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US 10,607,577 B2Granted
Support assembly and keyboard apparatus
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorsAkito Ohba, Shunsuke Ichiki
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Abstract
A support assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided, the support assembly including a jack rotatably supported by a support; a repetition lever rotatably supported with respect to the support; a protrusion disposed at an intersecting portion of the jack and the repetition lever; and a protrusion receiving portion for receiving the protrusion; wherein the protrusion receiving portion defines a movable range of the protrusion and limits a rotation range of the jack.
Claims9
A support assembly comprising
- a jack rotatably supported by a support;
- a repetition lever rotatably supported with respect to the support and including a through-hole accommodating a portion of the jack;
- a protrusion disposed on the jack and at an intersecting portion of the jack and the repetition lever, the protrusion projecting perpendicular to a rotating surface of the jack;
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- a protrusion receiving portion for receiving the protrusion, the protrusion receiving portion being disposed on the repetition lever and being different from the through-hole of the repetition lever accommodating the portion of the jack,
- wherein the protrusion receiving portion defines a movable range of the protrusion and limits a rotation range of the jack, the rotation range of the jack being defined by a first contacting position of the protrusion and the protrusion receiving portion and a second contacting position of the protrusion and the protrusion receiving portion different from the first contacting position of the protrusion and the protrusion receiving portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.