Patents Examined by Robert W. Horn
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Patent number: 11936261Abstract: An electric machine comprising a stator with a plurality of open slots accommodating double-layer distributed winding with conductors transposed in the end-winding area. The conductors are litz wire conductors and the end-winding portions of the conductor are not twisted or turned around the axis of the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Kongsberg Maritime ASInventors: Jon Ivar Koa, Roar Furuhaug, Stev Erlend Skaar, Njål Rotevatn
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Patent number: 11929647Abstract: A rotor has a rotor core made of a magnetic material, a permanent magnet provided in a magnet insertion hole of the rotor core, and a cushioning material. The cushioning material is provided at a location where a distance between a wall surface of the magnet insertion hole and the permanent magnet is the narrowest, on both sides in a rotational direction with respect to the permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Takahashi, Shun Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11929050Abstract: A strainer device for a drum includes a fixing portion attachable to a shell of the drum, an operation portion, a movable portion moved with respect to the fixing portion to change a snare wire between an ON state and an OFF state, a pressing member, a cam portion including a cam surface, and a follower configured to be relatively displaced with respect to the cam portion between a first position and a second position in the cam portion while the pressing member is pressing against the cam surface. A direction of a force acting on the follower with respect to the cam portion is directed to: a side of the first position within the cam portion in a state where the follower is disposed in the first position, and a side of the second position in a state where the follower is disposed in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Uchida, Norihiko Ishimatsu
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Patent number: 11929644Abstract: The rotating electric machine (1) having a housing comprising first (14) and second (15) clamp members and an inner face, a stator comprising a stator body (41) clamped between the first and second clamp members and having an outer face extending opposite the inner face together defining an annular cooling chamber (21) surrounding the stator body, the stator body comprising a longitudinal stack of stator sheets (410), each stator pack of which comprises an annular core having an outer circumference and at least two radially centrifugal protuberances projecting from the outer circumference of the annular core, in the annular cooling chamber, and diametrically opposite one another, the stator sheets of the longitudinal stack being identical and two adjacent stator sheet of the longitudinal stack being angularly offset from each other such that the respective protuberances thereof do not extend opposite one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NIDEC PSA EMOTORSInventors: Ioan Deac, Juan Wang, Hussain Nouri, Guillaume Tardy
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Patent number: 11920827Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an air cleaner. The air cleaner includes a main body, a panel configured to be movable with respect to the main body, a power transmission device connected to the panel, a vibration-preventing member connected to the power transmission device and including a vibration-preventing portion in contact with the power transmission device and a slip-preventing portion having a thickness thinner than the vibration-preventing portion, and a driving source connected to the vibration-preventing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mun Sub Kim, Jae-Woo Choi, Hyeong Joon Seo, Du Han Jung
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Patent number: 11922909Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric pickup device for a bagpipe drone stock. The present invention also relates to an electric pickup device for a bagpipe chanter stock. The invention also relates to an electric bagpipe comprising a blowstick, a bag, at least one drone stock having an electric pickup sensor within said drone stock and a chanter stock having an electric pickup device within said chanter stock.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: David Emmanuel Alves Duncan
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Patent number: 11922908Abstract: The present invention is a thumb rest that has a wedge body that attaches to a string instrument such as a bass or guitar. The wedge body has fastening holes, extruded ridges, contoured edges, and a string instrument facing side. This allows for a less permanent modification to the instrument. The fastening holes are circular holes that traverse into the wedge body. The extruded ridges are rectangular sections extending from the wedge body. The string instrument facing side is the flat side of the wedge body. The proposed implementation allows a user to remove and or move the thumb rest at any time.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: John A. Ogden, III
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Patent number: 11909298Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing of an electric machine (1), comprising a hollow cylindrical housing element (5), in particular housing jacket, and at least one housing cover (6), which is attached to the end of the housing element (5), a cooling channel (8) being formed in the housing, the housing element (5) having at least two cooling channel sections (8.1) of the cooling channel (8), which each extend from a channel end opening (13) in an end face (11) of the housing element (5) in an axial direction relative to a housing axis (100) into the housing element (5). Two adjacent cooling channel sections (8.1) are flow-connected to each other via a deflection section (8.2) formed in the housing cover (6).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thieu Huy Vuong, Camilo Andres Carrillo Estupinan, Stephan Geise
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Patent number: 11909266Abstract: A rotor includes a core and two or more ribs. The core has a through hole group that includes three or more through holes arranged in a circumferential direction. The through hole group is formed through a predetermined magnetic pole. The two or more ribs are configured as portions of the core, with each rib being interposed between adjacent through holes. A first of the ribs has a first inclination with respect to a magnetic pole centerline. A second of the ribs has a second inclination with respect to the magnetic pole centerline. The second inclination is larger than the first inclination. The magnetic pole centerline is a straight line that passes through a radial center line of the magnetic pole and an axial center of the rotor. The first rib is narrower than the second rib.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Daikin Industries, Ltd., UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKAInventors: Yoshinari Asano, Yoshihito Sanga, Masayuki Sanada, Shigeo Morimoto, Yukinori Inoue
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Patent number: 11900825Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods pertain to providing a session of music learning to a user, comprising: setting a sound capturing configuration relating to at least one microphone of a computerized device; providing the user with musical notations to be executed through the user for generating user-generated sound; capturing, through the at least one microphone, sound which includes user-generated sound produced by the user to produce user-generated sound data; processing the user-generated sound data; and determining, based on the processing of the user-generated sound data, whether a sound capturing configuration is to be adapted or not.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Joytunes Ltd.Inventors: Eran Aharonson, Yuval Kaminka, Saggi David Messer, Or Yotvat Gafni, Anatoli Tsinovoy
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Patent number: 11893898Abstract: Embodiments pertain to a method for use with a musical piece, or part thereof, comprising: presenting, by at least one client device to a plurality of users, a corresponding plurality of sequences of musical symbols to be cooperatively played by the plurality of users using a plurality of instruments; capturing instrument outputs produced by the plurality of instruments to generate audio data descriptive of the captured instrument outputs; analyzing the audio data for determining a level of correspondence between the captured instrument outputs and the plurality of musical symbols presented to the plurality of users; and presenting, based on the level of correspondence, an adapted or non-adapted sequence of music symbols to at least one of the plurality of players.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Joytunes Ltd.Inventors: Eran Aharonson, Yuval Kaminka, Oded Zewi, Amitay Dobo
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Patent number: 11869463Abstract: A lightweight, portable and adaptive air supply for a bagpipe, such as a Great Highland Bagpipe, may include a variable speed compressor and an air supply line communicating from the compressor to the bag of the bagpipe. A switch, which may be a mouth-operated switch, allows the piper to control the air compressor when the piper is playing the bagpipe. The adaptive air supply allows a person to play the bagpipe who may have physical challenges preventing the person from producing breath having the quantity and air pressure otherwise required. The adaptive air supply also allows ready setup of a bagpipe and is a useful teaching tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Bruce Lazaroff
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Patent number: 11869460Abstract: An action repair apparatus that grips and suspends above the action, case, and/or cabinet of the instrument having paneling disposed on the outer framework to be repositioned on various x, y, and z-axis points by various mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Francisco Morales
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Patent number: 11862032Abstract: The invention provides a device and method for displaying chords in a musical scale based upon one or more selected root notes. The device includes planar members representing a fretboard of a stringed instrument and fingering positions for playing chords in a selected root note in a selected musical scale. The planar members are adapted to be connected to one another and permit multiple chords in multiple root notes to be displayed simultaneously in an easy to understand format.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Wade Nelson
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Patent number: 11862131Abstract: The present invention relates to a space music stand device in which as an eye height of the player, a center of the semi-transparent mirror, a center of the reflector, and a center of the image monitor are configured as one optical axis a, the music sheet is viewed only to the player, and the playing view of the player is just transmitted, so that the playing is photographed while the eye of the player who views only the music sheet matches the eye of the camera without an obstacle, the audience may view the playing view of the player without an eye obstacle as in a conventional music stand, and the player may play the musical instrument while turning the music sheet page without an assistance of the separate page turner, and in order to obtain an effect such as presenting by the music sheet in the space by making the music sheet be viewed to a transparent plate, a page movement device is coupled to a body to move a page of a music sheet image provided by a monitor to a lower portion, the space music stanType: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Hae-Yong Choi
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Patent number: 11854515Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring non-use of personal electronic devices are disclosed. Connection of a personal electronic device to a charging circuit is detected and identified to a particular personal electronic device. Connections of each personal electronic device are aggregated and rendered to a display to provide feedback and gamification of periods of non-use of the personal electronic devices. Gamification is employed to promote non-use of the personal electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventor: Lelan Zales
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Patent number: 11855504Abstract: The present invention provides a motor comprising: a shaft; a rotor coupled to the shaft; a stator arranged on the outer side of the rotor; and a terminal arranged on the stator. The stator comprises: a stator core; an insulator coupled to the stator core; and a coil wound on the insulator, wherein the insulator comprises a body on which the coil is wound, and a connector connected to the body. The terminal comprises: an extension arranged in the circumferential direction of the insulator, a pin portion at an end of the extension, and a hook portion at the opposite end of the extension. The coil comprises one continuous wire. The body comprises a first body and a second body, the coil being wound on the first body, passing through the hook portion, and wound on the second body. The hook portion is electrically connected to a portion of the coil, wherein the portion passes through the hook portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tae Bum Kim
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Patent number: 11853513Abstract: A children's toy with capacitive touch interactivity. The children's toy generally includes a user input overlay panel and one or more capacitive touch sensors. The overlay panel may be formed from a capacitive touch conductive natural organic material such as wood. The toy can be shaped and ornamented to resemble a musical instrument and configured to play music in response to user input applied to the user input overlay panel and sensed by the capacitive touch sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: KIDS II HAPE JOINT VENTURE LIMITEDInventors: Bradford Reese, Henrik Johansson, Adam Shillito, Tsz Kin Ho, Neil Ni, Chun Chung Yeung, Qi He
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Patent number: 11854514Abstract: A reduced volume drumhead has a layer of porous material and a ring of compressible material. The ring of compressible material is fixed to the underside of the layer of porous material in a substantially centered or coaxial position with the porous material stretched across a hoop in tension. The ring may be formed of a foam or similar material with compressibility and stretchability under tension and defines an open central area of the drumhead for striking. The ring may be formed of segments and thus include one or more circumferential breaks with spacing. The drumhead provides natural tonal characteristics and has a natural feel when struck.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: D'Addario & Company, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Gorman, Richard Stillwell, Paul Pearl, Sergio Bonsignore, Tyler Burke, Randy Beck
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Patent number: 11837104Abstract: A simulated musical string instrument formed of plural shaped sheets of rigid material, such as cardboard. There is a top sheet forming a top surface of the simulated string instrument body, and a bottom sheet forming a bottom surface, and multiple sheets between. A simulated fingerboard is attached to the top surface. The top sheet and fingerboard gets stickers that show parts of the simulated string instrument body including openings and notes. There is also a simulated bow guide and a simulated bow.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventor: Nicole Melrose