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US 6,860,660 B2Granted
Keyboard, preferably for electronic payment terminals
AssigneePreh-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsGerhard Hochgesang, Andrzej Malinowski, Klaus Schmoeger
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Abstract
A keyboard having a housing, which is designed as one piece and wherein a top open housing shell is designed in conjunction with a keypad such that the top shell is traylike and is attached within the housing at an angle. A bottom base of the top open housing shell forms a bottom open housing shell. The bottom open housing shell has at least one recess provided for the installation of a card reader.
Claims16
A keyboard having a housing for accommodating at least a keypad, the housing being designed as one piece, the housing comprising:
- an open top housing shell;
- and
- a bottom open housing shell,
- wherein the top open housing shell is traylike and its base forms part of the bottom housing shell, the base being inclined within the housing, so that the top open housing shell and the bottom open housing shell together form a Λ-shape portion, and
- wherein the top open housing shell and the bottom open housing shell, in cross-section, form a Π shaped portion being attached to the Λ shape portion,
- wherein the Π shaped portion includes an opening for receiving electrical components, said opening being located on a side of the Π shaped portion opposite to the top housing shell.
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A keyboard comprising:
- a housing being formed as one-piece, the housing having an upper portion and a lower portion,
- wherein the upper portion includes a keyboard receiving region having openings formed therein for fixedly receiving a keyboard directly thereon,
- wherein the lower portion includes reinforcing ribs, which are tapered, the reinforcing ribs being provided on a bottom surface of the keyboard receiving region, and
- wherein the lower portion further includes recesses formed therein for receiving electrical components.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.