System and method for a quiet keyboard key with coated link bar
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPeng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Abstract
A keyboard operatively couplable to an information handling system may include a keyboard chassis with a plurality of physical keyswitch actuation devices at a plurality of key locations. The keyboard may also include a keyboard key operatively coupled to the keyboard chassis at a first key location via a key link bar. The key link bar may include a bent terminal end operatively coupled to the keyboard key via side hourglass hook on the keyboard key. The key link bar includes a noise-reducing coating formed over the key link bar to reduce noise associated with actuation of the keyboard key during actuation by a user except at c-clip interface sections.
Claims20
A keyboard operatively couplable to an information handling system comprising:
- a keyboard chassis with a plurality of physical keyswitch actuation devices at a plurality of key locations;
- a keyboard key operatively coupled to the keyboard chassis at a first key location via a key link bar;
- the key link bar having a bent terminal end operatively coupled to the keyboard key via a side hourglass hook on the underside of the keyboard key;
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- a noise-reducing coating formed over the key link bar to reduce noise associated with actuation of the keyboard key by a user, wherein the noise-reducing coating formed over the bent terminal end of the key link bar is inserted through an opening in the side hourglass hook on the underside of the keyboard key.
A method of manufacturing a keyboard comprising:
- forming a plurality of link bar c-clips to a top surface of a keyboard chassis at a key location;
- forming a keyboard key including a plurality of side hourglass hooks formed at underside edges of the keyboard key;
- forming a key link bar;
- coating the key link bar with a noise-reducing coating;
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- operatively coupling the keyboard key to the keyboard chassis by operatively coupling the key link bar to the plurality of side hourglass hooks formed at edges of the keyboard key including the coating on the key link bar and the ends of the key link bar inserted through apertures in each of the plurality of side hourglass hooks on the underside edges of the keyboard key, and operatively coupling the key link bar to the keyboard chassis via the link bar c-clips.
A keyboard comprising:
- a keyboard key operatively coupled to a keyboard chassis via a key link bar, where the key link bar is operatively coupled to the keyboard key via a plurality of side hourglass hooks formed on an underside of the keyboard key;
- the key link bar is coated with a noise-reducing coating to reduce noise associated with actuation of the keyboard key by a user, wherein the noise-reducing coating formed on ends of the key link bar is inserted through apertures in the side hourglass hooks formed on the underside of the keyboard key;
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- the keyboard chassis having a first key location and including link bar c-clips to operatively couple the key link bar to the keyboard chassis at the first key location;
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- the keyboard key operatively coupled to a physical keyswitch actuation device disposed at the first key location of the keyboard chassis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.