CN218513349U - Keycap, input device and electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a keycap, an input device and electronic equipment. The key cap includes: the helmet comprises a helmet body and a shading piece, wherein one side of the helmet body is sunken with an accommodating concave part, the helmet body is made of a ceramic material, and the shading piece is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part; wherein a sum of thicknesses of the cap body and the light blocking member is less than a first thickness. Can ensure through the piece that shades that the key cap deviates from one side of printing opacity piece light-tight, and then the thickness sum through the cap body and the piece that shades is less than the thickness that adopts the key cap that ceramic material made among the prior art to form, can reduce the thickness of key cap from this.

Description

Keycap, input device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of electronic equipment, in particular to a keycap, an input device and electronic equipment.

Background

The keycap is a cap-shaped component, and the button is buckled on the top of the key. The input of information can be realized when the keycap is pressed down.

The thickness size of the keycap made of ceramic materials needs to be large enough to enable the keycap to be light-proof. Thereby resulting in the inability to reduce the thickness dimension of the keycap.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, this application provides a key cap, input device and electronic equipment, technical scheme as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a keycap, the keycap including: the helmet comprises a helmet body and a shading part, wherein one side of the helmet body is sunken with an accommodating concave part, the helmet body is made of a ceramic material, and the shading part is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part; wherein the sum of the thicknesses of the cap body and the shading piece is less than a first thickness.

In some embodiments of the present application, the light shielding member is further laid on a side wall of the accommodating recess.

In some embodiments of the present application, the light blocking member includes: black plastic body and wrap up in the white coating of black plastic body surface.

In some embodiments of the present application, the light shielding member and the cap body are fixedly connected by one or more of spraying glue, dispensing glue, and double-sided adhesive.

In some embodiments of the present application, the cap body is white, and the colors of the glue spraying, the glue dispensing and the double-sided glue are all white.

In some embodiments of the present application, the shade is fixedly connected to the cap by a snap-fit structure.

In some embodiments of the present application, the cap is a circular cap, an elliptical cap, or a rectangular cap.

In some embodiments of the present application, one side of the light shielding member departing from the cap body is provided with a connecting structure, the connecting structure is used for being connected with a movable structure, external force makes the keycap press down the back the ascending size in the thickness direction of the movable structure is reduced, and after the external force is removed the movable structure recovers the original shape and makes the keycap reset.

In a second aspect, embodiments of the present application further provide an input device, where the input device includes: the key comprises an input device body and a first key, wherein the first key is arranged on one side of the input device body, and one side of the first key, which is far away from the input device body, is provided with any one of the keycaps in the first aspect.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application further provides an electronic device, where the electronic device includes: the key comprises an electronic equipment body and a second key, wherein the second key is arranged on one side of the electronic equipment body, and one side, deviating from the electronic equipment body, of the second key is provided with any one of the keycaps in the first aspect.

The embodiment of the application provides a keycap, an input device and electronic equipment. The key cap includes: the helmet comprises a helmet body and a shading part, wherein one side of the helmet body is sunken with an accommodating concave part, the helmet body is made of a ceramic material, and the shading part is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part; wherein the sum of the thicknesses of the cap body and the shading piece is less than a first thickness. Can ensure through the piece that shades that the key cap deviates from one side of printing opacity piece light-tight, and then the thickness sum through the cap body and the piece that shades is less than the thickness that adopts the key cap that ceramic material made among the prior art to form, can reduce the thickness of key cap from this.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present application, and in order to make the technical solutions of the present application more clear and can be implemented according to the content of the specification, the following detailed description is given with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present application and the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a keycap according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a cap (first perspective) according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a cap (second perspective) according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a light-shielding member according to some embodiments of the present application.

Description of the reference numerals:

10-keycap, 11-cap body, 111-accommodating concave part, 12-shading piece and 121-connecting convex part.

Detailed Description

To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without any inventive work based on the embodiments in the present application are within the scope of protection of the present application. Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, as presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed application, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the application.

The embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

First aspect

The present application provides a key cap 10, as shown in fig. 1 to 4, the key cap 10 includes: the helmet comprises a helmet body 11 and a light-shielding piece 12, wherein one side of the helmet body 11 is sunken with an accommodating concave part 111, the helmet body 11 is made of a ceramic material, and the light-shielding piece 12 is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part 111; wherein, the sum of the thicknesses of the cap body 11 and the shading piece 12 is less than the first thickness.

Specifically, the accommodating recess 111 is recessed in one side of the cap body 11, and the shape of the accommodating recess 111 may be a square shape, a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a spherical shape, or other shapes. The surface of the cap body 11 facing away from the accommodating recess 111 is a pressing surface of the key cap 10, and when the pressing surface is pressed down, the cap body 11 is displaced so that the circuit provided on the side of the light-shielding member 12 facing away from the cap body 11 is turned on, thereby enabling information to be input. The cap body 11 is made of ceramic materials, such as: the cap body 11 is a key cap surface member formed by sintering, injection molding and post-processing of a ceramic material, and the cap body 11 may be a white cap body or a cap body with other colors.

The light-shielding member 12 mentioned above means that light cannot pass through the light-shielding member 12. The light-shielding member 12 is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating recess 111, where the size of the light-shielding member 12 may be smaller than the size of the bottom wall in the accommodating recess 111, or equal to the size of the bottom wall in the accommodating recess 111, and when the size of the light-shielding member 12 is equal to the size of the bottom wall in the accommodating recess 111, the light-shielding member 12 can fully lay the bottom wall of the accommodating recess 111.

The sum of the thicknesses of the cap body 11 and the shade 12 is less than a first thickness, where the first thickness is: the thickness of the opaque keycap is made of ceramic materials.

In this embodiment, can ensure through light-shielding piece 12 that key cap 10 deviates from one side of light-transmitting piece 12 light-tight, and then the thickness sum through cap body 11 and light-shielding piece 12 is less than the thickness that adopts the key cap that ceramic material made among the prior art to form, can reduce the thickness of key cap 10 from this.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 1 to 4, the light shielding member 12 is further laid on the sidewall of the receiving recess 111, so as to make the entire cap 11 opaque.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 1-4, the shade 12 includes: black plastic body and the white coating of wrapping up in black plastic body surface.

Specifically, the black plastic body refers to a black structural member made of plastic.

In this embodiment, the black plastic body can ensure the light-shielding effect of the light-shielding member 12, and the white coating can make the area of the appearance surface of the keycap 10 corresponding to the light-shielding member 12 uniform white and bright when the cap body 11 is white.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 1 to 4, the light shielding member 12 and the cap 11 are fixedly connected by one or more of spraying glue, dispensing glue, and double-sided adhesive. The fixed connection mode can reduce the probability that the light shading piece 12 is displaced and even separated from the cap body 11, thereby ensuring the continuous light shading effect of the light shading piece 12.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 1 to 4, the cap body 11 is white, and the colors of the glue spraying, dispensing and double-sided adhesive are all white, so that the appearance surface of the cap body 11 corresponding to the glue spraying, dispensing and double-sided adhesive areas is uniform and white.

In other embodiments of the present application, as shown in fig. 1 to 4, the light shielding member 12 and the cap 11 are fixedly connected by a snap structure.

Specifically, the light-shielding member 12 and the cap 11 are fixedly connected by an engaging structure, that is, the light-shielding member 12 is provided with a first engaging structure, the cap 11 is provided with a second engaging structure, and the second engaging structure can be engaged with the first engaging structure. Such as: two opposite inner walls of the cap body 11 are respectively recessed with a first engaging concave portion and a second engaging concave portion, a first engaging convex portion is protruded at a position corresponding to the first engaging concave portion on the light shielding member 12, and a second engaging convex portion is protruded at a position corresponding to the second engaging concave portion, so that the light shielding member 12 and the cap body 11 can be clamped after the first engaging convex portion is clamped in the first engaging concave portion and the second engaging convex portion is clamped in the second engaging concave portion.

In this embodiment, the fixed connection between the light-shielding member 12 and the cap body 11 is achieved by the engagement structure, so that the probability that the light-shielding member 12 is displaced or even separated from the cap body 11 can be reduced, thereby ensuring a continuous light-shielding effect of the light-shielding member 12.

In some embodiments of the present application, as shown in fig. 1-4, the cap 11 is a circular cap 11, an elliptical cap 11, or a rectangular cap 11.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 1 to 4, a side of the light shielding member 12 away from the cap body 11 is provided with a connecting structure, the connecting structure is used for connecting with the movable structure, a dimension in a thickness direction of the movable structure is reduced after the key cap 10 is pressed down by an external force, and the movable structure is restored and the key cap 10 is reset after the external force is removed.

Specifically, the connecting structure is used to connect the movable structure to the light shielding member 12, that is, the key cap 10 includes the cap body 11, the light shielding member 12 and the movable structure from the top down, and the movable structure is connected to the connecting structure on the light shielding member 12. Here, the connection structure may be a water drop hole such as: referring to fig. 1 and 4, the surface of the light-shielding member 12 facing away from the cap body 11 is provided with a connecting convex portion 121, the connecting convex portion 121 is recessed with a connecting concave portion, and a part of the movable structure extends into the connecting concave portion to connect with the light-shielding member 12; the connecting structure can also be a clamping groove; the connecting structure may also be other structures.

In this embodiment, the movable structure can be conveniently connected through the connection structure on the light shielding member 12, so as to improve the assembly efficiency between the keycap 10 and the movable structure.

In some embodiments, and referring to fig. 1-4, a key cap 10 comprises:

the cap body 11 is characterized in that one side of the cap body 11 is sunken with an accommodating concave part 111, and the cap body 11 is made of white ceramic materials.

The light-shielding piece 12 is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part 111, the light-shielding piece 12 is adhered to the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part 11 through adhesive, the adhesive is white, and one side of the light-shielding piece 12 departing from the cap body 11 is provided with a water drop hole connected with a movable structure. The shade 12 includes: black plastic body and the white coating of wrapping up in black plastic body surface.

Wherein, the sum of the thicknesses of the cap body 11 and the shading piece 12 is less than the first thickness.

In this embodiment, firstly, the light-shielding member 12 can ensure that the side of the keycap 10 away from the light-transmitting member 12 is light-tight, and then the sum of the thicknesses of the cap body 11 and the light-shielding member 12 is smaller than the thickness of the keycap made of ceramic material in the prior art, thereby reducing the thickness of the keycap 10. Secondly, the cap body 11 is white, and the outer surface of the light shielding piece 12 is white, so that the area of the appearance surface of the keycap 10 corresponding to the light shielding piece 12 is uniformly white and bright, and the visual effect of the keycap 10 can be improved.

Second aspect of the invention

The application provides an input device, input device includes: the key cap 10 comprises an input device body and a first key, wherein the first key is arranged on one side of the input device body, and one side of the first key, which is far away from the input device body, is provided with the key cap 10 in any one aspect of the first aspect.

Specifically, the input device may be a keyboard constituting a desktop computer, or may be an input device of another device. The input device body may include a circuit board, and the first key may include, but is not limited to, the movable structure mentioned in the first aspect, such as: the input device is a keycap 10, a first key and a circuit board from top to bottom.

In the present embodiment, by providing the key cap 10 in the first aspect in the input device, the thickness of the input device can be reduced because the thickness of the key cap 10 is reduced.

It should be noted that, the key cap in the input device provided in the embodiment of the present application is similar to the description of the key cap embodiment in the foregoing, and has similar beneficial effects as the key cap embodiment in the foregoing. For technical details that are not disclosed in the embodiments of the input device of the present application, please refer to the description of the embodiments of the key cap in the present application for understanding, and the detailed description is omitted here.

Third aspect of the invention

The application provides an electronic device, the electronic device includes: the electronic equipment comprises an electronic equipment body and a second key, wherein the second key is arranged on one side of the electronic equipment body, and one side, deviating from the electronic equipment body, of the second key is provided with the keycap 10 in any one of the first aspect.

Specifically, the electronic device may be a notebook computer, or may be an electronic device of another device. The electronic device body may include a circuit board, and the first key may include, but is not limited to, the movable structure mentioned in the first aspect, such as: the electronic device is composed of a keycap 10, a first key and a circuit board from top to bottom.

In the present embodiment, by providing the key cap 10 in the first aspect in the electronic device, the thickness of the electronic device can be reduced because the thickness of the key cap 10 is reduced.

It should be noted that, the key cap in the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application is similar to the description of the key cap embodiment in the foregoing, and has similar beneficial effects to the key cap embodiment in the foregoing. For technical details that are not disclosed in the embodiments of the electronic device of the present application, please refer to the description of the embodiments of the key cap in the present application for understanding, and are not described herein again.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "first", "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implying any number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the feature.

In addition, in the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "longitudinal," "lateral," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "axial," "radial," "", "and the like refer to orientations or positional relationships illustrated in the drawings, which are used for convenience in describing the present application and to simplify description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element so referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be considered limiting of the present application.

In addition, in the present application, unless explicitly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected" and the like are to be interpreted broadly, and may be, for example, a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; the terms may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and may be used for communicating between two elements or for interacting between two elements, unless otherwise specifically defined, and the specific meaning of the terms in the present application may be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application, and not for limiting the same; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. A key cap, comprising:

the helmet comprises a helmet body, a handle and a handle, wherein one side of the helmet body is sunken with an accommodating concave part, and the helmet body is made of a ceramic material;

the light shading piece is laid on the bottom wall of the accommodating concave part;

wherein the sum of the thicknesses of the cap body and the shading piece is less than a first thickness.

2. A key cap according to claim 1,

the light shading piece is further laid on the side wall of the accommodating concave part.

3. A key cap according to claim 1 or 2,

the light shielding member includes: black plastic body and wrap up in the white coating of black plastic body surface.

4. A key cap according to claim 1,

the shading piece and the cap body are fixedly connected in one or more modes of glue spraying, glue dispensing and double-sided glue sticking.

5. A key cap according to claim 4,

the cap body is white, and the colors of the glue spraying, the glue dispensing and the double-sided glue are all white.

6. A key cap according to claim 1,

the shading piece is fixedly connected with the cap body through a clamping structure.

7. A key cap according to claim 1,

the cap body is a circular cap body, an oval cap body or a rectangular cap body.

8. A key cap according to claim 1,

and a connecting structure is arranged on one side of the light shading part, which deviates from the cap body, and is used for being connected with the movable structure, the size of the movable structure in the thickness direction is reduced after the key cap is pressed down by external force, and the movable structure is restored and the key cap is reset after the external force is removed.

9. An input device, comprising:

an input device body; and the combination of (a) and (b),

a first key, the first key is arranged on one side of the input device body, and a keycap according to any one of claims 1-8 is arranged on one side of the first key, which is far away from the input device body.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

an electronic device body; and (c) and (d),

a second key, the second key is arranged on one side of the electronic device body, and one side of the second key, which is far away from the electronic device body, is provided with the keycap according to any one of claims 1 to 8.

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