Compressible housing
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorScott GREGORY
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Abstract
Examples relate to a compressible housing. An electronic switch may include a circuit board. A first conductive surface may be coupled to the circuit board and a second conductive surface may be located proximate to the first conductive surface. A compressible spacer may be located between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface to space the first conductive surface away from the second conductive surface. Further, a compressible housing may deform when under compression and may cause, via deformation of the compressible spacer, the first conductive surface to contact the second conductive surface.
Claims15
An electronic switch comprising:
- a circuit board;
- a first conductive surface coupled to the circuit board;
- a second conductive surface located proximate to the first conductive surface;
- a compressible spacer between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface to space the first conductive surface away from the second conductive surface;
- and
- a compressible housing to deform when under compression and cause, via deformation of the compressible spacer, the first conductive surface to contact the second conductive surface, wherein the second conductive surface is included within a body of the compressible housing.
The electronic switch of claim 4, wherein a second portion of the second conductive surface is outside the cutout in the compressible housing.
A scanning device, comprising:
- a circuit board;
- a first conductive surface coupled to the circuit board;
- a second conductive surface located proximate to the first conductive surface;
- a compressible spacer between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface to space the first conductive surface away from the second conductive surface;
- a compressible housing to deform when under compression and cause the first conductive surface to contact the second conductive surface via deformation of the compressible spacer;
- an optical scanner coupled to the circuit board to capture a barcode pattern;
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- a processor to read the captured barcode pattern.
A method, comprising:
- compressing a compressible housing to cause deformation of a compressible spacer and cause a first conductive surface to contact a second conductive surface;
- activating an optical scanner in response to the contact of the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface;
- and
- releasing the compressible housing to cause the first conductive surface to break contact with the second conductive surface by reformation of the compressible spacer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.