Button structure

• US 8,274,003 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2009
• Issued: 09/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Compal Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Compal Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Lin, Yu-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Felix O
• Application Number:
  US12/629,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20110079498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: 200/341, 200/5.B, 200/302.2, 200/517, 200/5.A
• US Class Current: 200/5.B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/14 Operating parts, e.g. push-button
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/84 characterised by ergonomic functions, e.g. for miniature keyboards; characterised by operational sensory functions, e.g. sound feedback legends H01H13/83

Abstract

A button structure assembled in a button area below a touchpad. The button structure includes a circuit board and a button frame. The circuit board has a first switch and a second switch corresponding to the button area. The button frame has a left side button portion, a right side button portion, and a contacting elastic portion, wherein the left side button portion is corresponding to the first switch, the right side button portion is corresponding to the second switch, and the contacting elastic portion is contacted against the circuit board and between the first switch and the second switch.

Claims

1. A button structure assembled in a button area below a touchpad, the button structure comprising:

a circuit board having a first switch and a second switch corresponding to the button area;

a button frame having a left side button portion, a right side button portion, and a contacting elastic portion, wherein the left side button portion is corresponding to the first switch, the right side button portion is corresponding to the second switch, and the contacting elastic portion is contacted against the circuit board and between the first switch and the second switch; and

a supporting plate contacting against the button frame and the circuit board, respectively.

2. The button structure of claim 1, wherein two opposite ends of the contacting elastic portion are respectively connected to the left side button portion and the right side button portion.

3. The button structure of claim 1, wherein the contacting elastic portion is a V-shaped structure.

4. The button structure of claim 1, wherein the button frame further has an outer frame connected with peripheries of the left side button portion and the right side button portion.

5. The button structure of claim 1, wherein the button frame has an opening for exposing the touchpad.

6. The button structure of claim 1, wherein the button frame further has a plurality of fixing portions.

7. The button structure of claim 1, further comprising a button cover covering the button frame and the circuit board, and the button cover having two protruding pillars respectively corresponding to the first switch and the second switch.

8. The button structure of claim 7, wherein the left side button portion has an acting opening corresponding to the first switch.

9. The button structure of claim 7, wherein the right side button portion has an acting opening corresponding to the second switch.

10. The button structure of claim 1, wherein the supporting plate is integratedly extended to the left side and the right side of the button area, and two opposite ends of the supporting plate are fixing ends.

11. The button structure of claim 1, wherein two ends of the supporting plate are disposed with two elastic arms.