Patents Assigned to Darfon Electronics Corp.
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Patent number: 12087522Abstract: A backlight module is applied to providing light to a plurality of keyswitches of a keyboard. Each keyswitch has a keycap and an elastic member abutting against the keycap. The backlight module includes a membrane circuit board and a light guide plate. The membrane circuit board has a light emitting diode corresponding to the keyswitch. The light emitting diode is located at a side of the elastic member and emits light to the keycap. The light guide plate is disposed on the membrane circuit board. The light guide plate has a slot hole for containing the light emitting diode and has a hole corresponding to the elastic member. An optical microstructure is formed on the light guide plate for guiding light of the light emitting diode to be incident to the keycap. The elastic member passes through the hole to be disposed on the membrane circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Po-Wei Tsai, Yen-Chang Chen, Sheng-Yun Yang
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Patent number: 12087518Abstract: A keyboard includes a plurality of keyswitches, a plastic baseplate, and a membrane circuit board. Each keyswitch has a keycap, a lifting mechanism and an elastic member. The lifting mechanism is movably connected to the keycap. The elastic member abuts against the keycap. The plastic baseplate has a first hole formed corresponding to each elastic member and has a connecting structure corresponding to each lifting mechanism. The connecting structure is movably connected to the lifting mechanism to make the keycap movable relative to the plastic baseplate. The membrane circuit board is disposed under the plastic baseplate. Each elastic member passes through the first hole on the plastic baseplate to be disposed on the membrane circuit board. When the keycap is pressed, the elastic member deforms downward to trigger the membrane circuit board. When the keycap is released, the elastic member returns the keycap to its original position.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Po-Wei Tsai, Sheng-Yun Yang
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Patent number: 12087517Abstract: A keyboard is applied to mounting on a holding baseplate of a computer device and includes a plurality of keyswitches, a membrane circuit board and a baseplate. The membrane circuit board is disposed under the plurality of keyswitches. The baseplate is disposed between the plurality of keyswitches and the membrane circuit board and is connected to the plurality of keyswitches, so as to make the plurality of keyswitches movable relative to the baseplate for triggering the membrane circuit board. The baseplate has a plurality of hooks. The plurality of hooks passes through the membrane circuit board to be engaged with a plurality of engaging hole structures of the holding baseplate respectively, so as to detachably mount the keyboard on the computer device. A number of the plurality of hooks is greater than forty.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Po-Wei Tsai, Sheng-Yun Yang
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Patent number: 12080492Abstract: A keyswitch structure includes a lift mechanism and a keycap. Two supports of the lift mechanism support the keycap. There can be a spring structure connecting the two supports for driving the two supports to lift the keycap. The lift mechanism defines a central space extending through the whole lift mechanism in a vertical direction. The spring structure does not enter the central space. The two supports abut against and constrain each other through corresponding structures, to mutually rotate with respect to a rotation axis. The keyswitch structure can include a switch. The switch includes an intermediate support, detachably abutting downward against the lift mechanism or the keycap, and a resilient part, detachably abutting downward against the intermediate support. In the process of pressing the keycap, the intermediate support is separated from the lift mechanism or the keycap, so that the contact force of the switch can be maintained constant.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chen Yang, Ling-Hsi Chao, Shao-Lun Hsiao, Yu-Chun Hsieh
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Publication number: 20240274379Abstract: A backlight module for a lighting keyboard including at least two heat-dissipating keys comprises a reflective layer, a light guide panel and a shielding sheet and has at least two penetration channels. The reflective layer, the light guide panel and the shielding sheet are stacked up and down. The penetration channels symmetrically correspond to the heat-dissipating keys respectively and penetrate the reflective layer, the light guide panel and the shielding sheet. The penetration channels are respectively provided with one light-reducing pattern at their periphery for blocking light. At least two diffusion patterns are arranged adjacent to the light-reducing patterns for guiding light to illuminate the heat-dissipating keys. The light-reducing patterns and the diffusion patterns form at least two heat-reducing optical pattern groups respectively. The heat-reducing optical pattern groups respectively corresponding to the heat-dissipating keys have identical patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: Darfon Electronics Corp.Inventors: Yen-Chang CHEN, Po-Yueh CHOU
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Patent number: 12062506Abstract: An illuminated keyswitch structure and an illuminating module thereof are provided. A base plate has an opening. The illuminating module includes a drive circuit board, having a face reflector and at least one dot reflector disposed thereon, a spacer adhered on the drive circuit board and having a through hole and an adhesive-less clearance fringe at least partially surrounding the through hole, a light-emitting part disposed on the drive circuit board and proximate to the face reflector and the dot reflector, and a translucent covering structure covering above the light-emitting part and including a reflective layer. The reflective layer reflects off light from the light-emitting part, and the face reflector and/or the at least one dot reflector reflect light to pass through the through hole of the spacer and then illuminate upward through the translucent covering structure and further through the opening of the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Heng-Yi Huang, Hsin-Cheng Ho
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Patent number: 12061353Abstract: A backlit module for a backlit keyboard is provided. The backlit module includes a lighting board. The lighting board includes a substrate and an electronic device layer. The electronic device layer is disposed on the substrate. The electronic device layer includes a plurality of key circuit groups. Each of the key circuit groups corresponds to a key group of the backlit keyboard, and includes one or more light sources and a resistor. When the key circuit group includes a plurality of light sources, the light sources are arranged in parallel. The one or more light sources correspond to one or more key of the key group. The resistor is arranged in series with the one or more light sources.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Hsin-Cheng Ho, Heng-Yi Huang
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Patent number: 12046428Abstract: A backlight keyboard includes a first keyswitch, a first backlight source, a light guide plate and a first board having first and second holes. The light guide plate is applied to the backlight keyboard and a second backlight keyboard including a second keyswitch, a second backlight source and a second board having third and fourth holes. The second keyswitch on the second backlight keyboard is shifted transversely relative to the first keyswitch on the backlight keyboard to make the first and fourth holes have a first overlapping area. The light guide plate has a first dot structure corresponding to the first and third holes and a second dot structure corresponding to the second and fourth holes except the first overlapping area for guiding light to symbols on the first and second keyswitches. The first dot structure is less than the second dot structure in dot intensity.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventor: Chao-Yu Chen
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Publication number: 20240230982Abstract: A lighting keyboard includes a backlight module and at least one keyswitch. The backlight module includes a lighting unit, a light guide panel, and a lighting board for illuminating a keycap of the keyswitch. The light guide panel includes a panel hole to accommodate the lighting unit. The light guide panel further includes plural slots intervally surrounding the lighting unit. The lighting board includes a micro-structure region facing toward the light guide panel. Each of the slots of the light guide panel has a bulge portion protruding to the lighting unit. At two sides of the bulge portion, each of the slots forms two slots walls with an obtuse angle, thereby expanding the transmitting angle for the multi-color lights from the lighting unit and enhancing the light-mixing uniformity while illuminating the keycap.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chao-Yu Chen, Heng-Yi Huang
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Patent number: 12026321Abstract: A portable computer device includes a computer body, a keyboard, a backlight circuit board and a metal layer. The computer body has a wireless transceiver and a system ground terminal. The keyboard is mounted on the computer body. The backlight circuit board is disposed under the keyboard and is electrically connected to the computer body. The backlight circuit board has a plurality of light sources and a circuit trace. The circuit trace is electrically connected to the plurality of light sources. The wireless transceiver is located at a side of the backlight circuit board. The metal layer is formed on a position of the backlight circuit board where there is no circuit trace and is adjacent to the wireless transceiver. The metal layer is electrically connected to the system ground terminal for suppressing electromagnetic interference of the backlight circuit board to the wireless transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventor: Heng-Yi Huang
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Patent number: 12027326Abstract: A backlit-module-embedded illuminated keyswitch structure includes a baseplate, a mask film disposed below the baseplate and having a first coating for substantially reflecting a light and a second coating for substantially blocking the light, a light guide sheet at one side of the mask film and having a light source hole, and a reflective layer at one side of the light guide sheet opposite to the mask film. The second coating includes a second main coating region and a plurality of second coating sub-regions, which extends outward from the second main coating region and is arranged along the periphery of the second main coating region to form a plurality of intermediary regions therebetween. The first coating and the second coating are disposed right above the light source hole. The first coating is at least partially located in the intermediary regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventor: Chao-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 12019261Abstract: A back light module is applied to a lighting keyboard with a plurality of keyswitches and includes a lighting unit, a light guide plate, a light penetrating membrane, a light calibration layer and an adhering component. The light guide plate has an opening used to accommodate the lighting unit. The light penetrating membrane is located on the light guide plate. The light penetrating membrane is located on the light penetrating membrane and has a second contour. The adhering component is located between the light guide plate and the light penetrating membrane, and has a first contour greater than the second contour. The adhering component includes a front region, a rear region and a hollow region. The front region is covered by the light calibration layer. The rear region is partly covered or not covered by the light calibration layer. The hollow region corresponds to and is larger than the opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chao-Yu Chen, Heng-Yi Huang, Hsin-Cheng Ho
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Patent number: 12020873Abstract: A sensing keyswitch including a key body, a key-sensing switch and an enabling switch is provided. The key body includes a key top, and a key driver and an enabler which can move with the key top in the same keystroke cycle. The key-sensing switch electrically connected to a key circuit is in a disabled mode to save power and cannot sense the change of the sensing intensity caused by the movement of the driver. The enabling switch is electrically connected to an enabling circuit, wherein when the enabling switch is triggered by the enabler, the enabling switch outputs an enabling signal through the enabling circuit for enabling the key-sensing switch to enter an enabled mode, so that the key-sensing switch can sense the change of the sensing intensity caused by the movement of the key driver to trigger a key signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Darfon Electronics Corp.Inventors: Yu Chun Hsieh, Chen Yang, Chia Hung Liu, Shao Lun Hsiao
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Publication number: 20240203671Abstract: The invention discloses an illuminated keyswitch structure, which includes a base plate, a keycap, and a plurality of light-emitting dies. The base plate has a through hole. The keycap is movably disposed above the base plate in a vertical direction. The light-emitting dies are disposed under the keycap. The light-emitting dies are not higher than the base plate. The light-emitting dies are located within a projection of the through hole in the vertical direction. At least two of the light-emitting dies are arranged parallel to an hole edge of the through hole. In the illuminated keyswitch structure of the invention, distances from the light-emitting dies that are arranged parallel to the hole edge to the hole edge are close to each other, and light of different colors emitted by said light-emitting dies travels through the hole edge at similar distances, thereby suppressing uneven light mixing and color deviation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicants: DARFON ELECTRONICS (HUAIAN) CO., LTD., DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Yu-Chuan Ku, Wen-Ming Hsu, Yuming HUANG
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Patent number: 12009161Abstract: A key structure includes a base and a linkage mechanism. The linkage mechanism includes a plurality of linking members movably connected to each other. The plurality of linking members includes at least two linking members rotatably positioned on the base, respectively. When a pressing force is applied to the linkage mechanism, the plurality of linking members move associated with each other to restrict a rotation range of the plurality of linking members with respect to the base.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Yu-Chun Hsieh, Ling-Hsi Chao, Shao-Lun Hsiao, Chen Yang
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Patent number: 12002635Abstract: A keyswitch structure includes a base plate, a keycap, and a support mechanism. The support mechanism supports the keycap above the base plate. An outer support of the support mechanism includes a reinforcing body and a connecting structure fixed on the reinforcing body. The outer support is connected to the base plate and the keycap through the connecting structure. In an embodiment, the reinforcing body has two openings. Two inner supports of the support mechanism are pivotally connected to the connecting structure and are located in the two openings, respectively. In another embodiment, the reinforcing body as a whole extends along a plane. The reinforcing body has a bent fringe, which is inserted into the connecting structure and is not perpendicular to the plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chin-Hung Lin, Li-Yen Ning, Hsiao-Han Chu
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Patent number: 11990295Abstract: An illuminated keyswitch includes a keycap, a pair of frames adapted to support the keycap in an up-down movement, the pair of frames disposed corresponding to each other and substantially rotatably coupled to each other to define an inner space under the keycap, a pair of elastic members connecting the pair of frames to be located at two opposite sides of the inner space, respectively, and an illumination light source disposed between the pair of elastic members in the inner space and adapted to provide an illumination light. During the up-down movement of the keycap, a vertical projection of the pair of frames surrounds the inner space without interfering therewith, so the illumination light passes the inner space to illuminate the keycap.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chen Yang, Ling-Hsi Chao, Shao-Lun Hsiao, Yu-Chun Hsieh
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Patent number: 11977250Abstract: A lighting keyboard includes a backlight module and at least one keyswitch. The backlight module includes a lighting substrate and a protruding structure. The lighting substrate includes two non-intersecting traces and a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit is connected between the two non-intersecting traces. A position of the protruding structure corresponds to a position of the light emitting unit and the protruding structure is located between the two non-intersecting traces. The at least one keyswitch is disposed on the backlight module.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Ying-Lan Liu, Hsin-Cheng Ho, Heng-Yi Huang
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Patent number: 11978598Abstract: A keyswitch structure includes a base, a keycap, a lift mechanism and a light-emitting part. The lift mechanism includes a first support, a second support, and a spring structure. The first support and the second support are connected to and between the base and the keycap, so that the keycap can move relative to the base in a vertical direction. The spring structure is a single structural part and is connected to the first support and the second support and drives the first support and the second support to lift the keycap in the vertical direction. The lift mechanism as a whole defines a central space that extends through the whole lift mechanism in the vertical direction. The spring structure does not enter the central space. The light-emitting part is disposed on the base corresponding to the central zone, and emits light to illuminate the keycap.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chen Yang, Ling-Hsi Chao, Shao-Lun Hsiao, Yu-Chun Hsieh
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Patent number: RE50000Abstract: A keyswitch structure includes a base, a keycap, a first support, a second support, and a connection structure. The keycap moves up and down relative to the base through the first support and the second support. The connection structure is disposed on the base and includes a vertical-motion limiting part and a horizontal-motion limiting part. The first support includes a rod-shaped connection portion and is connected to the connection structure through the rod-shaped connection portion. The vertical-motion limiting part prevents the rod-shaped connection portion from vertically moving. The horizontal-motion limiting part limits the horizontal movement of the rod-shaped connection portion. The vertical-motion limiting part and the horizontal-motion limiting part are separated in the rotation axis of the rod-shaped connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chih-Hao Chen, Chih-Hung Chen, Chin-Hung Lin, Ling-Hsi Chao, Chih-Chung Yen