Patent ID: 8439754
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: G06F,H01H

Abstract:
1. In a hand-gripped manual controller for manipulating images or symbols on a display, the controller having an internal electronics assembly operatively connected to control actuators and including electrical components that cooperate with the control actuators to produce signals for manipulating images or symbols on the display, the control actuators responsive to action by a user gripping the controller, the user's action causing corresponding multi-directional positioning of an image or a symbol on the display, the improvement comprising: a foam rubber exoskeletal casing formed as a multi-layered structure and configured to confine the internal electronics assembly, different layers of the multi-layered structure having different densities, and one of the different layers constituting an outside layer that includes foam rubber material to impart impact resistance to the exoskeletal casing.