10 Inventions on laptop keyboards -A study based on US patents
This work addresses space constraints in laptop design for manufacturers and users, but it is incremental as it compiles existing patent-based solutions without introducing new methods.
The article tackles the challenge of designing compact keyboards for laptops by reviewing 10 inventions from US patents that aim to improve aspects like size reduction, folding, ergonomics, quality, and cost.
A desktop keyboard has several sections like character key section, navigation key section, numeric key section, and function key section etc. each consisting of several number of keys. However, a laptop computer does not have so much of space to accommodate all these keys into the keyboard. There are several considerations while designing a laptop keyboard. This article illustrates 10 inventions on keyboards for laptop and portable computers. The inventions are selected from US patent database. The inventions try to improve various aspects of a laptop keyboard, such as reducing size, folding and concealing, ergonomic features, improving quality and reducing cost.