Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus pertaining to a deployable keyboard and corresponding bottom surface
- Patent Title (中): 关于可部署键盘和相应底面的设备
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Application No.: US13532113Application Date: 2012-06-25
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Publication No.: US08724317B2Publication Date: 2014-05-13
- Inventor: Jason Tyler Griffin , Martin Philip Riddiford
- Applicant: Jason Tyler Griffin , Martin Philip Riddiford
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo
- Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: H05K5/00
- IPC: H05K5/00 ; H05K7/00 ; G06F1/16 ; H04M1/00

Abstract:
A housing has a front surface and a back surface. A keyboard and a corresponding bottom surface move between a non-deployed configuration and a deployed configuration. A tray slides in and out of the housing along one or more slots that are formed internal to the housing. This tray can include an internal surface having a first side that contacts the keyboard and an opposing second side that contacts the aforementioned bottom surface when the latter components are non-deployed. When moving to the deployed configuration the keyboard and bottom surface first move substantially parallel to the housing and then move substantially perpendicular to the housing. Projections on these components can interact with corresponding tracks formed in the housing to direct at the least this perpendicular movement.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130342972A1 Apparatus Pertaining to a Deployable Keyboard and Corresponding Bottom Surface Public/Granted day:2013-12-26
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