Patent ID: 8711109

Claim:
A device that detects the three-dimensional direction and the value of a force exerted from an object on a surface, wherein the three-dimensional direction is represented by a first angle located between the surface plane and a line representing the three dimensional direction, and a second angle located between the projection of the line on the surface plane and the x-axis of the surface plane, and said device is comprised of; a touching cube with six faces wherein each face of the six faces is a surface that can be touched by the object to move the touching cube in three simultaneous directions relative to the x-axis, the y-axis, and the z-axis; six force sensors wherein each one of the six force sensors is in touch with one face of the touching cube to detect the value of the force exerted on the one face wherein the value of the force exerted on the one face represents the movement of the one face along an axis, and three force sensors of the six force sensors simultaneously detect three values of three forces exerted on three faces of the six faces when the touching cube is moved in the three simultaneous directions; and a microprocessor that simultaneously receives the three values from the three force sensors and analyzes the three values relative to each other to provide a computer system with a first input representing the three-dimensional direction, and a second input representing the value of the force exerted from the object on the surface.