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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:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kevin Brown, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10D 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10D 3/00 ;
Abstract
A stringed instrument with a compliantly suspended sound board allows for deeper, richer sound in s smaller sized instrument. The compliant suspension of the sound board allows for greater acoustic excursions at the edges of the sound board. The resonance set up between the compliance of the sound suspension and the mass of the sound board may be placed below and near the Helmholtz resonance of the instrument to effectively create a broader, lower-frequency Helmholtz resonance than would typically be achievable in instruments of similar size.