Keyboard with tablet holder
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsAtsushi SHIRATA, Hiroshi TAMAKI, Tamio NISHINO
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Abstract
An apparatus for holding a touch screen device, the apparatus includes an elongated recess sized to receive a side edge of the touch screen device, a least one U-shaped resilient member disposed in the elongated recess, a first elastomer pad positioned on the at least one U-shaped resilient member, the first elastomer pad including a first touch screen device engaging surface, and in which the at least one U-shaped member includes at least one slot defining a first resilient portion that abuts the first elastomer pad.
Claims20
An apparatus for holding a touch screen device, the apparatus comprising:
- an elongated recess sized to receive a side edge of the touch screen device;
- at least one U-shaped resilient member disposed in the elongated recess;
- and
- a first elastomer pad positioned on the at least one U-shaped resilient member, the first elastomer pad including a first touch screen device engaging surface, wherein
- the at least one U-shaped member comprises at least one slot defining a first resilient portion that abuts the first elastomer pad.
A keyboard comprising:
- an elongated recess sized to receive a side edge of a touch screen device;
- at least one U-shaped resilient member disposed in the elongated recess;
- and
- a first elastomer pad positioned on the at least one U-shaped resilient member, the first elastomer pad including a first touch screen device engaging surface, wherein
- the at least one U-shaped member comprises at least one slot defining a first resilient portion that abuts the first elastomer pad
An apparatus for holding a touch screen device, the apparatus comprising:
- an elongated recess sized to receive a side edge of the touch screen device;
- at least one U-shaped resilient member disposed in the elongated recess, the U-shaped resilient member including:
- a first upright portion, a second upright portion located opposite the first upright portion, and a base portion coupled to the first upright portion and the second upright portion;
- a first elastomer pad positioned on the first upright portion, the first elastomer pad including a first touch screen device engaging surface;
- and
- a second elastomer pad positioned on the second upright portion, the second elastomer pad including a second touch screen device engaging surface, wherein
- a local minimum distance between the first elastomer pad and the second elastomer pad is a monotonic increasing function of distance from the base portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.