{"id":26679,"date":"2019-09-25T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26679"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:39:08","slug":"patent-for-even-thinner-macbook-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/patent-for-even-thinner-macbook-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent for Even Thinner MacBook Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/09\/24\/apple-is-evaluating-new-keyboard-mechanisms-to-make-thinner-macbooks\">Malcolm Owen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21061515\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/09\/24\/apple-is-evaluating-new-keyboard-mechanisms-to-make-thinner-macbooks\"><p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/patft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?patentnumber=10424446\">patent<\/a> published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday titled &ldquo;Keyboard assemblies having reduced thickness and method of forming keyboard assemblies,&rdquo; Apple seeks to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>In Apple&rsquo;s filing, the company suggests the use of a single membrane sheet adhered directly to the printed circuit board (PCB). A switch housing can optionally be affixed directly to the membrane layer or to the PCB, sandwiched between the two, and a dome switch coupled directly on top to the membrane layer.<\/p>\n<p>Generally the membrane is not typically attached to the PCB, but is used to help facilitate the closing of a connection, to trigger the key press. By attaching the membrane completely across the PCB, this eliminates any wasted space and brings the components closer together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds like it would offer less travel and make repairs more difficult.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Owen (Hacker News): In a patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday titled &ldquo;Keyboard assemblies having reduced thickness and method of forming keyboard assemblies,&rdquo; Apple seeks to do just that. In Apple&rsquo;s filing, the company suggests the use of a single membrane sheet adhered directly to the printed circuit board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-09-25T20:39:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"8afd363a-a29c-4b78-a600-02277096ab71","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-09-25T20:39:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aiv02OqKcS3imAAIncJarcQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,423,30,1155,100,40],"class_list":["post-26679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-macbookpro","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26680,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679\/revisions\/26680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}