CN210605638U - Keyboard and electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a keyboard, including the main key district, number key district, main control area, assist control area and function key district, the main key district includes a plurality of letter keys, main control area includes a plurality of direction keys, assist control area including a plurality of navigation keys of arranging into a line, function key district is including a plurality of function keys of arranging into a line, main control area is located the main lower right corner of pressing the key district, the main key district aligns about with number key district, function key district and main key district are adjacent from top to bottom, assist control area and number key district adjacent from top to bottom and with function key district about align.

Description

Keyboard and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a hardware equipment field especially relates to a keyboard.

Background

A keyboard is a commonly used input device that can input various commands and data into a hardware device, such as a computer. The keyboard is usually provided with keys with various functions such as English letters, numbers, punctuation marks and the like. At present, the keyboards on the market adopt either a large-size full-function layout or a small-size portable layout. The former needs to occupy more use space, and the latter is at the expense of partial keys or has unreasonable layout, which brings inconvenience in operation.

With the continuous upgrading of user experience, higher and higher requirements are put forward on various aspects of the keyboard, such as diversification, flexibility, durability and the like. How to better satisfy the user's usage requirements has become one of the problems to be solved urgently in the industry.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to solve the technical problem that a keyboard is provided, this keyboard size is less and rationally distributed.

The utility model discloses a solve above-mentioned technical problem and the technical scheme who adopts provides a keyboard, press key district, number key district, main control area, assist control area and function key district including the owner, the owner presses the key district including a plurality of letter keys, main control area includes a plurality of direction keys, assist the control area including a plurality of navigation keys that arrange into a line, the function key district is including a plurality of function keys that arrange into a line, main control area is located the main lower right corner that presses the key district, the main press the key district with align about the number key district, the function key district with the owner presses the key district from top to bottom adjacent, assist the control area with number key district is adjacent from top to bottom, and with align about the function key district.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the number key area includes a plurality of number keys, and the size of the number keys is larger than the size of the letter keys in the main key area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the length and width of the plurality of letter keys range from 11.7 to 13.7mm, and the horizontal spacing is 2.2 to 3.2 mm; the plurality of numeric keys range in length and width from 14.3 to 16.3mm with a horizontal spacing of 2.1 to 3.1 mm.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the number keypad comprises a "Cash" key.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the length of the keyboard is 265-285mm, and the width is 100-120 mm.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the length and width of the plurality of function keys range from 10.7 to 12.7mm, and the horizontal spacing is from 4.7 to 5.7 mm.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the auxiliary control area includes 5 navigation keys, which are respectively a "Delete" key, a "Home" key, an "End" key, a "pggup" key, and a "PgDn" key;

the function keypad includes 11 keys, an "Esc" key and F1-F10 keys, respectively.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further comprises a cover detachably covering the F1-F10 key, and the cover is provided with additional function symbols of the F1-F10 key.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the main control area and the main button area form a rectangular area.

Another aspect of the present invention provides an electronic device, including the keyboard as described above.

The utility model discloses owing to adopt above technical scheme, make it compare with prior art, have following apparent advantage:

the utility model discloses a keyboard has included key zone, number key zone, main control area, has assisted key zones such as control area and functional keypad, through rational design layout, when according with the user and use the custom, has improved the convenience of operation.

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In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

fig. 1 is a layout structure diagram of a keyboard according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an architecture diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Element numbering in the figures:

10-electronic device

100-keyboard

110-main key area

120-digit keypad

130-main control area

140-auxiliary control area

150-function key area

200-processor

300-memory

400-communication port

500-output device

600 internal communication bus

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, but the present invention may be practiced in other ways than those specifically described herein, and thus the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

As used in this application and the appended claims, the terms "a," "an," "the," and/or "the" are not intended to be inclusive in the singular, but rather are intended to be inclusive in the plural unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In general, the terms "comprises" and "comprising" merely indicate that steps and elements are included which are explicitly identified, that the steps and elements do not form an exclusive list, and that a method or apparatus may include other steps or elements.

In describing the embodiments of the present invention in detail, the cross-sectional view showing the structure of the device is not enlarged partially according to the general scale for the convenience of illustration, and the schematic diagram is only an example, which should not limit the protection scope of the present invention. In addition, the three-dimensional dimensions of length, width and depth should be included in the actual fabrication.

For convenience in description, spatial relational terms such as "below," "beneath," "below," "under," "over," "upper," and the like may be used herein to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that these terms of spatial relationship are intended to encompass other orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" the other elements or features. Thus, the exemplary words "below" and "beneath" can encompass both an orientation of up and down. The device may have other orientations (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatial relationship descriptors used herein should be interpreted accordingly. Further, it will also be understood that when a layer is referred to as being "between" two layers, it can be the only layer between the two layers, or one or more intervening layers may also be present.

In the context of this application, a structure described as having a first feature "on" a second feature may include embodiments in which the first and second features are formed in direct contact, and may also include embodiments in which additional features are formed in between the first and second features, such that the first and second features may not be in direct contact.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "on," "connected to," "coupled to" or "contacting" another element, it can be directly on, connected or coupled to, or contacting the other element or intervening elements may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being "directly on," "directly connected to," "directly coupled to" or "directly contacting" another element, there are no intervening elements present. Similarly, when a first component is said to be "in electrical contact with" or "electrically coupled to" a second component, there is an electrical path between the first component and the second component that allows current to flow. The electrical path may include capacitors, coupled inductors, and/or other components that allow current to flow even without direct contact between the conductive components.

To solve the above problems, the following embodiments of the present invention provide a keyboard, which has a smaller size and a reasonable layout.

Fig. 1 is a layout structure diagram of a keyboard according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 1, a keyboard 100 includes a main key region 110, a number keypad 120, a main control region 130, a sub-control region 140, and a function keypad 150.

The main button section 110 includes a plurality of letter keys. For example, the main key region 110 may include 26 english letter keys from "a" key to "Z" key and may adopt, for example, a "QWERTY" keyboard as shown in fig. 1, but the embodiment is not limited thereto. As shown in fig. 1, in some examples, the main key area 110 may include keys other than letter keys, such as special keys, for example, a "number/symbol" key, an "Enter" key, and a "space" key, which are not expanded herein.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the numeric keypad 120 includes a plurality of numeric keys. For example, the numeric keypad 120 may include 10 arabic numeric keys from "0" key to "9" key, and four arithmetic keys such as "+" key, "-" key, "+" key, and "/" key, but the embodiment is not limited thereto. In one embodiment of the present invention, the numeric keypad 120 further includes a "Cash" key.

The main control area 130 includes a plurality of direction keys. In the example shown in fig. 1, the main control region 130 includes 4 direction keys such as "arp" key, "↓" key, "←" key, and "→" key.

The auxiliary control area 140 includes a plurality of navigation keys arranged in a row. In an embodiment of the present invention, the auxiliary control area 140 may include 5 navigation keys. For example, the secondary control area 140 may include 5 navigation keys, such as a "Delete" key, a "Home" key, an "End" key, a "PgUp" key, and a "PgDn" key.

The function keypad 150 includes a plurality of function keys arranged in a row. In an embodiment of the present invention, the functional keypad 150 may include 11 keys. For example, the function keypad 150 may include 10 function keys from the "F1" key to the "F10" key and an "Esc" key, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.

The layout of the main key area 110, number pad 120, main control area 130, auxiliary control area 140, and function pad 150 of the keyboard 100 will be described with reference to fig. 1.

Referring to fig. 1, the main control area 130 is located at the lower right corner of the main key area 110, the main key area 110 is aligned with the number pad 120 in the left-right direction, the function pad 150 is adjacent to the main key area 110 in the up-down direction, and the auxiliary control area 140 is adjacent to the number pad 120 in the up-down direction and aligned with the function pad 150 in the left-right direction. In an embodiment of the present invention, the main control area 130 and the main button area 110 form a rectangular area.

The main control area 130 is more frequently used, and can be conveniently operated by a user by forming a rectangular area with the main button area 110. The auxiliary control area 140 is disposed above the numeric keypad 120, which not only saves keyboard space, but also reduces user's misoperation during use. The main key area 110 is aligned with the number keypad 120 from left to right, and the auxiliary control area 140 is aligned with the function keypad 150 from left to right, so that the keyboard is very compact and neat without leaving an invalid blank area. In addition, the keys of the auxiliary control area 140 and the function key area 150 are arranged continuously without leaving an invalid blank area therebetween.

Referring to fig. 1, in an embodiment of the present invention, the keyboard 100 has a length of 265 and 285mm and a width of 100 and 120 mm.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the size of the plurality of numeric keys of numeric keypad 120 is larger than the size of the plurality of alphabetic keys of main key pad 110.

Illustratively, the length and width of the plurality of letter keys of main key region 110 range from 11.7-13.7mm, with a horizontal spacing of 2.2-3.2 mm. The "number/symbol" keys of the main key region 110 may also be the same size. Some of the special keys in the main key area 110, such as the "Enter" key and the "space" key, may be conventionally arranged larger. The length and width of the plurality of numeric keys of numeric keypad 120 range from 14.3-16.3mm with a horizontal spacing of 2.1-3.1 mm. Some of the keys of numeric keypad 120, such as the "0" key, the "+" key, the "-" key, the "+" key, and the "/" key, may be conventionally larger.

Such a design may facilitate user, especially professional, operations more frequently using the number keys, due to the scale of the number pad 120 in the overall keyboard and the larger size of the number keys of the number pad 120 compared to conventional keyboards.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the navigation keys of the auxiliary control area 140 and the plurality of function keys of the function key area 150 have a length and width in a range of 10.7-12.7mm and a horizontal interval of 4.7-5.7 mm. The keys are arranged in the same size and spacing to facilitate their good alignment.

It is understood that the above-described keyboard 100 and the sizes of the keys thereof are merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art can make various changes according to actual needs without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the keyboard 100 further comprises a cover (not shown) detachably covering the keys "F1" to "F10" of the function keypad 150, and additional function symbols of the keys "F1" to "F10" are presented on the cover. In some examples, the cover may also use a transparent material to display function keys underneath the cover.

In other examples of the present invention, the keyboard 100 may further include a cover (not shown) detachably covering the entire surface of the keyboard, and the cover may present additional functional symbols of the plurality of keys of the keyboard 100. Preferably, the cover may be made of a transparent material to display the keys below the cover.

It should be understood that the application field of the keyboard 100 of the present invention may include, but is not limited to, the field of merchandise sales. When the keyboard 100 of the present invention is applied to the field of merchandise sales, for example, in a Cash register, the "Cash" key of the numeric keypad 120 of the keyboard 100 can be used to open a cashbox of the Cash register. The keyboard 100 of the present invention can also be applied to other fields and devices, such as notebook computers and desktop computers, but the present embodiment is not limited thereto.

It is understood that the keyboard 100 may be a physical keyboard or a virtual keyboard. For example, the keyboard 100 may be a virtual keyboard presented by a touch screen device, a virtual keyboard projected on the surface of an object by a laser projection device, and the like, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.

The above embodiments of the present invention provide a keyboard, which has a smaller size and a reasonable layout.

Another aspect of the present invention provides an electronic device, which includes the keyboard 100 in the above embodiments.

Fig. 2 is an architecture diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 2, the electronic device 10 may include a keyboard 100, a processor 200, a memory 300, a communication port 400, an output device 500, and an internal communication bus 600.

The keyboard 100 may support user input of instructions and data. The processor 200 is used to execute instructions of a user. The memory 300 is used to store instructions and data for a user. The communication port 400 may be responsible for data communication between the electronic device 10 and an external device (not shown). The output device 500 may support data output by the electronic device 10. By way of example, the output device 500 may include one or more of the following components: a display, a printer, a speaker, or any combination thereof. The internal communication bus 600 may enable data communication between various components within the electronic device 10.

It is appreciated that in some examples of the invention, the electronic device 10 may also include other input devices (not shown) besides the keyboard 100, such as a mouse, a camera, a scanner, a touch screen, a handwriting input board, a microphone, or any combination thereof.

Further implementation details of the method of the present embodiment may refer to the embodiment described in fig. 1, and will not be further expanded herein.

It should be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative only. The embodiments described herein may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, or any combination thereof. For a hardware implementation, the processing units may be implemented within one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, and/or other electronic units designed to perform the functions described herein, or a combination thereof.

Having thus described the basic concept, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the foregoing disclosure is by way of example only, and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications, improvements and adaptations to the present application may occur to those skilled in the art, although not explicitly described herein. Such modifications, improvements and adaptations are proposed in the present application and thus fall within the spirit and scope of the exemplary embodiments of the present application.

Also, this application uses specific language to describe embodiments of the application. Reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment," "an embodiment," and/or "some embodiments" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with at least one embodiment of the present application is included in at least one embodiment of the present application. Therefore, it is emphasized and should be appreciated that two or more references to "an embodiment" or "one embodiment" or "an alternative embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, some features, structures, or characteristics of one or more embodiments of the present application may be combined as appropriate.

Computer program code required for the operation of various portions of the present application may be written in any one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Scala, Smalltalk, Eiffel, JADE, Emerald, C + +, C #, VB.NET, Python, and the like, a conventional programming language such as C, Visual Basic, Fortran 2003, Perl, COBOL 2002, PHP, ABAP, a dynamic programming language such as Python, Ruby, and Groovy, or other programming languages, and the like. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any network format, such as a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet), or in a cloud computing environment, or as a service, such as a software as a service (SaaS).

Additionally, the order in which elements and sequences of the processes described herein are processed, the use of alphanumeric characters, or the use of other designations, is not intended to limit the order of the processes and methods described herein, unless explicitly claimed. While various presently contemplated embodiments have been discussed in the foregoing disclosure by way of example, it should be understood that such detail is solely for that purpose and that the appended claims are not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, are intended to cover all modifications and equivalent arrangements that are within the spirit and scope of the embodiments herein disclosed. For example, although the system components described above may be implemented by hardware devices, they may also be implemented by software-only solutions, such as installing the described system on an existing server or mobile device.

Similarly, it should be noted that in the preceding description of embodiments of the application, various features are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure aiding in the understanding of one or more of the embodiments. This method of disclosure, however, is not intended to require more features than are expressly recited in the claims. Indeed, the embodiments may be characterized as having less than all of the features of a single embodiment disclosed above.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the present specific embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above embodiments are merely illustrative of the present invention, and various equivalent changes and substitutions may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and therefore, changes and modifications to the above embodiments within the spirit of the present invention will fall within the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. A keyboard comprising a main key area including a plurality of letter keys, a numeric keypad area, a main control area including a plurality of direction keys, an auxiliary control area including a plurality of navigation keys arranged in a line, and a function keypad area including a plurality of function keys arranged in a line,

the main control area is located the lower right corner in main button district, main button district with align about the number key district, the function key district with adjacent from top to bottom in main button district, assist the control area with adjacent from top to bottom in number key district, and with the function key district is controlled and is aligned.

2. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein the numeric keypad comprises a plurality of numeric keys having a size larger than the size of the plurality of alphabetic keys of the main key zone.

3. The keyboard of claim 2, wherein the plurality of alphabetic keys have a length and width in the range of 11.7-13.7mm and a horizontal spacing of 2.2-3.2 mm; the plurality of numeric keys range in length and width from 14.3 to 16.3mm with a horizontal spacing of 2.1 to 3.1 mm.

4. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein the number pad comprises a "Cash" key.

5. The keyboard as claimed in claim 1, wherein the keyboard has a length of 265 and 285mm and a width of 100 and 120 mm.

6. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein the plurality of function keys have a length and width in the range of 10.7-12.7mm and a horizontal spacing of 4.7-5.7 mm.

7. The keyboard of claim 1,

the auxiliary control area comprises 5 navigation keys, namely a ' Delete ' key, a ' Home ' key, an ' End key ', a Pgup ' key and a ' Pgdn ' key;

the function keypad includes 11 keys, an "Esc" key and F1-F10 keys, respectively.

8. The keyboard of claim 7, further comprising a cover removably covering the F1-F10 keys, the cover presenting additional function symbols for the F1-F10 keys.

9. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein the main control area and the main key area form a rectangular area.

10. An electronic device comprising a keyboard as claimed in any one of claims 1-9.

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