Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Keyboard apparatus
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Application No.: US15924838Application Date: 2018-03-19
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Publication No.: US10311847B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Shunsuke Ichiki , Hirotsugu Suzuki , Ichiro Osuga
- Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu-Shi
- Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu-Shi
- Agency: Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP
- Priority: JP2017-074267 20170404
- Main IPC: G10C3/12
- IPC: G10C3/12 ; G10H1/34

Abstract:
A keyboard apparatus includes: a key; a frame; and a connecting portion configured to connect the key and the frame to each other. The connecting portion includes a flexible member having a rod shape and having flexibility that enables the key to pivot with respect to the frame. The flexible member includes a portion that, in entirety of a range of pivotal movement of the key, maintains a state in which a length of a line extending along a neutral axis of the flexible member between two points located on the neutral axis is greater than a length of a straight line connecting the two points to each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180286369A1 KEYBOARD APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-10-04
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