US 12,154,531 B2
Key for keyboard device
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/186,860.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-056842 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0317034 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G10C 3/12 (2006.01); G10H 1/34 (2006.01)
CPC G10C 3/125 (2013.01) [G10H 1/34 (2013.01); G10H 2220/265 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A key for a keyboard device, including a key body made of resin, which has at least a top portion and a pair of side portions and extends a predetermined length in a front-rear direction, and
at least one or a plurality of woody boards attached along at least part of the pair of side portions of the key body,
wherein the key body comprises an upper portion protrusion extending along an upper end of each of the pair of side portions and formed continuous with the top portion, the upper portion protrusion protruding in a lateral direction of the key body,
wherein the one or each of the woody boards is disposed such that an upper end surface thereof is in contact with a lower surface of the upper portion protrusion, and
wherein the upper portion protrusion has a thickness dimension in a vertical direction smaller than a thickness dimension of the top portion of the key body.