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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2001
Seiki Katakami, Gunma, JP;
Takashi Niiyama, Gunma, JP;
Hosiden Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A keyboard is severed along a boundary line between adjacent keytops located generally in the center of the length into keyboard parts ( ). An elongated cover plate ( ) is pivotally attached on one side edge thereof to the lower portion of the severed face of one ( ) of the divided keyboard parts, the cover plate ( ) having opposed brackets ( ) bent and extending in the same direction from the opposite ends thereof and opposed slide pins ( ) provided one on each of the brackets toward the other side edge of the cover plate opposite from the severed face, the slide pins ( ) being slidably received in corresponding elongated grooves ( ) formed in the front and rear outside surfaces of the other divided keyboard part ( ), and pins ( ) provided on the front and rear side panels of each of the divided keyboard parts being slidably and loosely fitted in elongated slots in moving links ( ).