As one can see in the images above, the receiver from this mouse is pretty big, unlike most receivers seen today, which says a lot about when this mouse was made. The backside of the mouse has been designed in such a way that as soon as the receiver is plugged back into the mouse, it would switch off the mouse, reducing its power consumption. This feature also enables the user to switch it on as soon as the receiver is removed from the mouse. The horizontal partition seen in the top side view of the mouse is the battery cover. This is the panel removed when there is a requirement to change the battery of the mouse.
1. Analysis:
Multi-Component Product
Logitech Mouse, before disassembly
This is the mouse fully disassembled. In general, there are two types of parts. The “casing” parts are made of plastic and the electronics parts that give the mouse its functionality. There are also two parts that could potentially fall into either category, the mouse buttons cover and the mouse scroll wheel. Both these parts interface the casing and the electronic systems. The assembly of this product is a fairly straight forward snap-in design with a few screws.
There are two main body panels that house all of the components. These two “shell” pieces have various grooves and cutouts to accommodate the electronic components within, as well as various tabs to connect themselves together. They were snapped together for ease of access and to lower costs compared to other methods like using screws. text and edit me. It's easy.
These auxiliary panels cover the top of the main panels. The top panel covers the batteries, and the mouse button covers the electronic buttons. They are held in place snapping into each other and the main body panel.
Before the shell pieces are snapped on, the electronic circuit needs to be attached to the bottom of the main body panel as well as along the wires connecting peripheral electrical components.
Normal industry-standard screws were used to connect the main body pieces together.
Receiver switch was snapped into the switch case so it would be exposed out of the bottom panel.
The scroll wheel component snaps into a part of the top main body panel. This component translates the mechanical rotary motion into an electrical signal for the circuit.
The mouse feet were glued to the bottom of the mouse at each corner to allow the mouse to slide freely on any surface.
The switch case was screwed into the bottom main body panel to make sure all of the switch components stayed where they were supposed to be.
The torsion springs were installed into the scroll wheel compartment on either side of the wheel to provide resistance so the wheel wouldn’t be spinning without user input.
This part is one of two parts: the receiver and the receiver casing; this part isn’t assembled aside from the metal soldering done at the factory.
The receiver casing (F14) snaps into the receiver cap (F15) around the receiver body to protect it from external damage.