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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Jeong-Seok Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Joon-Seo Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Kwang-Su Seo, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Yong-Woo Jeon, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 13/14 (2006.01); H01H 13/85 (2006.01); H01H 13/12 (2006.01); H01H 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 1/12 (2013.01); H01H 13/85 (2013.01); H01H 2221/044 (2013.01); H01H 2221/062 (2013.01); H01H 2221/074 (2013.01); H01H 2225/028 (2013.01); H01H 2235/016 (2013.01);
Abstract

A key assembly which is configured to provide improved click feeling to a user and an electronic device having the same are provided. The key assembly includes a key body of elastic materials and contact projections, each of the contact projections which is protruded and formed from the key body and presses a switch device spaced apart from the key body by a gap providing a certain interval, wherein the key body is installed such that a contact surface of each of the contact projections is in contact with and pushed back by a certain distance by a pre-loading force of the switch device.


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