G10C 1/04
General design of pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with
Official title: of grand pianos
G10C1/04 (General design of pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with) appears on 57 US grants and 52 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10C- Granted patents
- 57
- Published applications
- 52
- Assignees
- 19
- Inventors
- 85
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Grand piano soundboard with a bar and sound tunnels22 Apr 2025US 12,283,260 B2Suzhou Li Yue Musical Instruments Co., Ltd.
- Vibration plate and musical instrument31 Dec 2024US 12,183,312 B2Yamaha Corporation
- Grand piano fallboard stopper8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311661 A1The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
- Rail component of keyboard instrument and cap member for the rail component6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229201 A1Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Upright piano16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204239 A1Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Key for keyboard apparatus5 Jun 2025US 2025/0182721 A1Yamaha Corporation
- Acoustic Waveguide Grand Piano17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124895 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sing-along piano bar14US 5,726,368 A1998
- Sound reflector for grand pianos11US 4,211,142 ABaldwin Piano & Organ Company · 1980
- Striker solenoid assembly for player and reproducing pianos8US 5,081,893 A1992
- Pedal mechanisms assembled into unit and keyboard musical instrument equipped with the same8US 6,448,481 B2Yamaha Corporation · 2002
- Piano dolly7US 7,287,766 B2GRK Manufacturing Company · 2007