Topre Corporation

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Topre Corporation
Type Corporation
Founded April 30, 1935
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Employees 2,302
Website www.topre.co.jp


Topre is a Japanese engineering company that makes pressing parts, air conditioning equipment, computer parts and various other electronic and electro-mechanical devices. Topre is known among mechanical keyboard enthusiasts for its development of the Topre capacitive switch. This switch is found on many keyboards (mainly Japanese-made) including the Topre-made Realforce and the HHKB Professional made by PFU. Topre started making keyboards in 1983[1]

An illustration of the first ever Topre capacitive keyboard prototype can be seen on page 202 of Hyakkei PC (パソコン百景) monthly Vol.27, dated February, 2003[2]

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  1. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - Snapshot of zdnet.co.jp article on Topre keyboards
  2. Hyakkei PC monthly, Vol.27 excerpt - Realforce 106 article