US Patent Issued to Darfon Electronics on Sept. 1 for "Key structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,743, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Darfon Electronics Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Key structure" was invented by Hsun-Kun Peng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Po-Wei Tsai (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key structure including a keycap, a base plate, at least one bracket and a circuit board is provided. The base plate is arranged opposite to the keycap and includes at least one through hole located under the keycap. The bracket is rotatably connected between the keycap and the base plate, keeps flat when the keycap is lowered to a lowest position, stands obliquely when the keycap is raised, and includes at l...