Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hammer device and keyboard device for electronic keyboard instrument
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Application No.: US15924018Application Date: 2018-03-16
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Publication No.: US10373596B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Akihiro Suzuki , Yoshiaki Shimoda
- Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
- Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO
- Current Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
- Agency: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
- Priority: JP2017-054150 20170321; JP2017-054151 20170321; JP2017-054152 20170321
- Main IPC: G10H1/34
- IPC: G10H1/34

Abstract:
A keyboard device for an electronic keyboard instrument, making uniform an upper surface height of the rear end of each key in contact with a hammer in a key-released state. The keyboard device includes longitudinally extending wooden keys capable of swinging and laterally juxtaposed, a hammer support disposed rearward of the keys, longitudinally extending hammers having a rear end thereof supported by the hammer support vertically pivotally movably and a protrusion protruding downward from a lower surface thereof for contact with a rear end of an associated key, and hammer contact height-regulating parts each made of a synthetic resin and mounted on the rear end of each key, the part being in contact with the protrusion in the key-released state, to regulate a contact height of the protrusion to a predetermined height.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180277082A1 HAMMER DEVICE AND KEYBOARD DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT Public/Granted day:2018-09-27
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