Multifunction pen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11472222-B2
Application number	US-201816766958-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2018
Priority date	Nov 28, 2017
Publication date	Oct 18, 2022
Grant date	Oct 18, 2022

Abstract

A multifunction pen is provided including a refill for a writing implement such as a ballpoint pen on a tip end side and including an electromagnetic induction-based electromagnetic induction refill on a rear end side such that there is no need to perform a switching operation between the writing refill and the electromagnetic induction refill. The multifunction pen includes a shaft tube 10 including openings at both of a tip end and a rear end, a writing refill 40 that is housed inside the shaft tube 10 and that includes a writing tip exposed through the opening at the tip end, and an electromagnetic induction refill 50 that is housed inside the shaft tube 10, that is exposed through the opening at the rear end, and that is employed in electromagnetic induction-based input.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A multifunction pen comprising:
a shaft tube including openings at both of a tip end and a rear end;
a plurality of writing refills that are housed inside the shaft tube, each of the plurality of writing refills including a writing tip exposed through the opening at the tip end;
a plurality of knock rods that are respectively accessible through window holes in the shaft tube extending along an axial direction of the shaft tube, the plurality of knock rods respectively actuating the plurality of writing refills; and
an electromagnetic induction refill that is housed inside the shaft tube, that is disposed in parallel to the plurality of knock rods, that overlaps the plurality of knock rods in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the shaft tube, that is exposed through the opening at the rear end, and that is employed in electromagnetic induction-based input.

2. The multifunction pen of claim 1 , wherein an axial center of a rear end side of each of the plurality of writing refills and an axial center of the electromagnetic induction refill are misaligned with each other.

3. The multifunction pen of claim 1 , wherein a center of mass of the multifunction pen is positioned further toward a rear end side than a center in an axial direction of the shaft tube.

4. The multifunction pen of claim 1 , wherein the electromagnetic induction refill is disposed at an axial center of the shaft tube.

5. The multifunction pen of claim 1 , further comprising a sliding cover covering the rear end of the shaft tube and the electromagnetic induction refill, the sliding cover being guided by movement grooves in the shaft tube extending in the axial direction of the shaft tube in parallel with the window holes, the sliding cover having an exposing opening allowing the electromagnetic induction refill to be exposed with the sliding cover being slid toward the tip end of the shaft tube.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Pencil Co

Inventors

• Nakayama Kyo
• Ushiku Shinichi
• Nishida Tsuyoshi
• Sakagami Masashi
• Okabe Satoru
• Koizumi Yusuke

Classifications

• G06F3/03545

  Pens or stylus · CPC title

• G06F3/046

  by electromagnetic means · CPC title

• B43K24/08

  operated by push-buttons · CPC title

• B43K27/00

  Multiple-point writing implements, e.g. multicolour; Combinations of writing implements (B43K29/00 takes precedence; mechanisms for selecting, projecting, retracting or locking writing units B43K24/00; multiple writing devices with pantographic linkages B43L13/12) · CPC title

• B43K24/12 Primary

  operating by means sliding in longitudinally-slotted casings · CPC title