Silicone Keyboard is made up of silicon rubber key web & elastic wall, button pads, keys & key cover and electrically conduction zones, which mainly used in electrical products, remote controller, medical device, music device etc.
Silicone Keyboard actuation force are decided by key Web & Wall thickness, silicone rubber materials, silicone rubber hardness & Durometer, keyboard travel and keyboard surface coating. For save, rich experienced factory will make lower actuation force when making rubber keyboard tooling. Many persons pay much attention to actuation force and overlook keypad whole performance. Like silicone rubber keypad Web uniformity, spraying color coated influence, key cover effects, keypad-device integration etc.
Silicone rubber keyboard types depends on keyboard surface legends demands, color demands, different key durometer demands, functional requirements, conductive ways demands, protective key cover & cap demands and material property demands etc.
Following is main silicone keyboard types: