JP4645533B2 - Keyboard holding device for electronic equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a keyboard holding device for holding a keyboard, which is an input device incorporated in an electronic device, in an electronic device casing.

Currently, many electronic devices have a keyboard incorporated as an input device.

Conventionally, there are methods of holding a keyboard in an electronic device such as a method of fixing to an electronic device casing by screwing (for example, Patent Document 1) and a method of engaging the electronic device casing by a nail (for example, Patent Document 2). These require a certain size for fixing in the height direction. However, in recent years, there has been a demand for thinning of the entire electronic device, and for this reason, a method of fixing to an electronic device casing by double-sided adhesive tape having almost no thickness has come to be used. In this case, in order to prevent the keyboard from floating from the electronic device casing, a method of bonding and fixing to a part of the electronic device casing using a strongly adhesive double-sided tape is often used.

According to this prior art, it is possible to prevent the electronic device keyboard lifted, the entire electronic device can be made thinner.
JP-A-6-43968 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-64670

However, when the double-sided adhesive tape is used as in the above-described conventional configuration, there is a problem that the keyboard and the electronic device casing are damaged when the keyboard is removed for repair or replacement.

The present invention solves the above-described conventional problems, and firmly fixes the keyboard and the electronic device casing, and easily removes the keyboard from the electronic device casing without damaging the keyboard and the electronic device casing. The purpose is to make it possible.

In order to achieve this object, the present invention includes a keyboard holding tape having adhesive portions on both sides and provided with a removal tag that does not have an adhesive portion, and one side of the keyboard holding tape is attached to the electronic device. Adhering to one side of the keyboard holding part of the housing, and further attaching one side of the keyboard holding tape with the removal tag of the keyboard holding tape passed through the hole provided in the keyboard holding part The keyboard is bonded to the other surface of the keyboard holding portion, and the keyboard is bonded to one surface of the keyboard holding portion by the adhesive portion of the other surface of the keyboard holding tape so that the keyboard is held in the electronic device casing. in which the, according to this, a direction substantially parallel tags keyboard holding tape when the keyboard removal of such during repairs against the adhesive surface By pulling, it is possible to remove the keyboard easily from electronics enclosure.

In general, double- sided tapes that have adhesive parts on both sides have a larger length and width of the adhesive surface than the thickness. Therefore, the adhesive part adhesive is more resistant to pulling in the horizontal direction than in the direction perpendicular to the adhesive surface. Is easy to grow. The present invention utilizes the properties of the double-sided tape described above.

Accordingly, the present invention makes it possible to reduce the thickness of the entire electronic device, and to easily remove the keyboard from the electronic device casing without damaging the keyboard and the keyboard holding portion such as the electronic device case when removing or replacing the keyboard. Can be removed.

As described above, the keyboard holding device using the keyboard holding tape having the removal tag of the present invention and having the adhesive portions on both sides provides a fixing method for preventing the keyboard from being lifted, and at the same time as repairing. When removing the keyboard, the keyboard can be easily removed from the electronic device casing by pulling the tag passed through the hole provided in the keyboard holding portion in a direction substantially parallel to the adhesive surface and pulling out the keyboard holding tape. . This can improve the workability without damaging the keyboard and the electronic device casing, and therefore has a practical effect both in terms of thinning the entire electronic device and in service such as repair. .

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a partial detail view of an electronic device showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view and a side view of a keyboard holding tape composed of a double-sided tape and a removal tag.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, 11 is a keyboard, 12 is a keyboard holding tape, 13 is an electronic device casing, and has a keyboard holding portion 13a. The keyboard holding tape 12 includes a removal tag 12b that does not have an adhesive portion (double-sided tape portion) 12a . The adhesive surface 11 a of the keyboard 11 is bonded to the keyboard holding portion 13 a of the electronic device housing 13 via the adhesive portion 12 a of the keyboard holding tape 12, and the keyboard 11 is fixed to the electronic device housing 13. Further, a plurality of holes 13b are provided in the surface of the keyboard holding portion 13a of the electronic device housing 13 to hold the keyboard holding tape 12 through the opposite surface.

An operation of attaching and removing the keyboard 11 to and from the keyboard holding portion 13a will be described below with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 3, one surface of the adhesive portion 12a of the keyboard holding tape 12 is adhered to the keyboard holding portion 13a of the electronic device housing 13 (a), the tag 12b is passed through the hole 13b (b), One surface of the keyboard holding portion 13a is further bonded to the opposite surface (c). Thereafter, the keyboard 11 is placed from the upper side of the drawing (d), and the keyboard 11 is adhered to the keyboard holding portion 13a of the electronic device housing 13 by adhesion of the other surface of the adhesive portion 12a of the keyboard holding tape 12 . Hold.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4, the keyboard is removed at the time of repair, as shown in FIG. 4, with the fingertip pulling the removal tag 12b through the hole provided in the keyboard holding part and peeling the peripheral adhesive part (e) Next, the tag 12b is pulled in a direction substantially parallel to the adhesive surface 11a (in the direction of the arrow (f)), and the keyboard holding tape 12 is pulled out (g). As described above, in general, the double-sided tape can be pulled out without being broken because the glue of the adhesive portion is easily stretched when pulled in the horizontal direction. Thereby, since the keyboard holding tape 12 can be removed, the keyboard 11 can be easily detached from the holding portion 13a of the electronic device casing by pulling the keyboard 11 upward (h). Therefore, the keyboard 11 can be removed from the keyboard holding portion 13a without damaging each of them.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the keyboard and the electronic device casing can be firmly bonded, and can be removed without being damaged when necessary.

  When removing the keyboard, if the keyboard holding tape 12 is pulled out by holding the tag 12b in a direction substantially parallel to the adhesive surface, the tag and the adhesive portion may not be able to maintain sufficient adhesive strength between the tag 12b and the adhesive portion 12a. Peel off and do not function as a tag. Therefore, the adhesive portion between the tag and the adhesive portion needs to have stronger adhesive force than the other adhesive portion 12a, and is preferably reinforced with another adhesive. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 5, the tag 12b may be made of a plastic resin, and a protrusion may be formed with a press tool as shown in the figure to increase only the horizontal joint strength.

The keyboard holding device of the present invention can strongly remove the keyboard from the electronic device casing and can be removed without damaging the keyboard and the keyboard holding portion of the electronic device while reducing the thickness of the entire electronic device. Therefore, it is useful as a holding device for a keyboard to an electronic device.

The fragmentary detailed view of the electronic device which shows the keyboard holding | maintenance apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention Ruki Bodo plan view of a holding tape put to the first embodiment of the present invention, a side view Diagram explaining the procedure for attaching the keyboard to the keyboard holder The figure explaining the procedure which removes a keyboard from a keyboard holding part Explanatory drawing to increase the bonding strength between the tag and the adhesive part of the keyboard holding tape

11 Keyboard 11a Adhesive surface 12 Keyboard holding tape 12a Adhesive part (Double-sided tape part)
12b Detachment tag 13 Electronic device housing 13a Keyboard holding portion 13b Housing hole

Claims (1)

A keyboard holding device for an electronic device that holds the keyboard in the electronic device casing,
It has a keyboard holding tape with an adhesive part on both sides and a removal tag that does not have an adhesive part.
Adhering one surface of the keyboard holding tape to one surface of the keyboard holding portion of the electronic device casing, and passing the removal tag of the keyboard holding tape through a hole provided in the keyboard holding portion In the state, one side of the keyboard holding tape is further bonded to the other side of the keyboard holding unit,
An apparatus for holding a keyboard in an electronic device, wherein the keyboard is bonded to one surface of the keyboard holding portion with an adhesive portion on the other surface of the keyboard holding tape, and the keyboard is held in an electronic device casing.

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