US 12,216,308 B1
Luminous keyboard with suspended visual effect
You-Chi Liu, City of Industry, CA (US)
Assigned to AMERICAN FUTURE TECHNOLOGY, City Of Industry, CA (US)
Filed by AMERICAN FUTURE TECHNOLOGY, City of Industry, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/737,753.
Claims priority of application No. 112129122 (TW), filed on Aug. 2, 2023.
Int. Cl. F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/0088 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0202 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A luminous keyboard with suspended visual effect, comprising a light guide holder base, a keyboard assembly and a light guide shell, wherein:
said light guide holder base comprises a base seat made of light-transmitting material and a light guide seat, said base seat comprising a bottom panel, a peripheral wall extending curvedly around the periphery of said bottom panel and a positioning portion provided on a top surface of said bottom panel and a plurality of fixing portions protruded from the top surface of said bottom panel, said light guide seat being mounted on said fixing portions and being a distance away from said bottom panel in said base seat, said light guide seat comprising a light guide plate, a light guide peripheral wall extending curvedly around the periphery of said light guide plate corresponding to said peripheral wall of said light guide holder base, a positioning hole located on said light guide plate corresponding to said positioning portion, a circuit board provided in said positioning hole, a plurality of light-emitting elements provided around the periphery of the surface of said circuit board and a processor provided on a surface of said circuit board;
said keyboard assembly is located on a top surface of said light guide seat, said keyboard assembly comprising a key module;
said light guide shell covers said light guide holder base and the periphery of said keyboard assembly, said light guide shell comprising an accommodating opening for exposing said key module of said keyboard assembly; and
wherein said light guide seat of said light guide holder base is positioned on said fixing portions of said bottom panel, so that said light guide seat is a distance away from said bottom panel, thereby making said light-emitting elements on said light guide seat in a light-emitting state suspended on said bottom panel.