US 12,136,528 B2
System and method for obtaining user input with passive keyboard
Loo Shing Tan, Singapore (SG); Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Amsterdam (NL); Gerald Rene Pelissier, Mendham, NJ (US); and Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Utrecht (NL)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/149,812.
Prior Publication US 2024/0222045 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. H01H 13/7065 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 13/7065 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0202 (2013.01); G06F 3/0233 (2013.01); H01H 2221/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user input system, comprising:
a body;
a keycap;
a magnet that is directly attached to the keycap;
a deformable element that is directly attached to the body and that separates the magnet from the body, the magnet also being directly attached to the deformable element, the deformable element adapted to translate between two positions, in a first position of the two positions the magnet is a first distance from the body and in a second position of the two positions the magnet is a second distance from the body, and the first distance being larger than the second distance.