HOUSING FORMED BY TWO-COMPONENT INJECTION MOULDING, WITH SEATS FOR KEY CAPS IN USER INTERFACE Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G06F3/02 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: device has a housing with an upper part which holds one or more push keys which form the user interface of the device. Each certain key has a certain key cap. The upper part is formed of a solid plastic element and a soft rubber layer during the two-component injection moulding. A solid plastic element has one or more holes occupied by a soft rubber layer. A solid plastic element has a certain finger located in a certain hole of the soft rubber layer. A certain key cap has a bottom surface with a certain protruding sleeve which is configured to engage a certain finger. The bottom surface of a certain key and the region on the upper surface of the soft rubber layer have complementary profiles made for accurate orientation of the key cap relative to the upper part.

EFFECT: creation of a hand-held electronic device.

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