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US 12,548,539 B2Granted
Electronic device and electronic musical instrument
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsMari Nakajima, Kouji Oshima, Yuuki Nakajima, Naoto Imamura, Ryohei Kobayashi, Shingo Fukushima
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Abstract
An electronic device, which is an electronic musical instrument as an electronic device, includes: a rotating shaft inclined with respect to a perpendicular line of a panel; and a rotary knob that is attached to the rotating shaft and has a fingering marker portion provided opposite to an inclination direction of the rotating shaft.
Claims18
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a rotating shaft, a rotation axis of the rotating shaft being inclined with respect to a line perpendicular to a panel through which the rotating shaft extends;
- and
- a rotary knob that is attached to the rotating shaft, the rotary knob including (i) a top plate portion and (ii) a fingering marker portion provided at one specific point of the top plate portion opposite to an inclination direction of the rotating shaft.
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a rotating shaft inclined with respect to a perpendicular line of a panel;
- and
- a rotary knob that is attached to the rotating shaft and that has a fingering marker portion provided opposite to an inclination direction of the rotating shaft,
- wherein an outer side of the rotary knob of the panel is provided with an annular rib.
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An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a rotating shaft inclined with respect to a perpendicular line of a panel;
- and
- a rotary knob that is attached to the rotating shaft and that has a fingering marker portion provided opposite to an inclination direction of the rotating shaft,
- wherein:
- the rotating shaft is provided in an inside of the panel and is included in a rotary encoder having a shaft center inclined with respect to the perpendicular line of the panel so as to be continuously rotatable,
- the rotary knob has a top plate portion, and
- the fingering marker portion leads an operator to touch the fingering marker portion with a part of a body and is provided at a position in the top plate portion opposite to an inclination direction of the shaft center.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.