Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20110154975 | Musical Support Apparatus Embodiments of the inventive technology relate generally to item support apparatus. Although a focus of the inventive technology may, in some embodiments, be on support of musical related items such as musical instruments, keyboards, and sound speakers, the scope of the... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110100196 | KEY AND KEYBOARD APPARATUS A key having a key-depression surface with a woody characteristic and durability without the need of a surface treatment and capable of being formed from a simple-shaped uncompressed wood. A key for use as a black key includes a resin part and a compressed wood part sec... | 05/05/2011 |
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| 20100043623 | WIRELESS MUSICAL KEYBOARD A keyboard support adapted to be mounted to the waste portion of a musician providing support arms that are attached to a harness such that the keyboard is allowed to reposition in the lateral direction with respect to the waist portion of the musician. The support arms... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100031803 | TACTILE OR HAPTIC DEVICE, AND A MUSICAL KEYBOARD WITH AT LEAST ONE SUCH SIMULATION DEVICE A tactile or haptic sensation simulation device designed to oppose the movement of a manual control component with a reaction reflecting the movement of the control, where the said device has a chamber containing a magneto-rheological fluid, a mobile element interacting... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100024625 | Portable keyboard system A portable keyboard system having a pair of keyboards rigidly secured to and directed outward from one another. The keyboard system is secured to a user with shoulder straps, which allow the user to control one keyboard with each hand. The keyboards are separately adjus... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090266218 | FOLDING ELECTRONIC PIANO COMPRISING KEYBOARD-STIFFENING MEANS Foldable and portable electronic Piano composed of several modules (10, 12, 14, 16) constituted of a set of keys able to reproduce the notes of a piano thanks to its associated electronics, and including in addition <<stiffening>> means (that can prov... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090205478 | Key and Keyboard Apparatus A key having a key-depression surface with a woody characteristic and durability without the need of a surface treatment and capable of being formed from a simple-shaped uncompressed wood. A key for use as a black key includes a resin part and a compressed wood part sec... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090188374 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL KEYBOARD WITH TACTILE FEEDBACK Disclosed are systems and methods of receiving note selections from a musician while providing an appropriate tactile sensation to the musician's fingers.... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090151541 | Housing Structure of Electronic Keyboard Musical Instrument A housing structure of an electronic keyboard musical instrument, in which a pivotable upper case can be mounted to and dismounted from a lower case when the upper case is in a semi-open state, thereby improving safety and the working efficiency at the time of assembly ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090114078 | Musical Button-Field Layout for Alphanumeric Keyboards A computer keyboard including a plurality of buttons for use as an alphanumeric input device, wherein an interval-based isomorphic note layout is mapped to the buttons, and the keyboard is able to function as a music controller input device.... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090100986 | Keyboard Apparatus A keyboard apparatus 100 has plural keys 10 and 11, plural electronic actuators 30, and plural link mechanisms 40. Each of the keys 10 and 11 extends in the longitudinal direction, and pivots in the vertical direction abo... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090078107 | Keyboard Apparatus of Electronic Musical Instrument Keys 1, 2 are supported by a frame 3 in a freely swingable manner. Massive bodies 8, a lower limit stopper 10 and an upper limit stopper 11 are situated below keys 1, 2. Massive bodies 8 are supported by a frame 3 ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090007756 | Electronic Musical Instrument Keyboard Apparatus Keyboard apparatus includes: a plurality of white and black keys: a plurality of mass body units each pivotable in response to operation of a corresponding one of the keys; a frame having mounted thereon the plurality of keys and mass body units; and upper- and lower-li... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080276788 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT To the undersurface of a main body 10 having a keyboard 12 operated with player's hands, upper stand portions 72 which are tilted backward and are shaped like a tube are fixed. Lower stand portions 74 are shaped like a tube which is slightly ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080257135 | Electronic keyboard instrument and processing method of the same An electronic keyboard instrument having a keyboard provided with a plurality of keys, a first and a second switches provided corresponding to each key of the keyboard and being sequentially turned on at a time interval corresponding to a key depression speed of the key... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080245216 | KEYBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD Embodiments of the keyboard system that can determine accurate key operation. The system provides immediate processing of the data input streams from various strike sources, the key stroke depth data, the key strike speed data, the key strike acceleration data. The move... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080236362 | Keyboard Apparatus for Electronic Musical Instrument A keyboard apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, in which hammers each have increased rigidity without being excessively increased in the mass thereof. The hammers are provided to respectively correspond to keys, and each comprised of a resin hammer base and a... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080210079 | KEY STRUCTURE AND KEYBOARD APPARATUS A key structure which is capable of giving a woody appearance to the key, and increasing the freedom of mounting at least one functional part formed as a separate part from the key structure, while maintaining excellent machinability. An upper plate has an increased wid... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080173163 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT INPUT DEVICE A musical instrument input device includes a frame having a latitudinal top surface and an array of equally sized and spaced apart keys mounted onto the latitudinal top surface. Each of the keys corresponds to a note on a chromatic scale and each of the keys is arranged... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080163740 | STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT Structure for an electronic keyboard instrument includes upper and lower cases. The lower case has a bottom plate having lower slits, and the upper case has an upper plate having upper slits. The upper and lower cases are fastened together with the upper case overlapped... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080156170 | HOUSING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A housing structure of an electronic keyboard musical instrument, in which a pivotable upper case can be mounted to and dismounted from a lower case when the upper case is in a semi-open state, thereby improving safety and the working efficiency at the time of assembly ... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080127799 | MUSICAL KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT In a musical keyboard instrument, a keyboard having a plurality of keys that pivotally move about a frame is mechanically isolated from a tone generator having a plurality of operating members allowing musical tones to be generated in response to the keys being depresse... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080105105 | KEYBOARD PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT INCLUDING IMPROVED TONE BAR RESONATOR An improved resonator for keyboard percussion instruments such as marimba, vibraphone and xylophone and instruments including such resonators are described herein. In one or more embodiments, a tubular resonator bent or formed into a smooth curve, open or stopped on one... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080066608 | Keyboard device for electronic musical instrument A keyboard device is designed for use in an electronic musical instrument. A plurality of keys including white keys and black keys are arranged on a keyboard frame. Supporting parts are mounted on the keyboard frame for supporting the keys pivotably downward and upward.... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20070295193 | Keyboard apparatus of electronic keyboard instrument A keyboard apparatus of an electronic keyboard instrument, which is compact in size and broad in a permissible movable range at the time of receiving a force exerting in a width direction of keys. The keyboard apparatus includes key main bodies each provided with a key-... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070295192 | Keyboard apparatus A keyboard apparatus constructed to be capable of reducing the depth size thereof and permitting a key unit to be mounted to a key frame with a simple operation. Hinges are extended downward from rear ends of black key main bodies of a black key unit in the vertical dir... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070204743 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A musical instrument having a displacement member that is operable to vary sounds, thereby offering a wide variety of musical performances. A box-shaped sound generation unit accommodated in the inside of a musical instrument body generates a sound in response to any on... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070193434 | KEYBOARD-TYPE TONE PLATE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT A keyboard-type tone plate percussion instrument that permits a player to make an operation to select percussion unit's striking a tone plate with or without intervention of a displacement member between percussion units and tone plates, making it possible to change, wi... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070169612 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING TUNING DEVICE An electronic musical instrument includes a tuning device, a keyboard, a tone generator, a microphone, a measurement unit, and a display attached to the backside of the housing. The tone generator generates a plurality of reference tones in response to the operation of ... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070157794 | Keyboard musical instrument with fallboard located at proper position and rotary connector used for fallboard A front fallboard, a rear fallboard and a hinge connected between them form in combination a fallboard assembly connected between side arms of a piano cabinet by means of a pair of rotary connectors, and each of the rotary connectors includes a front metal plate connect... | 07/12/2007 |
