Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7709724 | Performance apparatus and tone generation method Plural key switches are arranged in two dimensions along X- and Y-coordinate axes, and an X-coordinate position of each of the key switches is associated with tone generation timing while a Y-coordinate position of each of the key switches is associated with a tone ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7399917 | Music content playback apparatus, music content playback method and storage medium A music content playback apparatus includes: a selection section that selects a piece of music content out of a plurality of pieces of music content; a recognition section that recognizes playback elapse state about a previous piece of music content played immediate... | 07/15/2008 |
| 6403870 | Apparatus and method for creating melody incorporating plural motifs A plurality of melody motifs are provided to be incorporated in a melody to be created. The melody motifs are allotted and located at a plurality of positions along the length of a melody to be created. The length of a melody may be divided into plurality... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5712436 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus employing modification of accompaniment pattern for an automatic performance A normal automatic accompaniment performance is executed in accordance with an accompaniment pattern read out from a pattern memory. When a special performance is designated such as an intro, fill-in or ending performance, a modification suitable for the ... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5278348 | Musical-factor data and processing a chord for use in an electronical musical instrument A device for use in an electronic musical instrument, in which data representing musical factors such as a tempo, a pitch and a timbre are changed at each repetition of an automatic performance, to thereby automatically effect variable automatic performan... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5247128 | Electronic musical instrument with selectable rhythm pad effects An electronic musical instrument provides at least one pad to which a desirable musical tone such as a percussion instrument tone is assigned. When operating the pad, the corresponding musical tone is to be generated. Thereafter, when the pad operation is... | 09/21/1993 |
| 4662262 | Electronic musical instrument having autoplay function An electronic musical instrument having an autoplay function comprises a memory device where musical data is stored, a musical tone signal generating circuit for generating musical tone signals in response to musical data read out from the memory device, ... | 05/05/1987 |
