Removable button for a keypad
CA 2227593 C · Owner: Lucent Technologies, Inc. · Inventors: Aggus, Trevor J.; Ridgely, Bobbie Jo
Overview
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A button which is removable from and insertable into a keypad from the exterior of a housing containing the keypad. The button fits within an opening of the keypad and is formed with resilient fingers in its side walls. The fingers have interfering flanges at their lower ends. The flanges are chamfered to provide a camming action to deflect the fingers when the button is removed or inserted.
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- Filed January 21, 1998 and granted May 7, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 21, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 21, 2020.
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