US Patent Issued to Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) on July 21 for "Key structure of electronic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,985, issued on July 21, was assigned to Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (ShenZhen, China).

"Key structure of electronic device" was invented by Chun-Han Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Tien-Fu Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chih Wei Wang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Wan Hsiu Hsieh (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key structure of electronic device including a substrate, a light source disposed on the substrate, an elastic member disposed on the substrate, and a key cap disposed on the elastic member is provided. The elastic member has a tunnel for passing light generated by the light source and projecting toward the key cap. An ...