Keyboard device and cooling method of drive device
AssigneeRoland Corporation
InventorsHitoshi Sato, Yutaka Goto, Kousuke Ishikawa
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Abstract
A keyboard device includes keys, drive devices, a housing, and a fan. The keys are arranged side by side in a scale direction. The drive devices apply, to the keys, a driving force swinging the key. The housing includes a shelf plate supporting the drive devices. The fan is attached to an upper side of the shelf plate of the housing and exhausts air in the housing to outside. The shelf plate includes an air intake port for sucking in air outside the housing by the fan.
Claims20
A keyboard device comprising:
- a plurality of keys arranged side by side in a scale direction;
- a plurality of drive devices that apply, to the plurality of keys, a driving force swinging the key;
- a housing that comprises a shelf plate supporting the plurality of drive devices;
- and
- a fan that is attached to an upper side of the shelf plate of the housing and exhausts air in the housing to outside, wherein
- the shelf plate comprises an air intake port for sucking in air outside the housing by the fan.
A cooling method of a drive device, which is a cooling method of a drive device in a keyboard device comprising:
- a plurality of keys arranged side by side in a scale direction;
- a plurality of drive devices that apply, to the plurality of keys, a driving force swinging the key;
- a housing that comprises a shelf plate supporting the plurality of drive devices;
- and
- a fan that is attached to an upper side of the shelf plate of the housing and exhausts air in the housing to outside,
- the cooling method comprising:
- forming, at the shelf plate, an air intake port for sucking in air outside the housing, and cooling down the drive device with the air sucked from the air intake port by the fan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.