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US 2011/0234500 A1Published application
Keyboard for Hand-Held Devices
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorJason T. Griffin
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Abstract
A hand-held electronic device has a keyboard with a plurality of keys, each key having a substantially flat contact surface extending to the sides of each key. One of the sides of the key is beveled.
Claims20
1-25. (canceled)
A handheld electronic device comprising:
- a keyboard having a first key having a first contact surface extending between opposed first key sides, and between a first key top and a first key bottom, and having a first cross-section between one of the first key sides and the other of the first key sides in which one of the first key sides meets the first contact surface at an obtuse angle;
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- a second key having a second contact surface extending between opposed second key sides, and between a second key top and a second key bottom, and having a second cross-section between one of the second key sides and the other of the second key sides in which one of the second key sides meets the second contact surface substantially at a right angle;
- the first and second keys being oriented such that one of the second key sides is adjacent to one of the first key sides.
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A keyboard comprising:
- a keyboard having a first key having a first contact surface extending between opposed first key sides, and between a first key top and a first key bottom, and having a first cross-section between one of the first key sides and the other of the first key sides in which one of the first key sides meets the first contact surface at an obtuse angle;
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- a second key having a second contact surface extending between opposed second key sides, and between a second key top and a second key bottom, and having a second cross-section between one of the second key sides and the other of the second key sides in which one of the second key sides meets the second contact surface substantially at a right angle;
- the first and second keys being oriented such that one of the second key sides is adjacent to one of the first key sides.
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A keyboard comprising:
- a plurality of first keys each having a first contact surface extending between opposed first key sides, and between a first key top and a first key bottom, and having a first cross-section between one of the first key sides and the other of the first key sides in which one of the first key sides meets the first contact surface at an obtuse angle;
- a plurality of second keys each having a second contact surface extending between opposed second key sides, and between a second key top and a second key bottom, and having a second cross-section between one of the second key sides and the other of the second key sides in which one of the second key sides meets the second contact surface substantially at a right angle;
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- a midline extending along a longitudinal axis of the keyboard, wherein the first and second keys located left of the midline each include a sloping planar contact surface that slopes in a first direction and the first and second keys located right of the midline each include a sloping planar contact surface that slopes in an opposite, second direction;
- wherein the first and second keys are oriented such that one of the second key sides is adjacent to one of the first key sides.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.