Structure of computer keyboard key switch
OwnerPao-Chin Cheninventor
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Abstract
A computer keyboard key switch including a bottom support board, a key base having a rubber cone, a membrane circuit retained between the bottom support board and the key base, a bridging device supporting plate supported on the key base around the rubber cone, and a key cap coupled to the bridging device supporting plate by a bridging device, wherein the bottom support board has two upright lugs inserted through parallel slots on the membrane circuit and the key base and defining a respective retaining hole; the bridging device supporting plate has two coupling tongues respectively forced into engagement with the retaining holes of the upright lugs of the bottom support board.
Claims2
A computer keyboard key switch comprising a bottom support board, a key base having a rubber cone, a membrane circuit retained between said bottom support board and said key base, a bridging device supporting plate mounted on said key base around said rubber cone and secured to said bottom support board, a key cap supported on said rubber cone and depressed to compress said rubber cone in triggering said membrane circuit, and a bridging device coupled between said key cap and said bridging device supporting plate, wherein said key base has two parallel slots equally spaced from said rubber cone at two opposite sides;
- said membrane circuit has two parallel slots respectively aligned with the parallel slots of said key base;
- said bottom support board comprises two upright lugs respectively inserted through the parallel slots of said membrane circuit and the parallel slots of said key base and defining respective vertically disposed retaining holes;
- said bridging device supporting plate comprises two coupling tongues horizontally disposed at two opposite sides respectively forced into engagement with the vertically disposed retaining holes of said upright lugs.
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