The present disclosure relates to an auxiliary device, and more particularly, to a portable and multi-purpose auxiliary device, which can prevent hands from directly touching the buttons that need to be pressed when operating. The auxiliary device provide by the present disclosure may also have a capacitive or resistive LCD monitor, or compatible with the electronic credit card signature.
Since the outbreak of SARS (atypical pneumonia) arose in Guangzhou, mainland China in 2002, which caused a near worldwide infection, many people have paid extra attention to public health safety. In addition, after experiencing the recent spread of Covid-19 as a pandemic all over the world, medical experts vigorously advocated and promoted for wearing a mask once one has fever or illness in order to avoid spreading germs to others. As for healthy people, the medical experts recommended to wash hands frequently, spray alcohol or dry hands, etc., to maintain cleanliness and hygiene to avoid contact with germs (referring to infectious bacteria, molds, fungi, viruses, etc., hereinafter referred to as germs), thus preventing from infections.
However, it could be fairly difficult to maintain personal cleanliness and hygiene in some public places. For example, when one takes an elevator and press a button for selecting a destined floor, or presses buttons to enter the password to withdraw cash from an ATM, it is easy to come into contact with the germs that have been attached to the buttons. Without a timely hand wash or spraying with alcohol, it is easy to get infected by touching one's mouth, nose and eyes through one's hands.
Although a conventional auxiliary device has been developed on the market that forbid hands from directly touching buttons, the functionality thereof is fairly monotonous, and has no other usage except for the auxiliary pressing function. Aiming at the popularity of 3C portable products, how to provide functions such as portability and easy access to 3C products for the auxiliary device so that versatility can be reached is an issue to be solved when anti-pandemic products come to mind. The inventor of this disclosure has actively researched how to provide the auxiliary device with multiple usages for preventing the pandemic, so as to increase the frequency of use.
Therefore, the main objective of the present disclosure is to provide a multi-purpose auxiliary device, which is convenient to carry and easy to use, and can provide alternative tools for various key operations. In addition, the present disclosure also allows for operating an LCD monitor in a capacitive or resistive manner, or allows for the use of an electronic credit card signature, thus providing versatility and increasing frequency of use for the auxiliary device, and preventing effects of dirt or germs on hands.
To reach the above objective, the present disclosure provides a multi-purpose auxiliary device that comprises a first body, a second body, and a round head kit. The first body has a holding portion and a docking portion, and a cone-shaped center pillar protrudes outwardly from a surface of the docking portion, and a head of the center pillar has a semi-spherical enlarged portion for pressing objects. The second body has an opening, and the second body has accommodating space inside that is connected to the opening for accommodating the center pillar, wherein the periphery of the opening extends inwardly with a fastener, to be combined with the first body. The round head kit has sleeve opening that can be sleeved on the semi-spherical enlarged portion of the first body. Configurations of the semi-spherical enlarged portion of the first body is provided for a plurality types of key operations, and when the round head kit is sleeved on the enlarged portion of the center pillar of the first body, the first body serves as a capacitive stylus for operating an LCD monitor; and when the round head kit is not sleeved on the enlarged portion of the center pillar of the first body, the first body serves as a resistive stylus for operating the LCD monitor, or serves as an electronic credit card signature by using an edge of the holding portion, thus providing versatility and frequency of use for the auxiliary device, and preventing effects of dirt or germs on hands.
Accordingly, an embodiment is characterized in that a side wall of the center pillar of the first body is provided with a first convex ring; the fastener of the second body has barb slope, two ends of the barb slope respectively abut between a lower edge of the first convex ring on the side wall of the center pillar of the first body and a docking surface of the center pillar, so as to be combined with the first body.
Accordingly, an embodiment is characterized in that a second convex ring is provided on a side wall of the center pillar of the first body, a partial surface of an inner edge of the sleeve opening of the round head kit extends zigzag toward the center of the sleeve opening to form a containing groove for containing a second convex ring of the first body, so as to be combined with the first body.
Accordingly, an embodiment is characterized in that, the second body is provided with a perforation, to function as a sling for the auxiliary device to be hung and worn or to be used in tandem with a key ring.
To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the following briefly introduces the accompanying drawings for describing the embodiments. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description merely show some embodiments of the present invention, and a person skilled in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
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The second body 3 is also made of carbon fiber, and its outline is mostly similar to the aforementioned first body 2 and has an opening 31. The second body 3 has an accommodating space 32 inside, which is connected to the opening 31 for accommodating the center pillar 23 (see
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To summarize, the multi-purpose auxiliary device of the present disclosure does meet the requirements of patentable elements, and is filed in accordance with Patent Act. However, the above is only preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, and is not meant to be used to limit the claimed scope of the present disclosure. Hence, all the equivalent changes and modifications of the shape, structure, characteristics, and spirit based on claims of the present disclosure shall fall in the scope of the claims of the present disclosure.
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