Keyboard device and electronic apparatus
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorRiku Mitsui
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Abstract
A keyboard device includes a light source and a plurality of keycaps that is capable of emitting light with light emitted from the light source. The keyboard device includes a base plate configured to support the keycaps on a top surface side and a membrane sheet that has a top contact sheet, a bottom contact sheet, and a spacer sheet interposed between the top contact sheet and the bottom contact sheet, and that is laminated on a top surface of the base plate, in which the top contact sheet, the bottom contact sheet, and the spacer sheet have light transmittance, a light reflecting layer is provided on a top surface of the top contact sheet, and the membrane sheet has a part of at least one sheet of the top contact sheet, the bottom contact sheet, and the spacer sheet disposed below the keycaps.
Claims17
A keyboard device comprising:
- a light source and a plurality of keycaps that is capable of emitting light emitted from the light source;
- a base plate configured to support the keycaps on a top surface side;
- and
- a membrane sheet that has a top contact sheet, a bottom contact sheet, and a spacer sheet interposed between the top contact sheet and the bottom contact sheet, and that is laminated on a top surface of the base plate,
- wherein the top contact sheet, the bottom contact sheet, and the spacer sheet have light transmittance,
- a light reflecting layer is provided on a top surface of the top contact sheet, and
- the membrane sheet has a part of at least one sheet of the top contact sheet, the bottom contact sheet, and the spacer sheet disposed below the keycaps, and a light diffusion pattern on a surface of the part disposed below the keycaps.
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a chassis;
- and
- a keyboard device including a light source and a plurality of keycaps that is capable of emitting light with light emitted from the light source and facing a top surface of the chassis,
- wherein the keyboard device includes
- a base plate configured to support the keycaps on a top surface side, and
- a membrane sheet that has a top contact sheet, a bottom contact sheet, and a spacer sheet interposed between the top contact sheet and the bottom contact sheet, and that is laminated on a top surface of the base plate,
- the top contact sheet, the bottom contact sheet, and the spacer sheet have light transmittance,
- a light reflecting layer is provided on a top surface of the top contact sheet, and
- the membrane sheet has a part of at least one sheet of the top contact sheet, the bottom contact sheet, and the spacer sheet disposed below the keycaps, and a light diffusion pattern on a surface of the part disposed below the keycaps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.