Patents by Inventor Emmanuel De Richecour

Emmanuel De Richecour has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20060042923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tactile keyboard assembly providing at least one key and constructed on a plurality of foil layers stacked one upon the other, with one layer thereof composed of a dome layer having for each key an elastically deformable dome positioned underneath the respective key. For providing a new and improved structure of a such tactile multi-layered foil keyboard assembly enabling an effective reduction of the thickness, the invention proposes a tactile keyboard assembly for an electronic device, the assembly is constructed on a plurality of foil layers stacked one upon the other and providing the basic structure for at least one tactile key, with one layer of the plurality of layers composed of a dome layer (120, 125) having an elastically deformable dome (125) for each key, and with each dome (125) positioned underneath a respective user area for the key actuation such that the surface of the dome (125) is forming a convex surface with regard to the user area for the key actuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Emmanuel De Richecour, Stephane Munsch