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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365967 | Collapsible structures having enhancements Collapsible structures are provided with enhancements and other features that impart additional utility or amusement value to the basic underlying structure. The collapsible structure has at least one foldable frame member having a folded and an unfolded orientation... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355109 | Separate automatic player driving keys and pedals of keyboard musical instrument A separate automatic player is independent of a piano, and stands in front of the piano for an automatic playing; the separate automatic player includes a key driver unit, a pedal driver unit and a framework on which the key driver unit and pedal driver unit is carr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339105 | Automatic musical performance device Provide an automatic musical performance device, which is capable of giving a concert magic function in an acoustic instrument with a feeling of normally playing the acoustic instrument. A time period Tv between two points, and a tempo Tmp found based on a ti... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7329812 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which has a fallboard unit whose dimension in the longitudinal direction of the instrument is not increased even when the fallboard unit contains a functional component part including electrical wiring. A cover unit has a front cover... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7285717 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which has a fallboard unit whose dimension in the longitudinal direction of the instrument is not increased even when the fallboard unit contains a functional component part including electrical wiring. A cover unit has a front cover... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285718 | Keyboard musical instrument and other-type musical instrument, and method for generating tone-generation instructing information Detector detects movement of a hammer (driven member) that strikes a string (abutted member) by moving in response to operation of a key. On the basis of detection outputs of the detector and a given abutment-presuming reference value, it is presumed that the hammer... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7253349 | Engineers piano with bisymmetrical manuals and accompanying musical notation system A 2 manual musical keyboard with the pitch progression on one of the manuals reversed. The keys on these manuals are segregated into 2 groups of 2 different heights in the same way as a standard musical keyboard. The key configurations on these manuals have 12 semi-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247788 | Integrated computer and music keyboard module An integrated computer and music keyboard module includes a key assembled base, on a first side of which a plurality of music keys are parallelly arranged. The key assembled base is provided on at least one lateral end with a connecting member for turnably connectin... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241949 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which has a fallboard unit whose dimension in the longitudinal direction of the instrument is not increased even when the fallboard unit contains a functional component part including electrical wiring. A cover unit has a front cover... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7202409 | Musical instrument automatically performing music passage through hybrid feedback control loop containing plural sorts of sensors An automatic player piano includes keys driven for the angular motion through a hybrid feedback control loop; a controller, a key position sensor, a plunger velocity sensor and a solenoid-operated key actuator form parts of the hybrid feedback control loop for each ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7145062 | String-striking device of piano A string-striking device of a piano by which static loading applied to a front end of a key on the playing side can be readily adjusted. Each key (3) is provided with a long weight lever (21) disposed along the length direction of the key 3 at a... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7125180 | Collapsible keyboard with supporting structure A collapsible keyboard with supporting structures for an electronic device. The collapsible keyboard comprises a body, a first supporting structure and a second supporting structure. The body comprises a first section and a second section rotatably connected thereto... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7084787 | System and method for detecting key actuation in a keyboard A system and method for detecting key actuation in a keyboard assembly, which, in one embodiment, is used as a conductor to electrically communicate with an information appliance. The rows in the keyboard assembly are electrically isolated from one another, and each... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6972699 | Foldable keyboard A foldable keyboard having a plurality of folding keyboard sections. Each keyboard section includes a frame carrying a key set having a plurality of keys. The key set may be movable laterally relative to the frame. The frame with the key set is foldable with respect... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6867357 | Enhanced mechanical acoustic sound generation system and method Enhancing the sound quality of a mechanical acoustic sound generation device that has a plurality of notes that have a perceived low sound quality by digital sampling the corresponding notes of a mechanical acoustic sound generation device and playing them in conjun... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6700047 | Enhanced mechanical acoustic sound generation system and method Enhancing the sound quality of a mechanical acoustic sound generation device that has a plurality of notes that have a perceived sound quality that is lower that the perceived sound quality of corresponding notes produced by a second mechanical acoustic s... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6680430 | Speaker edge, method of foam-molding the same, apparatus for foam-molding the same, speaker edge foam-molding system, and speaker employing the speaker edge A speaker edge is made of a thermosetting composition consisting of a polyurethane prepolymer and an inactivated solid polyamine as a latent hardener. A gas is dispersed in the thermosetting composition, prior to feed into a mold, so that it can foam and ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6479741 | Musical device having multiple configurations and methods of using the same A musical device includes a body and at least one actuator mechanism. In one embodiment, the musical device can generate an audio output in response to activation by a user of the actuator mechanism. In one embodiment, the musical device body includes mul... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6423889 | Regulating button mechanism for easily regulating escape timing, silent system cooperative therewith and keyboard musical instrument equipped therewith A silent piano includes a hammer stopper changed between a free position out of the trajectories of hammer shanks and a blocking position on the trajectories for blocking strings from being struck with the hammers and a tandem regulating button mechanism ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6397972 | Loudspeakers A loudspeaker comprising a bending wave panel, an enclosure in which the bending wave panel is mounted to enclose one face of the panel, a compliant suspension between the panel and the enclosure by which the panel is supported in the enclosure, a vibrati... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6362405 | Hybrid musical instrument equipped with status register for quickly changing sound source and parameters for electronic tones A hybrid keyboard musical instrument includes two electric tone generators, music strings selectively struck with hammers driven for rotation by action mechanisms and a silent system for changing a hammer stopper between a free position and a blocking pos... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6259006 | Portable foldable electronic piano Portable and foldable modular electronic keyboard which includes a keyboard having a plurality of white and black keys capable of reproducing the notes of a piano through an individual headphone by using associated electronics. The foldable keyboard is fo... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6194649 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with partially repaireable change-over mechanism for changing hammer stopper An acoustic piano is equipped with a shank stopper moved into and out of trajectories of hammer assemblies and a change-over mechanism for changing the shank stopper, and the change-over mechanism has a pedal, a transmitter connected to the pedal and anot... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6162980 | Electronic upright piano and a method of manufacture thereof To provide an electronic upright piano providing a key touch of an acoustic upright piano. An action load simulation member (2) provided in the electronic upright piano is composed of a wippen (15) rotating and rising when a depressed key (11) is rotated,... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6054641 | Keyboard musical instrument for practicing fingering on keyboard without acoustic sounds A keyboard musical instrument includes a keyboard, key action mechanisms and hammer assemblies as similar to an acoustic piano; however, strings are replaced with a beaten member so that a player practices a fingering on the keyboard without an acoustic s... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5949013 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with hammer stopper implemented by parallelogram link mechanism A keyboard musical instrument is a compromise between an upright piano and an electronic keyboard, and a hammer stopper is provided between hammer shanks and sets of strings; the hammer stopper has cushion members on a stopper rail where the hammer shanks... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5945613 | Combination acoustic and electronic piano in which the acoustic action is disabled when played in the electronic mode A combination acoustic mode and electronic mode grand piano is provided including a hammer shank stop rail that intercepts the hammer shank when operating in its electronic mode, so that the hammer cannot complete its normal travel to strike its correspon... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5925844 | Piano with built-in electronic musical instrument The invention was developed in order to play an electronic piano in the same manner as when playing an acoustic piano without feeling any sense of incompatibility. At S100, the key velocity (key stroke strength) is detected by key sensors 33 and 35. At S1... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5900573 | Percussion accompaniment device The present invention relates to a device designed to accompany the playing of a guitar or other non-percussion instrument, which provides the capability for a musician to accompany his own playing of the guitar or other non-percussion instrument with a d... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5844154 | Combination acoustic and electronic piano in which the acoustic action is disabled when played in the electronic mode A combination acoustic mode and electronic mode grand piano is provided including a hammer shank stop rail that intercepts the hammer shank when operating in its electronic mode, so that the hammer cannot complete its normal travel to strike its correspon... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5824930 | Keyboard musical instrument having key monitor exactly discriminating key motion A keyboard musical instrument continuously monitors a key motion, and determines present key state on the basis of the previous key state, the present key position and a lapse of time during the previous key state so as to exactly control a tone generatio... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5763806 | Method and apparatus for midifying vintage organs and pianos A system for rejuvenating old keyboard instruments has an array of key sensor switches which are individually adjustable in a horizontal plane to accommodate varying angulations of the keys behind the balance rail of the keyboard and each key sensor switc... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5741995 | Keyboard instrument for selectively producing mechanical sounds and synthetic sounds without any mechanical vibrations on music wires In order to give piano-like key touch to a player in an electronically sound producing mode, a keyboard incorporated in a musical instrument is linked with key action mechanisms associated with hammer mechanisms, and a stopper blocks the hammer shanks bef... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5736662 | Hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument A hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument whose main section has an animal-like form, such as that of a cat or dog. Extending from the rear of the main section is a hollow tail section terminating in a mouthpiece and provided with a series of fi... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5652403 | Keyboard musical instrument allowing player to perform ensemble together with electronic sound system A keyboard musical instrument has an upright piano, an automatic playing system for exerting forces on the keys of the upright piano instead of a player on the basis of music data codes and an electronic sound generating system for generating electronic s... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5648621 | Automatic player piano exactly reproducing music recorded on other musical instrument An automatic player piano is expected to exactly reproduce sounds generated in an original performance on the basis of music data codes, and a central processing unit incorporated in the automatic player piano increases initial forces exerted on a certain... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5646359 | Silencing method and apparatus for pianos A silencing apparatus is provided for pianos having an electronic sound source as well as the conventional acoustic sound mechanism. The silencing apparatus includes a plurality of arms, a stop rail bridging ends of the arms and a positioning mechanism. W... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5629490 | Piano In a piano which is enabled to provide performance using electronic sound source as well as normal piano play, the proposed piano is such a piano where there is no difference of balance between the normal piano play and the play using electronic sound sou... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5627333 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with built-in distance measuring instrument for hammer sensors A hammer sensor incorporated in a keyboard musical instrument monitors a motion of each hammer assembly, and a controller not only determines a hammer velocity and an impact time for generating a set of music data codes representative of a music performan... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5616880 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with hammer shank stopper where hammer assembly rebounds without deflection of shank An acoustic upright piano, an electronic sound system and a hammer stopper form in combination a keyboard musical instrument for generating acoustic sounds in an acoustic sound mode and electronic sounds in an electronic sound mode, and the hammer stopper... | 04/01/1997 |
