Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ping-Ju Kuo

Chia-Hsin Chen

Mitsuo Horiuchi

A keyboard includes a base plate and a backlight module. The base plate has a short axis direction and a long axis direction, and the base plate includes at least one long slit. The long slit is disposed on the base plate along the short axis direction. The backlight module is disposed on the base plate. The backlight module includes a shielding sheet, a light guide plate and a reflecting sheet. An upper surface of the shielding sheet faces toward the base plate. The light guide plate is disposed on a lower surface of the shielding sheet. The reflecting sheet is disposed below the light guide plate. The reflecting sheet includes a plurality of first slits. When the length of the base plate is adjusted along the long axis direction, the reflective sheet is adjusted and moved along with the base plate by expansion of the first slits.

Keyboard and backlight module

A keyboard includes a base plate, a plurality of keys and a backlight module. The base plate has a short-axis direction and a long-axis direction. The keys are disposed on the base plate. The backlight module is disposed on the base plate and includes a shielding sheet, a light guide plate and a reflecting sheet. The light guide plate is disposed on a lower surface of the shielding sheet. The light guide plate includes a plurality of light guide structures corresponding to the keys respectively. Each of the light guide structures includes a ring portion and at least one bend line portion. The bend line portion connects to the ring portion, and the ring portion is formed by a plurality of bending portions. The reflecting sheet is disposed below the light guide plate.

A keyboard includes a base plate, a plurality of keys and a backlight module. The base plate has a short axis direction and a long axis direction. The keys are disposed on the base plate along the long axis direction, and the keys are arranged to form a plurality of rows. The backlight module is disposed on the base plate and includes a shielding sheet, a light guide plate and a reflecting sheet. The light guide plate is disposed on a lower surface of the shielding sheet. The light guide plate includes a plurality of long openings, and each of the long openings has at least one long side. The long side is parallel to the long axis direction, and each of the long openings has a central axis. The central axis is located between two adjacent rows on which the keys are disposed.

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