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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2018
Nec Personal Computers, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Kano, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Funayama, Tokyo, JP;
NEC PERSONAL COMPUTERS, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A keyboard device has a base sheet, a membrane sheet disposed on the upper surface of the base sheet, a cover sheet disposed on the upper surface of the membrane sheet and supporting the membrane sheet between the cover sheet and the base sheet in a state of being movable in the in-plane direction, connection members connecting the base sheet and the cover sheet, a plurality of key tops vertically movably supported by a guide mechanism provided on the upper surface side of the cover sheet and bringing a movable contact and a fixed contact which are contacts of the membrane sheet into contact with each other or separating the contacts from each other by being depressed, and a frame member partitioning the key tops adjacent to each other by being depressed and having a lower surface to which the upper surface of the cover sheet is bonded and fixed.