US 7,358,430 B2
Strap attachment member
Yoshihiko Tambara, Iwata (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-shi (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/209,763.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-266354 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0054002 A1, Mar. 16, 2006
Int. Cl. G10D 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 84—327  [411/913] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An attachment member for attaching a predetermined strap to an external surface of a musical instrument, including a shaft-shaped member that is inserted inside a hole formed in the external surface of the musical instrument and is fixed inside the hole via an adhesive agent; and a holding member for holding the strap that is continuous with the shaft-shaped member and is positioned on an exterior side of the hole, said shaft-shaped member comprising:
a first shaft-shaped portion that is positioned on a distal end side of the shaft-shaped member and is placed in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the hole;
a second shaft-shaped portion that is positioned on a base portion side of the shaft-shaped member and that forms a space between itself and the inner circumferential surface of the hole where the adhesive agent is contained; and
a dividing groove that is formed in said first and second shaft-shaped portions, wherein
when the shaft-shaped member is inserted into the hole, the first shaft-shaped portion is deformable in conformity with an internal surface configuration of the hole while narrowing a groove width of the dividing groove,
wherein said first shaft-shaped portion has an area that is formed in a substantially circular column shape or a substantially circular cylinder shape, while said second shaft-shaped portion is formed in a tapered shape whose diameter gradually narrows as it approaches the first shaft-shaped portion, and wherein a maximum diameter of the second shaft-shaped portion is set substantially equal to or slightly smaller than a diameter of the first shaft-shaped portion.