Patent ID: 7271360
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: G06F,H01H,H04M

Abstract:
1. A key button structure for a portable terminal device in which a plurality of types of characters such as numerals, kana characters and alphabetical letters are respectively assigned to a key button, wherein the key button structure comprises: a key top made of transparent material depressed by a user; a light shielding section formed by reversely printing a character assigned to a key button for each character type on a face of a key top; an elastic metal dome brought into contact with a contact point formed on a printed circuit board by depressing a key top; an elastic dome anchoring sheet made of transparent material for anchoring the metal dome so as to cover the dome; and key backlights disposed in the dome anchoring sheet and individually lighting each of character display areas for each character type of the light shielding section, wherein each of the key backlights is disposed in a portion of the dome anchoring sheet independent of each of the other key backlights.