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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. 07, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Hudak, Hebron, CT (US);
Assignee:
Kaman Music Corporation, Bloomfield, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 3/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 3/18 ;
Abstract
A bridge type piezoelectric pickup for guitars and other stringed instruments that has a flexible circuit board carrying a pair of transversely polarized piezoelectric crystals for each string, the two crystals of each string being closely spaced from one another along the length of the string and supporting a common saddle resting on both of the crystals and supportingly engaging the associated string.