Resonant suppressor for record player tone arm
AssigneeKronos Audio Products Inc.
InventorLouis Desjardins
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Abstract
A tone arm for a record player is provided. The tone arm comprises an anterior arm section adapted for mounting a pickup cartridge thereto, an posterior arm section adapted for mounting to the record player, and a mounting component comprising a plurality of discrete contact surfaces that adapted for abutting one of i) anterior arm section and ii) the posterior arm section, and preferably discrete contact surfaces for each of the anterior arm section and the posterior arm section. Whereby, the mounting component is adapted to secure the anterior arm section and the posterior arm section to each other. Therefore, through the present document is described the mounting component, the tone arm, and a method of making the latter with the mounting component.
Claims17
A tone arm for a record player, the tone arm comprising:
- an anterior arm section adapted for mounting a pickup cartridge thereto;
- a posterior arm section adapted for mounting the tone arm to the record player, the posterior arm section comprising an open chamber;
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- a mounting component mounted in the chamber, the mounting component comprising i) a first contact surface for butting against the anterior arm section and ii) a second contact surface butting against the posterior arm section, whereby the mounting component secures the anterior arm section and the posterior arm section to each other,
- the mounting component comprising a plurality of mounting-component sections having a different wall structure selected from the group of wall structures consisting of:
- a) a wall structure consisting of crisscrossed radially extending walls;
- b) a wall structure comprising, in longitudinal sequence, a first channel that does not butt against a first arm section among the anterior arm section and the posterior arm section, a radial ridge that butts against the first arm section, and a second channel that does not butt against the first arm section;
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- c) a wall structure providing a first face that butts against the anterior arm section and a second face that butts against the posterior arm section, the wall structure comprising a plurality of hollow conduits extending longitudinally between the first face and the second face,
- wherein each one of the mounting-component sections is made of a different one of the wall structures whereby each one of the mounting-component sections is transmitting longitudinally sound waves differently.
A mounting component for coupling two arm sections comprising i) an anterior arm section adapted for mounting a pickup cartridge thereto, and ii) a posterior arm section adapted to be mounted to a record player, the posterior arm section comprising an open chamber, the mounting component comprising:
- i) a first contact surface for coupling to the anterior arm section;
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- ii) a second contact surface for coupling to the posterior arm section with the anterior arm section mounted thereto,
- wherein one of the first contact surface and the second contact surface comprises a plurality of discrete contact sections for butting against a corresponding arm section wherein the discrete contact sections provide together a noncontinuous contact surface between the mounting component and the corresponding arm section, and
- wherein the plurality of contact sections differ from each other at least in at least one of i) in shapes of the contact sections, and ii) in sizes of the contact sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.