CN101404224A - Press key and key board - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a keystroke and a keyboard; wherein, the keyboard comprises a substrate, an upper cover and a plurality of keystrokes; the upper cover is arranged on the substrate and provided with a plurality of receiving spaces; each keystroke is respectively arranged in a receiving space; each keystroke comprises a keycap and a lifting support device; the keycap is provided with a skirt edge which is in contact with the upper cover; the lifting support device is arranged between the keycap and the substrate; the lifting support device leads the keycap to move upwards and downwards with the lifting support device correspondingly to the substrate; the upper cover, the keycap and the skirt edge form a whole surface, thus preventing dissipation of ray and keeping consistent key height further.
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Technical field
The present invention is relevant for a kind of button and keyboard, particularly about a kind of keyboard that has the button of shirt rim and have this button.
Background technology
At present, in the comparatively flourishing country of information, almost all there is a computer in each family.People utilize computer internet to obtain own required information, or utilize the bitcom of computer and other people to link up etc.Modal input unit is exactly a keyboard on the computer, and one of basic module of keyboard is button.
Along with technology evolution, under various different application situations, keyboard develops respectively and various form, as the mechanical type keyboard that early stage personal computer uses, releases the thin film type keyboard for cooperating portable computer to adopt subsequently.Recently in order to allow the user can under the situation of insufficient light, know the position of differentiating indivedual buttons, also developed keyboard with lighting function.Wherein illuminated keyboard is to make the light can be according to the transmission region on the predefined paths illuminated keyboard (as literal on the keycap or figure), and keyboard has loam cake in order to avoid light by loss between the button.
See also Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram according to keyboard in the prior art 1, and Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of loam cake 12 among Fig. 1.As shown in Figure 1, keyboard 1 comprises substrate 10, loam cake 12 and a plurality of button 14.Loam cake 12 is arranged on the substrate 10, and loam cake 12 has a plurality of accommodation spaces 120.Each button 14 is arranged at respectively in one of them accommodation space 120.
See also Fig. 3, Fig. 3 be among Fig. 1 keyboard 1 along the cross section view of A-A line.As shown in Figure 3, each button 14 comprises keycap 142, liftable supporter 144 and elastic component 146.Liftable supporter 144 and elastic component 146 are arranged between keycap 142 and the substrate 10.
That is to say that each button 14 lays respectively on the loam cake 12 in separately the accommodation space 120, pushes vertical moving up and down with the user.Button 14 does not contact with loam cake 12 itself.But as shown in Figure 3, still have space G between the keycap 142 of button 14 and the loam cake 12, and partly light still may be by the G loss of this space.The user is disturbed by the light of loss easily, is difficult for differentiating the indivedual patterns on each button 14, causes the inconvenience in the use.In addition, in the prior art, the key height of each button 14 determines with elastic component 146 by liftable supporter 144 separately.Yet keyboard 1 has dozens of button 14, is difficult to guarantee that the key of each button 14 is high consistent.
Summary of the invention
For addressing the above problem, the invention provides a kind of button, have the shirt rim, be shading or spacing usefulness.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of keyboard with aforementioned keys, it can effectively guarantee the height consistency of all buttons, and the loss that can avoid light-emitting component to emit beam, improves the backlight efficiency of illuminated keyboard, improves comfort.
According to a specific embodiment, button of the present invention is arranged on the substrate, uses for the user and pushes.Button comprises keycap and liftable supporter.Keycap has the shirt rim.The shirt rim comprises soft member.Liftable supporter is arranged between keycap and the substrate, and this keycap can be accompanied by the relative substrate of liftable supporter and move up and down.
According to a specific embodiment, keyboard of the present invention comprises substrate, loam cake and a plurality of button.Wherein, loam cake is arranged on the substrate, and loam cake has a plurality of accommodation spaces, and the both sides of each accommodation space have the stop surface respectively.Each button is arranged in one of them of these accommodation spaces respectively.This button comprises keycap and liftable supporter.Keycap has the shirt rim, and the shirt rim contacts with the stop surface of loam cake.Liftable supporter is arranged between keycap and the substrate, and keycap can be accompanied by the relative substrate of liftable supporter and move up and down.
According to button of the present invention and keyboard, its keycap has the shirt rim.See through loam cake, keycap and shirt rim and form full surface, it can avoid the light loss, improves the illumination efficiency backlight of keyboard.And when the user used keyboard, keycap substrate relatively moved up and down; Decontrol button after the user pushes, when keycap is upwards bounced up, this keycap will rise up to being stopped by loam cake is spacing, can guarantee the high unanimity of key of each button.In addition, the shirt rim can further comprise soft member, and the soft member that keycap sees through on the shirt rim contacts with loam cake, and then eliminates contact noise.By this, formation can prevent the keyboard of light loss, the high unanimity of key and contactless noise.More specifically, described button is arranged between loam cake and the substrate, and described keycap protrudes from the accommodation space of loam cake, and the shirt rim of described keycap is positioned at accommodation space and contacts with the stop surface of loam cake is spacing.
The advantages and spirit of the present invention can be by following specific embodiment and appended graphic being further understood.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram according to keyboard in the prior art.
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of loam cake among Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 be among Fig. 1 keyboard along the cross section view of A-A line.
Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram according to the keyboard of first specific embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of loam cake among Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 be among Fig. 4 keyboard along the cross section view of B-B line.
Fig. 7 is the cross section view of the button of another specific embodiment according to the present invention.
Fig. 8 is the cross section view according to the keyboard of second specific embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is the three-dimensional view of keycap among Fig. 8.
Figure 10 be among Fig. 9 keycap in the three-dimensional view at another visual angle.
Figure 11 is for being the partial exploded view according to the keycap of the 3rd specific embodiment of the present invention.
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For making purpose of the present invention, structure, feature and function thereof there are further understanding, cooperate embodiment to be described in detail as follows now.
See also Fig. 4, Fig. 5 and Fig. 6.Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram according to the keyboard 3 of first specific embodiment of the present invention.Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of loam cake 32 among Fig. 4.Fig. 6 be among Fig. 4 keyboard 3 along the cross section view of B-B line.
In this embodiment, keyboard 3 comprises substrate 30, loam cake 32 and a plurality of button 34.Loam cake 32 is arranged on the substrate 30, and loam cake 32 has a plurality of accommodation spaces 320, forms a kind of structure of grid type.The both sides of each accommodation space have stop surface 322 and slide slot 324 respectively.Each button 34 is arranged at respectively in one of them accommodation space 320.Button 34 is arranged on the substrate 30, pushes for the user, and then carries out the function of user institute desire input.
As shown in Figure 6, button 34 comprises keycap 342, liftable supporter 344 and elastic component 346 in this embodiment.Keycap 342 has shirt rim 3420, and keycap 342 is formed in one with shirt rim 3420 in this embodiment.Liftable supporter 344 and elastic component 346 are arranged between keycap 342 and the substrate 30.Each button 34 is arranged at diverse location on the substrate 30 respectively.That is to say that for one key 34, it can correspond to the some of substrate 30 respectively.In this embodiment, substrate 30 further has jut 302, and in order to sealed position, in actual applications, jut 302 can be in order to be provided with screw when jut 302 was assembled to substrate 30 as loam cake 32.
Liftable supporter 344 comprises first supporting member 3440 and second supporting member 3442.First supporting member 3440 and second supporting member 3442 articulate and are scissors-type.First supporting member 3440 and second supporting member 3442 can relatively rotate, and then drive keycap 342 relative substrates 30 move up and down.
In this embodiment, loam cake 32 can be in order to the keycap 342 of spacing button 34.The shirt rim 3420 of keycap 342 is arranged in slide slot 324.Shirt rim 3420 can corresponding keycap 342 lifting, slide up and down along slide slot 324.In addition, elastic component 346 is in order to cooperate liftable supporter 344, in order to store elastic force when button 34 is pressed.In actual applications, during user's pressing keys 34, can make keycap 342 follow liftable supporter 344 to descend,, move toward substrate 30 directions to lower slider along the slide slot 324 of loam cake 32 shirt rim 3420 of keycap 342 at this moment.This moment, elastic component 346 was extruded deformation, and accumulation elastic force.When the user unclamped button 34, elastic component 346 discharged elastic force, and keycap 342 is upwards raised.This moment upwards slides along slide slot 324 in shirt rim 3420, and 3420 by stop surface 322 spacing the stopping of loam cake 32 up to the shirt rim.
That is to say that when each button 34 was pressed, slided in the corresponding slide slot 324 respectively in the shirt rim 3420 of keycap 342, so the slip of button 34 is more stable in loam cake 32.In addition, each keycap 342 sees through shirt rim 3420 and is stopped face 322 spacing stopping, and is high consistent with the key that single loam cake 32 guarantees each button 34, but the present invention is not as limit.
See also Fig. 7.Fig. 7 be another specific embodiment according to the present invention button 34 ' cross section view.Be among this embodiment with the first specific embodiment difference, button 34 ' comprise in addition be arranged at substrate 30 ' on luminescence component 347 ' and be arranged at keycap 342 ' on transmission region 348 '.Luminescence component 347 ' can launch light via the lighttight keycap 342 of transmission region 348 ' pass '.The optical channel that transmission region 348 ' can be has specific pattern or constitute by transparent material.Transmission region 348 ' the specific pattern respectively letter or the function of corresponding each different key 34 ' representative, make things convenient for the user under the environment of insufficient light, easily the indivedual buttons 34 of identification ' function.In this embodiment, loam cake 32 ' also and shirt rim 3420 ' contact can avoid light by button 34 ' between the gap loss, and then strengthen illuminating effect.Button 34 ' other the structure with first specific embodiment roughly the same, do not give unnecessary details in addition at this.
According to above-mentioned two embodiment, keyboard of the present invention sees through the common full surface that forms in shirt rim of loam cake, keycap and keycap, can guarantee that the light that luminescence component produces only sheds by transmission region.And because of having the loam cake of grid structure, the key height of each button can be consistent, and uses to form high illuminating effect and the high consistent keyboard structure of key.
In first specific embodiment, when button 34 upwards bounces up when shirt rim 3420 is contacted with the stop surface 322 of loam cake 32, shirt rim 3420 may produce the vibrations and the sound with the percussion of stop surface 322.
See also Fig. 8.Fig. 8 is the cross section view according to the keyboard 5 of second specific embodiment of the present invention.Keyboard 5 has substrate 50, loam cake 52 and a plurality of button 54.The keycap 542 of button 54 has integrated shirt rim 5420.
Be that with difference in first specific embodiment keycap 542 has the shirt rim of being arranged at 5420 lip-deep soft members 5422 in second specific embodiment.See also Fig. 9 and Figure 10.Fig. 9 is the three-dimensional view of keycap 542 among Fig. 8.Figure 10 be among Fig. 9 keycap 542 in the three-dimensional view at another visual angle.Soft member 5422 is arranged on the surface of shirt rim 5420, and soft member 5422 coats shirt rim 5420 by injection molding manufacture procedure with flexible material and forms.In particular, soft member 5422 coats shirt rim 5420 by the twice ejaculating forming processing procedure.In actual applications, integrated keycap 542 is generally plastic material with shirt rim 5420, and itself forms the shape of keycap 542 and shirt rim 5420 with injection molding manufacture procedure, and this is an ejection formation.Subsequently, the filling flexible material carries out twice ejaculating forming, and soft member 5422 is formed on the surface of shirt rim 5420.
At this moment, keycap 542 contacts with the stop surface 522 of loam cake 52 by the soft member 5422 on the shirt rim 5420.In actual applications, this soft member 5422 can be made by the flexible material of rubber or other tool deformability.By flexible material characteristic buffering shirt rim 5420 and loam cake 52 collisions, and reduce the noise that produces when contacting, the comfortableness of operation keyboard 5 is improved.Roughly the same in other structure of keyboard 5 and first specific embodiment, so do not give unnecessary details in addition.
In another specific embodiment, soft member 5422 coats shirt rim 5420 by the processing procedure that sprays paint with flexible material and forms.In this embodiment, soft member 5422 can be made by the flexible material of rubber or other tool deformability.In this embodiment, by with flexible material with the mode of spraying paint be formed on 5420 surfaces, shirt rim in order to loam cake 52 position contacting.The characteristic that sees through soft member 5422 can reduce the noise that produces when collide with loam cake 52 shirt rim 5420.
That is to say that each button 54 of keyboard 5 is limited by loam cake 52 with the height of keycap 542 integrated shirt rims 5420.And have soft member 5422 on 5420 surfaces, shirt rim in order to touch with loam cake 52, this soft member 5422 can or spray the surface that attached mode is formed at shirt rim 5420 by ejection formation, and then forms the keyboard 5 of high unanimity of key and low noise.
See also Figure 11.Figure 11 for for according to the keycap 542 of the 3rd specific embodiment of the present invention ' partial exploded view.Be with the second specific embodiment difference, as shown in figure 11, keycap 542 in the present embodiment ' with shirt rim 5420 ' be not one-body molded.In the present embodiment keycap 542 ' have first holding section 5421 ', second holding section 5423, shirt rim 5420 ' have ', shirt rim 5420 ' by second holding section 5423 ' snap into keycap 542 ' first holding section 5421 ', the soft member in and shirt rim 5420 ' comprise.Shirt rim 5420 ' itself can partly or all be formed by soft member.In this embodiment, shirt rim 5420 ' all forms with soft member.That is to say, the soft member made from flexible material promptly as the shirt rim in the present embodiment 5420 '.
As shown in figure 11, first holding section 5421 ' can be circular groove is from keycap 542 ' cave inward, but not as limit.And second holding section 5423 ' corresponding first holding section 5421 ' can be cylinder from the shirt rim 5420 ' stretch out.
In the 3rd specific embodiment, with soft member as shirt rim 5420 '.It is shirt rim 5420 ' itself promptly have the characteristic of soft member.And see through the method for assembling, with the engaging mode will soft shirt rim 5420 ' be fixed in keycap 542 ' on, in order to the problem of solution contact noise.And form one have shirt rim 5420 ' keycap 542 ', can avoid the light loss when being used for illuminated keyboard.
In sum, button of the present invention and keyboard see through loam cake, keycap and shirt rim, can form full surface, and the efficient of illuminated keyboard is improved, moreover can guarantee that key is high consistent.And be used on the integrated shirt rim and coat or spray flexible material, or directly utilize assemblnig soft member, the noise of generation in the time of can reducing the collision of keycap and loam cake as the shirt rim.And then form a kind of keyboard that prevents light loss, the high unanimity of key and low noise.
The present invention is described by above-mentioned related embodiment, yet the foregoing description is only for implementing example of the present invention.Must be pointed out that the embodiment that has disclosed does not limit the scope of the invention.On the contrary, change of being done and retouching without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention all belongs to scope of patent protection of the present invention.
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1. a button is arranged on the substrate, uses for the user and pushes, and it is characterized in that this button comprises:
Keycap has the shirt rim; And
Liftable supporter is arranged between this keycap and this substrate, and this keycap is accompanied by relative this substrate of this liftable supporter and moves up and down.
2. button according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the one-body molded setting in this keycap and shirt rim; Perhaps this keycap has first holding section, and this shirt rim has second holding section, and this shirt rim snaps into this first holding section of this keycap by this second holding section.
3. button according to claim 1 is characterized in that this shirt rim comprises soft member, and described soft member is used to eliminate the collision with a contact-making surface.
4. keyboard is characterized in that comprising:
Substrate;
Loam cake, this loam cake are arranged on this substrate, and this loam cake has a plurality of accommodation spaces, and the sidepiece of each accommodation space has the stop surface respectively;
A plurality of buttons, each button are arranged at respectively in one of them of these a plurality of accommodation spaces, and this button comprises:
Keycap has the shirt rim, the spacing contact in this stop surface of this shirt rim and this loam cake; And
Liftable supporter is arranged between this keycap and this substrate, and this keycap is accompanied by relative this substrate of this liftable supporter and moves up and down.
5. keyboard according to claim 4 is characterized in that this keycap has first holding section, and this shirt rim has second holding section, and this shirt rim snaps into this first holding section of this keycap by this second holding section.
6. keyboard according to claim 4 is characterized in that, this keycap and this shirt rim are formed in one, and perhaps this keycap has first holding section, and this shirt rim has second holding section, and this shirt rim snaps into this first holding section of this keycap by this second holding section.
7. keyboard according to claim 4 is characterized in that, described button is arranged between loam cake and the substrate, and described keycap protrudes from the accommodation space of loam cake, and the shirt rim of described keycap is positioned at accommodation space and contacts with the stop surface of loam cake is spacing.
8. keyboard according to claim 4 is characterized in that this button also comprises elastic component, is arranged between this keycap and this substrate.
9. keyboard according to claim 4 is characterized in that this shirt rim comprises soft member, and described soft member is used to eliminate the collision with described loam cake.
10. keyboard according to claim 9 is characterized in that, this soft member coats this shirt rim by injection molding manufacture procedure with flexible material and forms, and perhaps by the surface lacquer processing procedure flexible material is sprayed on this shirt rim and forms.
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