Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho

Masaji Kimura

Yoshiaki Shimoda

Muneo Ishida

Riichi Kitashima

Shinichiro Miwa

Electronic upright piano and a method of manufacture thereof

An apparatus for slidingly opening and closing a keyboard lid for covering a keyboard of a keyed instrument between an open position and a close is provided. The keyboard lid has a front end with a pair of opposite sides and a rear end with a pair of opposite sides. A pair of front guide projections project laterally from the opposite sides of the front end of the keyboard lid. A pair of rear guide projections project laterally from the opposite sides of the rear end of the keyboard lid. A pair of side plates are arranged on opposite sides of the keyboard. Each one of the pair of side plates has a front guide groove engaging with a respective one of the pair of front guide projections and a rear guide groove engaging with a respective one of the pair of rear guide projections. In this manner, the keyboard lid is slidably guided between an open position and a close position.

Keyboard lid, its open-close structure and arm members for keyed

A stand structure for a keyed instrument having a main body with a keyboard at the front thereof, the stand structure including a first side plate and a second side plate, the first side plate and the second side plate being adapted for supporting at least a lower portion of the main body arranged between the first side plate and the second side plate; a back plate arranged between the first side and the second side plate for reinforcing the first side and the second side plate, the back plate being adapted to be arranged below the main body; a first single securing member adapted for interconnecting the main body, the back plate and the first side plate; a second single securing member adapted for interconnecting the main body, the back plate and the second side plate; and a pair of screw means, each of the pair of screw means being adapted for extending laterally through one of the first side plate and the second side plate and into the lower portion of the main body so as to secure the main body to the one of the first side and the second side plate.

Stand structure for a keyed instrument

A keyboard lid comprising a lid body and a frame plate attached to the edge of the lid body for reinforcing it in which said frame plate has a decoration plate arranged at the outside of said lid body and a reinforcing plate arranged at the inside of said lid body and that said decoration plate and said reinforcing plate are formed separately with each other.

An open-close structure of a slide lid of a keyed instrument which guides the sliding motion of the slide lid includes a pair of inside plates each being arranged at each side of a keyboard and extending into the main body of the keyed instrument. The invention includes a slide lid that is adapted to be guided through an engagement of a pair of pinion-shaped members arranged at each side of the slide lid with a pair of rack-shaped members arranged on the inside plates. Each of the inside plates has a guide path arranged near and extending along the rack-shaped member. The slide lid has a roller arranged near each pinion-shaped member which is adapted to roll on one of the guide paths and support the slide lid so that the pinion shaped members mesh with the rack-shaped members in a condition in which no weight is applied to the rack-shaped members through the pinion-shaped members.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Masaji Kimura