H04R 1/46
Special adaptations for use as contact microphones
Official title: Special adaptations for use as contact microphones, e.g. on musical instrument, on stethoscope (throat mountings H04R1/14)
H04R1/46 (Special adaptations for use as contact microphones) appears on 426 US grants and 484 published applications in this corpus.
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