Multi-functional touch keyboard having touch sensor
AssigneeBld Co., Ltd.
InventorsEuy Sub Hyun, Tae Hoo Jung
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a multi-functional touch keyboard having a touch sensor, including: a key cap unit 110; a driving circuit unit (not shown); a support 120; a touch pad 130 composed of touch sensors respectively formed on the upper ends of multiple key caps 111 grouped in a specific shape; a left click key 141 and a right click key 142 formed adjacent to both ends of the touch pad 130; and a control unit (not shown) which moves a cursor in conjunction with a touch of the touch pad 130 and performs a click function by means of pressing of the click key, in which the multi-functional touch keyboard performs a touch pad function as a graphic controller while performing basic functions as a keyboard.
Claims2
A multi-functional touch keyboard having a touch sensor, comprising:
- a key cap unit with a character key cap, a function key cap, a numeric key cap, a special key cap, and a direction key cap;
- a driving circuit unit constituted by a contact point and a membrane switch each coupled to a lower end of a corresponding key cap of the key cap unit;
- a support supporting the membrane switch;
- a touch pad constituted by touch sensors formed on upper ends of the multiple key caps groped in a specific shape, respectively;
- a left click key and a right click key formed adjacent to both ends of the touch pad;
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- a control unit moving a cursor in conjunction with a touch of the touch pad and performing a click function by pressing the click keys,
- wherein the multi-functional touch keyboard performs a touch pad function as a graphic controller while performing basic functions as a keyboard,
- wherein the touch pad is formed by grouping up to the character key caps in a reverse triangular form based on a space key cap,
- wherein the click key is formed on each of both ends of the space key cap,
- wherein the touch sensor is formed on each of upper ends of the space key cap, six key caps on a lower line of the character key cap, seven key caps of an intermediate line, and eight key caps of an upper line,
- wherein the key cap unit and the touch pad are disposed at a touch pad of a laptop computer or a lower palm rest location,
- wherein a partition having a predetermined height is formed on an upper periphery of the corresponding key cap constituting an outline of the touch pad to separate a touch area of the touch pad, and
- wherein a horizontal scroll is performed by horizontally touching a touch pad area on an upper end surface of the space key cap in conjunction with double strokes of the right click key, a vertical scroll is performed by vertically touching the touch pad area except for the space key cap, a left click and double clicks are performed by a stroke and double strokes of the left click key, and a right click is performed by a stroke of the right click key.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.