Patent ID: 8387208

Claim:
A keyboard cleaning apparatus, comprising: a conduit comprising a low pressure region and configured to receive an airflow directed from a high pressure region towards the low pressure region; a frame attached to the conduit and comprising an orifice that comprises an orifice center substantially aligned with a center of the frame and an orifice perimeter that is bounded on each side of the orifice by the frame, the orifice configured to direct the airflow to the conduit; and a plurality of bristles attached to the frame proximate two sides of the orifice perimeter and defining the high pressure region near the orifice, a first portion of the plurality of bristles contactingly engage a first oblique surface of a key of a keyboard and urge debris proximate the first oblique surface into the airflow, a second portion of the plurality of the bristles contactingly engage a second oblique surface of the key of the keyboard and urge debris proximate the second oblique surface into the airflow, at least some of the plurality of bristles contactingly engage a floor of the keyboard and urge debris proximate the floor into the airflow.