Patent ID: 8884173
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. An illuminated keycap for generating soft light located in a keyboard which includes a command circuit board located beneath the keycap and triggered by a vertical movement of the keycap to issue a keyboard command signal, and at least one lighting unit located inside to provide light projecting to the keycap, comprising: a press surface, a transparent connecting section extended from the press surface towards the command circuit board and a color display surface extended from the connecting section and parallel to the press surface; the press surface, the connecting section and the color display surface jointly forming a light retaining zone in the keycap, the press surface including a top surface coated with a first pigment layer, the color display surface including a bottom surface coated with a second pigment layer whose color is different from that of the first pigment layer, the first pigment layer and the second pigment layer forming a mixed color such that the light generated by the lighting unit to enter the light retaining zone is emitted softly through the connecting section.