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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2025
Dell Products Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jason Scott Morrison, Chadron, NE (US);
Brandon Joel Brocklesby, Pflugerville, TX (US);
DELL PRODUCTS LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A keyboard having a split keyboard structure includes a first removable tactile input layer to receive input from a user and installed on a sealed input surface of a keyboard chassis for an information handling system with a keyboard sensing hardware structure formed below the sealed input surface to detect capacitive changes of the user input above the sealed input surface. The keyboard sensing hardware structure including capacitive pad sensors, shielding pads, and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) formed coplanar with the capacitive pad sensors. The sealed input surface including a light guide layer and a metal support plate formed over a keyboard sensing hardware structure on a non-conductive substrate. The metal support plate includes a plurality of holes to pass light upwards through the light guide layer of the sealed input surface into the first removable tactile input layer.