Granted Patent B2

US 12,347,411 · App. 18/189,317 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Inventors: Hirokatsu Katoh (Kawasaki, JP); Hiroki Akai (Hino, JP)

Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

G10H1/34

Abstract

Claims (57)

1. An electronic keyboard instrument comprising:

a keyboard provided on a player's side;

a case comprising a back panel comprising a first sound radiation hole portion, an upper panel provided contiguously with the back panel, and a keyboard installation portion disposed in such a manner as to correspond to the keyboard;

a sound radiating section disposed in such a manner as to correspond to the first sound radiation hole portion; and

a magnetic shielding member including a magnetic shielding material and disposed between the keyboard and the sound radiating section and fixed to the upper panel and the back panel in such a manner as to span the upper panel and the back panel.

2. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein the upper panel comprises a second sound radiation hole portion configured to radiate sound to the player's side, and

wherein the magnetic shielding member comprises an opening portion which corresponds to the second sound radiation hole portion.

3. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 2 ,

wherein the second sound radiation hole portion is configured to radiate sound towards the keyboard.

4. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 2 ,

wherein the opening portion is provided into an arcing shape.

5. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein the magnetic shielding member comprises an opening portion provided in such a manner as to face a left-right direction.

6. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein the keyboard comprises a hammer member.

7. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein the upper panel comprises an upper panel main body and an upper panel member,

wherein the upper panel main body comprises a perpendicular wall portion which is provided in such a manner that a front end portion thereof extends downwards to a position lying near to a back side of the keyboard, and

wherein a second sound radiation hole portion is provided in the perpendicular wall portion.

8. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 7 ,

wherein the back panel comprises a frame member and back panel main bodies which are disposed individually leftward and rightward, the frame member and the back panel main bodies being provided on the back panel, and

wherein the upper panel main body comprises at a back side thereof a back wall portion which is provided substantially at a central portion defined between the left and right back panel main bodies in such a manner as to extend downwards perpendicularly along a back surface thereof.

9. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 8 ,

wherein plural first attachment plates are provided in such a manner as to extend downwards perpendicularly from the upper panel main body,

wherein plural second attachment plates are provided in such a manner as to extend from the back panel, and

wherein the back panel and the upper panel main body are fixed to the first attachment plates and the second attachment plates with plural screw members.

10. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein the magnetic shielding member comprises a plate-shaped main body portion, two upper attachment portions, and two lower attachment portions.

11. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 10 ,

wherein the upper attachment portions extend from an upper side of the plate-shaped main body portion in such a manner as to bifurcate and are then bent to a front side so as to be substantially parallel to the upper panel,

wherein a screw hole is provided in each of the upper attachment portions, so that the upper attachment portions are fixed to the upper panel main body, and

wherein a convexly arcing edge portion is formed between the two upper attachment portions.

12. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 10 ,

wherein the lower attachment portions are bent at right angles from a lower side of the plate-shaped main body portion in such a manner as to bifurcate to extend to the back side and are then bent again in such a manner that plate surfaces thereof are made to face in a front-back direction, and

wherein a screw hole portion is provided in each of the lower attachment portions in the plate surfaces thereof which are made to face the front-back direction, so that the lower attachment portions are fixed to the back panel main body.

13. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 10 ,

wherein the magnetic shielding member comprises a lower cover provided on a lower side of the plate-shaped main body portion.

14. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein the magnetic shielding member comprises a non-opening portion provided at a lower side thereof.

15. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1 ,

wherein a speaker functioning as the sound radiating section is provided on the back panel in such a manner as to correspond to the first sound radiation hole portion.

16. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 15 ,

wherein the speaker comprises a cone, a magnet, and a yoke, the magnet and the yoke each having a convexly arcing shape as an external shape thereof.

17. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 10 ,

wherein a speaker functioning as the sound radiating section is provided on the back panel in such a manner as to correspond to the first sound radiation hole portion, and

wherein the speaker comprises a cone, a magnet, and a yoke, the magnet and the yoke each having a convexly arcing shape as an external shape thereof.

18. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 16 ,

wherein the magnetic shielding member comprises a lower cover provided thereon, and

wherein the lower cover comprises a non-opening portion provided thereon in such a manner that a lower end is bent at right angles towards the back side so as to cover as far as a portion lying directly below the magnet.

19. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 17 ,

wherein the upper panel comprises a second sound radiation hole portion configured to radiate sound towards a player's side,

wherein the magnetic shielding member is provided in such a manner as to cover the magnet,

wherein an opening portion is provided above the magnet in such a manner as to correspond to the second sound radiation hole portion, and

wherein left and right side surfaces of the plate-shaped main body portion are opened so as to be individually made into an opening portion configured not to cover the magnet.

20. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 2 ,

wherein sound from the sound radiating section is radiated to the back side of the electronic keyboard instrument via the first sound radiation hole portion, while a part of the sound is radiated to a front side from the opening portions.

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