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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. 07, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ahid D Nashif, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gopichand Koganti, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Roush Anatrol, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
473520 ; 522553 ;
Abstract
A vibration damping device for stringed racquets includes a viscoelastic member adapted to be wrapped around at least a pair of strings of the racquet and a moveable member extending through the viscoelastic member moveable relative to the viscoelastic member in response to vibrations induced by an impact on the strings of the racquet such that the vibration damping device vibrates over the same frequency range but out of phase with the racquet to damp vibrations in the racquet.