Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Patent
1995-08-16
1996-12-24
Phillips, Michael W.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
200344, 400490, 400682, G06F 116, H01H 312, B41J 1156, H05K 704
Patent
active
055878750
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 horizontally and downwardly away from their normal underlying relationships with the keys and the keys are forcibly retracted downwardly to a storage/transport orientation in which the overall vertical thickness of the keyboard structure is reduced bV an amount somewhat greater than the stroke distance of the keys. When the lid is subsequently opened, the key return spring portions are upwardly shifted back to their normal underlying relationships with the keys, and the keys are forced upwardly by the return spring portions to their extended, operative orientations above the return spring portions.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5268545 (1993-12-01), Bruner
patent: 5463195 (1994-07-01), Watanabe et al.
patent: 5466901 (1995-11-01), Mochizuki
Compaq Computer Corporation
Phillips Michael W.
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