US 12,346,505 B2
Grip for a coordinate input device
Naoya Nishizawa, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Wacom Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Filed by Wacom Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Filed on Feb. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/167,000.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-032292 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0280844 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/046 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0227 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1601 (2013.01); G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 3/046 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coordinate input device, comprising:
a position detection sensor which, in operation, detects a position indicated by an indicator;
a casing including a rear surface and housing the position detection sensor between the rear surface and an input surface, the rear surface being opposite the input surface, the input surface being a surface on which an input operation for inputting the position indicated by the indicator is performed and corresponding to a position detection region of the position detection sensor; and
at least one grip part disposed on the rear surface of the casing,
wherein the at least one grip part includes a projecting portion that projects in a direction intersecting the rear surface, and one or more operation parts are disposed on the projecting portion,
wherein the projecting portion is shaped and sized so as to be grippable by an operator,
wherein a recessed portion is formed in the rear surface of the casing adjacent to at least part of a periphery of the projecting portion and adjacent to the one or more operation parts disposed on the projecting portion,
wherein the recessed portion is disposed at approximately a middle of a longitudinal side of the coordinate input device, and
wherein, in operation, a finger of the operator is inserted into the recessed portion disposed at approximately the middle of the longitudinal side of the coordinate input device and formed in the rear surface of the casing adjacent to at least one of the one or more operation parts disposed on the projecting portion when the operator grips the projecting portion.