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US 9,685,286 B2Granted
Keyboard device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYasunori Kimura, Shuichi Chihara, Yasushi Tsuji, Junichiro Misawa, Shingo Harada
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Abstract
There is provided a keyboard device including a plurality of key tops that include magnets and are depressible, an opposing member which is provided to face the plurality of key tops and in which signal lines are wired, and a plurality of openings that is formed corresponding to positions of the magnets when the key tops are pressed in the opposing member. The signal lines are wired while avoiding the openings.
Claims12
A keyboard device comprising:
- a plurality of key tops that include a plurality of first magnets, wherein each first magnet of the plurality of first magnets is disposed in a position on a respective key top of the plurality of key tops that is deviated in a longitudinal width direction from a center to a first end side of the respective key top, and wherein the plurality of key tops are depressible in a vertical direction;
- a plurality of second magnets;
- an opposing member which is provided to face the plurality of key tops and in which signal lines are wired;
- and
- a plurality of openings formed in the opposing member, wherein the plurality of openings are respectively located at positions of the plurality of first magnets,
- wherein each second magnet of the plurality of second magnets is positioned horizontally adjacent to a corresponding first magnet of the plurality of first magnets and within a respective opening of the plurality of openings, and
- wherein the signal lines are wired below the plurality of key tops while avoiding the plurality of openings by being deviated in the longitudinal width direction from the center to a second end side of each respective key top.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.