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US 8,984,737 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing keycaps of keys of a keyboard
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorPaul Masser
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Abstract
A method for producing a keycap of a keyboard of a portable electronic device that includes removing material from the backside of a body of the keycap to form a cavity in a shape associated with a character, filling the cavity with fill material, and removing material from the front side of the body to expose the fill material on the front surface of the keycap.
Claims11
A method for producing a keycap for a backlit keyboard of an electronic device, the method comprising:
- removing a first portion of a material from a backside of a body to form a cavity in a shape associated with a character;
- filling the cavity with a translucent fill material;
- removing a second portion of the material from a front side of the body to expose the translucent fill material on a front surface of the body;
- and
- polishing the front surface of the body after removing material from the front side of the body to provide a keycap with a smooth finished front surface;
- wherein when the keycap with the smooth finished front surface is assembled into the backlit keyboard, the backside of the body of the keycap is disposed adjacent a light source to illuminate the translucent fill material from the backside.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.