Patent ID: 6180904
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
A keyboard for a control device for being installed from a front side of an instrument panel, said keyboard including a housing, in which a circuit board having electric and electronic components is arranged, there being a plurality of keys of the keyboard acting on switches supported on an operating side of the circuit board, wherein:each key of said keys has an operating member positioned on the operating side of the circuit board and further including a guide projection which, when the operating member of the key is pushed toward the operating side of the circuit board, is shoved along a guide plate and held by a locator, the locator having two stops which restrict motion to displacement of the key between the two stops, one of the switches being activated ON and OFF by the key being moved through this displacement of the key;wherein the guide plate and the key guide projection pass through an opening in said circuit board, and wherein said operating member includes a key surface for contacting at least the one of the switches being activated ON and OFF on the operating side of the circuit board for causing this actuation.