摘要:
In a keyboard input device, a mounting member of a pointing device has holes, and a base has projections. The projections are joined to the holes by caulking, thereby mounting the pointing device on the base. An operating portion of the pointing device is placed among a plurality of control keys.
摘要:
A keyboard is constructed so that a ratio of a dimension between a first latching portion of a first lever and a pivotally supporting portion thereof to a dimension between this pivotally supporting portion thereof and a second latching portion thereof is equal to a ratio of a dimension between a first latching portion of a second lever and another pivotally supporting portion thereof to a dimension between this pivotally supporting portion thereof and a second latching portion thereof. Thus, when the key top descends, the second latching portions of the first and second levers are placed outside the first latching portions of the first and second levers. Consequently, reduction in thickness of a keyboard is achieved.
摘要:
In a keyboard input device, a first input device and a second input device each including a stick pointer are arranged. An input control of gesture functions such as zoom-in, zoom-out, right rotation, left rotation, forward tracking, backward tracking, left tracking, right tracking, and the like may be made possible by a combination of operational directions of operation bodies of the stick pointer (SP1) of the first input device and the stick pointer (SP2) of the second input device.
摘要:
A keyboard apparatus is able to be made thinner without sacrificing ease of operation or feel. The keyboard apparatus is less expensive and permits easier assembly. Through holes are formed in a metal plate at the locations where retaining members are to be installed, then the resinous retaining members are inserted in the through holes to be mounted on the metal plate. For this purpose, the retaining members are formed by a molding method referred to as an outsert molding method. Supporting members are shaped so that they may be snapped in the retaining members. The retaining members are combined with a membrane switch, the supporting members, a key top, and an elastic member.
摘要:
A coordinate inputting apparatus which facilitates minimization and a keyboard apparatus which facilitates minimization and is superior in operability are disclosed. A pointing device includes a base including a pedestal in the form of a flat plate and a columnar member in the form of a quadrangle prism provided uprightly on the pedestal, strain gauges fixedly adhered to four outer side faces of the columnar body, a flexible cable connected to each strain gauge, and a cap mounted at the top of the columnar member. The pointing device is secured to a metal plate in the inside of a keyboard inputting apparatus such that the cap projects upwardly farther than the top face of a housing of the keyboard inputting apparatus and is located between different key tops of key switches of the keyboard inputting apparatus.
摘要:
A keyboard device includes a lever-mounting plate which mates with a pair of levers at lower ends thereof and a holding plate for mounting the lever-mounting plate. The lever-mounting plate is provided with a mating unit to mate with the holding plate by snapping. The lever-mounting plate provided with the mating unit can be mounted to the holding plate through one-touch operation, whereby mounting becomes simple and manufacturing processes are easily automated.
摘要:
A key switch in which a pair of lever members which form a cross-link member are molded out of resin materials having different shrinkage coefficients. A shaft-receiving hole is formed in the lever member molded out of the resin material having a small shrinkage coefficient, while a linking shaft is formed on the lever member molded out of the resin material having a large shrinkage coefficient. When the key switch is structured in this way, after the lever member having the shaft-receiving hole has been molded, the resin material having a large shrinkage coefficient is hardened in a die in which the shaft-receiving hole forms a portion of a cavity in order to form the other lever member. By forming the other lever member, the linking shaft is formed in a pivotally mounted state in the shaft-receiving hole. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to link the pair of lever members by a manual operation. Accordingly, the invention provides a key switch which makes it possible to easily and reliably link a pair of lever members which support a key top in order to form a cross-link member without having to carry out a manual operation, and which makes it possible to accelerate size reduction and to carry out an assembly operation with greater ease. The invention also provides a method of producing the same.
摘要:
A key-switch device includes a key-top having retainers formed on the back surface of the key-top, first and second levers disposed under the key-top, each lever including a base-end part and a pair of arms opposing each other and extending from both ends of the base-end part, the first and second levers being connected together rotatably about the substantial center of the pair of arms as an intersecting point, a lever-holding plate capable of retaining each lower end of the first and second levers, and an actuator member attached to and spanned between both the base-end parts of the first and second levers. Further, the actuator member has a concave slide-retainer-receiving part with the open top, and the base-end part of the second lever is slidably retained in the slide-retainer-receiving part.
摘要:
A key switch includes an actuator for rotatably engaging the upper end of one of lever members, which constitute a cross-linked member, therewith and slidably engaging the upper end of the other lever member therewith. After the cross-linked member engaged with the actuator at its upper end is mounted on a membrane switch, the bottom of a key top is retained on the actuator by a simple means a as press fitting. This simplifies a molding die for the key top and facilitates an operation of attaching the key top.
摘要:
A keyboard apparatus permits easier installation of slide retaining pins to a retaining portion and prevents intrusion of dust into the keyboard apparatus from the back surface of a supporting substrate thereof. A first retaining portion has a narrow area and a wide area, and slide retaining pins are latched in the wide area. A dust-proof sheet is provided on the bottom surface of a supporting substrate to cover through holes in the supporting substrate, the through holes resulting from the formation of the first retaining portion and second retaining portions.