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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Altilio, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
DiMarzio Musical Instrument Pickups, Inc., Staten Island, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-115 ; 84-116 ; 1791 / ;
Abstract
An electromagnetic pickup device for stringed musical instruments using metallic strings has a planar permanent magnet with one of its two main surfaces exposed for facing the instrument strings during use and a pickup coil mounted on the other main surface with the plane of the planar magnet perpendicular to the axis of the coil.