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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
May. 01, 2015
Darfon Electronics Corp., Taoyuan County, TW;
Tsai-Jung Hu, Taoyuan County, TW;
Shih-Kai Chen, Taoyuan County, TW;
DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP., Taoyuan County, TW;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing keycaps, each keycap having a top and a skirt, includes: providing a first jig having a plurality of positioning units; arranging correspondingly a plurality of keycaps onto the plurality of positioning units; attaching a first film including an ink layer and a first release layer to the plurality of keycaps by using an out-mold transfer technique, such that the first film covers respective upper surfaces of the tops and respective side surfaces of the skirts of keycaps; removing the first release film; laser-engraving the ink layer; and forming a protection layer on the laser-engraved ink layer. A keycap manufactured by the method of the present invention is also disclosed.