US 12,347,632 B2
Key device
Jing-Bo Wang, JiangSu (CN); Chun-Yen Huang, JiangSu (CN); and Yan-Bo An, JiangSu (CN)
Assigned to Maintek Computer (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., JiangSu (CN); and PEGATRON CORPORATION, Taipei (TW)
Filed by Maintek Computer (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., JiangSu (CN); and PEGATRON CORPORATION, Taipei (TW)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/168,834.
Claims priority of application No. 202220360566.5 (CN), filed on Feb. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0268145 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 15/10 (2013.01) [H01H 2223/003 (2013.01); H01H 2227/004 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A key device, comprising:
a casing having a first assembly hole;
a soft material layer disposed on the casing and having a second assembly hole;
a key pressing the soft material layer and disposed on the casing, wherein the key has a key body, and the key body passes through the second assembly hole and the first assembly hole correspondingly and is exposed to an outside of the casing; and
an elastic support member assembled on the key and disposed on the casing, wherein the elastic support member has a sliding groove, and the sliding groove corresponds to the key so that the key is slidably disposed in the sliding groove,
wherein the key further comprises a sliding main board portion connected with the key body, wherein the sliding main board portion is slidably disposed in the sliding groove and presses the soft material layer.