Backlight keyboard
AssigneeDarfon Electronics Corp.
InventorChao-Yu Chen
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Abstract
A backlight keyboard includes a keyswitch assembly, a base and a light guide plate. The keyswitch assembly and the base are suitable for several language keyboards. A first keyswitch and a second keyswitch of a first keyswitch assembly correspond to a third keyswitch of a second keyswitch assembly. A first base and a second base respectively have at least one hole. The light guide plate has a light guide substrate and a light extracting portion. Union of the holes is set as a difference region on the light guide substrate. The light extracting portion is disposed on the difference region and used to guide light through the corresponding hole toward the corresponding keyswitch when the light guide substrate is disposed under the specific base.
Claims6
A backlight keyboard comprising:
- a keyswitch assembly being a first keyswitch assembly suitable for a first language keyboard or a second keyswitch assembly suitable for a second language keyboard, a first keyswitch and a second keyswitch of the first keyswitch assembly being adjacent to each other, position of the first keyswitch and the second keyswitch in the first language keyboard being overlapped with position of a third keyswitch of the second keyswitch assembly in the second language keyboard;
- a base disposed under the keyswitch assembly and being a first base suitable for the first language keyboard or a second base suitable for the second language keyboard, the first base having a first hole area and a second hole area respectively corresponding to the first keyswitch and the second keyswitch, and the second base having a third hole area corresponding to the third keyswitch;
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- a light guide plate adapted to guide a light beam to pass through the base and project onto the keyswitch assembly, the light guide plate comprising:
- a light guide substrate having a difference region, the difference region being a union of the first hole area, the second hole area and the third hole area;
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- a light extracting portion disposed on the difference region and adapted to guide the light beam to pass through the first hole area and the second hole area and project onto the first keyswitch and the second keyswitch in response to the light guide substrate disposed on the first base, and further guide the light beam to pass through the third hole area and project onto the third keyswitch in response to the light guide substrate disposed on the second base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.