Patent Application
20070272069
The above and other features of the present invention will become readily apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings in which:
It will be understood that when an element or layer is referred to as being “on”, “connected to” or “coupled to” another element or layer, it can be directly on, connected or coupled to the other element or layer, or intervening elements or layers may be present.
It will be understood that, although the terms first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element, component, region, layer or section from another region, layer or section. Thus, a first element, component, region, layer or section discussed below could be termed a second element, component, region, layer or section without departing from the teachings of the present invention.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the singular forms, “a”, “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “includes” and/or “including”, when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Hereinafter, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The pad unit 100 includes an upper pad unit 110 contact with an upper surface of the string 10 and a lower pad unit 120 contact with a lower surface of the string 10. In this case, it is preferable that the upper and lower pad units 110 and 120 are to be the thickness of preventing a vibration generated from the strings having different diameter.
The pad unit 100 may be made of one selected from the group consisting of a wool pad, a non-woven fabric, or a synthetic fabric.
The vibration preventer 70 comprises an incorporated supporting unit 200 housing the pad unit 100 and having a predetermined length and width to be mounted on the headstock 60, and a hinge 210 formed at one end of the supporting unit 200 to be attachable to the headstock 60.
The supporting unit 200 comprises an upper supporting unit 222 formed on an upper surface of the pad unit 100 and having a projection tip 221 that is protruded to outside of the one end of the pad unit 100 and a lower supporting unit 224 formed on a lower surface of the pad unit 100 and having a fasten groove 223 inserted into the pad unit 100 so as to be locked/unlocked with the projection tip 221.
In order that the upper supporting unit 222 of the supporting unit 200 is unlocked from the lower supporting unit 224, a locking removal groove 225 is disposed opposite to the projection tip 221.
The supporting unit 200 is shaped like a horizontal plane or round to be mounted along a curvature of the headstock 60.
Preferably, a lower surface of the supporting unit 200 is apart from a skin surface of the headstock 60 as far as a predetermined distance. The reason for this is that if the lower surface of the supporting unit 200 is in contact with the skin surface of the headstock 60, there is a possibility that noise occur by interference of the headstock 60 due to vibrations of the strings 10 transferred to the vibration preventer 70 (See
It is preferable that the vibration preventer 70 intermediate between the tunning pegs 50 located at the rear end of the headstock 60 and a nut 30 located at the front end of the neck 40.
The reason for this is that the extensive unnecessary vibration amplitude from the strings 10 of the headstock 60 may occur at the above-mentioned intermediate location.
It is clearly understood that the length and width of the vibration preventer 70 can be variously changed in accordance with a kind of stringed instruments by those skilled in the art.
Hereinafter, the vibration preventer for the stringed instrument according to the present invention will be described in detail referring to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in
One end of the upper supporting unit 222 is rounded downwardly. By means of the projection tip 221 formed at the end of the upper supporting unit 222, the one end of the supporting unit 224 is locked with the fasten groove 223 of the lower supporting unit 224. In order to remove this locked condition, the locking removal groove of the upper supporting unit 222 is lift up to rotate the upper supporting unit 222 to the outside at the center of the hinge 210 of the supporting unit 200.
Under the condition that the upper supporting unit 222 is rotated, a plurality of strings are located on the lower pad unit 120 of the lower supporting unit 224 by positioning the lower supporting unit 224 of the vibration preventer 70 below the strings 10 arranged on the headstock 60. Then, the projection tip 221 is locked with the fasten groove 223 formed at the lower supporting unit 224 by rotating the locking removal groove 225 at the center of the hinge 210 of the upper supporting unit 222.
The upper and lower supporting units 222 and 224 are locked together, and at the same time, the plurality of strings 10 arranged at the stringed instrument 1 are tightly located between the upper pad unit 110 and the lower pad unit 120.
The vibration preventer 70 according to the present invention is intermediate between the tunning peg (6th tunning peg for 6 string guitar) located at the rear end of the tunning pegs 50 among several tunning pegs 50 of the headstock 60 and the nut 60.
Assuming that the length from the tunning pegs 50 at the rear end of the headstock 60 to the front end of the neck 40 is “L”, it is optimized that the vibration preventer 70 is located at L/2 position in order to prevent the vibrations of the strings 10 and optimize a quality of a sound for the stringed instrument.
Additionally, a distance between a lower surface of the supporting unit 200 and a skin surface of the headstock 60 is isolated as much as “h”, and thereby preventing noise caused by contacting with the skin surface of the headstock 60 due to the vibrations of the strings 10 generated from the body 20 and neck 40.
For this reason, minute vibration preventing original tune of a stringed instrument is cut off, so that strings can be played in clear sound.
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As previously mentioned, the vibration preventer according to the present invention is applicable to various stringed instruments. Even if the vibrations generated from a plurality of strings are not transferred to the headstock, minute vibration interfering original tune is prevented to maintain clear original tune. As shown in
In addition, the vibration preventer according to the present invention is independent of the position of a truss rod groove and can be secured to a headstock without screws. Also, the vibration preventer is easily installed on the stringed instrument and prevents the vibration of the strings in the headstock.
Unlike the locking nut, the vibration preventer does not influence tension variation of the strings.
Furthermore, the vibration preventer according to the present invention is easily opened by the locking removal groove to be comfortably attachable.
Although the exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been described, it is understood that the present invention should not be limited to these exemplary embodiments but various changes and modifications can be made by one ordinary skilled in the art within the spirit and scope of the present invention as hereinafter claimed.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2006-0047187 | May 2006 | KR | national |
