10 Inventions on modular keyboards: A TRIZ based analysis
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.3850,
title = {10 Inventions on modular keyboards: A TRIZ based analysis},
author = {Umakant Mishra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3850},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Published in TRIZsite Journal, March 2005, also available in http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=932269. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1310.3070, arXiv:1310.3268, arXiv:1310.3849