Electronic apparatus having a point stick in a keyboard
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsMasahiro Kitamura, Satoshi Douzono, Kazutoshi Sugisawa
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a keyboard having a support plate, a set of keytops configured to be supported on an upper face side of the support plate to be vertically movable, a pointing stick configured to be installed on the upper face side of the support plate and to be surrounded by the set of keytops, a bracket member installed on the lower face side of the support plate and to support the pointing stick, and a screw, which is located in a space between the set of keytops, secures the bracket member to the support plate, in which a head or a tip of the screw projects more upward than the upper face of the support plate.
Claims11
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a keyboard having a support plate;
- a plurality of keytops located on an upper face side of said support plate;
- a pointing stick, located on said upper face side of said support plate, is surrounded by said plurality of keytops;
- a bracket member having a pair of attachment holes, located on a lower face side of said support plate, supports said pointing stick, wherein said bracket member includes an engagement part for engaging with an engaged part formed in said support plate, wherein said pair of attachment holes is located more forward than said engagement part;
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- a pair of screws, each located in a space between said plurality of keytops without encroaching on a footprint of any of said keytops, secures said bracket member to said support plat.
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a keyboard having a support plate;
- a plurality of keytops located on an upper face side of said support plate;
- a pointing stick, located on said upper face side of said support plate, is surrounded by said plurality of keytops;
- a pair of screws, arranged in a space between said plurality of keytops, secures said bracket member to said support plate, wherein a tip of said screw projects more upward than said upper face of said support plate;
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- a bracket member, located on a lower face side of said support plate, supports said pointing stick, wherein said bracket member includes a pair of attachment holes into which said pair of screws are attached, and an engagement part that comes into engagement with an engaged part formed in said support plate, wherein said bracket member includes a stress dispersion structure part that disperses a stress applied to said engagement part in operation of said pointing stick by reducing strength of a position located closer to said engagement part than to said attachment holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.