| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 | Keycaps with reduced thickness | US15268518 | 2016-09-16 | US10002727B2 | 2018-06-19 | Hilbert T. Kwan; Jeffrey L. Yen; Craig C. Leong; James J. Niu; Keith J. Hendren; Yanyang Yuan; Feng Zhao; Wanshan Li; Derrick T. Jue; Ze Hong |
| An illuminated metal keycap having a legend diffuser material that may diffuse light through a legend opened in a background layer. The background layer may be opaque and the legend may be transparent. The metal keycap is adhered to a scissor mechanism positioned above electrical switch circuitry. Included within, below, or adjacent to the scissor mechanism may be one or more light sources positioned to emit light through the metal keycap, around the perimeter of the metal keycap, and/or through the background layer. | ||||||
| 162 | Laser processing of fabric for electronic devices | US14844257 | 2015-09-03 | US09997305B2 | 2018-06-12 | Paul X. Wang; Joel N. Ruscher; Christopher T. Lebedeff; Sean Murphy; Melody Kuna |
| An electronic device such as a cover for a portable device or other electronic equipment may have circuitry mounted in a housing. The housing may be formed from layers of material such as fabric and polymer layers. The circuitry of the electronic device may include components mounted on a printed circuit. The components may include movable components such as keys in a keyboard. A fabric layer may overlap the keys. Border regions of the fabric layer that surround each key may be characterized by a stiffness. To ensure that the keys or other movable components in the device exhibit satisfactory stiffness levels, the keys can be tested and selected border regions or other fabric layer portions may be laser ablated or otherwise processed to locally reduce fabric layer stiffness. | ||||||
| 163 | KEY AND KEYBOARD DEVICE | US15724822 | 2017-10-04 | US20180102225A1 | 2018-04-12 | Li-Sheng HSIAO |
| A key is disclosed herein. The key is disposed on a baseplate of a keyboard device, and comprises a sheet metal keycap and a supporting structure. The sheet metal keycap includes a body portion and two bending portions. The two bending portions are formed by extending downward from a side of two punching holes on the body portion, respectively. The supporting structure is disposed between the sheet metal keycap and the baseplate. Two sides of the supporting structure are pivotally connected to the bending portions and the baseplate, respectively. The key is thinner due to sheet metal keycap which is integratedly formed. A keyboard device with a plurality keys is also provided herein. | ||||||
| 164 | KEYBOARD KEY STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A KEYCAP OF A KEYBOARD KEY | US15053060 | 2016-02-25 | US20170076881A1 | 2017-03-16 | CHE-HUI TSAI; TE-WEI LI; CHIEH-LIANG HSIAO; JEN-CHIEH HUANG |
| A keyboard key structure includes a plurality of keycaps. Each keycap has a keycap body and an outward layer. The keycap body has an appearance with a first color. The outward layer has an appearance with a second color different from the first color. The outward layer is formed above the keycap body. The outward layer is formed with an engraving portion. The first color is exposed in the engraving portion. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing a keycap of a keyboard key. | ||||||
| 165 | LOW-TRAVEL KEY MECHANISMS USING BUTTERFLY HINGES | US15342715 | 2016-11-03 | US20170076880A1 | 2017-03-16 | James J. Niu; Keith J. Hendren; Craig C. Leong; Thomas W. Wilson, JR.; Bruce E. Berg; John M. Brock |
| A key mechanism including one or more butterfly hinges. Each butterfly hinge may include a double wing design operative to move between a depressed position and non-depressed position. Hinged coupling mechanisms couple respective arms of the wings together. Additionally or alternatively, a key mechanism can include one or more half-butterfly hinges. Each half-butterfly hinge includes a double wing design operative to move between a depressed position and non-depressed position. A hinged coupling mechanism couples one set of corresponding arms of the wings together, while the other set of corresponding arms are not coupled together. | ||||||
| 166 | FILM-BASED HOUSING AND SWITCH FOR KEYBOARD ASSEMBLY | US15233877 | 2016-08-10 | US20170069444A1 | 2017-03-09 | Paul X. Wang; Ryan P. Brooks; Zheng Gao |
| A switch assembly includes a switch body defining a switch opening, a dome switch positioned in the switch opening, a film attached to a surface of the switch body and covering the switch opening, and a protrusion extending from the film in an area above the switch opening. The protrusion is configured to transfer a force from a keycap of a key to the dome switch when the keycap is depressed. The dome switch may include an upper dome below the film and a lower dome below the upper dome. | ||||||
| 167 | KEYCAPS WITH REDUCED THICKNESS | US15268518 | 2016-09-16 | US20170004939A1 | 2017-01-05 | Hilbert T. Kwan; Jeffrey L. Yen; Craig C. Leong; James J. Niu; Keith J. Hendren; Yanyang Yuan; Feng Zhao; Wanshan Li; Derrick T. Jue; Ze Hong |
| An illuminated metal keycap having a legend diffuser material that may diffuse light through a legend opened in a background layer. The background layer may be opaque and the legend may be transparent. The metal keycap is adhered to a scissor mechanism positioned above electrical switch circuitry. Included within, below, or adjacent to the scissor mechanism may be one or more light sources positioned to emit light through the metal keycap, around the perimeter of the metal keycap, and/or through the background layer. | ||||||
| 168 | KEYBOARD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | US15154768 | 2016-05-13 | US20160351360A1 | 2016-12-01 | Eric A. Knopf; Matthew P. Casebolt; Craig C. Leong; Robert Y. Cao; Bradford J. Zercoe; Dinesh C. Mathew; Zheng Gao; Ryan P. Brooks; Paul X. Wang |
| An input mechanism is disclosed. The input mechanism includes a dome support structure defining an opening that extends through the dome support structure, a collapsible dome positioned in the opening and engaged with the dome support structure, and a cover member coupled to the dome support structure and covering the collapsible dome, thereby retaining the collapsible dome within the opening of the dome support structure. | ||||||
| 169 | LASER-MARKED FABRIC | US14933355 | 2015-11-05 | US20160168779A1 | 2016-06-16 | Peter N. Russell-Clarke; Michael S. Nashner; Robert S. Murphy |
| Systems and techniques for laser-marking a fabric material. Some implementations may be directed to a fabric component having a surface dyed a first color using a pigment. The surface may be irradiated using a laser to form a lightened region. In some cases, the lightened region has a second color that is lighter than the first color. In some cases, the lightened region has fibers of the nylon fabric component that are fused to form a partially specular surface due to the laser irradiation. In some cases, the lightened region has fibers of the fabric component that are fused to form a partially specular surface. The fabric material may form a fabric component of a device or product. In some cases, the fabric forms a component of a keyboard or user-input device. | ||||||
| 170 | Keyboard illumination | US12839281 | 2010-07-19 | US09275810B2 | 2016-03-01 | Aleksandar Pance; Brett Bilbrey |
| Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein relate to backlit visual display elements. One embodiment may take the form a keyboard including at least one keycap, a dome switch layer underlying the keycap, and an encapsulation layer underlying the dome switch layer. The encapsulation layer may include a first printed circuit layer configured to transmit a signal corresponding to the at least one keycap. The keyboard may further include a light emissive layer underlying the encapsulation layer. The light emissive layer may include at least one emissive area corresponding to the at least one keycap and a second printed circuit layer configured to supply a voltage to the at least one emissive area. | ||||||
| 171 | Keyboard backlight features for a portable computer | US13492801 | 2012-06-08 | US08963841B2 | 2015-02-24 | Ryan P. Brooks; Robert S. Murphy; John M. Brock; Christiaan A. Ligtenberg; Charles A. Schwalbach |
| The present application describes various embodiments of systems and methods for internal components for portable computing devices relating to keyboard components and keyboard backlighting. In one embodiment, a keyboard module can include a rectangular light guide panel and a driver board including discrete light sources mounted on the driver board where the driver board is disposed along one edge of the light guide panel and light emitted for the discrete light sources is captured by the light guide panel and distributed to predetermined locations. | ||||||
| 172 | Side cured light-transmissive display system | US13711349 | 2012-12-11 | US08946621B2 | 2015-02-03 | John T. Payne |
| An invisible, light-transmissive display system with a light resistant material is provided. The light resistant material has a first side and a second side. Substantially invisible holes penetrate between the first surface and the second surface in a predetermined light-transmissive display pattern. The second surface is exposed to a side curing light that is substantially parallel to the second surface at the invisible holes thereadjacent. A light-conducting curable filler is applied into the invisible holes from the first surface. Surfaces of the light-conducting curable filler are cured in the invisible holes at the second surface with the side curing light. The remaining curable filler in the invisible holes is cured. | ||||||
| 173 | Switch device | US13290756 | 2011-11-07 | US08921721B2 | 2014-12-30 | Daisuke Senzaki; Hiromitsu Mizuno; Shinichi Koga; Kota Nishida; Shinya Hattori; Katsuharu Tachibana; Akira Ogino |
| A switch device includes a lid arranged between a tactile switch, which is arranged on a substrate, and an operation button, which is coupled to a retainer so that the operation button can be pushed. The lid includes an opening at a location corresponding to the tactile switch. A lower surface of the elastic member is coupled to a surface of the lid. The operation button, when pushed, activates the tactile switch with an elastic member. The operation body, when released from the pushed state, deactivates the tactile switch as a reaction force of the elastic member returns the operation button to an initial position. The switch device includes a projection that supports the operation button. The projection is formed on an upper surface of the elastic member at a location corresponding to the surface of the lid. | ||||||
| 174 | Switch module | US13500981 | 2010-10-28 | US08742273B2 | 2014-06-03 | Hitoshi Uchida; Manabu Ohrui; Takahisa Akatsuka |
| A switch module is provided with a circuit substrate that has a metal dome sheet mounted on a surface thereof which is arranged in opposition to a key substrate, a light guiding sheet that is arranged between the key substrate and the circuit substrate, an LED, and a reflector that makes the light emitted from the LED incident into the light guiding sheet from an end thereof, wherein key parts are able to be illuminated by the switch module. At an inner side of the reflector in the light guiding sheet, there is formed a printed pattern of white ink for scattering light on an optical path of the light which transmits through a first surface from the vicinity of an edge portion of the reflector. | ||||||
| 175 | Push switch and method for manufacturing the same | US13206905 | 2011-08-10 | US08729413B2 | 2014-05-20 | Yusuke Nakaoka; Masatsugu Takeuchi |
| A push switch includes a case having a recess portion, a first fixed contact placed in the recess portion, and a second fixed contact placed in the recess portion. Furthermore, the push switch includes a dome-shaped movable contact placed in the recess portion and having a center portion facing the first fixed contact with a space therebetween, a protective sheet for covering the recess portion, and a protrusion member fixed to the protective sheet by welding at a convex side of the center portion of the movable contact. The first fixed contact and the second fixed contact are provided at positions that are brought into contact with the movable contact when the movable contact is elastically reversed. | ||||||
| 176 | KEYBOARD BACKLIGHT FEATURES FOR A PORTABLE COMPUTER | US13492801 | 2012-06-08 | US20130328785A1 | 2013-12-12 | Ryan P. Brooks; Robert S. Murphy; John M. Brock; Christiaan A. Ligtenberg; Charles A. Schwalbach |
| The present application describes various embodiments of systems and methods for internal components for portable computing devices relating to keyboard components and keyboard backlighting. In one embodiment, a keyboard module can include a rectangular light guide panel and a driver board including discrete light sources mounted on the driver board where the driver board is disposed along one edge of the light guide panel and light emitted for the discrete light sources is captured by the light guide panel and distributed to predetermined locations. | ||||||
| 177 | Integral housing and user interface | US12054828 | 2008-03-25 | US08280459B2 | 2012-10-02 | Jason P Wojack; Joseph L Allore; Gary R Weiss |
| A continuous housing (100) and integral user interface (101) is disclosed. The housing comprising a continuous housing having a cavity (117) to receive an electrical component and to surround the component on a plurality of sides. The housing further comprises, an integral user interface portion incorporated into a continuous housing portion. | ||||||
| 178 | ILLUMINATED COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE | US12910798 | 2010-10-23 | US20120098751A1 | 2012-04-26 | YUNG-LUNG LIU |
| An illuminated computer input device includes a microprocessor; a touch pad module comprising a flexible, optically transmissive touch pad and a touch pad controller electrically interconnecting the touch pad and the microprocessor; a virtual keys sheet functioning as a flexible, rectangular, optically transmissive characters printing membrane and disposed under the touch pad; and a FOLED module comprising a FOLED sheet disposed under the virtual keys sheet, and a light controller electrically interconnecting the FOLED sheet and the microprocessor for adjusting brightness of the FOLED sheet. | ||||||
| 179 | PUSH SWITCH AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | US13206905 | 2011-08-10 | US20120055773A1 | 2012-03-08 | Yusuke NAKAOKA; Masatsugu TAKEUCHI |
| A push switch includes a case having a recess portion, a first fixed contact placed in the recess portion, and a second fixed contact placed in the recess portion. Furthermore, the push switch includes a dome-shaped movable contact placed in the recess portion and having a center portion facing the first fixed contact with a space therebetween, a protective sheet for covering the recess portion, and a protrusion member fixed to the protective sheet by welding at a convex side of the center portion of the movable contact. The first fixed contact and the second fixed contact are provided at positions that are brought into contact with the movable contact when the movable contact is elastically reversed. | ||||||
| 180 | CONTROL ELEMENT CAP AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID CONTROL ELEMENT CAP | US13140121 | 2009-12-03 | US20110266123A1 | 2011-11-03 | Martin Jeitner |
| The invention relates to a control element cap. Such control element caps are used, for example, for switches and/or keys in motor vehicles. In the known control element caps, the representation of a symbol is relatively diffuse and thus not always recognizable with a sufficient degree of reliability. Therefore, a control element cap is to be provided in which the sharpness, and thus the clearness of the symbol is improved; this is accomplished by a transparent carrier plate being disposed between a foil and a display, luminous or projection surface.The invention further relates to a manufacturing process associated therewith. | ||||||
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