Patent ID: 6379060
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: B41J,G06F,H01H

Abstract:
A keyboard construction, the keyboard construction for resting on a generally horizontal support surface, comprising:a housing having a front portion and a rear portion; a plurality of alpha-numeric key means mounted on the housing arranged in a plurality of V-shaped rows, the plurality of alpha-numeric key means being arranged in a QWERTY configuration to facilitate conventional QWERTY keystroke techniques; said plurality of alpha-numeric key means including a right group of QWERTY key means arranged in rows and staggered columns, and a left group of QWERTY key means arranged in rows and staggered columns; means defining a space between said right group of QWERTY key means and said left group of QWERTY key means, said space being sufficiently widely spaced apart to position the hands of the user in co-extending alignment with their respective wrists for enabling the fingers of the user to rest comfortably for touch typing purposes; means coupled to the housing and disposed beneath said housing for positioning said housing front portion in a raised position to cause the key means to be disposed in a generally downwardly inclined position from front to rear when the keyboard construction rests on the generally horizontal support surface: and said means causing the housing to be supported generally in a plane disposed at an angle &bgr; relative to the horizontal to help position the hands of the user in co-extending alignment with their respective wrists for enabling the fingers of the user to rest comfortably for touch typing purposes.