Electrical Connections Patents (Class 84/5)
  • Patent number: 8342412
    Abstract: A transaction product includes an enclosure, an account identifier and an electrical circuit. The enclosure defines an aperture. The account identifier is at least one of connected to or enclosed within the enclosure and links the transaction product to an account or record. The account identifier is machine readable. The electrical circuit includes a flexible circuit member, wherein the flexible circuit member extends through the aperture defined by the enclosure such that a first portion of the flexible circuit member is coupled to an outside surface of the enclosure and a second portion of the flexible circuit member is positioned inside the enclosure. Other cards, products, assemblies and methods of using such cards, products and assemblies are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Schacherer, Timothy P. Clegg, Primoz Samardzija, Ted C. Halbur
  • Patent number: 4160399
    Abstract: A sequence generator for a polyphonic tone synthesizer in which a repetitive sequence of musical notes or chords are generated automatically. During a Code mode of operation, each key operated on the keyboard causes an associated data word identifying the specific key by keyboard, octave and note to be stored in a memory. Time data as to the relative time the note is to go on and go off is also stored as part of the data word. During a Play mode of operation, the data words are read out of memory in the sequence in which they were generated. The words are decoded and the time data compared with a real time clock to provide signals to the output of the keyboard which duplicate the signals from the corresponding keys. The time duration of these signals is controlled by the time on and time off data to duplicate the required time that the respective notes are to be played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Assignee: Kawai Musical Instrument Mfg. Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Ralph Deutsch