Patents by Inventor Yoshitake Abe

Yoshitake Abe 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).

  • Patent number: 10115384
    Abstract: The present application discloses a pickup apparatus for a musical instrument, configured to improve sound quality of a musical instrument to a greatest possible degree, obtained by a piezoelectric element. The pickup apparatus, for the musical instrument, to be fixed to the musical instrument, includes: a disc-shaped piezoelectric element; a couple of circular members receiving interposition of the piezoelectric element therebetween; and leg portions being arranged on a surface of any one of the couple of circular members, each circular member having protrusions formed protrusively toward the other circular member in two positions along a peripheral edge of an opposite surface in a face-to-face relationship with the other circular member, the piezoelectric element being supported within an air gap formed by the protrusions between the couple of circular members in a state of the piezoelectric element being interposed between the protrusions possessed by the respective circular wood members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Abeseishi Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitake Abe
  • Publication number: 20180211645
    Abstract: The present application discloses a pickup apparatus for a musical instrument, configured to improve sound quality of a musical instrument to a greatest possible degree, obtained by a piezoelectric element. The pickup apparatus, for the musical instrument, to be fixed to the musical instrument, includes: a disc-shaped piezoelectric element; a couple of circular members receiving interposition of the piezoelectric element therebetween; and leg portions being arranged on a surface of any one of the couple of circular members, each circular member having protrusions formed protrusively toward the other circular member in two positions along a peripheral edge of an opposite surface in a face-to-face relationship with the other circular member, the piezoelectric element being supported within an air gap formed by the protrusions between the couple of circular members in a state of the piezoelectric element being interposed between the protrusions possessed by the respective circular wood members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshitake Abe