US 12,461,609 B2
Electronic pen
Kohei Tanaka, Saitama (JP); Takenori Kaneda, Saitama (JP); Yuta Sato, Saitama (JP); and Kyohei Ono, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Wacom Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Filed by Wacom Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/608,167.
Application 18/608,167 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/032171, filed on Aug. 26, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-154607 (JP), filed on Sep. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0302909 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/03545 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0383 (2013.01); G06F 3/0442 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic pen comprising:
a core body;
a pressure detector which, in operation, detects a pressure applied to the core body; and
a transmitting component which is located between the core body and the pressure detector and which, in operation, transmits the pressure applied to the core body to the pressure detector,
wherein the transmitting component includes two separate components including a core body holding component which holds the core body and a pressing component which, in operation, presses the pressure detector,
wherein a rear end surface of the core body holding component and a front end surface of the pressing component are opposed to each other, and
wherein one of:
the rear end surface of the core body holding component is a flat surface, and the front end surface of the pressing component is a protruding curved surface, or
the rear end surface of the core body holding component is the protruding curved surface, and the front end surface of the pressing component is the flat surface, or
the rear end surface of the core body holding component is the protruding curved surface, and the front end surface of the pressing component is the protruding curved surface, or
the rear end surface of the core body holding component is a recessed curved surface, and the front end surface of the pressing component is the protruding curved surface, or
the rear end surface of the core body holding component is the protruding curved surface, and
the front end surface of the pressing component is the recessed curved surface.