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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1995
Charles F Raasch, Lake Forest, CA (US);
AST Research, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Circuits and methods for providing electrical communication between the keyboard and PC board of a notebook computer, and notebook computers employing such circuits and methods. A plurality of contacts electrically coupled to a keyboard and a plurality of contacts electrically coupled to a PC board are brought into electrical communication when the keyboard engages or is mounted to a housing or a PC board of the notebook. In presently preferred embodiments, physical contact may be provided between the two sets of contacts or an elastomeric material, or other type of bridge circuit, may be used to provide electrical connectivity between the two sets of contacts.