US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on Aug. 19 for "Keyboard instrument, key base molding method, and key base molding mold" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,396, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Keyboard instrument, key base molding method, and key base molding mold" was invented by Yasushi Shiraishi (Ome, Japan) and Hirokazu Taniguchi (Tachikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard instrument includes a key which includes a weight, and a key base including a top plate and at least one rib configured to fix the weight by holding the weight from below in such a state that the weight is kept in abutment with a lower surface of the top plate."

The patent was filed on April 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/133,228.

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