Foldable musical keyboard player

• US 9,029,674 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2014
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jared Gold
• Original Assignee: Jared Gold
• Inventors: Gold, Jared
• Primary Examiner(s): HORN, ROBERT WAYNE
• Application Number:
  US14/463,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20150053063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 265 Days
• US Class Current: 84/423.R
• CPC Class Codes: G10C 3/12 Keyboards; Keys

Abstract

There is a foldable musical keyboard player can convert from a deployed configuration to at least a first and a second folding configuration. In the deployed configuration, the top keyboard of the player is flipped up, exposing the music keys on both the top keyboard and the bottom keyboard. Such a configuration allows access to all the music keys and the control panel of the player, enabling the user to play music. By flipping down the top keyboard that covers the bottom keyboard, the player is converted into the first folding configuration, which transforms the player from a format adapted for playing to another more suitable for transport. By using a number of hinges and adjusting the fastening assemblies, the user may fold the keyboard player again, converting to the second folding configuration, which makes the musical keyboard player compact in occupied space and easy to transport and store.

Claims

1. A foldable musical keyboard player, comprising:

a bottom keyboard having a bottom keyboard left section and bottom keyboard right section;

a flippable top keyboard connected to the bottom keyboard with a plurality of horizontal hinges, allowing the flippable top keyboard to flip, pivot against, and cover the bottom keyboard, the flippable top keyboard having a top keyboard left section and a top keyboard right section;

and a least one fastening assembly, wherein

the top keyboard left section lays upon the bottom keyboard left section when the flippable top keyboard covers the bottom keyboard,

the top keyboard right section lays upon the bottom keyboard right section when the flippable top keyboard covers the bottom keyboard,

locking the fastening assemblies keeps the bottom keyboard left section and bottom keyboard right section longitudedly aligned and keeps the top keyboard left section and top keyboard right section longitudedly aligned,

and releasing the fastening assemblies allows the top keyboard left section, together with the bottom keyboard left section to be folded against the bottom keyboard right section with the top keyboard right section using at least one vertical hinge.

2. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, wherein

the fastening assembly attaches to the bottom keyboard.

3. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, wherein

the fastening assembly attaches to the flippable top keyboard.

4. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, wherein:

a top keyboard left section is connected to the top keyboard right section with a first vertical hinge.

5. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 4, wherein:

the top keyboard left section folds against the top keyboard right section along the first vertical hinge.

6. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, further comprising:

a top back member disposed upon the bottom keyboard and in parallel with the flippable top keyboard.

7. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 6, wherein

the top back member has a top back member left section and a top back member right section,

the top back left section, together with the top keyboard left section, covers the bottom keyboard left section,

the top back right section, together with top keyboard right section, covers the bottom keyboard right section.

8. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 7, wherein

the top back left section is connected to the top back right section with a second vertical hinge.

9. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 8, wherein:

the top back member left section folds against the top back member right section along the second vertical hinge.

10. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, wherein:

the fastening assembly comprises;

a fastening pin and two anchoring members, wherein

the fastening assembly is locked when the fastening pin attaches to the two anchoring members simultaneously.

11. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 10, wherein:

the fastening pin is a U shaped structure with a pin base and two pin prongs,

each anchoring member includes an anchoring member slot,

and pin prongs are capable of being fittingly inserted into and removed from the anchoring member slot.

12. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 11, wherein:

the anchoring members are attached to the bottom keyboard left section and the bottom keyboard right section, respectively.

13. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, wherein:

there are music keys as parts of the flippable top keyboard and the bottom keyboard,

and there is a control panel on the bottom keyboard.

14. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 13, wherein:

flipping down the flippable top keyboard conceals all the music keys and the control panel.

15. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 1, wherein:

there are two fastening assemblies linking the bottom keyboard left section and the bottom keyboard right section when the fastening assemblies are locked.

16. A foldable musical keyboard player, comprising:

a bottom keyboard having a bottom keyboard left section and bottom keyboard right section;

a flippable top keyboard connected to the bottom keyboard with a plurality of horizontal hinges, allowing the flippable top keyboard to flip, pivot against, and cover the bottom keyboard, the flippable top keyboard having a top keyboard left section and a top keyboard right section connected by a first vertical hinge;

a top back member disposed upon the bottom keyboard and in parallel with the flippable top keyboard, the top back member having a top back member left section and a top back member right section connected by a second vertical hinge;

and a least one fastening assembly attached to the bottom keyboard, the bottom assembly comprising a fastening pin and two anchoring members, wherein

the top back left section, together with the top keyboard left section, covers the bottom keyboard left section,

the top back right section, together with top keyboard right section, covers the bottom keyboard right section,

the fastening assembly is locked when the fastening pin attaches to the two anchoring members simultaneously,

locking the fastening assemblies keeps the bottom keyboard left section and bottom keyboard right section longitudedly aligned and keeps the top keyboard left section and top keyboard right section longitudedly aligned,

and releasing the fastening assemblies allows

1) the top keyboard left section to fold against the top keyboard right section along the first vertical hinge,

2) the top back member left section folds against the top back member right section along the second vertical hinge, and

3) the bottom keyboard left section to fold against the bottom keyboard right section, and

the top keyboard left section, together with the bottom keyboard left section to be folded against the bottom keyboard right section with the top keyboard right section using at least one vertical hinge.

17. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 16, wherein:

the fastening pin is a U shaped structure with a pin base and two pin prongs,

each anchoring member includes an anchoring member slot,

and pin prongs are capable of being fittingly inserted into and removed from the anchoring member slot.

18. The foldable musical keyboard player of claim 16, wherein:

the anchoring members are attached to the bottom keyboard left section and the bottom keyboard right section, respectively.