Recessed keycaps
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorLuis C Armendariz
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Abstract
Example implementations relate to recessed keycaps. In an example, a recessed keycap includes a keyboard frame including recesses that extend at least partially through respective internal faces of the keyboard frame and a keycap including protrusions, where each protrusion of the protrusions is disposed at least partially within and in contact with a respective recess of the recesses to movably couple the keycap to the keyboard frame.
Claims13
A recessed keycap, comprising:
- a keyboard frame including recesses that extend:
- partially through respective internal side faces of the keyboard frame;
- and entirely through a height of a bottom internal face of the keyboard frame;
- and
- a keycap including protrusions, wherein each protrusion of the protrusions is disposed at least partially within and in contact with a respective recess of the recesses such that the keycap is movably coupled to the keyboard frame without intervening elements between the keycap protrusions and the respective internal side faces of the keyboard frame.
A keyboard membrane including a recessed keycap, wherein the recessed keycap comprises:
- a keyboard frame including recesses, wherein the recesses extend:
- at least partially through respective internal side faces of the keyboard frame;
- and
- entirely through a height of a bottom internal face of the keyboard frame;
- a keycap having protrusions, wherein each protrusion of the protrusions is disposed at least partially within and in contact with a respective recess of the recesses such that the keycap is movably coupled to the keyboard frame without intervening elements between the keycap protrusions and the respective internal side faces of and the keyboard frame;
- and
- a keycap guide to guide the keycap by contacting the keycap.
A method of manufacture of a recessed keycap, comprising:
- providing a keyboard frame including recesses that extend:
- at least partially through respective internal side faces of the keyboard frame;
- and entirely through a height of a bottom internal face of the keyboard frame;
- providing a keycap including protrusions extending outwardly from a body of the keycap;
- and
- positioning each protrusion of the protrusions at least partially within and in contact with a respective recess of the recesses to movably couple the keycap to the keyboard frame without intervening elements between the keycap protrusions and the respective internal side faces of the keyboard frame and form a recessed keycap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.