Patent ID: 6776547
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
A keyboard housing assembly for a key array of a depressible-key keyboard, comprising:a keyboard housing, and a swiveling crank-arm, the keyboard housing being adapted to accommodate at least one depressible multiwide key with a key body elongated in a longitudinal direction and having a first plunger adapted to be guided axially in a shaft of the housing against action of a spring, wherein the multiwide key is adapted to be fastened, in a region of both of its longitudinal ends, to said swiveling crank-arm, said swiveling crank-arm having first and second crank-arm rods running parallel to the longitudinal direction and held at a fixed distance from one another by connecting elements, the first crank-arm rod being adapted to be mounted in bearing elements constructed as snap-in apertures on the key body, and the second crank-arm rod comprising two rod stubs, which are mounted in two lateral receiving elements of the keyboard housing, wherein the swiveling crank-arm is received in the keyboard housing so that its rest position prior to installation of the multiwide key corresponds to that position at which it is located when mounted in the bearing elements and with the multi-wide key body being depressed.