Industrial joystick with USB interface

Metallux’ joystick MJ-3K is an industrial joystick now available with USB interface.

Established analogue and digital output signals of this hermetically sealed analogue foil sensor MetaPot and the - quasi with no abrasion – conductive plastic potentiometer elements and the conductive plastic digital elements are being made USB compliant. The electronic contains a stabilising power supply unit, an adequate processor and a standardised USB connector. Driver and documentation are included in order to provide easy installation.

Example of application

In a 3-D measuring machine pre-positioning of the measuring cameras is done via one 2-axis and a 1-axis analogue joystick. These joysticks have additional 2 directional contacts for plausibility checks. In its lever the joystick has got an additional switch which operates the programming of a selected position.

The 2 joysticks that are used in this application generate 3 analogue and 8 digital output signals. They are converted into USB data signals which is the input for the industrial PC.

Metallux joystick products

Metallux offers a wide range of standard 1-, 2- and 3-axis joysticks – analogue and digital (incl. digital gray code) with several switch options and also mechanical notching.