Foldable keyboard with point stick
AssigneeDarfon Electronics Corp.
InventorMao-Sung Huang
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a foldable keyboard, and more particularly, to a foldable keyboard adapted for a point stick and/or at least one hot key. Two or more keypad portions are hingably connected by a connection board on which a point stick or at least one hot key is disposed. When the keyboard is in a deployed configuration, the keypad portions slide along the keyboard plane to combine with the point stick or the hot keys so that a complete keyboard is formed. The connection board of the present invention may further include a circuit board to be electrically connected with each key and the point stick or the hot keys in order to receive and decode the signals from each key and the point stick or the hot keys.
Claims20
A foldable keyboard comprising:
- a first keypad portion having a first subset of keys;
- a second keypad portion having a second subset of keys;
- a connection pad having a first side and a second side, the first side and the second side being respectively connected to the first keypad portion and the second keypad portion;
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- a point stick disposed on the connection pad;
- wherein the keyboard selectively enters an in-use state and a folded state as the first keypad portion and the second keypad portion are rotated with respect to the connection pad, and, as the keyboard is in the in-use state, the first and second keypad portions and the connection pad are substantially coplanar with each other, and, as the keyboard is in the folded state, the first keypad portion overlaps with the second keypad portion.
A foldable keyboard comprising:
- a first keypad portion having a first subset of keys;
- a second keypad portion having a second subset of keys;
- a connection pad having a first side and a second side, the first side and the second side being respectively connected to the first keypad portion and the second keypad portion;
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- a hot key disposed on the connection pad;
- wherein the keyboard selectively enters an in-use state and a folded state as the first keypad portion and the second keypad portion are rotated with respect to the connection pad, and, as the keyboard is in the in-use state, the first, second keypad portions and the connection pad are substantially coplanar with each other, and, as the keyboard is in the folded state, the first keypad portion overlaps with the second keypad portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.