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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.
Currently keyboards have numerous uses. We input information into computers, word processors, microwave ovens, car lock codes, and home furnaces just to name a few.
Along with advances in technology, keyboard trends within those advancements have had to keep up in order to give users the proper combination of accuracy, and practicality. Though the trends are many, there are five big trends in the key functionality on keyboards.
The use of dome switch keyboards comes first. Dome switch keyboards utilize of a combination of membrane and a mechanical keyboard. Underneath a plastic dome, or bubble, two circuit board traces are brought together.
The surface of the bubble is given a coat of conductive material. As you press the key, it crushes the dome and shorts out the two circuit traces completing a connection that tells 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.
Another trend in keyboards is the capacitive keyboard. Keyboards that are capacitive are made 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.
The third big trend is the mechanical switch keyboard; a keyboard that actually uses real switches under each key. Depending largely on the way the keyboard is built, they have varying responses and travels. Because it gets expensive to pace a switch at each key position, mechanical switch keyboards have fallen a bit out of public favor. Though sometimes considered to be loud and noisy, they are some of the most reliable 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 can also very easily be made totally waterproof and resist large amounts of contaminants.
The fifth trend in this technology is the membrane keyboard. Generally flat they are most often seen on machines such as microwave ovens, photocopiers, and car lock keypads. Usually 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 layer, or spacer layer, the front and back layers are held apart so they do not make electrical contact. The third or back layer has conductive stripes printed on it perpendicular to the ones on the front layer. These perpendicular stripes form a grid. When the button is pushed, the finger pushes the front layer through the spacer layer to close a circuit at one of the grid intersections. This closed circuit tells the computer that a particular button as been pressed.
Keyboards have come a long way since typewriters lined all the desks in, say, newspaper offices and they will continue to advance for as long as the need for durability, reliability, and variation continues.
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