Retractable keyboard
AssigneeASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
InventorWen-Chieh Tseng
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Abstract
A retractable keyboard is described. The retractable keyboard is suitable for a handheld electrical device, and especially to a mobile phone with a personal digital assistant function. The retractable keyboard has a plurality of keyboard blocks coupling to an accommodating base of the handheld electrical device. Each of the keyboard blocks has parts of a complete keyboard. The expanded keyboard blocks form a whole keyboard having the same function and similar appearance dimensions of the complete keyboard, allowing convenient information key-in and control of the handheld electrical device. Only parts of the retractable keyboard are exposed for performing basic functions of the handheld electrical device when the retractable keyboard is retracted into the accommodating base.
Claims20
A retractable keyboard applied to a handheld electrical device with an accommodating component, comprising:
- a plurality of keyboard blocks stored in the accommodating component, each of the keyboard blocks comprising a part of a complete keyboard and the keyboard blocks cooperatively forming the complete keyboard.
A handheld electrical device with a retractable keyboard, the handheld electrical device comprising:
- a display;
- a hinge;
- an accommodating base coupling to the display by the hinge to support the display at a predetermined angle by rotating the display along the hinge;
- and
- a retractable keyboard, comprising:
- a plurality of keyboard blocks stored in the accommodating component, each of the keyboard blocks comprising parts of a complete keyboard and the keyboard blocks cooperatively forming the complete keyboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.