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Abstract
The invention relates to a keyboard comprising a base, a main circuit board, a base cover, a touch-control thin film switch, a touch-control slice, an upper cover and a plurality of press keys. The main circuit board is arranged on the base and used for controlling the operation of the keyboard; the base cover is provided with a groove and covers the base; the touch-control thin film switch is arranged in the groove and connected with the main circuit board; the touch-control slice is arranged on the touch-control thin film switch and provided with a plurality of images and is switched on whenthe images are touched; the upper cover is provided with an open pore through which the touch-control slice can be exposed outside the upper cover; and the press keys protrude from the upper cover. T he touch-control thin film switch is used for fulfilling the hot key function, thus the cost is reduced.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of key board unit, particularly a kind of key board unit with hot key function.
Background technology
In the fast modern times of scientific and technical information evolution, no matter to work or amusement and recreation, computer is the instrument that the modern can use every day, wherein setting up what get in touch between computer and user is exactly key board unit.Hence one can see that for the importance of key board unit, so each tame manufacturer quite pays attention to the research and development of key board unit, thereby make key board unit develop quite rapidly.
The major function of general computer keyboard device is to allow the user Word message can be inputed to computer.Yet, significantly lifting along with computer function, for example multimedia function and network function provides, the keyboard that tradition only provides the literal input information to use can not meet user's demand, therefore many keyboard manufacturers are provided with many hot keys one after another on keyboard, allow the user carry out some specific function immediately by pressing this hot key, web browser etc. is opened in for example adjustment of volume.
See also Fig. 1, it is a kind of existing schematic appearance with key board unit of hot key.Key board unit 100 comprises base 101, contact panel 102, loam cake 103 and a plurality of button 104.A plurality of buttons 104 are arranged on the base 101 and stretch out in outside the loam cake 103, for information such as user's input characters or symbols.And loam cake 103 has a perforate 1031, with so that contact panel 102 be provided with thereon and can be revealed in outside the loam cake 103.Wherein contact panel 102 has the function of hot key, when the user presses this contact panel 102, can produce the effect of hot key, for example adjusts volume.
See also Fig. 2, it is the synoptic diagram of the inner structure of the existing key board unit shown in Fig. 1.Key board unit 100 comprises base 101, a plurality of button 104, main circuit board 105 and touch-control circuit plate 106.In key board unit 100, main circuit board 105 is arranged on the base 101, is provided with the required circuit arrangement of key board unit 100 thereon.Touch-control circuit plate 106 is arranged on the base 101, and contact panel 102 is arranged in the perforate 1031 of loam cake 103 (seeing also Fig. 1), and when loam cake 103 was covered on the base 101, contact panel 102 (seeing also Fig. 1) was positioned at the position that corresponds to touch-control circuit plate 106.In addition, but contact panel 102 is the strip panel of towing, and as shown in Figure 1, wherein (Polycarbonate PC) constitutes this strip contact panel 102 by polycarbonate.
The hot key of the key board unit 100 shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2 uses contact panel 102 to implement, and its operation principles is as follows.The user to carry out hot key function, wherein because of finger has electric conductivity, and is regarded as a conductor with finger touch contact panel 102.Be arranged at touch-control circuit plate 106 tops and its position and touch-control circuit plate 106 in correspondence with each other because of contact panel 102 again.When finger touch contact panel 102, make the touch-control circuit plate 106 of below, contact panel 102 touched zone and point and produce a capacity effect between (conductor), this moment, the capacitance of the touch-control circuit plate 106 of below, touched zone because of capacity effect makes raise, so the discharging and recharging the not touched touch-control circuit plate 106 of time ratio and will come longly of touched touch-control circuit plate 106, with this principle as the identification benchmark of judging that contact panel 102 is whether touched.And when but the contact panel 102 of towing is designed to adjust the computer volume, when the user touches contact panel 102, touched zone is sensed by touch-control circuit plate 106, and with this touched zone as reference point, after finger presses reference point, on contact panel 102, move and to adjust volume, wherein point by the then scalable volume that moves up of this reference point on the contact panel 102, otherwise, move down by this reference point and then to carry out the function that reduces volume.From the above, existing key board unit 100 can utilize contact panel 102 direct adjustment volumes and need not open the volume control program and control.
The action of towing is mainly by 106 controls of touch-control circuit plate on contact panel 102, touch-control circuit plate 106 executes instruction according to user's finger movement, generally speaking, one zone of finger contact contact panel 102, moveable finger again, with mobile on contact panel 102, thereby make capacity effect occur in not existing together of touch-control circuit plate 106; Such finger touches is the action of towing again, need to judge finger residing position on contact panel 102, judge finger moving on contact panel 102 again, so discriminatory analysis needs the quite complicated calculation of touch-control circuit plate 106, therefore touch-control circuit plate 106 needs processings that perform calculations of complicated circuit unit, makes touch-control circuit plate 106 have quite complicated circuit and huger volume is carried out the calculation analysis.And complicated circuit unit also directly shows on the cost, and for manufacturer and user, expensive is to avoid, and therefore, needs a kind of key board unit that can reduce cost that has.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to overcome the above-mentioned expensive problem that exists in the prior art, and a kind of key board unit is provided, a kind of key board unit with contact panel particularly is provided.
In a preferred embodiment, the present invention proposes a kind of key board unit, and it is connected in a computer apparatus, and this key board unit comprises:
Base;
Main circuit board, it is arranged on the base, in order to the running of supervisory keyboard device;
Base cover, it has groove and base cover is covered on the base;
The touch-control thin film switch, it is arranged in the groove and is connected in main circuit board, and this touch-control thin film switch comprises: go up wiring board, it has first circuit pattern, and has a plurality of upper contacts on first circuit pattern; Space bar, it has a plurality of contact perforates; And following wiring board, it has the second circuit pattern, and has a plurality of contacts down on the second circuit pattern, and with the common clamping space bar of last wiring board, corresponding contact perforate of each upper contact in wherein a plurality of upper contacts and contact once;
One touch-control thin slice, it is arranged on the touch-control thin film switch and has a plurality of images, and when image was touched, the touch-control thin film switch was switched on;
Loam cake, it has perforate, with so that the touch-control thin slice be revealed in outside the loam cake; And
A plurality of buttons, it stretches out in loam cake.
In a preferred embodiment, the touch-control thin slice is in order to functions such as control volume, window vertical scrolling, window level scrolling, window convergent-divergent, unlatching webpage, unlocking electronic mail, unlatching media play procedure or unlatching Word texts.
In a preferred embodiment, the touch-control thin slice by polyethylene terephthalate (Polyethyleneterephthalate, PET) made.
Useful technique effect of the present invention is: the present invention is owing to use the touch-control thin film switch to carry out the execution of hot key function, thereby not only simple in structure, sequential operation is simple but also with low cost.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic appearance of existing key board unit.
Fig. 2 is the inner structure synoptic diagram of existing key board unit.
Fig. 3 is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION figure of touch-control thin film switch.
Fig. 4 is the schematic appearance of a preferred embodiment of key board unit of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION figure of a preferred embodiment of key board unit of the present invention.
Wherein, description of reference numerals is as follows:
100,200 key board units, 101,201 bases
102 contact panels, 103,203 loam cakes
1031,2031,2032 perforates, 104,204 buttons
105,205 main circuit boards, 106 touch-control circuit plates
202,209 touch-control thin slices, 206 base cover
2061 grooves, 207 touch-control thin film switches
208 images, 2071,2073 wiring boards
2072 space bars, 211,212 circuit patterns
213 contact perforates, 221,222 contacts
Embodiment
For overcoming the expensive problem that exists in the prior art, the present invention proposes a kind of key board unit that reduces cost, the present invention uses the touch-control thin film switch to improve existing key board unit.
The structure of touch-control thin film switch at first is described, sees also Fig. 3, it is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION figure of touch-control thin film switch.Touch-control thin film switch 207 is by last wiring board 2071, space bar 2072 and 2073 of wiring boards are superimposed and constitute down, have first circuit pattern 211 on the last wiring board 2071, and first circuit pattern 211 has a plurality of upper contacts 221; Has second circuit pattern 212 on the following wiring board 2073, and second circuit pattern 212 has a plurality of contacts 222 down, wherein first circuit pattern 211 is reverse each other pattern with the second circuit pattern, when last wiring board 2071 and following wiring board 2073 are superimposed, can make first circuit pattern 211 corresponding to second circuit pattern 212, also promptly, a plurality of upper contacts 221 on first circuit pattern 211 can be aimed at superimposed a plurality of contacts 222 down on second circuit pattern 212.Space bar 2072 has a plurality of contact perforates 213, and space bar 2072 is between last wiring board 2071 and following wiring board 2073 and by this two clamping, under the not touched situation of touch-control thin film switch 207, contacting between the upper contact 221 that space bar 2072 can separate wiring board 2071 and the following contact 222 of following wiring board 2073, and a plurality of contact perforates 213 of space bar 2072 are corresponding to a plurality of upper contacts 221 and a plurality of positions of contacts 222 down.Yet when touch-control thin film switch 207 was touched, last wiring board 2071 touched upper contacts 221 can pass space bar 2072 and contact contact 222 down, make 207 conductings of touch-control thin film switch.More than be the structure and enforcement situation of touch-control thin film switch.
Next see also Fig. 4, it is the schematic appearance of a preferred embodiment of key board unit of the present invention.Key board unit 200 comprises base 201 (seeing also Fig. 5), the first touch-control thin slice 202, the second touch-control thin slice 209, loam cake 203, base cover 206 and a plurality of button 204.A plurality of buttons 204 of key board unit 200 are arranged on the base 201 and stretch out in outside the loam cake 203, for information such as user's input characters or various symbols.And loam cake 203 has first perforate 2031 and second perforate 2032 (sees also Fig. 5, wherein second perforate 2032 is because the visual angle is former thereby do not indicate in the drawings), in order to make the first touch-control thin slice 202 and the second touch-control thin slice 209 be provided with thereon and can be revealed in outside the loam cake 203 respectively, wherein the first touch-control thin slice 202 and the second touch-control thin slice, 209 usefulness are come input instruction for the user in the mode of touching.
See also Fig. 5, it is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION figure of a preferred embodiment of key board unit of the present invention.Key board unit 200 comprises base 201, the first touch-control thin slice 202, the second touch-control thin slice 209 (not being shown among the figure), loam cake 203, a plurality of button 204, main circuit board 205, base cover 206, the first touch-control thin film switch 207 and corresponding to the second touch-control thin film switch (not being shown among the figure) of the second touch-control thin slice 209.In the key board unit 200, main circuit board 205 is arranged on the base 201, in order to the running of supervisory keyboard device 200.And the present invention is provided with a base cover 206 in addition, base cover 206 has first groove 2061 and second groove 2062 (sees also Fig. 5, wherein second groove 2062 is because the visual angle is former thereby do not indicate in the drawings), in order to the first touch-control thin film switch 207 and the second touch-control thin film switch to be set respectively therein; The first touch-control thin film switch 207 and the second touch-control thin film switch are connected in main circuit board 205, and the first touch-control thin slice 202 is stacked and placed on the first touch-control thin film switch 207, the second touch-control thin slice 209 is stacked and placed on the second touch-control thin film switch, when loam cake 203 is covered on the base 201, the first touch-control thin slice 202 and the second touch-control thin slice 209 are revealed in outside the loam cake 203, operate for the user, wherein have a plurality of images 208 on the first touch-control thin slice 202 and the second touch-control thin slice 209, and the touch-control thin slice by polyethylene terephthalate (Polyethylene terephthalate, PET) made.
Please consult Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 once again, in the key board unit 200, each image 208 on the first touch-control thin slice 202 and the second touch-control thin slice 209 promptly has a kind of hot key function, the first touch-control thin film switch 207 and the second touch-control thin film switch are plane lamina, do not account for volume and cost is low, in this preferred embodiment, but the image 208 on the first touch-control thin slice 202 is the bar chart picture of towing, user's finger can be on image 208 towing, and the circuit pattern 211 of the first touch-control thin film switch 207 corresponding with it is row for a plurality of contact arranged in proximity, as shown in Figure 3.And the image 208 on the second touch-control thin slice 209 is a plurality of images that are arranged as row, the circuit pattern of the second touch-control thin film switch also has a plurality of contacts and is arranged as row equally, but the spare time between contact is apart from bigger, is difficult for pressing two images simultaneously for the user presses single image separately and produces misoperation.
Next, when the user touched the image 208 of the second touch-control thin slice 209, the second touch-control thin film switch was switched on, and the program that defaults in main circuit board 205 can be carried out the hot key function of this touched image 208; For example say, touched image 208 is predetermined to be the hot key function of a unlatching webpage, when the user touches this image 208 on the second touch-control thin slice 209, the second touch-control thin film switch is switched on, and the computer apparatus (not being shown among the figure) that is connected in key board unit 200 is then carried out the work of opening webpage immediately.If hot key function is set to the unlocking electronic mail, opens media play procedure or opens the Word text, when with the corresponding image of above-mentioned functions 208 when touched, computer apparatus then can be carried out touched image 208 default hot key functions.In addition, when the user with finger when the bar chart of towing moves as 208 on the first touch-control thin slice 202, make the first touch-control thin film switch 207 can work that carry out towing with having that the first touch-control thin slice 202 of bar chart as 208 cooperates.General more common towing function is for adjusting volume, but key board unit 200 of the present invention also can be set other hot key function to the bar chart picture that is somebody's turn to do towing, for example, functions such as window vertical scrolling, window level scrolling or window convergent-divergent, but also can utilize the bar chart of towing to look like to carry out hot key for operating.
Key board unit of the present invention is with volume touch-control thin film switch replacement complex structure frivolous, with low cost, expensive touch-control circuit plate.The touch-control circuit plate need the touched position of sensing and verify touched position be carry out this push instruction or press after must carry out the towing instruction, so computing is too complicated, therefore need huge circuit unit to execute instruction, cost can't reduce naturally; And the similar digital switch of touch-control thin film switch, conducting is only arranged and end two states, therefore can omit the computing of the touched position of sensing, when as long as the touch-control thin film switch is touched, if in Preset Time, be not adjacent to touched person's touch-control thin film switch conducting, then directly carry out the instruction of touched touch-control thin film switch; But, carry out the towing function if when in this Preset Time, being adjacent to touched person's touch-control thin film switch conducting or the equal conducting of touch-control thin film switch under the person of pressing.With prior art in comparison, the operation method of key board unit of the present invention is comparatively simple, and can write in the main circuit board and do not need to be provided with in addition a touch-control circuit plate, thereby can save in the prior art in order to the space of touch-control circuit plate to be set.And, most important also is that the cost of the most difficult reduction can reduce in the present invention easily, by above-mentioned every compared with the prior art as can be known, key board unit of the present invention is not only simple in structure, sequential operation is simple but also with low cost, and the present invention brings suitable convenience and practicality for user and manufacturer really.
The above is preferred embodiment of the present invention only, is not in order to restriction protection scope of the present invention, does not therefore everyly break away from other equivalence of being finished under the disclosed spirit and changes or modify, and all should be contained within protection scope of the present invention.
Claims (3)
1. a key board unit is connected in a computer apparatus, and this key board unit comprises:
One base;
One main circuit board, it is arranged on this base, in order to control the running of this key board unit;
One base cover, it has a groove and this base cover is covered on this base;
One touch-control thin film switch, it is arranged in this groove and is connected in this main circuit board, and this touch-control thin film switch comprises:
Wiring board on one, wiring board has one first circuit pattern on this, and has a plurality of upper contacts on this first circuit pattern;
One space bar, this space bar have a plurality of contact perforates; And
Wiring board once, this time wiring board has a second circuit pattern, and have a plurality of down contacts on this second circuit pattern, and go up this space bar of the common clamping of wiring board, each upper contact correspondence one contact perforate in wherein said a plurality of upper contacts and contact once with this;
One touch-control thin slice, it is arranged on this touch-control thin film switch and has a plurality of images, and when described image was touched, this touch-control thin film switch was switched on;
One loam cake, it has a perforate, with so that this touch-control thin slice be revealed in outside this loam cake; And a plurality of buttons, it stretches out in this loam cake.
2. key board unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein this touch-control thin slice is in order to control volume, window vertical scrolling, window level scrolling, window convergent-divergent, unlatching webpage, unlocking electronic mail, unlatching media play procedure or unlatching Word text.
3. key board unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein this touch-control thin slice is made by polyethylene terephthalate.
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