US 6,284,962 B1Granted

Body supported percussive arrangement

OwnerMaryann Gardner, Christopher Gardnerinventors

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Abstract

A body supported percussive arrangement (10) including a wrist worn percussive unit (11) and a wireless amplifier unit (12) which may either be worn on the user's torso or disposed at a remote location. The wrist worn percussive unit (11) includes a wrist watch casing shaped housing member (20) provided with a wrist strap arrangement (30) and containing a pick up coil (21) and a printed circuit board (22) which generate an acoustic signal in response to vibrations transmitted through housing member (20). The wireless amplifier unit (12) includes an amplifier speaker (41) contained within an amplifier housing member (40) having an on off switch (42), a volume control switch, and a two tiered LED graphic display responsive to both the amplifier volume setting and the acoustic signal generated by the percussive unit.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A body supported percussive arrangement consisting of:

a wrist worn percussive unit including a first housing member in the shape of a wrist watch casing and having an interior provided with a pick up coil and an electrical circuit board powered by a battery power source and controlled by an on off switch which projects beyond the housing member;
a wrist strap arrangement operatively associated with the first housing member for releasably attaching the first housing member to a user's wrist;
and,
a wireless amplifier unit including a second housing member containing an amplifier speaker responsive to an acoustic signal generated by the wrist worn percussive unit and provided with an on off control switch and a volume control switch, wherein the second housing is provided with an LED graphic display including a two tiered display having a top row and an bottom row wherein one of the rows registers the acoustic signal generated by the percussive unit and the other row registers the volume setting on the wireless amplifier unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/482,410Filed 13 Jan 2000
Granted: 4 Sep 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G10H 3/14
Using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers,…:…
G10H 1/0083
Recording/reproducing or transmission of music for electrophonic musical instruments: using wireless transmission, e.g. radio, light, infrared
G10H 2220/321
User input interfaces for electrophonic musical instruments: garment sensors, i.e. musical control means with trigger surfaces or joint angle…
G10H
Electrophonic musical instruments