Patent ID: 7280098
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: G05G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A joystick having a handle and a base shaft having opposite upper and lower ends, and a curvilinear housing, wherein said handle is mounted on said upper end of said base shaft and said lower end of said base shaft is mounted into said curvilinear housing, and wherein said curvilinear housing has an outer curvilinear surface formed so as to include at least a clamp support portion of a zone of a spheroid between two generally horizontal and parallel planes wherein said zone includes a portion of said spheroid having the maximum circumference of said spheroid so that said curvilinear housing may be braced by clamped support of said portion, a releasable clamp having at least two cooperating clamp members releasably mountable by releasable fasteners onto said clamp support portion along a clamp-member interface so as to support and clamp therebetween said portion of said spheroid having the maximum circumference of said spheroid.