Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Atushi Sakata

Hitoshi Nakatani

Takahiro Tabata

A keyboard including a plurality of keys, a baseplate which supports each of the keys, and a frame which is arranged to stand substantially perpendicularly to the baseplate and to surround the each of the keys, in which the each of the keys includes an keycap configured to be depressed, the keycap including a keycap top end which constitutes a top end of the keycap and a keycap sidewall which hangs down from an edge of the keycap top end to the baseplate, and in which the baseplate has a hole arranged at a site that corresponds to a bottom end of the keycap sidewall, the hole configured to insert the bottom end of the keycap sidewall therein from above, and in which, when the keycap is in a depressed state, the bottom end of the keycap sidewall is inserted into the hole.

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Osaka, Japan

Atushi Sakata