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US07807911B2 Keyboard musical instrument having keys equipped with balancers biting into keys and method for securing balancers to keys
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键盘乐器具有装备有平衡器的钥匙以及用于将平衡器固定到钥匙的方法
- Patent Title: Keyboard musical instrument having keys equipped with balancers biting into keys and method for securing balancers to keys
- Patent Title (中): 键盘乐器具有装备有平衡器的钥匙以及用于将平衡器固定到钥匙的方法
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Application No.: US11942982Application Date: 2007-11-20
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Publication No.: US07807911B2Publication Date: 2010-10-05
- Inventor: Hitoshi Izutani , Noboru Yamashita , Satoshi Inoue
- Applicant: Hitoshi Izutani , Noboru Yamashita , Satoshi Inoue
- Applicant Address: JP Shizuoka-Ken
- Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
- Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Shizuoka-Ken
- Agency: Dickstein Shapiro LLP
- Priority: JP2004-075631 20040317; JP2004-083158 20040322; JP2004-124142 20040420; JP2004-147278 20040518; JP2004-267804 20040915
- Main IPC: G10C3/12
- IPC: G10C3/12

Abstract:
Keys of an acoustic piano require balancers for cancellation of a part of self weight of the action units/hammers; however, the balancers are liable to be dropped off due to the aged deterioration of the wooden bars; in order to keep the balancers stable in the keys against the aged deterioration, the balancer is plastically deformed so as to bite into the wooden bar, the balancer, which is formed with thorns, is rotated so as to make the thorns bite into the wooden bar, the balancer is shaped into a configuration different from the holes so as to exert resilient force on the inner surface in a direction in parallel to the grain of wood, or the balancer is inserted into a constricted hole so as to strongly exert the resilient force on the inner surface, thereby being prevented from the dropping off from the keys.
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