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There was a time when keyboards existed only on typewriters. The keys worked in a fairly straightforward manner: the user pressed the key, the key forced a 'stamp' to press the letter onto the paper through an ink ribbon.
Now our keyboards have many functions. We use them to put information into computers, word processors, microwave ovens, car lock codes, and home furnaces just to name a few.
Along with advancements in technology, keyboards have advanced to supply the proper combination of durability and practicality. Though there are many trends five big ones stand out in functionality.
First is the use of dome switch keyboards. Dome switch keyboards make use of a combination of membrane and mechanical keyboard. Under a plastic dome or bubble, two circuit board traces are brought together.
The surface of the bubble has a coating of conductive material. When you press the key, it collapses the dome. The collapsed dome shorts out the two circuit traces completing a connection that informs the keyboard that you have entered a character. Tthe pattern on the PC board is usually gold plated.
The dome switch keyboard is a very common solution in mass marketed keyboards. It is considered to be nice and quiet, but there are those who complain that it feels 'mushy' compared to some other key tendencies. The dome switches are also known as direct switch keys.
A second trend is the capacitive keyboard. Keyboards that are capacitive are created so that stroking a key changes the capacitance of a pattern that gets printed on a PC board. This change in capacitance allows a pulse or train of pulses to be sensed.
A third big trend in keyboard switching is the mechanical switch keyboard. This type of keyboard uses real switches under each key. They have varying responses and travels. It gets expensive to place a switch at each key position so mechanical switch keyboards have fallen a bit out of favor. Sometimes considered to be loud and noisy, they are amongst the most reliable of keyboards.
Fourth in keyboard trends are the Hall Effect keyboards. These keyboards get their name from the use of magnets and the Hall Effect (a potential difference on opposite sides of a thin sheet of conducting material in the form of an element through which an electric current is flowing) instead of actual switches. When the user presses a key, a magnet is moved; this is detected by a hall-effect sensor.
They are most often used for applications where ultra-high reliability is crucial, such as aircraft cockpits and nuclear power plants.
A fifth trend in keyboard technology is known as the membrane keyboard. A type of keyboard that is generally flat. Most often seen on appliances and machines like microwave ovens, photocopiers, and car lock keypads. Commonly the design is made up of three layers. The top layer, which is the one the user touches, has the printing on the front, while the back has conductive stripes printed on it.
In the second, spacer layer, both of the front and back layers are held apart and do not make electrical contact. The back layer has conductive stripes printed on it opposite to the ones on the front layer. These perpendicular stripes form a grid. When a button is pressed the front layer pushes through the spacer layer to close a circuit on one of the grid intersections and informss the computer that a particular button as been depressed.
Keyboards have progressed since typewriters were all one saw in offices. They will continue to advance as long as we need durability, reliability, and variation in function.
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