Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Keyboard device and keyboard instrument
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Application No.: US15091432Application Date: 2016-04-05
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Publication No.: US09899014B2Publication Date: 2018-02-20
- Inventor: Yuichi Nishimura
- Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz & Volek PC
- Priority: JP2015-080988 20150410; JP2016-059459 20160324
- Main IPC: G10C3/12
- IPC: G10C3/12 ; G10H1/34 ; G10B3/12 ; G10C3/16

Abstract:
A keyboard device includes a plurality of transmission members which are displaced in response to a depression operation on each of a plurality of keys and a plurality of hammer members each of which provides an action load to a depressed key by performing a rotating motion in response to the displacement of a transmission member corresponding to the depressed key. The weight of the transmission member is set in accordance with the formation density of a plurality of ribs formed on a transmission body section. Therefore, the weight of the transmission member set in accordance with the formation density of the ribs can be provided to the key as a static load. As a result of this structure, an initial load on a key can be optimized, and a key depressing force on the key at the time of key depression can be favorably transmitted to the hammer member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160300556A1 KEYBOARD DEVICE AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT Public/Granted day:2016-10-13
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