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10 Inventions on reducing keyboard size

A conventional computer keyboard consists of as many as 101 keys. The keyboard has several sections, such as text entry section, navigation section, and numeric keypad etc. and each having several keys on the keyboard.

The size of the keyboard is a major inconvenience for portable computers, as they cannot be carried easily. Thus there are certain circumstances which compels to reduce the size of a keyboard.

Reducing the size of a keyboard leads to several problems. A reduced size keyboard may not contain all the keys available on a full size keyboard; a reduced size keyboard may not be convenient to operate, a reduced size keyboard may have a different key layout which is difficult to learn etc.

This article illustrates 10 inventions on reducing the size of the keyboard. Various inventions have attempted to solve the contradictions so that the user achieves the benefits of both ‘reduced size’ and ‘typing comfort’.

10 Inventions on collapsible keyboards

Although a bigger keyboard is often comfortable to work with, they cannot be fit into laptop and small size computer boxes. The portable and handheld computers need small size keyboards. So there is a need to reduce the size of the keyboard to fit into the laptop box. There are various mechanisms to reduce the size of the keyboard; collapsible keyboard is one of them.

Although different inventions intend to achieve the same objective of reducing the keyboard size, they all differ in their mechanism. For example, some invention uses a compression mechanism, some invention uses a folding mechanism, and some invention uses a collapsing mechanism and so on.

This article illustrates 10 inventions on collapsible keyboards from US patent database. Each case is analyzed from a TRIZ perspective.

10 Inventions on modular keyboards

As a standard keyboard is quite spacious many inventions try to use the space of keyboard to use for various activities. A modular keyboard is designed in such a way that the components of the keyboard can be attached and detached as per the need.

This article illustrates 10 inventions on modular keyboard from US patent database. The objective of these inventions is to make a keyboard modular, so that the same keyboard can be made smaller by detaching some of its components and larger by attaching additional attachments. Some modular keyboards provide slots for external attachments like mouse, telephone, speakers, joystick and storage devices etc.

About TRIZsite Journal!

The TRIZsite Journal publishes articles, case studies, personal experience, class notes, training materials and other useful papers on TRIZ and related topics.

This section is found to be very much appreciated by the readers. We are getting suggestions to increase the number of articles. We are expecting more articles to come from various authors soon. Our objective is to include more and more articles in this section.

Call for papers and articles!

Articles are invited from writers on various fields to write on various topics and issues. As the site is dedicated to TRIZ, we would prefer your article should be relevant to TRIZ or TRIZ related concepts, such as, traditional TRIZ, modified TRIZ, appliction of TRIZ, evolving Techniques, your experience and case studies on TRIZ etc. However, You can also write on similar related topics like, innovation, creativity, intellectual property, other problem solving techniques, comparision of TRIZ with other branches of study, and so on as you can think.

Not only TRIZ professionals and practitioners, but everybody is welcome including Students, Housewives, Artists, Philosophers to conribute their papers to trizsite.com. We do not differentiate between a senior person in a reputed company and just a novice thinker while accepting papers.

It would be very interesting and valuable for the readers if you could share your practical experience on applying TRIZ, the particular methods you follow, the way you teach it and the way you understand their value.

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Please send your write-ups via email to umakant(at)trizsite.com in HTML, MS Word or PDF format. Please include a paragraph about yourself alongwith your article.

The editors reserve the right to edit your articles, or send the articles back with specific comments for modification. Selected articles will be published in the site. Please allow some gap of a month or two if there are too many articles in the queue.

Copyright Policy

The TRIZ site holds the right to publish the papers in other books, journals or publications in any form or media. As the articles are published in world wide web the authors by default give right to the readers to read and download the articles for their prsonal use, and not for distribution or commercial use, thus maintaining the copyright of the publications.

However, the authors also have the right to publish the same articles on other magazines, publications but mentioning the earlier publication in TRIZ site.

Editor's Message
We are thankful to all TRIZ lovers whose inspiration and well wishes have made this effort possible. We extend out Thanks to all the authors who have contributed their articles to trizsite.com and thankful to those who have quoted trizsite.com in their websites and publications.

With best wishes to all our readers and writers.

Umakant Mishra
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