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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.
Dome switch keyboards employ a membrane and a mechanical keyboard. Beneath a plastic dome 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.
Dome switch keyboard technology is common to many mass marketed keyboards and is thought to be nice and quiet, although there are those who complain that it feels 'mushy' compared to other keyboards. The dome switches can also be known as direct switching 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.
The fourth in type of current keyboard trends are the Hall Effect keyboards who 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.
The spacer layer holds the front and back layers apart so they cannot 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 the desks in newspaper offices. They will continue to advance as long as a need for durability, reliability, and variation in function continue.
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