees in the same direction, the effective edges on the two sides of the winding are combed to be flat, so that coils on the effective edges of the winding are parallel, intersection between turns and strands of the winding is avoided, the difficulty of driving slot wedges into the hanging grooves is reduced, the effective edges of the winding are embedded into the hanging grooves without using a marking-off plate, and damage to an insulating layer of the winding is avoided.

The invention relates to a body-building and diet integration method. According to dietary therapy of different diets from Monday to Sunday, at least three to five minutes of get-up work is done through combination of exercise before get-up, the method is characterized in that firstly, feet of a person stretch straight and are relaxed, five toes of each foot are driven to curl upwards and bend downwards continuously under force applied by insteps and soles, meanwhile, four fingers of the left hand and four fingers of the right hand are pressed to the thumb of the left hand and the thumb of the right hand respectively to improve large intestine peristalsis, and the person pays attention to the Dantian acupuncture below the navel, takes deep breaths, keeps the abdomen in, lifts and contracts the anus and then slowly exhales; saliva in the oral cavity is swallowed downwards from the oral cavity and then the swallowed saliva is sucked upwards; secondly, the four fingers of the left hand and the four fingers of the right hand click the nail of the left thumb and the nail of the right thumb respectively; thirdly, shanks are placed on leg rests which are 80-150 mm high, and the four fingers of the left hand and the four fingers of the right hand click the nail of the left thumb and the nail of the right thumb respectively. On the non-medical premise of the seven diets and body exercises, the immunity function and the health level of the person are improved.

The invention provides a keyboard and a keyboard interface display method adopting the same. The keyboard comprises a first keyboard surface and a second keyboard surface, wherein the first keyboard surface is towards a first direction and is provided with a first left thumb key region and a first right thumb key region which are movable; the second keyboard surface is towards a second direction and is provided with a left hand key region and a right hand key region; when a user holds the keyboard in both hands, the first left thumb key region is used for input of the thumb of the left hand, and moves between a first position and a second position in combination with a moving range of the thumb of the left hand; the left hand key region is used for input of other fingers except the thumb of the left hand; the first right thumb key region is used for input of the thumb of the right hand, and moves between a third position and a fourth position in combination with a moving range of the thumb of the right hand; and the right hand key region is used for input of other fingers except the thumb of the right hand. By adopting the keyboard, through both-hand holding operation, the ten fingers correspond to the key regions on the first keyboard surface and the second keyboard surface respectively, namely, operational input can be performed.

The invention discloses a detachable environment-friendly type blackboard eraser. The detachable environment-friendly type blackboard comprises a control box, a cleaning layer, an electric motor, a drive device, a rotating sucker and cleaning heads. The control box is connected with the cleaning layer in a buckling manner. A fingerprint is arranged on a box cover of the control box. A left thumb print and a right thumb print are arranged on the left side face and the right side face of the control box respectively. A switch is arranged above the left thumb print of the control box. A battery box is arranged above the right thumb print of the control box. The electric motor, the drive device and the rotating sucker are installed in the control box. The rotating sucker is electrically connected with the drive device. The drive device is connected with the electric motor. The electric motor is connected with the battery box. The cleaning layer is composed of an outer wiping layer, inner wiping layers and the multiple cleaning heads. The detachable environment-friendly type blackboard eraser is reasonable in structure, the eraser can be manually demounted after being used for a long time for dust removing, and due to the fact that the rotating sucker and the cleaning heads are arranged, the wiping effect and the dust removing effect are improved.