Yamaha Corporation

Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiyuki Yamamura

Yasuhiro Kira

Takashi Watanabe

Naohisa Mori

Hisayoshi Osumi

Satoshi Mine

Kaoru Nakajima

A printing system is designed to reduce the overall time and the cost required for printing patterns on objects such as musical instruments and prevents printed patterns from being partially extended or distorted. Image data representing prescribed patterns are processed in response to object form data representing the form of an object, wherein upon receipt of a user's print instruction, an RGB color inkjet printer ejects ink onto a prescribed surface of the object on the basis of the processed image data. Image data can be produced by picking up an image of another surface of the object, which is transferred onto the prescribed surface of the object, thus establishing a sense of unity in visual sensation therebetween. Alternatively, image data can be processed in correspondence with the selected surface of the object, so that the prescribed image is printed on the selected surface of the object.

System and method for image pattern printing on objects

A lid for an electronic musical instrument is disposed to be vertically pivotal about a pivot and covers a keyboard section of a musical instrument body when it is closed. In the lid structure, the pivot is arranged at a position separated forward from the rear end of the lid and downward from the lower surface of the lid by predetermined distances, respectively, and the rear end portion of the lid is housed, when it is opened, in the musical instrument body through an opening formed in the upper surface of the musical instrument body.

Lid structure of electronic musical instrument

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Toshiyuki Yamamura