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Patent No.:

US 10372232 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventor:

Chien-Kuo Lee, Taipei, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0221 (2013.01); G06F 3/0202 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04111 (2013.01);
Abstract

A keyboard device includes a flexible layer, electrical traces on the flexible layer and a lattice substrate to support the flexible layer. The keyboard device further includes a key actuatable to contact the flexible layer and to stretch at least a portion of the flexible layer into an opening in the lattice substrate and a sensor to detect a change of capacitance of the electrical traces in response to actuation of the key by a conductive object.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Lee, Chien-Kuo. (2019). Keyboard devices with flexible layers and lattice substrates (U.S. Patent No. 10372232). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10372232

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