Abstract: A pressure sensitive computer mouse that includes a hollow computer mouse housing and cursor moving apparatus. The hollow computer mouse housing has a bottom with a circular throughbore and an inner surface. And, the cursor moving apparatus is responsive to a force of a specific magnitude and of a specific direction that is applied to the hollow housing and moves the computer cursor in the specific direction of which the force is applied to the hollow housing at a specific speed which is directly proportional to, or at least a function of, the specific magnitude of the force being applied to the hollow computer mouse housing without moving the hollow computer mouse housing relative to a surface on which the bottom of the hollow computer mouse housing is in contact therewith.

Abstract: A combination axial and surface mounted cylindrically-shaped package containing at least one electronic component and being surface mountable to a printed circuit board with electrical lands by the use of conventional axial component through hole mounting machinery that includes a hollow, electrically-insulated, and generally circular-cylindrically-shaped housing, at least one electronic component that is contained in the hollow, electrically-insulated, and generally circular-cylindrically-shaped housing, a pair of electrically-conductive axial leads that are in electrical communication with the at least one electronic component, and at least one circumferentially-disposed, laterally-oriented, and electrically-conductive ring also in electrical communication with the at least one electronic component.

Abstract: A method for installing an axial multiple connection component, for connecting to a circuit board, comprising a shell, the shell substantially cylindrical, having two opposite ends. Conducting leads extend from the opposite ends along the axis, for providing two isolated connections to other components on the circuit board. At least one contact ring encircles the shell with the axis at the center of the contact ring, and provides another connection to the other components on the circuit board. The conducting leads are inserted into lead holes on the circuit board, and the contact ring rests against a metallically plated through ring hole. The component is either manually solder utilizing a solder melting tool or alternatively wave soldered onto the circuit board, with the solder wicking up the plated through ring hole to the contact ring to make a good electrical contact therebetween.