US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on Aug. 11 for "Pedal unit and electronic keyboard apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,073, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Pedal unit and electronic keyboard apparatus" was invented by Shin Yamamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kenichi Nishida (Hamamatsu, Japan), Ryosuke Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takahiro Mizuguchi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Masaaki Mita (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal unit according to an embodiment includes a first foot lever, a shaft serving as a center of rotation of the first foot lever, and a bearing paired with the shaft. The shaft or the bearing includes a first member arranged on at least a portion of surfaces in contact with each other, and...