CN212648102U

CN212648102U - Keyboard external member, keyboard and electronic device

Info

Publication number: CN212648102U
Application number: CN202021264941.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 徐孝海; 陈刚
Original assignee: Dongguan Jizhi Electronic Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Dongguan Jizhi Electronic Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-30
Filing date: 2020-06-30
Publication date: 2021-03-02
Anticipated expiration: 2030-06-30

Abstract

The application belongs to the technical field of input device, provides a keyboard external member, includes: a keyboard housing; the keyboard comprises a middle plate, a circuit board and a plurality of plugging seats, wherein the middle plate is arranged in a keyboard shell, the circuit board is connected with the bottom of the middle plate, the plugging seats are connected with the bottom of the circuit board, a first protruding part which can be plugged in and pulled out of a mechanical shaft is formed on each plugging seat along the vertical direction, and a mechanical shaft through hole matched with the first protruding part and a first shaft body through hole matched with a first shaft body are formed in the circuit board; wherein the first shaft body comprises an optical axis and/or a magnetic axis; and the shaft bodies with different connection modes are flexibly assembled on the same keyboard middle shell.

Description

Keyboard external member, keyboard and electronic device

Technical Field

The present application belongs to the technical field of input devices, and more particularly, to a keyboard kit, a keyboard, and an electronic apparatus.

Background

Keyboards are widely used as command and data input devices for electronic devices. The key which is pressed frequently usually needs faster rebound speed and better hand feeling, and the key which is pressed less often does not need to be so severe, but the shaft body and the circuit board in the traditional keyboard usually adopt a single connection mode, such as connection of a mechanical shaft and the circuit board, connection of an optical shaft and the circuit board, and connection of a magnetic shaft and the circuit board; above-mentioned single connected mode can lead to the rebound speed and the feeling of each button all unanimous, can not assemble the axis body of different connected modes in a flexible way in same keyboard according to operator's demand.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the embodiments of the present application is to provide a keyboard kit, a keyboard and an electronic device, so as to solve the technical problem that shafts of different connection modes cannot be flexibly assembled in the same keyboard in the prior art.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the application on one hand is as follows: there is provided a keyboard assembly comprising: a keyboard housing; the keyboard comprises a middle plate, a circuit board and a plurality of plugging seats, wherein the middle plate is arranged in a keyboard shell, the circuit board is connected with the bottom of the middle plate, the plugging seats are connected with the bottom of the circuit board, a first protruding part which can be plugged in and pulled out of a mechanical shaft is formed on each plugging seat along the vertical direction, and a mechanical shaft through hole matched with the first protruding part and a first shaft body through hole matched with a first shaft body are formed in the circuit board; wherein the first shaft body comprises an optical axis and/or a magnetic axis.

Optionally, a first electrical component capable of working with the mechanical shaft is further disposed on the circuit board; and/or a second electrical component with which the first shaft body is operatively engaged.

Optionally, the middle plate is provided with a long key position mounting opening, the keyboard kit further includes a balance mechanism, the balance mechanism includes a support component and at least two connection components inserted in the support component, connected with the circuit board and used for connecting the mechanical shaft and/or the first shaft body, and the connection components penetrate through the long key position mounting opening.

Optionally, the connecting assembly includes two criss-cross connectors, a connecting seat for receiving the two connectors, and a supporting seat connected to the connecting seat, the supporting seat is installed on the circuit board, the bottom of the connecting seat extends outwards along the transverse direction to form a second protruding portion, and the supporting seat is connected to the second protruding portion in a clamping manner.

Optionally, the support seat comprises: with the support riser of the peripheral looks adaptation of connecting seat, with support diaphragm and the connection that the support riser is connected support the bottom plate of riser bottom, support the bottom plate with the circuit board is connected, the support diaphragm is located the top of second bellying is used for the card to support the second bellying.

Optionally, the supporting base plate is provided with a clamping strip extending upwards, the clamping strip extends vertically to form a third protruding portion, and the supporting assembly is clamped between the supporting transverse plate and the third protruding portion.

Optionally, the long key position mounting opening is a first through hole or a first groove.

Optionally, a USB interface is disposed on the circuit board, and a second through hole adapted to the USB interface is disposed on the keyboard housing.

Another aspect of the present application employs a technical solution that: a keyboard is provided, which comprises the keyboard suite, and a key, a mechanical shaft and/or a first shaft body which are assembled on the keyboard suite.

The technical scheme adopted by the other aspect of the application is as follows: provided is an electronic device including: a device body and a keyboard set as described in any of the above or the above keyboard mounted on the device body.

The keyboard suite provided by the embodiment of the application has the beneficial effects that:

compared with the prior art, the keyboard suite in the embodiment of the application only comprises the keyboard shell, the middle plate and the circuit board, and does not comprise a shaft body and a keycap, the inserting and pulling seat is provided with the first protruding part matched with the mechanical shaft in inserting and pulling, the circuit board is provided with the mechanical shaft through hole matched with the first protruding part and the first shaft through hole matched with the first shaft, an operator can freely assemble different shaft bodies on the keyboard suite, if the first shaft body with higher rebounding speed is assembled in a frequently-operated area, the mechanical shaft with low rebounding speed is assembled in a common area, the keyboard suite facilitates the operator to flexibly adjust each shaft body in the keyboard so as to adjust the rebounding speed of each key.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments or the prior art descriptions will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a keyboard according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a circuit board and a socket according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a second schematic structural diagram of a circuit board and a plug seat according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a plug seat according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of part I of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an exploded keyboard structure according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a balancing mechanism according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

wherein, in the figures, the respective reference numerals:

100-a keyboard kit; 1-a keyboard housing; 11-a second via; 2-a circuit board; 21-a USB interface; 22-mechanical shaft through hole; 23-a first shaft body through hole; 3-middle plate; 31-a third via; 32-a first via; 33-first groove. 4-a balancing mechanism; 41-a support assembly; 411-a fixation plate; 42-a connecting assembly; 421-a linker; 4211-second groove; 412-a support base; 4121-supporting risers; 4122-supporting the cross plate; 4123-a support base plate; 4124-card bar; 4125-third boss; 422-a connecting seat; 4221-a second boss; 5-a plug seat; 51-first boss.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present application clearer, the present application is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element.

It will be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like, as used herein, refer to an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings that is solely for the purpose of facilitating the description and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be considered as limiting the present application.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

An aspect of the present invention provides a keyboard, which includes a keyboard assembly 100, and a plurality of shafts and a plurality of keys assembled on the keyboard assembly 100.

Referring to fig. 1 to 6, which respectively show schematic structural diagrams of the keyboard assembly, the keyboard assembly 100 includes: a keyboard housing 1; the keyboard comprises a middle plate 3 arranged in the keyboard shell 1, a circuit board 2 connected with the bottom of the middle plate 3 and a plurality of plugging seats 5, wherein the plugging seats 5 are connected with the bottom of the circuit board 2, the plugging seats 5 form a first protruding portion 51 which can be plugged into and pulled out of a mechanical shaft along the vertical direction, and the circuit board 2 is provided with a mechanical shaft through hole 22 matched with the first protruding portion 51 and a first shaft body through hole 23 matched with the first shaft body.

The mechanical shaft and the first shaft body are different in installation mode, different in rebound mode and different in rebound speed, the mechanical shaft is in mechanical plug-in connection, and the first shaft body can comprise an optical shaft and/or a magnetic shaft. Compared with a mechanical shaft, the rebound speed and the response speed of the optical shaft and the magnetic shaft are higher.

The operator can assemble the axis bodies of different forms on the keyboard external member respectively according to the self demand, for example, the axis bodies of the forms of the mechanical axis and the optical axis, the mechanical axis and the magnetic axis, the optical axis and the magnetic axis, and the like are assembled on the keyboard external member.

In the embodiment of the present application, the keyboard suite only includes keyboard shell 1, medium plate 3 and circuit board 2, does not contain the axis body and key cap, just be provided with the first bellying 51 with mechanical axle plug looks adaptation on the plug seat, set up the mechanical axle through-hole 22 with first bellying 51 looks adaptation and the first axle body through-hole 23 with first axle body looks adaptation on the circuit board 2, the operator can freely assemble different axis bodies on this keyboard suite, if assemble the faster first axle body of rebound speed in the region of frequent operation, assemble the slow mechanical axle of rebound speed in ordinary region, this keyboard suite is convenient for each axis body in the nimble adjustment keyboard of operator to adjust the rebound speed of each button.

For further being convenient for assemble the axis body, still be equipped with on the circuit board 2 can with optical axis work complex's optical axis electrical component and with magnetic axis work complex's hall element assembly. Specifically, the optical axis electrical component can be a light pair tube, and parts in the optical axis move up and down to shield the light pair tube to realize the keyboard function; the Hall element assembly can be a Hall linear device or a Hall switch device, and can be matched with a magnet in the magnetic shaft to complete the operation of pressing input of the magnetic shaft.

Referring to fig. 6 and 7, in an embodiment, the middle plate 3 is provided with a long key position mounting opening and a balance mechanism 4 penetrating through the middle plate 3, the balance mechanism 4 includes a supporting component 41 and at least two connecting components 42 inserted into the supporting component 41, connected to the circuit board 2 and used for connecting a mechanical shaft and/or a first shaft, and the connecting components 42 penetrate through the long key position mounting opening.

This application embodiment accepts the button through balance mechanism 4 when the equipment button, and coupling assembling 42 runs through the long key position installing port that medium plate 3 was seted up, through coupling assembling 42 and shaft body coupling, and a button can correspond two at least coupling assembling 42, plays the balancing act when pressing the button, and the button can not the horizontal tilt, and the both ends of button can be moved simultaneously from top to bottom, have improved and have pressed input efficiency.

In order to ensure the balance effect of the balance mechanism 4, at least two connecting assemblies 42 are provided, wherein the number of the connecting assemblies 42 can be two, and the connecting assemblies 42 can be symmetrically arranged on two sides of the center of the supporting assembly 41; the number of the connecting components 42 can be one, one connecting component 42 is arranged at the center of the supporting component 41, and the rest connecting components 42 are respectively arranged at the two sides of the center of the supporting component 41; of course, the arrangement position of the connecting member 42 may be asymmetrical, and is not particularly limited.

The specific structure of the connecting assembly 42 is as follows: the connecting assembly 42 includes two cross-shaped connecting bodies 421, a connecting seat 422 for receiving the two connecting bodies 421, and a supporting seat 412 connected to the connecting seat 422. Preferably, the bottom of the connecting seat 422 may extend laterally outward to form a second boss 4221 for engaging with the supporting seat 412. The connecting body 421 may be provided with a matching portion matching with the shaft body; the specific form of the matching portion may be a second groove 4211 formed on the connecting body 421 and used for clamping the shaft body, and the second groove is used for clamping the shaft body and the connecting body 421. Certainly, the matching part can also be designed into a magnetic structure, so that the shaft body with magnetism can be conveniently connected.

The specific structure of the supporting seat 412 is as follows:

the connecting device comprises a supporting vertical plate 4121 matched with the periphery of the connecting seat 422, a supporting transverse plate 4122 connected with the supporting vertical plate 4121 and a supporting bottom plate 4123 connected with the bottom of the supporting vertical plate 4121, wherein the supporting bottom plate 4123 is connected with the circuit board 2, and the supporting transverse plate 4122 is positioned above the second boss 4221 and used for clamping against the second boss 4221.

The supporting bottom plate 4123 is provided with a clamping strip 4124 extending upwards, the clamping strip 4124 extends vertically to form a third protruding portion 4125, and the supporting assembly 41 is clamped between the supporting transverse plate 4122 and the third protruding portion 4125. The support component 41 and the connecting component 42 can be assembled by matching the structures of the support component and the connecting component.

The connecting assembly 42 may be connected to the circuit board 2 by soldering or the like.

The specific structural form of the supporting component 41 is as follows: a fixing plate 411 matched with the supporting seat 412 may be provided, and the fixing plate 411 may be clamped between the supporting cross plate 4122 and the third protruding portion 4125.

Structure of middle plate 3:

a plurality of third through holes 31 may be formed in the middle plate 3 for assembling the keys and the shaft. The middle plate 3 may be provided with a first through hole 32 or a first groove 33 adapted to the fixing plate 411, in addition to the third through hole 31. The first through hole 32 or the first groove 33 is a specific structural form of a long key position mounting opening. The top surface of the fixing plate 411 may be flush with the top surface of the middle plate 3, so that the installation heights of the plurality of keys may be consistent when the keys are assembled. The middle plate 3 corresponding to the space key may have a first groove 33, and the fixing plate 411 may be screwed to the circuit board 2.

Structure of the circuit board 2:

the circuit board 2 is welded with electrical elements and the like, and the circuit board 2 can be provided with a USB interface 21; structure of the keyboard housing 1:

the keyboard shell 1 may be provided with a second through hole 11 adapted to the USB interface 21. The keyboard housing 1 may be provided as an integrated structure.

In the above embodiments, the keyboard housing 1, the circuit board 2 and the middle plate 3 are connected by screw threads. Screw holes can be opened on the middle plate 3 and the circuit board 2, a bolt is arranged on the keyboard shell 1, and the bolt is arranged in the screw holes in a penetrating manner to fasten the keyboard shell 1, the circuit board 2 and the middle plate 3.

Another aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides an electronic device, including: the keyboard assembly comprises a device body and the keyboard assembly 100 or the keyboard arranged on the device body. The electronic device may be a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a super computer, or the like, which is connected to the keyboard assembly 100.

The above description is only exemplary of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A keyboard assembly, comprising:

a keyboard housing;

the keyboard comprises a middle plate, a circuit board and a plurality of plugging seats, wherein the middle plate is arranged in a keyboard shell, the circuit board is connected with the bottom of the middle plate, the plugging seats are connected with the bottom of the circuit board, a first protruding part which can be plugged in and pulled out of a mechanical shaft is formed on each plugging seat along the vertical direction, and a mechanical shaft through hole matched with the first protruding part and a first shaft body through hole matched with a first shaft body are formed in the circuit board; wherein the first shaft body comprises an optical axis and/or a magnetic axis.

2. The keyboard assembly of claim 1, wherein the circuit board further comprises a first electrical component operatively engaged with the mechanical shaft; and/or a second electrical component with which the first shaft body is operatively engaged.

3. The keyboard assembly of claim 1, wherein the middle plate defines a long key mounting opening, the keyboard assembly further comprises a balance mechanism, the balance mechanism comprises a support member and at least two connecting members inserted into the support member, connected to the circuit board and used for connecting the mechanical shaft and/or the first shaft, and the connecting members penetrate through the long key mounting opening.

4. The keyboard assembly of claim 3, wherein the connecting assembly comprises two criss-cross connecting bodies, a connecting seat for receiving the two connecting bodies, and a supporting seat connected to the connecting seat, the supporting seat is mounted on the circuit board, a bottom of the connecting seat extends laterally outward to form a second protruding portion, and the supporting seat is engaged with the second protruding portion.

5. The keyboard assembly of claim 4, wherein the support base comprises: with the support riser of the peripheral looks adaptation of connecting seat, with support diaphragm and the connection that the support riser is connected support the bottom plate of riser bottom, support the bottom plate with the circuit board is connected, the support diaphragm is located the top of second bellying is used for the card to support the second bellying.

6. The keyboard assembly of claim 5, wherein the supporting base plate is provided with a clamping strip extending upwards, the clamping strip extends vertically to form a third protruding portion, and the supporting assembly is clamped between the supporting transverse plate and the third protruding portion.

7. The keyboard assembly of claim 3, wherein the elongated key mounting opening is a first through hole or a first groove.

8. The keyboard assembly of claim 1, wherein the circuit board is provided with a USB port, and the keyboard housing is provided with a second through hole adapted to the USB port.

9. A keyboard, comprising: the keyboard assembly of any one of claims 1 to 8, and a key, a mechanical shaft and/or a first shaft body assembled on the keyboard assembly.

10. An electronic device, comprising: a device body and a keyboard set according to any one of claims 1 to 8 or a keyboard according to claim 9 mounted on the device body.