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US 10,699,857 B2Granted
Electrical connection to keycap
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAyeshwarya B. Mahajan, Sukanya Sundaresan
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Abstract
There is disclosed in an example a key having a tactile element; and a flexible and conductive external element disposed over the tactile element. There is also disclosed an example method of manufacturing the key, and an electronic device comprising a plurality of active keys, including at least one of the key.
Claims25
A key comprising:
- a structural dome member;
- and
- flexible and conductive external element disposed over and wrapped around the structural dome member.
A method of manufacturing a keyboard, comprising:
- preparing a flexible, conductive external element;
- wrapping the conductive external element around a key dome;
- and
- securely affixing the conductive external element to the key dome.
1 more element
An electronic device, comprising:
- a plurality of active keys, the active keys comprising an active keycap element comprising:
- an electrically-driven display screen;
- a structural dome member;
- and
- a flexible and conductive wraparound external element disposed over and around the structural dome member.
2 more elements
A tactile computer keyboard, comprising:
- a plurality of adaptive keys, the adaptive keys comprising display means on a visible surface of the adaptive keys, and further comprising a conductive structural dome and an externally-attached conductive wrap-around element to provide power and data to the display means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.