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US 12,562,186 B2Granted
Record player with arm extended from float for playing back high-quality stable sound
AssigneeThings LLC
InventorSota Fujioka
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Abstract
To implement stable sound playback with high sound quality, a record player for playing back sound recorded on a phonograph record includes a rotator that rotates the phonograph record, a container arranged on a side of the rotator and capable of storing one of a liquid, powder, and gel, a float to be floated on the one of the liquid, the powder, and the gel stored, in a standstill state, in the container, an arm extended from the float in a direction of the rotator, and a phono cartridge attached to the arm and including a sound playback stylus.
Claims6
A record player, comprising:
- a rotator configured to rotate a phonograph record placed in a horizontal plane on a top of said rotator;
- at least one container arranged on a side of said rotator and capable of storing one of a liquid, powder, and gel;
- at least one float to be floated on the one of the liquid, the powder, and the gel stored, in a standstill state, in said container;
- an arm extended from said float in a direction of said rotator;
- and
- a phono cartridge attached to said arm and including a sound playback stylus, wherein said arm is extended substantially horizontally from said float to said phono cartridge, and
- wherein said float has a shape pivotable about a horizontal axis parallel to a tracking direction of said phono cartridge, the tracking direction being a direction from said sound playback stylus to a center of said rotator.
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A record player, comprising:
- a rotator configured to rotate a phonograph record placed in a horizontal plane on a top of said rotator;
- at least one container arranged on a side of said rotator and capable of storing one of a liquid, powder, and gel;
- at least one float to be floated on the one of the liquid, the powder, and the gel stored, in a standstill state, in said container;
- an arm extended from said float in a direction of said rotator;
- a phono cartridge attached to said arm and including a sound playback stylus, wherein said arm is extended substantially horizontally from said float to said phono cartridge;
- and
- a guide mechanism that guides said float such that said sound playback stylus moves straight toward a center of the phonograph record,
- wherein said guide mechanism includes
- a rod-shaped shaft extending through said float, which is parallel to a tracking direction of said phono cartridge.
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A record player, comprising:
- a rotator configured to rotate a phonograph record placed in a horizontal plane on a top of said rotator;
- at least one container arranged on a side of said rotator and capable of storing one of a liquid, powder, and gel;
- at least one float to be floated on the one of the liquid, the powder, and the gel stored, in a standstill state, in said container;
- an arm extended from said float in a direction of said rotator;
- and
- a phono cartridge attached to said arm and including a sound playback stylus, wherein said arm is extended substantially horizontally from said float to said phono cartridge,
- wherein
- said at least one container comprises two containers,
- said at least one float comprises two floats each of which is floated on one of liquid, powders, and gel stored in each of said two containers, and
- said arm is a beam that connects said two floats.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.