Collapsible keyboard structure for a notebook computer

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1996-04-16

1997-08-05

Phillips, Michael W.

Electricity: electrical systems and devices

Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...

For electronic systems and devices

400490, 400682, 200344, 200345, G06F 116, B41J 1156, H05K 704, H01H 1302

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056548729

ABSTRACT:
A notebook computer is provided with a collapsible keyboard structure in which, in response to closing of the computer housing lid, the key return spring portions of the keyboard are shifted away from their normal underlying relationships with the keys and the keys are forcibly retracted to a storage/transport orientation in which the overall thickness of the keyboard structure is reduced by an amount essentially equal to the stroke distance of the keys. When the lid is subsequently opened, the key return spring portions are shifted back to their normal underlying relationships with the keys, and the keys are forced outwardly by the return spring portions to their extended, operative orientations above the return spring portions.

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patent: 5519569 (1996-05-01), Sellers
patent: 5532904 (1996-07-01), Sellers

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