Keyboard apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8779256
APP PUB NO 20110232454A1
SERIAL NO

13041875

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A keyboard apparatus capable of enhancing the return capability of hammer assemblies upon key release to improve the capability of repeated key striking and capable of reducing a height size of action units to make the keyboard apparatus compact. The keyboard apparatus includes hammer assemblies each having a butt disposed pivotable about a hammer pivot shaft and a hammer shank extending from the butt. In a non-key-depression state, the hammer shank obliquely extends downward. As viewed from side, a straight line passing though a gravity center position of the hammer assembly and the hammer pivot shaft forms an acute angle less than 45 degrees relative to a horizontal plane in the entirety of a key depression and key release stroke.

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YAMAHA CORPORATION10-1 NAKAZAWA-CHO CHUO-KU HAMAMATSU-SHI SHIZUOKA 430-8650

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Muramatsu, Shigeru Mori-machi, JP 134 1565
Takeyama, Hisashi Hamamatsu, JP 8 27

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