Abstract: A snap dome switch keyboard assembly including a printed circuit board having dual contact switch sites with piggy-back snap domes, button actuators for each of the piggy-back snap domes, and an elastomeric member arranged between the domes and the button actuators serving as a force transmission member materially reducing the contact bounce time.

Abstract: A switching assembly includes an insulative substrate upon which is carried a plurality of conductive paths respective portions of which are selectively bridged upon depression of a resilient conductive contact element. That contact element is generally in the shape of a dome and has a central region of substantially planar conformation from which the remainder of the dome slants integrally downward and outward to a lower marginal rim portion. The dome-shaped element is disposed adjacent to the substrate with at least a portion of its rim portion electrically and physically contacting one of the portions of one of the paths. The central region is generally in registry over another of the portions in another of the paths so as to enable connection between the central region and that other portion upon depression of the central region.

Abstract: A keyboard assembly includes an insulative substrate upon which are carried a plurality of conductive paths. Respective portions of the paths are selectively bridged upon depression of a dome shaped conductive resilient contact element. Each contact element has a single foot disposed along a marginal portion thereof to allow the dome shaped element to be deformed downwardly upon depression at its apex. The foot of each contact element is in physical and electrical contact with selected ones of the conductive paths and the dome shaped element is adapted to simultaneously engage a plurality of such paths upon depression at the apex. An indentation is provided in the substrate immediately beneath the apex of each contact element to better assure simultaneous contact of the plurality of conductive paths immediately beneath the dome shaped contact element.