CN214624834U

CN214624834U - Mute key and mute keyboard

Info

Publication number: CN214624834U
Application number: CN202120920181.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 连俊维
Original assignee: Dongguan Wulian Electronic Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Dongguan Wulian Electronic Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-04-29
Filing date: 2021-04-29
Publication date: 2021-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 2031-04-29

Abstract

The utility model relates to a keyboard technical field discloses a silence button and silence keyboard. The mute button comprises a base and a keycap, the base comprises a shell and an elastic support piece arranged in the shell, the shell is provided with an opening, the elastic support piece comprises a buffer body, a first connecting column and a second connecting column, a cavity is arranged in the buffer body, the buffer body comprises a top wall, the second connecting column is connected to one side of the top wall and extends towards the inside of the cavity, and the length of the second connecting column is smaller than the height of the cavity of the buffer body; the first connecting column is arranged on the other side of the top wall; one side of the keycap facing the shell is provided with a sleeving part, the sleeving part is sleeved on the first connecting column and extends into the shell through the opening, and the keycap can move towards the shell under stress to enable the buffering body to deform. The utility model provides a silence button and silence keyboard can be used as computer input equipment, and the noise in use is little, can satisfy user's user demand.

Description

Mute key and mute keyboard

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a keyboard technical field especially relates to a silence button and silence keyboard.

Background

The keyboard is the most common computer input device, and is widely applied to microcomputers and various terminal devices, and a user can input various instructions and data into the computer through the keyboard so as to direct the computer to work.

The existing keyboard is usually made of plastic materials, and in the key using process, a keycap and a key seat are easy to collide, so that larger noise is generated, and the keyboard is inconvenient to use in some special occasions.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a silence button and silence keyboard, the noise of use is less.

In order to solve the above problem, in a first aspect, the present invention discloses a mute button, including a base and a keycap, wherein the base includes a housing and an elastic support member disposed in the housing, the housing is provided with an opening, the elastic support member includes a buffer body, a first connecting column and a second connecting column, a cavity is disposed inside the buffer body, the buffer body includes a top wall, the second connecting column is connected to one side of the top wall and extends toward the inside of the cavity, and the length of the second connecting column is smaller than the height of the cavity of the buffer body; the first connecting column is arranged on the other side of the top wall; one side of the keycap facing the shell is provided with a sleeving part, the sleeving part is sleeved on the first connecting column and extends into the shell through the opening, and the keycap can move towards the shell under stress to enable the buffer body to deform.

In an embodiment, the length of the socket is greater than the length of the first connection post, and the end face of the socket abuts against the upper surface of the top wall.

In one embodiment, the first connecting column has a circular axial cross-section, and the socket is a hollow cylinder.

In an embodiment, the buffer body, the first connecting column and the second connecting column are made of silica gel.

In an embodiment, the keycap and the housing are further provided with a clamping limiting structure, and the clamping limiting structure is used for limiting the moving distance of the keycap in the vertical direction.

In one embodiment, the bottom of the keycap is connected with a guide part, and the guide part surrounds the outer side of the sleeving part; the joint limit structure including set up in first protruding muscle on the outer wall of guide part and set up in the protruding muscle of second of the opening part of shell, just but the upper surface butt of first protruding muscle extremely the lower surface of the protruding muscle of second.

In an embodiment, an end of the socket portion protrudes from an end of the guide portion along an axial direction of the first connection post.

In an embodiment, the guiding portion and the sleeve portion are arranged at intervals.

In one embodiment, a gap exists between an outer wall surface of the guide portion and an inner edge of the opening of the housing.

The utility model provides a silence button, including base and key cap, the base includes the shell and sets up the elastic support piece in the shell, and wherein, elastic support piece can be used to support the key cap. Because elastic support piece includes the buffer body, first spliced pole and second spliced pole, the inside of the buffer body is equipped with the cavity and the buffer body includes the roof, the second spliced pole is connected in one side of roof and extends towards the cavity in, the opposite side of roof is located to first spliced pole, the key cap is equipped with the portion of cup jointing towards one side of shell, the portion of cup jointing can overlap locate on first spliced pole and stretch in the shell through the opening of shell, thus, when pressing the key cap, the buffer body can take place to warp, first spliced pole and second spliced pole can the downstream, and the second spliced pole can be portable to the cavity bottom, when the key cap loosens, the buffer body kick-backs, first spliced pole, second spliced pole and key cap can the rebound, thereby elastic support piece still can assist the completion character to type. The key cap is located on elastic support's first spliced pole through the cover of cup joint portion, first spliced pole possesses certain guide effect to the key cap, because when first spliced pole moves down, can imbed in the annular ring that the buffer formed, when first spliced pole upward movement, can follow above-mentioned annular ring and shift out, first spliced pole upwards and the route of moving down are unanimous, the equilibrium and stability are higher, it rocks about being difficult for among the removal process, therefore, through designing first spliced pole, the buffer and improving the key cap structure, can improve the stability that the key cap removed, make the key cap remove in-process difficult bump with the shell, thereby can reduce the noise in use and the reducing wear of silence button, improve the performance of silence button. In addition, when the mute button is in a working state, namely when the keycap is pressed to the lowest position, the second connecting column in the elastic supporting piece touches the bottom, and the buffer body can absorb certain impact force, so that the bottom-falling hand feeling of the mute button can be improved by designing the second connecting column and the buffer body, and the noise in the bottom-falling process can be weakened, thereby further reducing the noise in the use function process of the mute button. To sum up, the utility model provides a mute button, the use noise is little, can satisfy user's user demand.

In a second aspect, the present invention also discloses a mute keyboard, which comprises a contact circuit and a plurality of mute keys as in the first aspect, a plurality of mute keys are arranged on the contact circuit.

The utility model provides a silence keyboard includes contact circuit and a plurality of silence button that sets up on contact circuit, because the silence button includes base and key cap, the base includes the shell and sets up the elastic support piece in the shell, and the key cap is connected to elastic support piece, and can make elastic support piece's second spliced pole touch the end and press when pressing the key cap and touch to contact circuit's contact point on to utilize above-mentioned silence button can accomplish the character and type. And because the keycap of the mute button is sleeved on the first connecting column of the elastic support piece through the sleeving part, the first connecting column has a certain guiding function on the keycap, when the first connecting column moves downwards, the first connecting column can be embedded into the annular ring formed by the buffer body, when the first connecting column moves upwards, the first connecting column can be moved out of the annular ring, the upward and downward moving routes of the first connecting column are consistent, the balance degree and the stability are higher, the first connecting column is not easy to shake left and right in the moving process, so that the keycap is not easy to collide with the shell in the moving process, and the noise is lower in the using process of the mute button. In addition, when the mute button is in a working state, the second connecting column in the elastic supporting piece touches the bottom, and the buffer body can absorb certain impact force, namely, the mute button has high bottom-falling hand feeling and low bottom-falling noise when in use. To sum up, the utility model provides a silence keyboard, the noise of use is little, can satisfy user's user demand.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a mute button provided in an embodiment of the present invention in a natural state;

fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the mute button provided in the embodiment of the present invention in an operating state.

Description of the main element symbols:

100. a mute button;

10. a base; 11. a housing; 12. an elastic support member; 111. a second rib; 121. a buffer body; 122. a first connecting column; 123. a second connecting column; 1211. a cavity; 1212. a top wall;

20. a keycap; 21. a socket joint part; 22. a top surface; 23. a guide portion; 24. a first rib;

200. contacting the circuit.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention 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 for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the invention.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly or indirectly secured to the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly or indirectly connected to the other element. The terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the patent. The terms "first", "second" and "first" are used merely for descriptive purposes and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features. The meaning of "plurality" is two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

In a first aspect, the utility model discloses a silence button. As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the mute key 100 includes a base 10 and a key cap 20. Wherein, the base 10 includes the shell 11 and sets up the elastic support element 12 in the shell 11, the shell 11 is equipped with the opening, elastic support element 12 includes buffer body 121, first spliced pole 122 and second spliced pole 123, buffer body 121's inside is equipped with cavity 1211 and buffer body 121 includes the roof 1212, second spliced pole 123 is connected in one side of roof 1212 and extends towards cavity 1211, and the length of second spliced pole 123 is less than the height of cavity 1211 of buffer body 121, there is the interval in the bottom of second spliced pole 123 and the bottom of cavity 1211 promptly, first spliced pole 122 is located the opposite side of roof 1212. One side of the key cap 20 facing the housing 11 is provided with a sleeve portion 21, the sleeve portion 21 is sleeved on the first connecting post 122 and extends into the housing 11 through the opening of the housing 11, and the key cap 20 is forced to move toward the housing 11, so that the buffer body 121 deforms.

One end of the sleeve portion 21 is connected to the top surface 22 of the key cap 20, and in order to improve the connection reliability between the key cap 20 and the elastic support 12, the sleeve portion 21 is connected to the first connection post 122 in an interference manner.

When the mute button 100 is used, it can be switched between a natural state and an operating state to complete character typing. Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the key cap 20 is connected to the first connecting pillar 122, and the key cap 20 is lifted up under the support of the first connecting pillar 122 and the buffer 121, and at this time, the mute key 100 is in a natural state. When a character needs to be typed, the key cap 20 can be pressed to make the key cap 20, the first connecting column 122 and the second connecting column 123 move downwards along the vertical direction (i.e. the axial direction of the first connecting column 122), and stop when the second connecting column 123 touches the bottom, the buffer body 121 deforms when the external force is pressed, and the first connecting column 122 is embedded into the annular ring formed by the deformation of the buffer body 121, as shown in fig. 2, which is a schematic diagram when the mute key 100 is in a working state. After the key cap 20 is released, the buffer body 121 rebounds, the first connecting column 122 and the second connecting column 123 move upward along the vertical direction, and under the restoring force of the buffer body 121 and the first connecting column 122, the key cap 20 moves to the initial position, that is, the mute key 100 returns to the natural state. Repeating the above steps can achieve the function of typing characters.

The utility model provides a mute button 100, including a base 10 and a key cap 20, the base 10 includes a housing 11 and an elastic supporting member 12 disposed in the housing 11, the elastic supporting member 12 includes a buffer body 121, a first connecting post 122 and a second connecting post 123, one side of the key cap 20 facing the housing 11 is provided with a socket part 21, and the key cap 20 is sleeved on the first connecting post 122 of the elastic supporting member 12 through the socket part 21, the first connecting post 122 has a certain guiding function for the key cap 20, because the first connecting post 122 can be embedded into an annular ring formed by the buffer body 121 when moving downwards, when the first connecting post 122 moves upwards, the first connecting post 122 can be moved out from the annular ring, the upward and downward moving routes of the first connecting post 122 are consistent, the balance and stability are higher, and the key cap 20 is not easy to sway left and right during the moving process, therefore, by designing the first connecting post 122, the buffer body 121 and improving the structure of the key cap 20, can improve the stability that key cap 20 removed for key cap 20 removes the in-process and is difficult for colliding with shell 11, thereby can reduce silence button 100's noise in use and reduce wearing and tearing, improves silence button 100's performance. In addition, when the mute button 100 is in a working state, that is, when the key cap 20 is pressed to the lowest position, the second connecting column 123 of the elastic support member 12 touches the bottom, and the buffer body 121 can absorb a certain impact force, so that the bottom-falling hand feeling of the mute button 100 can be improved by designing the second connecting column 123 and the buffer body 121, and the noise in the bottom-falling process can be weakened, thereby further reducing the noise in the use function process of the mute button 100. The utility model provides a silence button 100, the noise of use is little, can satisfy user's user demand.

In order to further improve the stability when the key cap 20 moves, in the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the length of the sleeve portion 21 is greater than the length of the first connecting post 122, and the end surface of the sleeve portion 21 abuts against the upper surface of the top wall 1212. Thus, when the key cap 20 is pressed, the pressure can be directly transmitted to the top wall 1212 of the buffer body 121 through the sleeve-connection part 21, and the top wall 1212 can be directly pressed to move downwards; when the key cap 20 is released and the buffer body 121 rebounds, the buffer body 121 can directly transmit the restoring force to the end of the sleeve part 21 and directly support the sleeve part 21 to move upwards. Adopt above-mentioned structural design, can optimize the atress that key cap 20 removed in-process key cap 20 and elastic support piece 12 for elastic support piece 12's first spliced pole 122 and key cap 20's removal is more stable, thereby can effectively avoid key cap 20 to remove in-process and shell 11 bump, reduces the noise in utilization of silence keyboard.

It is understood that, in some embodiments, the length of the sleeve portion 21 may also be smaller than the length of the first connection pillar 122, and the first connection pillar 122 may directly penetrate through the sleeve portion 21 and abut on the top surface 22 of the key cap 20, which may be designed according to practical situations and is not limited herein.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the first connecting column 122 has a circular axial cross-section, and the socket 21 has a hollow cylindrical shape. The cylindrical structure has better compression resistance and bending resistance, is not easy to damage, has long service life, simple cylindrical structure and convenient manufacture and installation.

It is understood that, in some embodiments, the first connecting post 122 and the socket portion 21 may also be designed in other structures, such as a square post, which may be designed according to practical situations, and is not limited herein.

The utility model provides a silence button 100, elastic support 12's material is not only. For example, in some embodiments, the buffer body 121, the first connection post 122 and the second connection post 123 can be made of a silicone material, which has high elasticity, high temperature resistance, aging resistance, long service life, and is non-toxic and odorless, and will not harm users. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the buffer body 121, the first connection column 122 and the second connection column 123 can also be made of other elastic materials, such as rubber, plastic, etc.

Further, in order to improve the reliability of the elastic supporting member 12, the buffer body 121, the first connecting column 122 and the second connecting column 123 are integrally formed by injection molding.

In the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the key cap 20 and the housing 11 are further provided with a clamping limiting structure, and the clamping limiting structure is used for limiting the moving distance of the key cap 20 in the vertical direction. Set up joint limit structure, can prevent that key cap 20 from breaking away from base 10 because of the skew or receive great external force to strike, reduce key cap 20's the risk that drops, promote the reliability of silence keyboard.

The utility model provides a silence keyboard, joint limit structure's type is not only. For example, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the bottom of the key cap 20 is connected with a guide portion 23, the guide portion 23 surrounds the outer side of the sleeve portion 21, the clamping limiting structure includes a first rib 24 disposed on the outer wall surface of the guide portion 23 and a second rib 111 disposed at the opening of the housing 11, and the upper surface of the first rib 24 can abut against the lower surface of the second rib 111. By adopting the structural design, the contact area of the first convex rib 24 and the second convex rib 111 is large, the limiting effect is good, the keycap 20 can be effectively prevented from falling off, and the normal movement of the keycap 20 can not be influenced. Or, in some embodiments, a clamping groove may be further disposed on an inner wall surface of the socket part 21, and a protruding structure corresponding to the clamping groove is disposed on the first connecting post 122, which may be specifically designed according to actual situations, and is not limited herein.

It can be understood that the guiding portion 23 is disposed outside the sleeve portion 21 and extends along the axial direction of the first connecting pillar 122, and the guiding portion 23 can assist the elastic support 12 to guide the movement of the key cap 20. In addition, the guide portion 23 has a relatively large radial dimension, and an end portion thereof protrudes into the housing 11, and also has a dust-proof function.

It should be noted that, the key cap 20 is connected to the first connecting post 122 of the elastic supporting member 12 through the connecting portion 21, and the key cap 20 is returned to the natural state by the operating state, and the elastic supporting member 12 not only can provide an upward restoring force, but also can provide a downward pulling force when it reaches the position of the natural state, so as to avoid the impact caused by the rebounding of the clamping limiting structure to a certain extent, and reduce the noise in use of the mute keyboard.

Further, in an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the end of the sleeve portion 21 protrudes from the end of the guiding portion 23 along the axial direction of the first connecting column 122. By adopting the structural design, the moving distance of the keycap 20 is not limited by the guide part 23, and when the keycap 20 is pressed, the second connecting part can be contacted, so that the mute keyboard can be normally used.

First protruding muscle 24 and the protruding muscle 111 of second butt from top to bottom, the size is great, during equipment key cap 20 and base 10, need press through external force and make the deformation of guide part 23 take place the certain degree, consequently, for conveniently assembling key cap 20 and base 10 the utility model provides an embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the outer wall and the 21 intervals of cup jointing of guide part 23 set up, leave certain clearance between guide part 23 and cup jointing 21 promptly, for guide part 23 provides the deformation space.

Further, in order to reduce the collision between the guide portion 23 and the housing 11, in an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, a gap exists between the outer wall surface of the guide portion 23 and the inner edge of the opening of the housing 11.

In a second aspect, the utility model also discloses a silence keyboard. As shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the mute keyboard comprises a contact circuit 200 and a plurality of mute keys 100 as in the first aspect, and the plurality of mute keys 100 are disposed on the contact circuit 200.

The contact circuit 200 includes a plurality of contact points, and pressing the key cap 20 of the mute button 100 can press the second connecting pillar 123 of the mute button 100 to the corresponding contact points.

The utility model provides a silence keyboard includes contact circuit 200 and a plurality of silence button 100 that set up on contact circuit 200, because silence button 100 includes base 10 and key cap 20, base 10 includes shell 11 and sets up the elastic support element 12 in shell 11, key cap 20 is connected to elastic support element 12, and can make elastic support element 12's second spliced pole 123 touch end and press when pressing key cap 20 and touch to contact circuit 200's contact point on, thereby utilize above-mentioned silence button 100 can accomplish the character and type. The key cap 20 of the mute key 100 is sleeved on the first connection post 122 of the elastic support 12 through the sleeving part 21, the first connection post 122 has a certain guiding function on the key cap 20, when the first connection post 122 moves downwards, the first connection post 122 is embedded into the annular ring formed by the buffer body 121, when the first connection post 122 moves upwards, the first connection post 122 moves out of the annular ring, the upward and downward movement routes of the first connection post 122 are consistent, the balance degree and stability are high, the key cap 20 is not easy to shake left and right in the moving process, therefore, the key cap 20 is not easy to collide with the housing 11 in the moving process, and the noise is small in the using process of the mute key 100. In addition, when the mute button 100 is in the working state, the second connecting post 123 of the elastic supporting member 12 touches the bottom, and the buffer body 121 can absorb a certain impact force, i.e. the mute button 100 has a high feel and a low noise when it is used. To sum up, the utility model provides a silence keyboard, the noise of use is little, can satisfy user's user demand.

The above-mentioned embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application, and not for limiting the same; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not substantially depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present application and are intended to be included within the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A mute key comprises a base and a keycap and is characterized in that the base comprises a shell and an elastic support piece arranged in the shell, the shell is provided with an opening, the elastic support piece comprises a buffer body, a first connecting column and a second connecting column, a cavity is arranged inside the buffer body, the buffer body comprises a top wall, the second connecting column is connected to one side of the top wall and extends towards the inside of the cavity, and the length of the second connecting column is smaller than the height of the cavity of the buffer body; the first connecting column is arranged on the other side of the top wall; one side of the keycap facing the shell is provided with a sleeving part, the sleeving part is sleeved on the first connecting column and extends into the shell through the opening, and the keycap can move towards the shell under stress to enable the buffer body to deform.

2. The mute key as claimed in claim 1, wherein the length of the socket is greater than the length of the first connecting post, and the end face of the socket abuts against the upper surface of the top wall.

3. The mute key as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first connecting post has a circular axial cross-section and the socket portion has a hollow cylindrical shape.

4. The mute key according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the buffer body, the first connecting column and the second connecting column are made of silicone.

5. The mute key according to claim 1, wherein the key cap and the housing are further provided with a clamping limiting structure, and the clamping limiting structure is used for limiting the moving distance of the key cap in the vertical direction.

6. The mute key according to claim 5, wherein the bottom of the keycap is connected with a guiding part, and the guiding part surrounds the outer side of the sleeving part;

the joint limit structure including set up in first protruding muscle on the outer wall of guide part and set up in the protruding muscle of second of the opening part of shell, just but the upper surface butt of first protruding muscle extremely the lower surface of the protruding muscle of second.

7. The mute key as claimed in claim 6, wherein the end of the socket portion protrudes from the end of the guide portion in the axial direction of the first connecting post.

8. The mute key as claimed in claim 6, wherein the guide portion is spaced apart from the socket portion.

9. A mute key as claimed in any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein a gap is provided between the outer wall surface of the guide and the inner edge of the opening in the housing.

10. A mute keyboard comprising a contact circuit and a plurality of mute keys as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9, the plurality of mute keys being disposed on the contact circuit.