US 11,750,309 B2
Operation panel for audio processing apparatus
Kosuke Saito, Hamamatsu (JP); Masafumi Ito, Hamamatsu (JP); Shunichi Kamiya, Hamamatsu (JP); and Arata Imai, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Mar. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/192,189.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-044510 (JP), filed on Mar. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0288734 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. H04H 60/04 (2008.01); G10H 1/36 (2006.01); G10H 1/46 (2006.01)
CPC H04H 60/04 (2013.01) [G10H 1/366 (2013.01); G10H 1/46 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation panel of an audio processing apparatus including a main body, the operation panel being configured to join the main body and form a housing, the operation panel comprising:
a plurality of faders;
a display device; and
a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, the second surface extending from the first surface and the third surface extending from the second surface, respectively in a front-back direction,
wherein the first surface has a first length extending along the first surface in the front-back direction, the second surface has a second length extending along the second surface in the front-back direction, and the third surface has a third length extending along the third surface in the front-back direction,
wherein the first length is shorter than the third length,
wherein the plurality of faders are disposed along the first surface and arranged in a left-right direction,
wherein the display device is disposed along the third surface,
wherein a first reference distance from a common reference point to a first point of the first surface is equal to or greater than a second reference distance from the common reference point to a second point of the third surface, wherein:
the first point is disposed at a frontmost portion of the operation panel,
the second point is disposed:
higher than the first point, and
at an uppermost portion of the third surface, and
the common reference point is disposed:
higher than the second point, and
above in a height direction from the frontmost portion of the operation panel.