A keyboard and a method for manufacturing the keyboard using silicon rubber.
The
method for manufacturing the keyboard includes forming sheets from silicon rubber;
forming the sheets into a top pad with keys integrally formed thereon and a bottom
pad bonded to a bottom surface of the top pad; painting the keys through a silk-screen
printing method; and bonding the top and bottom pads with silicon liquid rubber
in a state where a flexible printed circuit board is interposed between the pads.
The keyboard is configured such that the painted keys are arranged on a top surface
of the top pad and the flexible printed circuit board is interposed between the
top and bottom pads so that the flexible printed circuit board is electrically
contacted to produce a desired sound from a speaker of a controller when a user
strikes the keys.