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Keyboard switch assembly having internal gas passages preformed in spacer member

US4046975A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 22, 1975
Grant dateSep 6, 1977
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Expiry dateSep 22, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01H2229/028
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Sealed keyboard sandwich having actuator means, a plurality of contactor means, a plurality of contact means and support means therefore, said contacts and contactors forming a plurality of key units, and gas passage means positioned between said actuator means and said support means for selectively permitting the flow of trapped gas from the key units upon depression of a portion thereof. In the preferred structure the sandwich is hermetically sealed from the outside atmosphere.

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