Keyboard apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8648236
APP PUB NO 20130199356A1
SERIAL NO

13761008

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A keyboard apparatus wherein a hammer body having movable and stationary engagement portions is configured such that, in its pivotal movement in a forward direction, a click feeling in a key depression touch is generated when the movable engagement portion comes into contact with and gets over the stationary engagement portion, wherein a distance from a hammer pivot shaft to the movable engagement portion at a certain key stroke position in a key depression stroke becomes smaller with an increase in a pressing drive force, and wherein the movable engagement portion comes into contact with the stationary engagement portion in the pivotal movement in the forward direction where a magnitude of the pressing drive force is less than a prescribed value, and the movable engagement portion does not come into contact with the same where the magnitude of the force is equal to or larger than the prescribed value.

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YAMAHA CORPORATIONSHIZUOKA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hayashi, Yoshinori Hamamatsu, JP 227 5144
Komatsu, Akihiko Hamamatsu, JP 45 377
Muramatsu, Shigeru Hamamatsu, JP 134 1565
Takeyama, Hisashi Hamamatsu, JP 8 27

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