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Granted Patent B2
US 11,767,873 · App. 16/576,352 · Granted Sep 26, 2023

Fastening structure and keyboard device

Inventors: Kaoru Fujishiro (Hamamatsu, JP); Ichiro Osuga (Hamamatsu, JP)
Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
F16B25/0036G10C3/16F16B5/00
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Patent No.
US 11,767,873
App. No.
16/576,352
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fastening structure for fastening a to-be-fastened component to a wooden component by using a screw, wherein the wooden component is made of wood having a specific gravity of 0.08 g/cm 3 to 0.85 g/cm 3 inclusive, the screw has a nominal diameter of 0.8 mm to 3.5 mm inclusive, and the distance between a neutral position in a longitudinal direction of an effective screw part, which is the portion where the wooden component and a male screw part formed in a shaft part of the screw mesh together, and the surface of the wooden component that comes into contact with the to-be-fastened component is 1 mm to 15 mm inclusive.

Claims (12)

1. A fastening structure comprising a to-be-fastened component, a single wood component, and a screw, for fastening the to-be-fastened component to the wood component by using the screw, wherein

the wood component is made of wood having a specific gravity of 0.08 g/cm 3 to 0.85 g/cm 3 inclusive;

the screw has a nominal diameter of 0.8 mm to 3.5 mm inclusive and comprises a head portion and a shaft portion, the shaft portion including a male screw portion and a cylindrical portion provided between the head portion and the male screw portion, the cylindrical portion having no screw thread and no screw groove;

the distance between an intermediate position in a longitudinal direction of an effective screw portion, which effective screw portion is the portion where the wood component and the male screw portion of the screw mesh together, and a contact surface of the wood component with the to-be-fastened component is 1 mm to 8 mm inclusive;

the cylindrical portion has a length in the longitudinal direction longer than a length of the to-be-fastened component in the longitudinal direction adjacent the cylindrical portion when the to-be-fastened component is fastened to the single wood component by using the screw;

the single wood component has a maximum thickness, wherein a tip of the screw is contained within the maximum thickness of the wood component when the to-be-fastened component is fastened to the wood component; and

wherein a distance between a to-be-pressed surface where the to-be-fastened component is pressed from the head portion of the screw and the contact surface is 2 mm or less.

2. The fastening structure according to claim 1 , wherein the area of the contact surface is 100 mm 2 or less.

3. The fastening structure according to claim 2 , wherein a plurality of projections are provided on at least one surface of the wood component and the to-be-fastened component that are facing each other.

4. The fastening structure according to claim 1 , wherein the wood component is formed with portions of dark rings and light rings, the effective screw portion being entangled with at least one dark ring portion of the wood component.

5. The fastening structure according to claim 1 , wherein a to-be-pressed surface of the to-be-fastened component entirely encircles a seat surface of the head portion of the screw, an entirety of the seat surface receiving a direct force from the to-be-pressed surface encircling the seat surface when the screw is tightened.

6. The fastening structure according to claim 1 , wherein a distance between a to-be-pressed surface of the to-be-fastened component and the intermediate position is 10 mm or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 22, 2019
From: FUJISHIRO, KAORU; OSUGA, ICHIRO
To: YAMAHA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 050794/0257 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-058077 · Mar 23, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2018011404 · Mar 22, 2018
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