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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuo Murakami, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84294 ; 84307 ;
Abstract
A mute violin has a soundboard formed with a resonator, a neck projecting from the soundboard, a string holder attached to the other end of the soundboard, strings stretched between pegs screwed into the neck and the string holder and a damping bridge structure supported between a fingerboard attached to the neck and the string holder in a spacing relation to the soundboard, and the damping bridge structure is formed of viscoelastic polymer so that the vibrations are hardly propagated from the strings to the soundboard.