Fallboard arrangement for keyboard instrument

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9135895
APP PUB NO 20130283994A1
SERIAL NO

13869698

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A fallboard arrangement for a keyboard instrument, including a slide-type fallboard and enabling enhancing the degree of freedom of design while ensuring good appearance and smooth opening and closing operation of the fallboard, to improve marketability. A fallboard opens and closes a performance section. Arms have respective guide grooves for guiding sliding of the fallboard in a front-rear direction. Left and right side plates are provided for left and right ends of a front portion of the fallboard, and have shield walls for shielding areas around left and right end faces of the fallboard, respectively. Left and right guide bushes protrude outward from the side plates, for engagement with the guide grooves of the respective arms. The guide bushes are guided by the guide grooves of the respective arms during sliding of the fallboard in the front-rear direction.

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KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO200 TERAJIMA-CHO CHUO-KU HAMAMATSU-SHI SHIZUOKA-KEN

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Irimura, Kohtaro Hamamatsu, JP 2 5

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