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Granted Patent B2
US 11,899,856 · App. 17/865,190 · Granted Feb 13, 2024

Electronic pen stylus

Inventors: Yuta Sato (Saitama, JP); Tomohiro Kamai (Saitama, JP)
Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
G06F3/03545
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Patent No.
US 11,899,856
App. No.
17/865,190
Granted
Feb 13, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an electronic pen stylus including a front-end part which, in operation, comes into contact with a position pointing input surface, and a rod-shaped axial center part formed integrally with the front-end part, in which at least the front-end part is made of a filler-mixed resin of which a base resin is mixed with a fibrous material as the filler having a hardness that is higher than a hardness of the base resin.

Claims (14)

1. An electronic pen stylus comprising:

a front-end part which, in operation, comes into contact with a position pointing input surface; and

a rod-shaped axial center part formed integrally with the front-end part,

wherein at least the front-end part is made of a filler-mixed resin of which a base resin is mixed with a fibrous material as a filler having a hardness that is harder than a hardness of the base resin,

wherein both the front-end part and the axial center part are made of the filler-mixed resin,

wherein the fibrous material in the front-end part is higher in density than in the axial center part, and

wherein the axial center part is thinner than the front-end part.

2. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 1 , wherein a fiber length of the fibrous material is less than a thickness of the front-end part and a thickness of the axial center part.

3. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 2 , wherein a lengthwise direction of the fibrous material in the front-end part is oblique along a contour of a tip surface of the front-end part.

4. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 1 , wherein the hardness of the fibrous material is lower than a hardness of glass fiber or carbon fiber.

5. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 4 , wherein the fibrous material is poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide fiber.

6. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 1 , wherein, in operation, the base resin is worn off by friction between the front-end part and the position pointing input surface.

7. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 1 , wherein the fibrous material is made of a material having a tensile strength that is higher than a tensile strength the base resin.

8. The electronic pen stylus according to claim 1 , wherein the axial center part is covered with an outer coat made of a material having a hardness that is higher than the hardness of the base resin.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 20, 2022
From: SATO, YUTA; KAMAI, TOMOHIRO
To: WACOM CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060565/0927 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-019896 · Feb 7, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2021003508 · Feb 1, 2021
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