CN217280530U

CN217280530U - Transparent keycap and mechanical keyboard

Info

Publication number: CN217280530U
Application number: CN202221017057.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 蒋维
Original assignee: Royal Core Technology Dongguan Co Ltd
Current assignee: Royal Core Technology Dongguan Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-27
Filing date: 2022-04-27
Publication date: 2022-08-23
Anticipated expiration: 2032-04-27

Abstract

The utility model discloses a transparent keycap and a mechanical keyboard, relating to the technical field of keycap peripherals of mechanical keyboards, which comprises a keycap shell and a bottom connecting seat, wherein the keycap shell and the bottom connecting seat are made of transparent materials; the key cap shell is connected with the bottom connecting seat, the key cap shell is hollow, and when the key cap shell is connected with the bottom connecting seat, a cavity is formed inside. According to the utility model discloses a transparent key cap and mechanical keyboard, key cap casing and bottom connecting seat all adopt transparent material to make, and the printing opacity effect is better, and the light of keyboard can shine into the cavity, makes the key cap possess the sight more. The articles in the cavity can be viewed from the outside, and the height and the typing hand feeling of the keycap are not influenced because the decoration is filled in the cavity.

Description

Transparent keycap and mechanical keyboard

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a mechanical keyboard key cap peripheral hardware technical field, in particular to transparent key cap and mechanical keyboard.

Background

The computer peripheral refers to an external electronic device applied to a personal computer for inputting or outputting information to or from the personal computer, and includes but is not limited to a keyboard, a mouse, and an earphone. Existing external equipment is generally provided with lamplight and a decorative body on electronic equipment, and is used for meeting personalized requirements of users.

In order to meet the individual requirements of more young users, manufacturers of the existing keyboards have introduced various customized key caps with themes or have various decorations adhered to the key caps, so as to customize the personal keyboards of the users. And the method provides embellishment and mobilized user enthusiasm for the use environment. However, most of the existing keyboard keycaps are printed with specific patterns and pasted with decorations, which causes aesthetic fatigue. The printed pattern is easy to fade after being used for a long time, the keycap is blurred, the light transmission effect is influenced, the decoration is pasted to enable the height of the keycap and the surface material to change, and the typing hand feeling is influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at solving at least and "current keyboard key cap majority that exists adopts the printing specific pattern and pastes the embellishment among the prior art, produce aesthetic fatigue. The printed pattern is easy to fade after long-time use, so that the keycap is blurred, the light transmission effect is influenced, and the decoration is pasted to change the height of the keycap and the surface material and influence the hand feeling of typing. Therefore, the utility model provides a transparent key cap and mechanical keyboard, the user can design the embellishment of key cap by oneself, and the printing opacity effect is better to the embellishment does not influence and feels and the key cap height of typing.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a transparent key cap comprises a key cap shell and a bottom connecting seat, wherein the key cap shell and the bottom connecting seat are made of transparent materials; the key cap shell is connected with the bottom connecting seat, the interior of the key cap shell is hollow, and a cavity is formed inside the key cap shell when the key cap shell is connected with the bottom connecting seat.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, the inside packing of cavity has the decoration, the decoration is used for beautifying the key cap casing.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the decoration comprises a solid decoration and a liquid decoration.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, the inner wall of key cap casing is printed with decorative pattern.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the cavity is divided into a plurality of hollow layers.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, the inner wall of key cap casing is provided with the key cap character, the key cap character sets up through laser etching, screen printing, laser packing or fretwork printing in the inner wall of key cap casing.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the keycap housing and the bottom connection base are detachably connected by a snap structure; the bottom periphery of the keycap shell is provided with a plurality of male buckles, the bottom connecting seat is provided with the same number of female buckles corresponding to the male buckles, and the male buckles are buckled with the female buckles.

According to the utility model discloses a some embodiments, the middle part of bottom connecting seat is protruding, and the periphery forms the seal groove, the box set up in seal groove department, the key cap casing with when the bottom connecting seat is connected, the key cap casing periphery is laminated the seal groove.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, the bottom of bottom connecting seat is provided with key axle connecting portion, key axle connecting portion are used for making key cap and keyboard axis body be connected.

According to the utility model discloses a mechanical keyboard of some embodiments, including above-mentioned transparent key cap.

According to the utility model discloses a transparent key cap and mechanical keyboard of some embodiments has following beneficial effect at least: the keycap shell and the bottom connecting seat are made of transparent materials, the light transmission effect is better, light of the keyboard can be irradiated into the cavity, and the keycap is enabled to have ornamental performance. The articles in the cavity can be viewed from the outside, and the height and the typing hand feeling of the keycap are not influenced because the decoration is filled in the cavity.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a transparent keycap and a mechanical keyboard according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a first exploded view of a transparent key cap and a mechanical keyboard according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a second exploded view of the transparent key cap and the mechanical keyboard according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a first exploded view of a transparent key cap and a large key of a mechanical keyboard according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a second exploded view of the transparent key cap and the mechanical keyboard according to the present invention.

Reference numerals are as follows:

the key cap comprises a key cap shell 100, a male buckle 110, a bottom connecting seat 200, a female buckle 210, a sealing groove 220, a key shaft connecting part 230, a cavity 300 and a decoration 310.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship referred to in the description of the orientation, such as the upper, lower, front, rear, left, right, top, bottom, etc., is the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, a plurality of means are one or more, a plurality of means are two or more, and the terms greater than, less than, exceeding, etc. are understood as not including the number, and the terms greater than, less than, within, etc. are understood as including the number. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present invention, unless there is an explicit limitation, the words such as setting, installation, connection, etc. should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meanings of the above words in combination with the specific contents of the technical solution.

Transparent keycaps and mechanical keyboards in accordance with embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to fig. 1-5.

As shown in fig. 1-5, the whole set of key caps of transparent key cap can be dismantled with mechanical keyboard's axis body and be connected, and the utility model discloses a transparent key cap highly divide into OEM factory height of making a substitute, the height of original factory and the high three kinds of customization, can accord with the replacement of the mechanical keyboard key cap of most specifications on the market.

Transparent key cap includes that key cap casing 100 and bottom connecting seat 200 all adopt transparent material to make, can let the LED light of axis body see through transparent key cap to let light at transparent key cap internal reflection, the printing opacity effect is more. Specifically, the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connecting seat 200 are made of ABS or PBT. The key cap housing 100 is connected with the bottom connection seat 200, in this embodiment, the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connection seat 200 are detachably connected, the inside of the key cap housing 100 is hollow, and when the key cap housing 100 is connected with the bottom connection seat 200, a cavity 300 is formed inside the key cap housing 100. Different decorations are filled in the cavity 300, so that a user can customize the style of the keycap of the user, and a personalized keyboard only belonging to the user is manufactured. When the user produces visual fatigue to current key cap style, can also dismantle the key cap by oneself, change the filler in the cavity 300, temper user's hands-on ability. Because the filling is all set up in cavity 300, the condition that the character discoloured and the wearing and tearing can not appear in the key cap surface, effectively prevents the wearing and tearing that long-time use leads to, and the life-span is longer.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1-3, the interior of the cavity 300 is filled with a decoration 310, and the decoration 310 is used to beautify the keycap housing 100. The cavity 300 adopts a sealing structure, so that external dust or fillers in the cavity 300 can be prevented from leaking to the mechanical keyboard, and the damage to a keyboard shaft body is avoided.

In further embodiments, trim piece 310 includes solid trim and liquid trim. The liquid decoration includes the liquid of various colours, and liquid possesses the mobility, and when filling in cavity 300, the light through the axis body shines, produces dynamic light effect, and is more pleasing to the eye. The user can also fill the cavity 300 with a liquid with a glittering powder, or fill the cavity 300 with a semi-solidified gel, creating a newtonian fluid effect within the cavity 300.

The solid decorations include micro plants, flowers, micro dolls, toys, etc., and the user fills the decorations into the cavity 300 according to personal preference and fixes the positions of the decorations in the cavity 300 by filling liquid. The user can fill the liquid first, and then connect the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connection seat 200, and seal the cavity 300 by glue sealing.

It should be understood that the first filling and then sealing the cavity 300 is not the only embodiment, and in other embodiments, the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connection seat 200 may be sealed first, then the bottom connection seat 200 is punched and filled with liquid, and finally the hole is sealed by using the sealing compound. The utility model discloses sealed mode to cavity 300 is not different a repeated description, should understand, does not deviate from the utility model discloses under the prerequisite of basic concept, the sealed mode of cavity 300 is nimble to be changeed, all should regard as to be in the utility model discloses within the scope of protection of injecing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the inner wall of the key cap housing 100 is printed with decorative patterns, and various patterns and characters are printed or silk-screened through the inner wall of the key cap housing 100, so as to customize the personalized key cap for the user. Pattern and characters set up in cavity 300, can avoid the wearing and tearing that air oxidation or long-time contact lead to, effectively avoid the phenomenon that fades, promote key cap life.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the cavity 300 is divided into a plurality of hollow layers. The cavity 300 can be divided into one to a plurality of hollow layers according to personal preference, and a user fills the hollow layers of each layer with the favorite decorations, so that the cavity 300 presents a multi-layer effect. Specifically, a manufacturer may reserve a specified number of hollow layers in the cavity 300 or a user may separate the cavity 300 into different numbers of hollow layers according to his or her needs.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the inner wall of the key cap housing 100 is provided with key cap characters, and the key cap characters are disposed on the inner wall of the key cap housing 100 by laser etching, screen printing, laser filling or hollow printing. The key cap character sets up the inner wall at key cap casing 100, can effectively prevent the phenomenon of buying oil that user's hand grease and the long-time contact of key cap character lead to. Under the shining of axis body light, the key cap character is more striking, differentiates easily. In this embodiment, the key cap characters are divided into two types of positive engraving and lateral engraving on the inner wall of the key cap housing 100, the positive engraving key cap characters are displayed on the top of the key cap, and the lateral engraving key cap characters are displayed on the side wall of the key cap.

It should be understood that the key cap character adopts just carving and the side is carved not only implementation mode, in other some embodiments, can also adopt no characters of carving, does not set up the key cap character on the key cap promptly, lets the user more be absorbed in and appreciate individualized key cap, avoids the key cap character to influence the impression of key cap.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2-5, the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connection seat 200 are detachably connected by a snap structure. Specifically, the bottom periphery of the key cap housing 100 is provided with a plurality of male buckles 110, the bottom connection seat 200 is provided with the same number of female buckles 210 corresponding to the male buckles 110, and the male buckles 110 and the female buckles 210 are buckled, so as to fix the relative positions of the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connection seat 200. The male buckle 110 may also be disposed on the bottom connection base 200, and the female buckle 210 is disposed on the periphery of the key cap housing 100.

It should be understood that the key cap housing 100 and the bottom connection seat 200 are not limited to the only embodiment, and in other embodiments, the key cap housing and the bottom connection seat may be connected by a connection structure such as a glue fit seal or an interference fit. The utility model discloses not giving unnecessary details to the connection structure of key cap casing 100 and bottom connecting seat 200 one by one, should understand, not deviating from the utility model discloses under the prerequisite of basic design, the nimble transform of connection structure of key cap casing 100 and bottom connecting seat 200 all should be regarded as being in the utility model discloses within the scope of protection injectd.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 4, the middle of the bottom connecting seat 200 is protruded, the periphery forms the sealing groove 220, the female buckle 210 is disposed at the sealing groove 220, and when the key cap housing 100 is connected to the bottom connecting seat 200, the periphery of the key cap housing 100 is attached to the sealing groove 220, so as to seal the cavity 300, and effectively avoid the leakage of the liquid filler in the cavity 300.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3 and 5, the bottom of the bottom connection seat 200 is provided with a key shaft connection portion 230, and the key shaft connection portion 230 is used for connecting the keycap with the keyboard shaft body. In this embodiment, the key shaft connecting portion 230 of the bottom connecting seat 200 is connected to the large key shaft body by adopting a connection manner of a satellite shaft, that is, the space key, the enter key and other long-width shaft bodies, the key shaft connecting portion 230 is respectively arranged at the middle portion and the two sides of the bottom connecting seat 200 to be connected to the shaft body, and the shaft bodies at the two sides are dummy shaft bodies for balancing the stress of the middle shaft body. The key cap of satellite axle structure dismantles more easily, and is more stable.

It should be understood that the key cap adopts the connection mode of the satellite axle not only, and in some other embodiments, a balance bar can also be adopted, the key axle connecting part 230 is arranged in the middle of the bottom connecting seat 200, and the two sides of the bottom are fixed by the metal wire, so that the force transmission process of the balance bar is more direct, the shaking degree of the part is smaller, and the sliding friction is less.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A transparent keycap is characterized by comprising a keycap shell (100) and a bottom connecting seat (200), wherein the keycap shell (100) and the bottom connecting seat (200) are made of transparent materials;

the key cap shell (100) is connected with the bottom connecting seat (200), the key cap shell (100) is hollow, and a cavity (300) is formed inside when the key cap shell (100) is connected with the bottom connecting seat (200).

2. A transparent key cap according to claim 1, wherein the inside of the cavity (300) is filled with a decoration (310), and the decoration (310) is used for beautifying the key cap shell (100).

3. A transparent keycap according to claim 2, wherein the decoration (310) comprises a solid decoration and a liquid decoration.

4. A transparent keycap according to claim 1, wherein the inner wall of the keycap housing (100) is printed with a decorative pattern.

5. A transparent keycap according to claim 1, wherein the cavity (300) is divided into a number of hollow layers.

6. A transparent key cap according to claim 1, wherein the inner wall of the key cap housing (100) is provided with key cap characters, and the key cap characters are provided into the inner wall of the key cap housing (100) by laser etching, screen printing, laser filling or stencil printing.

7. A transparent keycap according to claim 1, wherein the keycap housing (100) and the bottom connection base (200) are detachably connected by a snap-fit structure;

the bottom periphery of the keycap shell (100) is provided with a plurality of male buckles (110), the bottom connecting seat (200) is provided with the female buckles (210) with the same quantity corresponding to the male buckles (110), and the male buckles (110) are buckled with the female buckles (210).

8. The transparent keycap of claim 7, wherein the bottom connection seat (200) protrudes from the middle portion and has a sealing groove (220) formed at the periphery, the female button (210) is disposed at the sealing groove (220), and when the keycap housing (100) is connected to the bottom connection seat (200), the keycap housing (100) has a periphery fitting the sealing groove (220).

9. A transparent keycap according to any one of claims 1-8, wherein the bottom of the bottom connection base (200) is provided with a key shaft connection part (230), the key shaft connection part (230) is used for connecting the keycap with the keyboard shaft.

10. A mechanical keyboard comprising a transparent keycap according to any one of claims 1 to 9.