Typewriting machines – Including plural – independently supported key-boards,...
Patent
1998-10-21
1999-08-24
Burr, Edgar
Typewriting machines
Including plural, independently supported key-boards,...
400 88, 400100, 400472, 400486, 400489, B41J 354
Patent
active
059416483
ABSTRACT:
A computing assembly which comprises a hand held computer or PDA that contains a housing, a processor in said housing and an input/output arrangement in said housing coupled to said processor for inputting data to, and outputting data from the processor and a foldable keyboard electrically connected to the PDA. The foldable keyboard has first and second planar keyboard halves having a plurality of depressable keys arranged on a surface. The keyboard halves have complementary curved outer peripheral edges and are attached to one another by an intermediate hinge. When in the open position, the first keyboard half is substantially coplanar with the second keyboard half, and the peripheral edges of the first and second keyboard halves form a substantially continuous curvilinear path. When in the closed position, the first keyboard half is folded over, substantially congruent in shape with, and in a plane parallel to the plane of the second keyboard half. Means are provided for electrically connecting the first and second keyboard halves to the hand held computer.
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Olivetti Website article advertising the Royal daVinci PDA with foldable keyboard, pp. 1-2, Feb. 27, 1999.
Robinson Robert J.
Staubitz Robert
Burr Edgar
Nolan, Jr. Charles H.
Olivetti Office U.S.A., Inc.
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