Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Passive mechanical keyboard
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Application No.: US15925753Application Date: 2018-03-19
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Publication No.: US10678343B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Eliyahu Barel , Amir Zyskind
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: G06F3/02
- IPC: G06F3/02 ; G06F3/044

Abstract:
A keyboard has a keypad layer of resiliently depressible keypads. The keyboard has a skin of dielectric material, covering a base of the keyboard. The skin contacts a capacitive touchscreen in use, and an actuating layer is on a face of the skin of dielectric material away from the base. The actuating layer comprises a plurality of conductive regions, one per keypad. A grounding layer is between the actuating layer and the keypad layer and spaced from the actuating layer during a rest state of the keyboard. Upon depression of a keypad, the keypad presses a region of the grounding layer under the keypad towards a region of the actuating layer such that the region of the actuating layer becomes grounded and causes a change in capacitance detectable by the capacitive touchscreen.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190286247A1 PASSIVE MECHANICAL KEYBOARD Public/Granted day:2019-09-19
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