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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2010
Eizo Nakata, Osaka, JP;
Manabu Morioka, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Wariishi, Osaka, JP;
Shunsaku Tsuji, Osaka, JP;
Eizo Nakata, Osaka, JP;
Manabu Morioka, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Wariishi, Osaka, JP;
Shunsaku Tsuji, Osaka, JP;
Sakae Rhythm Musical Instrument Ltd., Osaka-Shi, JP;
Abstract
To provide a drum pedal with a suppressed deflection and no fluctuation in beat timing or beat force of a beater, which allows the player to perform with a desired well-modulated tone, and to obtain the direct feeling, which is a sense of the depressing force being directly transferred to the beater attained by the good operability and the maintained stable attitude of the entire pedal, without inviting an increase in weight or material cost. A drum pedal includes at least: a pedal framehaving a base portion, a right and left pair of strut portionsand a heel portion; a rotation shaftto which a beaterthat beats a drumhead is mounted, and that is horizontally pivotally supported between respective top end portionsof the strut portions; and a foot boardthat has its base end side rotatably supported by the heel portion, and that rotates the rotation shaftthrough a coupling memberextending from its tip end side in accordance with the depressing operation of the player.