Quotables
"That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
President Rutherford B. Hayes ; Said in 1876, after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to him at the White House
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120080301 | CONTAMINENT RESISTANT MEMBRANE IN A DOME SWITCH AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME A dome switch can include a dome mounted to a circuit board and secured by a sheet constructed from a material that is impermeable to air. To allow air enclosed by a volume between the dome and the circuit board to be expelled when the dome is depressed, the sheet can i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120037484 | Key Device for Mobile Phone The present invention discloses a key device for a mobile phone, which comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), a key disposed on the PCB and a metal dome disposed above the key. The metal dome is able to make electrical contact with the key. The key comprises a first e... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110278148 | METAL DOME SWITCH FOR KEYPAD Disclosed is a metal dome switch for a keypad capable of maintaining click sensitivity in an optimal state upon a push operation of a key button by forming a large height of an uplift part while maintaining structural strength of the uplift part, and increasing a height... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110255260 | BUTTON STRUCTURES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES An electronic device may have buttons, a display, and a vibrator unit. Buttons may be included in electronic devices such as glass buttons, metal buttons, buttons that are assembled on printed circuit boards, and buttons that are partly formed from antenna structures. B... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110233037 | Normally Closed Dome Switch A normally closed dome switch comprises a printed circuit board including a switch trace having first and second contact areas electrically insulated from one another, and a conductive switch dome having a central portion spaced from the printed circuit board and a plur... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110214977 | SNORKEL FOR VENTING A DOME SWITCH To prevent debris from entering the volume between a dome and contacts of a dome switch, a dome can include a channel providing a remote path through which air can be vented. In particular, the channel can extend from the dome to a location within an electronic device t... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110194710 | ACCESSORY CONTROLLER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES Accessories such as headsets for electronic devices are provided. A headset may be provided with a button controller assembly that has user-actuated buttons and a microphone. The microphone may be formed by mounting a microphone transducer on a printed circuit board. A ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110031099 | DOME SHAPED SPRING AND SWITCH Disclosed is a dome shaped spring including: a dome shaped spring section in which buckling occurs by pushing, wherein at least a portion of a neutral face of a movable portion when buckling of the dome shaped spring section occurs is an aspherical shape.... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100126841 | Dome sheet unit and membrane switch having the same A membrane switch can attach an elastically deformable dome to a board in a reliable manner such that the dome is not detached even if a fixing sheet is made thinner and smaller and therefore has a smaller footprint. This switch has: a dome (110) that is formed p... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100123417 | ELECTRICAL SWITCH, AS FOR CONTROLLING A FLASHLIGHT An electrical switch and a flashlight employing the switch may comprise a base having three electrical conductors thereon and an electrically conductive flexible dome adjacent the base. The flexible dome has plural longer legs extending from its dome and in electrical c... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100032277 | PUSH-TYPE SWITCH DEVICE Provided is a push-type switch device including: a switch element in which a dome-shaped reversing spring is accommodated in a switch casing; a holder which is mounted to the outside portion of the switch casing so as to define a position relative to the switch casing a... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100032276 | KEY SHEET Provided is a key sheet which can effect reliable fixation inside a casing without occupying a large space, and includes key tops having large operating surfaces. A sheet surface of a base sheet is set substantially the same in size as a projection surface in a depressi... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090308725 | PUSH SWITCH A push switch includes an upper movable contact, a lower movable contact, a center fixed contact, an intermediate fixed contact, and a peripheral fixed contact. The lower movable contact includes an annular portion, and four legs extending from the annular portion. One ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090283394 | Contact holding sheet provided with a light guide There is provided a contact holding sheet provided with a light guide without using a holding sheet provided with protrusions made of resin, and dispensing with a protrusion fabrication process, thereby reducing cost, and enabling the contact holding sheet provided with... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090244905 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND INPUT DEVICE WITH ILLUMINATION FUNCTION HAVING THE SAME In an input device with an illumination function including an illumination device having light-emitting diodes, strip-like light-guide plates that distribute light emitted from the light-emitting diodes to the side surfaces other than a light-incident surface, and a pla... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090223801 | MEMBER FOR PUSH BUTTON SWITCH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Disclosed are a key top (4) to be used for push button switches of a portable electronic device, which key top has a metal sheet (6) with an approximately thin plate shape, and an outer-layer sheet (8a, 8b) made of a flexible ma... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090183977 | DOME CONTACT USED IN PUSHBUTTON SWITCH AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME A dome contact (32) for pushbutton switches (300) includes a diaphragm (33) having a reversible dome portion (331), and a bump (34) projecting from a central portion of a convex surface of the dome portion. A method for fabricating the... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090178911 | KEY DOME ASSEMBLY WITH IMPROVED TACTILE FEEDBACK A dome assembly for use in a keyboard assembly of an electronic device is provided. The dome assembly includes a deflectable dome shaped element having a concave surface terminating at a periphery and a number of elevating members disposed on the element adjacent the pe... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090152090 | MOVABLE CONTACT UNIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Disclosed is movable contact unit 24, of which an upper surface of movable contact 23 made of a conductive metal plate is adhesively fixed to adhesive layer 22 formed on the underside of base film 21, an upper surface of separator 25 i... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090107824 | INPUT PANEL AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME An input panel for a portable electronic device including a switch sheet, a touch-sensing sheet and an interposing sheet is provided. The switch sheet includes a circuit board and at least one dome switch. The circuit board has at least one contact pad, and the dome swi... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20070221488 | Flexible el Dome Sheet and Flexible El Dome Sheet Keypad Using the Same A flexible EL dome sheet uses a polymer insulation layer having a thickness of 5 to 50 μm as a substrate, and therefore, the thickness of the flexible EL dome sheet is 50 to 150 μm. The flexible EL dome sheet comprises a flexible EL sheet having key patterns formed th... | 09/27/2007 |
