Key input device

A key input device comprising a dome sheet provided over a base plate and having a plurality of upwardly bulging dome portions, and a plurality of manual keys disposed above the dome sheet for depressing the respective dome portions, the manual keys including a seesaw key adapted to selectively depress one of dome portions included among the dome portions, each of the dome portions being elastically restorably invertible by being depressed by the corresponding manual key to bring a contact terminal formed on an inner surface of the dome portion into contact with a contact electrode formed on a surface of the base plate and close contacts,

• the key input device being characterized in that the dome sheet has a flat sheet portion formed around the dome portions and comprising an inner region extending inwardly of the dome portions to be selectively depressed by the seesaw key, and an outer region extending outwardly of the dome portion, a spacer sheet being interposed between the base plate and the dome sheet and being formed with a plurality of circular holes corresponding to the respective dome portions, the interposed spacer sheet providing a difference in level from the surface of the base plate between the inner region of the flat sheet portion of the dome sheet and the outer region thereof, the inner region being positioned at a lower level than the outer region by an amount that matches the thickness of the spacer sheet,
• wherein the inner region is positioned between the dome portions corresponding to the seesaw key and the outer region is positioned outside a boundary of the dome portions corresponding to the seesaw key.