Tag: Patents Rock

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 8,445,765 Filed: 5 January 2012 In the name of: Roland Corporation Title: Keyboard Device What’s claimed: “A keyboard device, comprising: a key, supported by a chassis in a free-rotation manner; a hammer, displaced rotationally corresponding to a key-pressing operation or a key-releasing operation of the key to provide an action load to the key; a protrusion, projected at a specific position on the hammer or the key, and displaced corresponding to the key-pressing operation or the key-releasing operation; a sliding surface, formed on any one of the chassis, the key, and the hammer, and having a […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 164,458 Filed: 24 December 1874 In the name of: Georges Eugène Frédéric Kastner (inventor) Title: Improvement In Pyrophones What’s claimed: ”A musical instrument, composed of a tube, A, and of two or more burners, arranged therein, one or more of said burners being movable, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.” Why this patent rocks: This appears to be one of the patents that relate to Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner’s ‘pyrophone’ musical instrument that combines fire and sound; musical sounds are produced by the vibration of flames of hydrogen gas with glass or […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 9,997,144 Filed: 10 July 2015 In the name of: Aaron H Kipness (inventor) Title: Attachment Device For Stringed Instrument And Coupling System For Use With The Same What’s claimed: “An attachment for use with a stringed musical instrument, comprising a rotatable shaft; at least one group of one or more string engaging elements coupled to the rotatable shaft, each string engaging element of a group being positionable in a first orientation for driven rotary engagement with a corresponding string of the musical instrument and in a second orientation; and at least one key actuator operatively associated […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 10,051,354 Filed: 22 January 2015 In the name of: Flexound Systems Oy Title: Apparatus For Comprehensive Perception Of Sound What’s claimed: “An apparatus for comprehensive perception of sound, comprising: padding comprising at least two acoustically different layers including an interior layer and an exterior layer, the interior layer being a porous layer, the exterior layer being a lossy layer, the interior layer being acoustically denser than the exterior layer, the interior and exterior layers of the padding reducing acoustical and mechanical resonances; a mechanical device enclosed inside the padding with all sides of the mechanical device […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 8,017,858 Filed: 6 June 2009 In the name of: Steve Mann (inventor) Title: Acoustic, Hyperacoustic, Or Electrically Amplified Hydraulophones Or Multimedia Interfaces What’s claimed: “An instrument, said instrument for being used with a plurality of pieces or containers or regions of user interface input fluid, said pieces or containers or regions of fluid for direct physical contact by a user of said instrument, said instrument comprising: a plurality of pickups, each arranged for conversion of one of (a) an acoustic disturbance, or (b) a vibrational disturbance, or (c) a pressure or flow disturbance in each […]

Rockin’ (Design) Patent: US Design Patent No. D738,348 Filed: 21 October 2014 In the name of: Teenage Engineering AB Title: Synthesizer What’s claimed: “The ornamental design for a synthesizer, as shown and described.” Why this design patent rocks: This design patent appears to relate to Teenage Engineering AB’s ‘Pocket Operator’, a miniature programmable synthesiser and sequencer with built in sounds and effects. With no outer case, it consists of a single multiple-layer circuit board using components placed under the LCD display. Teenage Engineering AB claims that these are ‘small, ultra-portable music devices, with studio quality sound’. If you’re curious for more […]

Rockin’ Patent Application: WO 2013/172803 A4  Filed: 20 May 2013 In the name of: Sen Gorkem Title: A Musical Instrument What’s claimed: “A musical instrument consisted of one shell (1) which has a stretched membrane (2) on it, and one or more springs (4); one edge of which is attached to the membrane (2, 3) and the other edge is attached to either one or more strings of at least one stringed instrument or another membrane stretched onto a shell.” Why this patent application rocks: This patent application appears to relate to the ‘Yaybahar’ invented by Gorkem Sen, an acoustic […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 9,497,530 Filed: 13 May 2016 In the name of: Nura Holdings Pty Ltd Title: Personalization Of Auditory Stimulus What’s claimed: “Headphones configured to personalize an audio signal to a user, the headphones comprising: a speaker proximate to a user’s ear, configured to emit a content audio signal and a test audio signal, the test audio signal comprising a frequency in the audible frequency range; a microphone proximate to the user’s ear, the microphone configured to measure a response associated with the user, the response comprising a sound evoked in the user’s ear in response to […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 3,237,502  Filed: 11 May 1964 In the name of: Kimball International Inc Title: Stringed Musical Instrument  What’s claimed: ”In a stringed musical instrument having a head, a body and an inter-connecting neck, and having a plurality of strings extending from said head along said neck to said body, the combination of: a manually adjustable anchor for said strings mounted on said body for simultaneously varying the tension in all said strings to produce a vibrato effect; and a bridge mounted on said body adjacent said anchor and over which said strings are stretched; said anchor including […]

Rockin’ Patent®: US Patent No. 4,018,121 Filed: 2 May 1975 In the name of: (The Board of Trustees of) Leland Stanford Junior University Title: Method Of Synthesizing A Musical Sound What’s claimed: “A method of synthesizing a musical sound composed of a plurality of component frequencies and characterized by a time-varying amplitude envelope having a time-varying attack portion, a substantially steady-state portion and a time-varying decay portion, the steps comprising, generating a signal ωc to define a carrier frequency in the audio range, generating a signal ωm to define a modulation frequency in the audio range, generating a signal I(t) to define a […]