Button having stiffer vertical motion and reduced lateral motion
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJoseph A. Gutierrez, William R. Haas
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Abstract
One embodiment of the invention is a button for engaging an electrical switch comprising: a button post that transmits a vertical motion of the button to the electrical switch, an alignment post that registers against the electrical switch and reduces lateral motion of the button, and at least two runners that connect the button to a frame and includes reinforcement that stiffens the vertical motion of the button.
Claims13
A button, comprising:
- a button post to transmit a vertical motion of the button to a first side of an electrical switch;
- an alignment post to register against a second side of the electrical switch;
- and
- at least two runners to connect the button to a frame.
A button set that comprises a plurality of buttons, each button of the plurality of buttons configured to engage an associated electrical switch of a plurality of electrical switches, the button set comprising:
- a plurality of button posts, each of which is associated with a respective button and configured to transmit a vertical motion of the respective button to a first side of the associated electrical switch;
- a plurality of alignment posts, each of which is associated with a respective button and configured to register against a second side of the associated electrical switch;
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- a plurality of runners, with a pair of runners of the plurality of runners associated with a respective button and configured to connect the respective button to a frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.