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US 12,118,969 B2Granted
Wirelessly coupled musical effect pedals
AssigneeJando LLC
InventorOlaf Reistrup
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Abstract
A system and apparatus are disclosed for coupling effect pedals used by musicians and other audio performance artists to a signal processing chain and to a power source. Power is provided to effect pedals wirelessly by inductive coupling, and effect pedals may be coupled to a signal processing chain through cables or wirelessly.
Claims20
A pedal board for musical effect pedals, comprising:
- a pedal board base for mounting a plurality of musical effect pedals, each of said plurality of musical effect pedals having a wireless charging receiver circuit;
- a plurality of wireless charging transmitter circuits integrated in said pedal board base, each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits for powering a distinct one of said plurality of musical effect pedals wirelessly by resonant inductive coupling, wherein the location of each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits is coincident with the mounting location of the respective one of said plurality of musical effect pedals, and wherein each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits is operable to select the voltage and/or current delivered by the wireless charging receiver circuit in the respective one of said plurality of musical effect pedals;
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- an analog audio signal processor for coupling to the respective analog audio signal input and analog audio signal output of each of the plurality of musical effect pedals, wherein the analog signal processor is operable to change the sequential position of each of said plurality of musical effect pedals in an analog audio signal processing chain.
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A system for processing an analog audio signal, comprising:
- a pedal board base;
- a plurality of musical effect pedals mounted on said pedal board base, each of said plurality of musical effect pedals having a wireless charging receiver circuit;
- a plurality of wireless charging transmitter circuits integrated in said pedal board base, each of said plurality of wireless charging transmitter circuits for powering a distinct one of said plurality of musical effect pedals wirelessly by resonant inductive coupling, wherein the location of each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits is coincident with the mounting location of the respective one of said plurality of musical effect pedals, and wherein each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits is operable to select the voltage and/or current delivered by the wireless charging receiver circuit in the respective one of said plurality of musical effect pedals;
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- an analog audio signal processor for coupling to the respective analog audio signal input and analog audio signal output of each of the plurality of musical effect pedals, wherein the analog signal processor is operable to change the sequential position of each of said plurality of musical effect pedals in an analog audio signal processing chain.
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A pedal board for musical effect pedals, comprising:
- a pedal board base for mounting a plurality of musical effect pedals, each of said plurality of musical effect pedals having a wireless charging receiver circuit and a wireless audio signal transceiver;
- a plurality of wireless charging transmitter circuits integrated in said pedal board base, each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits for powering a distinct one of said plurality of musical effect pedals wirelessly by resonant inductive coupling, wherein the location of each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits is coincident with the mounting location of the respective one of said plurality of musical effect pedals, and wherein each of said wireless charging transmitter circuits is operable to select the voltage and/or current delivered by the wireless charging receiver circuit in the respective one of said plurality of musical effect pedals;
- a plurality of wireless audio signal transceiver circuits integrated in said pedal board base, each of said plurality of wireless audio signal transceiver circuits configured to couple to the respective wireless audio signal transceiver of a distinct one of the plurality of musical effect pedals;
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- an audio signal processor for coupling to the respective audio signal input and audio signal output of each of the plurality of musical effect pedals, wherein the signal processor is operable to change the sequential position of each of said plurality of musical effect pedals in an audio signal processing chain.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.