Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Miwa

Shinichiro Miwa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6162980
    Abstract: To provide an electronic upright piano providing a key touch of an acoustic upright piano. An action load simulation member (2) provided in the electronic upright piano is composed of a wippen (15) rotating and rising when a depressed key (11) is rotated, a jack (17) rising together with the wippen (15) until a jack tail (17a) contacts a regulating button (16), a hammer butt (18) rotatably supported by a center pin (18b) for contacting or leaving the jack (17), a hammer shank (21) connected to the hammer butt (18) and provided with a hammer (23), and a hammer stopper (32) which can contact the tip of the hammer (23). The wippen (15), the jack (17) and the hammer butt (18) are rotated about separate axes, respectively. In the electronic upright piano, the let-off timing is the same as that in an acoustic upright piano.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Riichi Kitashima, Muneo Ishida, Masaji Kimura, Shinichiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 5959223
    Abstract: There is provided a method of assembling an upright piano. The upright piano is divided into a plurality kinds of units. The plurality of kinds of units are each separately assembled, and these plurality of kinds of units thus assembled are joined to each other, to thereby assemble the upright piano.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Riichi Kitashima, Makoto Kanemitsu, Shinichiro Miwa, Hidetaka Hanajima