Author: Umakant Mishra
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.
Keywords: TRIZ, Computer Keyboard, Computer Hardware,
Hardware Inventions, Computer Patents, Inventive Problem Solving, Keyboard
design, portable keyboards, flexible keyboard, folding keyboard, Collapsible
keyboard, modular keyboards
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