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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2002
Mao-Sung Huang, Taoyuan, TW;
Darfon Electronics Corp., Taoyuan, TW;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a foldable keyboard, and more particularly, to a foldable keyboard adapted for a point stick and/or at least one hot key. Two or more keypad portions are hingably connected by a connection board on which a point stick or at least one hot key is disposed. When the keyboard is in a deployed configuration, the keypad portions slide along the keyboard plane to combine with the point stick or the hot keys so that a complete keyboard is formed. The connection board of the present invention may further include a circuit board to be electrically connected with each key and the point stick or the hot keys in order to receive and decode the signals from each key and the point stick or the hot keys.