Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Keyboard device and electronic keyboard device
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Application No.: US16130096Application Date: 2018-09-13
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Publication No.: US10553189B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Shunsuke Ichiki
- 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: JP2016-061762 20160325
- Main IPC: G10D3/12
- IPC: G10D3/12 ; G10H1/34 ; G10B3/12 ; G10C3/12

Abstract:
A keyboard device capable of securing a wider rotation region of a hammer is provided. The keyboard device includes: a key; a connection portion connected between the key and a frame, the connection portion including: a first region extending in a key-longitude direction and having a depressed portion caved upward; and a second region arranged so as to line up with the first region in the key-longitude direction, located in at least a part of a region other than the depressed portion, having flexibility in a yawing direction; and a hammer mechanism operated according to a strike of the key. A part of the hammer mechanism is positioned in the depressed portion in a state where the key is struck.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190012996A1 KEYBOARD DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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