Key device and keyboard device
AssigneeChicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorPo-Hsin Li
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Abstract
A key device includes a substrate, a key cap and a restoring member. The substrate includes a top surface and two pivot seats protruding on the top surface. The pivot seats are spaced from each other. Each pivot seat has an eave portion laterally extending from a top thereof. The eave portion has a bottom edge. The key cap is above the top surface. The key cap includes a side edge and two extending arms extending from the side edge. An end of each extending arm has a pivoting portion. The pivoting portions pivotally abut against the bottom edges of the eave portions respectively without contacting the top surface of the substrate. The restoring member is between the substrate and the key cap and abuts against a bottom of the key cap.
Claims18
A key device, comprising:
- a substrate comprising a top surface and two pivot seats protruding on the top surface, wherein the pivot seats are spaced from each other, each of the pivot seats has an eave portion laterally extending from a top thereof, and the eave portions each comprise a bottom edge;
- a key cap disposed above the top surface, wherein the key cap comprises a side edge and two extending arms extending from the side edge, an end of each of the extending arms has a pivoting portion, and the pivoting portions pivotally abut against the bottom edges of the eave portions respectively without contacting the top surface;
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- a restoring member disposed between the substrate and the key cap and abutting against a bottom of the key cap;
- wherein the key cap further comprises a support member extending from the side edge, the support member is disposed between the two extending arms, the support member comprises at least one convex portion, and the convex portion is against the top surface of the substrate.
A keyboard device, comprising:
- a plurality of key devices, each of the key devices comprising:
- a substrate comprising a top surface and two pivot seats protruding on the top surface, wherein the pivot seats are spaced from each other, each of the pivot seats has an eave portion laterally extending from a top thereof, the eave portions each comprises a bottom edge;
- a key cap disposed above the top surface, wherein the key cap comprises a side edge and two extending arms extending from the side edge, an end of each of the extending arms has a pivoting portion, and the pivoting portions pivotally abut against the bottom edges of the eave portions respectively without contacting the top surface;
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- a restoring member disposed between the substrate and the key cap and abutting against a bottom of the key cap;
- wherein the key cap further comprises a support member extending from the side edge, the support member is disposed between the two extending arms, the support member comprises at least one convex portion, and the convex portion is against the top surface of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.