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US 8,941,511 B2Granted
Keyboard for hand-held devices
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorJason T. Griffin
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Abstract
A hand-held electronic device has a keyboard with a plurality of keys, each key having a substantially flat contact surface extending to the sides of each key. One of the sides of the key is beveled.
Claims8
A cellular phone comprising:
- a keyboard having a first key having a first contact surface that is substantially flat and extends between opposed first key sides, and between a first key top and a first key bottom, and having a first cross-section between one of the first key sides and the other of the first key sides in which one of the first key sides is a sloping planar surface that meets the first contact surface at an obtuse angle;
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- a second key having a second contact surface that is substantially flat and extends between opposed second key sides, and between a second key top and a second key bottom, and having a second cross-section between one of the second key sides and the other of the second key sides in which one of the second key sides meets the second contact surface substantially at a right angle;
- the first and second keys being oriented such that one of the second key sides is adjacent to one of the first key sides, and each of the first contact surface and the second contact surface have a generally parallelogram-shape outline.
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