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InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Industrial Keyboard
Designed for industrial panel-mount systems, the InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Industrial Keyboard combines a flat, heavy-duty layout with an integrated 38-mm mechanical trackball. It delivers reliable data input and precise navigation while withstanding continuous operational demands in harsh environments. The keyboard’s robust phenolic resin case and front panel mounting via threaded bolts offer strong mechanical resistance and secure installation.
Featuring gold-plated dome switches, this keyboard supports approximately one million switching cycles, ensuring long service life in high-use settings. Its compatibility with all Windows and Macintosh operating systems allows seamless integration with various industrial devices. Certified RoHS and CE compliant, it meets environmental standards and operates between 0°C and +70°C, while storage tolerance extends from -25°C up to +80°C. The mechanical pointing device and reinforced cable options further enhance its deployment readiness across field, factory, and machine control applications.
TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Features
- Key Full-Embossing Frame
- Integrated 38 mm Trackball
- Resistant Foil Surface
- Resistant Against Dirt, Dust and Liquids (IP65)
- Resistant Against Dirt, Dust and Liquids (IP65)
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Product Type
Manufacturer
Ruggedness
IP Rating
Mounting Format
Country Of Manufacture
Germany
Case Material
Plastic
Certifications
RoHS Compliant, CE
Custom Options Products
Keyboard Layout,Keyboard Language,Cable Type,Cable Length,Interface
Dimensions
365 x 135 x 38 mm
Ball Material
phenolic resin
Compatibility
All Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems
Key Material
FR4 (Epoxy Glass Resin)
Key Switch
Gold Plated Domes
Mounting Type
front panel with threaded bolts
No. Of Keys
85
Operating Force
3.0 N
Operating Principle
mechanical
Pointing Device
Trackball
Pointing Device Operating Principle
Mechanical
Product Weight
400 g
Switch / Key Travel
0.6 mm
Switching Cycles
approx. 1 mill. (per key
Trackball Diameter
38 mm
Temperature Rating
STORAGE: -25C to +80C OPERATING:0C to +70C
The InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Industrial Keyboard is designed and engineered for use in demanding environments where reliability, durability are essential. The TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL supports a wide range of industries and operational applications.
Common deployment industries include: Construction, Defence And Military, Emergency Services, Energy and Utilities, Industrial Manufacturing, Logistics And Supply Chain, Marine And Offshore, Oil and Gas.
Across these sectors, the TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL is typically used in applications such as Industrial HMI And Machine Interfacing, Port, Terminal, And Cargo Handling, Process Control And Shop-Floor Monitoring, SCADA And Control-Room Access, Secure Access, Authentication, And Control Terminals, Vehicle-Mounted Computing (MDTs / VMCs).
These examples demonstrate the versatility of the TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL across both industry sectors and real-world operational use cases. Its suitability extends well beyond the scenarios listed above, making it a flexible solution for a broad range of requirements.
For further information, or to assess whether the TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL is appropriate for your specific application, please contact us.
The InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Industrial Keyboard comes with a 1 Year Limited Warranty against defects in workmanship and materials, effective from the date of shipment (unless otherwise agreed in writing).
To receive service under this warranty, the eligible product, InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Industrial Keyboard, must be presented to RUGGED in the United Kingdom.
For more information about the InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL Industrial Keyboard or to arrange repairs and services not covered by the warranty, please visit the warranty section on our website.
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At RUGGED, we recognise that every project has its own unique demands. If you have any questions about the InduKey TKF-085b-TB38-MODUL or need a custom Rugged Keyboard solution designed specifically for you, our team of technical experts are ready to assist you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Rugged Limited provides a range of rugged keyboards designed to withstand challenging industrial environments, including those found on forklifts and heavy machinery. These keyboards are built to be extremely durable, offering resistance to liquids, dust, and extreme temperatures, which are common conditions in such operational settings.
The design of many rugged keyboard models includes features that facilitate easy integration into various industrial setups. This often involves robust casings and adaptable mounting solutions, ensuring a secure and stable fit even with vibrations or impacts inherent to machinery operation. Their resilience makes them a reliable interface for data entry and control in demanding applications. Rugged Limited’s extensive experience ensures these keyboards meet the rigorous demands of industrial use.
Rugged Limited specialises in providing industrial-grade input solutions, including rugged keyboards, designed to operate reliably in challenging conditions. These keyboards are built to withstand elements such as extreme temperatures, dust, dirt, liquids, and heavy usage, which are common causes of failure for standard peripherals.
By preventing premature failure and reducing the need for frequent replacements or repairs, a rugged keyboard inherently contributes to less operational downtime. Their robust construction ensures consistent performance, enabling uninterrupted work in industries where reliability is paramount. Rugged Limited’s keyboards are engineered for longevity and resilience, giving businesses peace of mind and supporting continuous operations.
Explore Rugged Limited’s range of rugged keyboards to find a solution that meets your specific industrial needs and helps minimise downtime.
Rugged keyboards are an excellent choice for control rooms, where reliability and durability are paramount. These environments often require equipment that can endure continuous use and potential exposure to dust or spills without compromising performance.
Specifically designed with robust materials, a rugged keyboard offers superior protection compared to standard keyboards. This resilience ensures that critical operations in control rooms can proceed uninterrupted, even in challenging conditions. Rugged Limited provides a range of these specialized input devices, built to meet the rigorous demands of such settings, ensuring long-lasting functionality and consistent performance.
Absolutely, rugged keyboards are engineered to be highly compatible and functional with kiosks and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). These environments often require input devices that can withstand continuous use, potential spills, dust, and even vandalism. Rugged Limited provides a range of rugged keyboard solutions that are purpose-built to meet these stringent demands.
Our rugged keyboards feature durable construction, often including stainless steel or silicone, and are designed to offer protection against liquids and particulates. This makes them an ideal choice for public-access kiosks, industrial control panels, and other HMI applications where standard keyboards would quickly fail. The robust design ensures consistent performance and a long operational lifespan, reducing maintenance needs and improving user experience in challenging settings.
Rugged Limited offers a range of durable keyboards specifically engineered to meet the stringent requirements of cleanroom settings. These rugged keyboard solutions are often fully sealed and easy to clean, preventing the accumulation of dust and contaminants crucial for maintaining cleanroom protocols.
Our industrial keyboards are built with materials and designs that can withstand harsh cleaning agents and frequent sanitization without compromising performance or integrity. This makes them an ideal rugged keyboard choice for pharmaceutical, medical, and other controlled environments where hygiene and reliability are paramount.
Rugged Limited understands the importance of versatility in industrial and demanding environments. That’s why our range of rugged keyboards is designed to accommodate global users by supporting multiple language layouts. This means that whether you require a keyboard with a UK, US, German, French, or another specific language layout, Rugged Limited can provide a solution tailored to your operational requirements.
This adaptability in language options ensures that users worldwide can operate our durable keyboards efficiently and comfortably, without compromising on the ruggedness and reliability that our products are known for. When sourcing a rugged keyboard, it’s important to specify your language layout needs to ensure the best fit for your application.
Rugged Limited provides a range of rugged keyboards specifically engineered to meet the demanding requirements of military applications. These keyboards are designed to withstand extreme temperatures, vibrations, shocks, and exposure to dust and liquids, making them ideal for deployment in challenging operational environments.
Our rugged keyboards feature robust casings, often manufactured from stainless steel or aluminum, and incorporate sealed keypads to prevent ingress of contaminants. Many models also include features like adjustable backlighting for use in varying light conditions, and some are night vision compatible, which is crucial for covert operations. The design prioritises reliability and consistent performance, ensuring that critical data entry functions remain operational when they are needed most.
Furthermore, the durability of a rugged keyboard from Rugged Limited ensures a longer product lifespan and reduced maintenance, offering a cost-effective solution for military organisations seeking dependable input devices.
Rugged Limited specialises in providing industrial solutions, and this includes offering customisation options for their rugged keyboard range. We understand that different industries and applications have unique demands, which is why our rugged keyboards can be tailored to incorporate various features.
For instance, standard options like integrated pointing devices, backlighting, and different mounting solutions are available to enhance functionality and usability. Beyond these, Rugged Limited can implement bespoke modifications to ensure the rugged keyboard seamlessly integrates into your specific setup and operational environment. This commitment to customisation ensures that you receive a product perfectly suited to your needs, rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.
InduKey devices appear across food and beverage processing, healthcare and medical, pharmaceutical and industrial manufacturing, with several models also suited to construction, energy, marine and offshore, and oil and gas. The common thread is environments where hygiene, washdown or ingress protection matters, such as production lines, clinical workstations and process-control panels. Sealed IP65 and IP68 models suit moisture-prone and frequently sanitised areas, while wide operating temperature ranges support both chilled and heated settings. The range covers industrial HMI, machine interfacing, quality inspection and secure access terminals. Industry suitability varies by specific model and its sealing, so check the listed industries on each product page.
Yes. Many InduKey keyboards integrate a pointing device directly into the sealed housing, removing the need for a separate mouse in confined or hygiene-critical workspaces. Options include 38mm trackballs, both mechanical and optical, and integrated capacitive touchpads with a typical active area around 59 x 42mm and resolution of roughly 100 to 300 dpi. The TKG-086-IP68-WHITE pairs an IP68 sealed keyboard with a mechanical trackball, while several TKG and TKV models combine capacitive keys with a capacitive touchpad. InduKey also supplies standalone sealed mice and touchpads such as the TKH range. The exact pointing device and its specification vary by model, so confirm on the product page.
Yes. InduKey keyboards typically offer customisation of keyboard layout, language, cable type, cable length and interface, letting integrators match a unit to a specific console, language market or host system. Variants exist for front-panel, modular and drawer mounting, with different housing materials and colours, and options such as antimicrobial surfaces, backlighting and choice of trackball or touchpad. This makes the range well suited to OEM integration where a keyboard must fit a defined panel cut-out and electrical interface. Available custom options differ between models and some changes may carry minimum quantities, so confirm the specific options and any conditions on the relevant product page.
InduKey uses several key technologies depending on the model, including capacitive keys, mechanical carbon-contact keys and the stainless steel Fit-Inox silicone keypad with carbon contacts. Capacitive and mechanical sealed models such as the TKG-105-MED-IP68 and TKG-086-IP68-WHITE are rated for approximately 2 million switching cycles per key, while certain touchpad modules are rated around 1 million operations per key. Operating force is typically between 1.5N and 3N with short key travel of about 1mm. These figures support continuous-duty industrial use. Key technology, cycle life and operating force vary by model, so confirm the figures on the specific product page before specifying.
Yes. InduKey produces dedicated medical and hygiene-oriented models, several sealed to IP68 with antimicrobial surfaces that resist microbial growth and tolerate repeated disinfection, such as the TKG-105-MED-IP68. Smooth silicone-rubber or stainless steel surfaces with no key gaps allow thorough cleaning in place, supporting infection-control routines in hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical production and food preparation. Many carry CE and RoHS compliance. Wide operating temperatures, for example around -25C to +70C on the MED model, also suit cold-chain and processing areas. Antimicrobial treatment, IP rating and exact temperature range vary by model, and medical electrical certification differs across the range, so confirm the specifics on each product page.
A standard office keyboard has exposed key gaps, no ingress protection and a short service life under dust, moisture or frequent cleaning, so it fails quickly on a shop floor or in a clinical setting. InduKey keyboards are sealed to IP65 or IP68, built from silicone rubber, aluminium or stainless steel, and rated for around 2 million cycles per key, with wide operating temperatures and optional integrated trackballs or touchpads. They mount securely to panels, support washdown and offer customisable layouts and interfaces for OEM integration. The result is far lower failure and replacement cost in demanding environments. Exact ratings vary by model, so confirm on the product page.
InduKey is a German manufacturer of sealed industrial keyboards, keypads, mice, touchpads and keyboard decoders for demanding environments. The catalogue spans front-panel and modular keyboards in stainless steel, aluminium and silicone-rubber housings, many sealed to IP65 or IP68, with integrated trackballs or capacitive touchpads. Its strength is input hardware that survives moisture, dust, frequent cleaning and wide temperature swings, with several models rated from around -25C to +70C. Buyers choose InduKey for industrial HMI, machine interfacing, process control and medical workstations where a consumer keyboard would fail. Specific sealing, materials and key technology vary by model, so confirm on the product page.
InduKey seals its keyboards through fully enclosed silicone-rubber, aluminium or stainless steel construction with no exposed gaps, allowing washdown and disinfection without ingress. Several models are rated to IP65, protecting against dust and low-pressure water jets, while others reach IP68 for dust-tight and immersion-grade protection, such as the TKG-105-MED-IP68 and TKG-086-IP68-WHITE. Some variants add IK08 impact protection for vandal resistance. This sealed approach means the keyboards can be cleaned in place on a panel rather than removed, which matters in food processing, pharmaceutical and clinical settings. Exact IP and impact ratings differ between models, so always confirm the rating on the specific product page.








