Editing Topre Corporation

{{Infobox Company
| company_name     = Topre Corporation
| company_logo     = [[File:Topre_Logo.svg|200px]]
| company_type     = Corporation
| foundation       = April 30, 1935
| location_city    = Tokyo
| location_country = Japan
| num_employees    = 2,302
| homepage         = {{URL|http://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 switch|Topre capacitive switch]]. This switch is found on [[:Category:Keyboards with Topre switches|many keyboards]] (mainly Japanese-made) including the Topre-made [[Realforce]] and the [[HHKB Professional]] made by [[PFU]]. Topre started making keyboards in 1983<ref>Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - [http://web.archive.org/web/20021207101825/http://www.zdnet.co.jp/news/0207/11/nj00_topre_key.html Snapshot of zdnet.co.jp article on Topre keyboards]</ref>

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<ref>Hyakkei PC monthly, Vol.27 excerpt - [http://deskthority.net/w/images/7/7f/Hyakkei_PC_Monthly_Excerpt.pdf Realforce 106 article]</ref>

==Products==
*[[:Category:Topre switches|Topre switches]]
*[[:Category:Topre keyboards|Topre keyboards]]

==Gallery==
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File:Topre Prototype from 1981.png|Topre prototype from Showa 56 (1981) as illustrated in Hyakkei PC monthly Vol.27
File:Topre_Prototype_-_1.jpg|Topre prototype on display in Topre's Sagamihara plant where Realforce keyboards are made
File:Topre_Prototype_-_2.jpg|Topre prototype from the top, showing the layout and legends
</gallery>

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