Key Travel Adjustable Switch With Rotary Positioning Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming peripherals lack the ability to adjust key travel for different user preferences, failing to provide a direct feeling in response to software-driven adjustments and not meeting diverse user needs for press feeling and response speed.
Innovation Solution
A key travel adjustable switch featuring a micro switch, travel positioning member, and a travel adjusting member that allows for adjustable key travel through various positioning and rotating mechanisms, enabling users to customize the key travel distance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single fixed key travel is used in the switch, then the structure is simple and reliable, but it cannot meet different user needs for press feeling and response speed
Solution Approach 1:
The switch structure is made dynamically adjustable through a rotary ring with multiple positioning holes that can rotate to different positions. The key travel distance is changed by rotating the rotary ring to engage different positioning holes, allowing the switch to adapt to different user preferences for press feeling and response speed while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The key travel parameter is made variable through the rotary ring mechanism. By rotating the ring to different positions, the physical key travel distance parameter changes, enabling the switch to provide different response characteristics. This allows users to adjust the switch behavior to match their specific gaming or operational needs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If software driver adjustment is used to change trigger travel, then software flexibility is improved, but users lack direct physical feeling (game feel) in response to adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
The rotary ring acts as an intermediary mechanism that bridges software flexibility with physical feedback. While software can still be used to select different travel positions, the rotary ring provides a direct mechanical interface that gives users tactile feedback when adjusting key travel. This intermediary mechanism ensures users can feel the adjustment physically rather than only through software abstraction.
Solution Approach 2:
The switch provides self-service adjustment capability through the rotary ring, allowing users to manually adjust key travel without relying solely on software drivers. The mechanical adjustment mechanism enables users to directly control and feel the key travel changes, providing immediate physical feedback and eliminating the disconnect between software adjustment and physical response.
3Adaptability or versatility
If key travel is adjusted to meet different user preferences, then user satisfaction is improved, but the response speed may vary and require optimization
Solution Approach 1:
The switch enables dynamic adjustment of key travel to optimize response speed for different user preferences and gaming scenarios. By allowing users to select from multiple key travel positions via the rotary ring, the system can adapt to favor faster response times when needed while maintaining longer travel distances for other preferences, thus optimizing speed performance across different use cases.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a key travel adjustable switch. The key travel adjustable switch includes a travel adjusting member, a travel positioning member and a micro switch. The travel adjusting member is removably mounted to the travel positioning member. The travel positioning member is provided with a plurality of travel positions. The travel adjusting member has at least one travel adjusting portion clamped to a travel position of the plurality of the travel positions in an initial state. The travel adjusting member is triggered to move by a corresponding adjustable key travel according to a corresponding travel position that the at least one travel adjusting portion is positioned at to trigger the micro switch. Each of corresponding key travels is different from the others. The key travel adjustable switch of the present disclosure is capable of adjusting the key travel of the key travel adjustable switch, thereby adjusting a response speed of the key travel adjustable switch.