Patent ID: 7334442

Claim:
An escutcheon for a door lock, comprising: a housing including a faceplate; a keypad disposed on the faceplate for unlocking the door lock and having a central longitudinal axis and a center point; and two parallel protrusions, extending upwardly from the surface of the housing laterally adjacent to and on opposite sides of the keypad to define a longitudinal channel in the housing for receiving the keypad, wherein the protrusions are integral and of unitary construction with the housing, and each protrusion is of a sufficient height and length along the longitudinal axis of the keypad to obstruct at least partially a line of sight to the keypad, and wherein a line from the center point of the keypad normal to the central longitudinal axis of the keypad to the top of the at least one protrusion forms an angle of at least 20 degrees with a plane tangential to the surface of the faceplate along the central longitudinal axis of the keypad.