USER INPUT DEVICE WITH YOKE STICK AND RELATED METHODS

Abstract: a user input device may include a housing, and a yoke stick extending from the housing. the yoke stick may comprise an elongate portion, and a longitudinal motion module receiving the elongate portion and having a longitudinal module housing, a piston longitudinally received within the longitudinal module housing, first and second elastic devices carried within the longitudinal module housing and biasing the piston in a medial position, and a longitudinal sensor carried by the longitudinal module housing and configured to detect z-axis motion of the yoke stick. the user input device also includes a controller carried by the housing and coupled to the longitudinal sensor, a first translation motion module, a second translation motion module, and a rotational motion module, the controller configured to generate a motion input signal based upon four-axis motion of the yoke stick.

Inventor(s): Alejandro Madrid Aldana, Axel G Lopez

CPC Classification: G05G9/047 (the controlling member being movable by hand about orthogonal axes, e.g. joysticks {(for switches )})

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