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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:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
May. 01, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Todd Lynn Arnold, Indianapolis, IN (US);
George Alan Burnett, Clayton, IN (US);
Assignee:
Yosemite Investment, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3403846 ; 3403845 ; 3403847 ;
Abstract
An electronic chime is created by a piezoelectric transducer with an exponentially decaying audio signal. The electronic chime has a power supply, an oscillator, a drive circuit, and a piezoelectric transducer. The drive circuit contains reactive components that function with the piezoelectric transducer to modulate the amplitude of the decaying audio signal. The amplitude modulated audio signal better simulates a mechanical chime.