Patents Examined by Jianchun Qin
  • Electronic musical instrument and electronic musical instrument system
    Patent number: 10839781
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic musical instrument. The electrical musical instrument is configured to generate an internal acoustic signal; generate a sound generation instruction signal; output the sound generation instruction signal to an external sound source configured to generate an external acoustic signal; switch a first state in which the external acoustic signal is generated by the external sound source in response to the sound generation instruction signal, to a second state in which the internal acoustic signal is generated in response to the sound generation instruction signal; and, when the first state is switched to the second state, control the volume of the internal acoustic signal such that the state relating to the volume of sound generation based on the internal acoustic signal approaches the state relating to the volume of sound generation based on the external acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ohta, Kenichi Yamauchi
  • Pedal board
    Patent number: 10832644
    Abstract: A pedal board assembly includes a pedal board having a pedal board surface structured and arranged to support at least one effect pedal, and a removable pedal switching system. The pedal board includes a receiving area structured and arranged to accommodate the pedal switching system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: DIGITAL MUSIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua C. Fiden, John L. Clark
  • Humidity controlled musical instrument reed cap
    Patent number: 10832641
    Abstract: A woodwind reed storage and maintenance device conveniently fits directly onto the reed bearing end of a musical instrument. The storage and maintenance device includes a reed storage space, humidity control device space, and a humidity gauge. The storage and maintenance device is used to maintain a reed while still located on the musical instrument at a specifically-chosen constant humidity level for optimal performing condition and maximum reed life. The storage and maintenance device protects the reed from physical damage and from damage due to changing humidity levels in the ambient surroundings. The storage and maintenance device accurately measures and displays temperature and humidity information corresponding to the reed storage space inside the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Chisholm & Sons LLC
    Inventor: Jori Chisholm
  • Interior permanent magnet motor
    Patent number: 10833546
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet motor may include a stator of a annular shape, and a rotor coaxially disposed inside the stator by positioned between a gap between the rotor and the stator and having a plurality of permanent magnets embedded therein and spaced from each other in a circumferential direction along a circumference of the rotor, wherein the stator has a plurality of first notches formed on an internal circumferential surface facing the rotor in a height direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction thereof, and the rotor has a plurality of second notches formed on an external circumferential surface facing the stator in a height direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hwa Do, Kyoung Bum Kim, Yeon Ho Kim, Jae Bum Park, Hee Ra Lee
  • Electronic musical instrument, electronic musical instrument control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10825434
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Masaru Setoguchi, Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota
  • Insertable percussion system
    Patent number: 10825429
    Abstract: A drumming system includes a percussion instrument and an inserting/retracting mechanism operably connected to the first percussion instrument and configured to move the first percussion instrument along an arch relative to a second percussion instrument from a retracted position to an inserted position and from the inserted position to the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventor: Steven Gold
  • Composite material molded article and reactor
    Patent number: 10825591
    Abstract: Provided is a composite material molded article including soft magnetic powder and resin containing the soft magnetic powder in a dispersed state. The composite material molded article includes a parting line corresponding to a parting surface of a mold for molding the composite material molded article, and an inner core portion to be arranged inside a coil. A peripheral surface includes surfaces along a circumferential direction of a magnetic flux excited in the inner core portion by the coil, and the parting line is formed to split a peripheral direction of the peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Nanbara, Takashi Takada, Kazushi Kusawake
  • Extruded housing for electric motor
    Patent number: 10811928
    Abstract: An extruded housing for an electric motor comprises: an extruded cylindrical body for holding electrical parts of the motor, extruded axial fins formed about the outside of the cylindrical body, and radial cuts machined through the axial fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Charles Harris, Edward Graham Charles Pocock, Chris H. A. Claycomb
  • Audio analysis method and audio analysis device
    Patent number: 10810986
    Abstract: An audio analysis method includes calculating, from an audio signal, a sound generation probability distribution which is a distribution of probabilities that sound representing the audio signal is generated at each position in a music piece, estimating, from the sound generation probability distribution, a sound generation position of the sound in the music piece, and calculating, from the sound generation probability distribution, an index of validity of the sound generation probability distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Maezawa
  • Piezoresistive sensors and applications
    Patent number: 10802641
    Abstract: A highly configurable controller is described that includes a number of different types of control mechanisms that emulate a wide variety of conventional control mechanisms using pressure and location sensitive sensors that generate high-density control information which may be mapped to the controls of a wide variety of devices and software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BeBop Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith A. McMillen, Daniel Eric McAnulty
  • Motorized instrument strummer
    Patent number: 10803841
    Abstract: A hand-held strumming device includes a hollow body, a power source, a motor, a regulator, and a strummer. The power source is disposed in the hollow body. The motor is in electrical communication with the power source. The regulator is in electrical communication with both the motor and the power source. The regulator is configured to selectively adjust a rotational speed of the motor. The strummer is rotatably disposed on the disk. The strummer is configured to be presented to strings of a stringed instrument upon rotation of the motor to strum the strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Inventors: Mitchell Duane Campbell, Tim Richard Townsend
  • Keyboard apparatus
    Patent number: 10796672
    Abstract: A keyboard apparatus includes a plurality of keys each rotatable with a predetermined stroke, a support assembly which includes a support with one side rotatably arranged with a support rail and a jack with the one side rotatably supported by the support, and rotates with depression of any of the plurality of keys, a hammer unit which is operated by receiving an action of the jack, a shank rail which rotatably supports the hammer unit, and a jack stopper which makes contact with the jack which rotates with the depression of any of the plurality of keys, the jack stopper being placed on a rotation path of the jack and provided to a fixing portion which does not rotate with the depression any of the plurality of keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akito Ohba
  • Keyboard apparatus
    Patent number: 10796678
    Abstract: A keyboard apparatus includes a key, a frame arranged below the key, a key-side supporting section connected to a member a positional relationship of which is fixed to the key and extending more downward than the member, and a flexible section supported by the key-side supporting section, having flexibility in at least an up-and-down direction, and configured to rotate the key with respect to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Ichiki
  • Supporting apparatus for kick pad
    Patent number: 10789926
    Abstract: A supporting apparatus (40) for a kick pad (1) includes a supporting frame (41˜44) that supports a kick pad (1) including a piezoelectric element that converts a vibration generated by beating with a beater into an electric signal and outputs the electric signal, and a fixation frame (51, 52) that fixes the supporting apparatus (40) to an inner surface of a shell of a bass drum while a striking surface (2a) of the kick pad (1) is arranged in a position beaten by the beater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Pearl Musical Instrument Co.
    Inventors: Yuichi Sato, Takashi Koizumi, Akito Takegawa
  • Generator assembly and bearing equipped with the same
    Patent number: 10749407
    Abstract: A generator assembly for harvesting energy in a bearing arrangement having a first ring and a second ring is provided. The generator assembly includes a plurality of coils attached to the first ring and configured to interact with a magnet ring with alternating magnetization directions attached to the second ring, and a plug connector for supplying power generated by the generator assembly to external devices. The first ring is an outer ring of the bearing, the groove is formed on an outer circumference of the first ring and is helicoidally shaped, and a helix angle of the groove is 45° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Georgo Angelis, Nicolaas Simon Willem Den Haak, Koos Welling
  • Microelectro-mechanical system device and method for electrostatic bonding the same
    Patent number: 10717644
    Abstract: A microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) device includes a substrate of a semiconductor material having thereon a movable component, a glass substrate bonded to the substrate, an electrostatic biasing layer disposed between the movable component and the glass substrate. A cavity is defined between the movable component and a top surface of the glass substrate. The electrostatic biasing layer completely overlaps with the movable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELETRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Linlin Zhao
  • Collapsible drum
    Patent number: 10706827
    Abstract: An enhanced collapsible drum provides for a collapsible and expandable drum that in its collapsed state provides for improved portability and storage, while in its expanded state maintains the look, feel and playing quality of a drum having a traditional unibody shell or base design. The collapsible drum may be comprised of an elongated base or shell portion divided into two or more sections which may be nested in the collapsed position and can be extended and locked together by mating interlocking components to form an elongated drum base or shell in the expanded position. The collapsible drum may additionally include an internal lighting device and control responsive to sound. The collapsible drum may also include a case, handles and a strap for carrying or supporting the drum while playing or for securing the drum sections in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Inventor: Shafik N Bahou
  • Assembly comprising brush cage and spiral spring, and corresponding brush-holder, electric motor and motor vehicle starter
    Patent number: 10700485
    Abstract: The invention relates mainly to an assembly comprising a brush cage and a spiral spring (36), the spiral spring (36) comprising an axis (Y), a wound part (37) wound about the axis (Y) and an arm (39) extending from one end of the wound part (37), the brush cage comprising at least one lateral wall provided with an opening for the passage of the arm (39) through the lateral wall so that one end of the arm (39) can press against at least part of an end face of a brush, wherein the arm (39) comprises a first portion (391) of which the width (L5) measured along the axis (Y) is different from the width (L6) of the wound part (37) measured along the axis (Y) of the spiral spring (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Marie-Ange Nalin, Pierre Mollon, Wilfried Pays, Maximilien Gentil, Alain Bost
  • Strainer assembly for snare drum
    Patent number: 10692477
    Abstract: A strainer assembly is provided for a snare drum having a shell and a bottom drumhead. The strainer assembly comprises a plurality of snare wires, a frame, a control mechanism, and a throw-off mechanism. Both ends of the snare wires are connected to the frame. The control mechanism includes a slidable part connected to a first end of the frame and a first button for controlling the vertical movement of the slidable part. The throw-off mechanism includes a slidable lower part connected to a second end of the frame and a second button for controlling the vertical movement of the slidable lower part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: K.H.S. Musical Instrument Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-Ling Wu
  • Torsion arm, connecting rod and coil configuration improvements for acoustic guitars and other stringed instruments
    Patent number: 10679590
    Abstract: A sound resonator device for internal connection to a guitar or other musical instrument that has strings tensioned over any type of bridge piece. The resonator device includes a torsion arm affixed to a sound board of the instrument from which is connected one or more involute coil sets, and a connecting rod. A first version employs coils having a circular section. A second variety uses at least one, thicker ribbon shaped coil configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventors: Dwaine Moore, Joseph S. DeSimone, Ralph A. DeSimone