Patents by Inventor Robert A. Forth

Robert A. Forth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080080734
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention docks a waterproof audio device into a recess in a top surface of a bodyboard (or other craft used in aquatic sports or related activities). Docking the device into the body of the craft serves to protect the device from impacts and mechanical stresses. The exemplary device comprises flat panel audio transducers, for example distributed mode loudspeakers and/or piezo transducers, or other flat panel audio transducer technologies, whether now known or in the future developed. The exemplary device is adapted for generating audio frequencies to produce high fidelity audio at sound pressure levels sufficient for the high noise environment that exists in aquatic sports. In the exemplary embodiment, the audio transducer(s) are acoustically coupled into the surface of the participant's aquatic sport craft and into the body of the craft. As a result of the acoustical coupling, the surface of the board, and the body of the board, act a distributed mode loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Robert A. Forth, David K. Boyle