Hand-muscle developer with music producing means

• US 5,533,949 A
• Filed: 12/27/1994
• Issued: 07/09/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chyh-Wen Hwang
• Original Assignee: Chyh-Wen Hwang
• Inventors: Hwang, Chyh-Wen
• Primary Examiner(s): Aley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Risley, David R.
• Application Number:
  US08/364,814
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 446/143, 446/397, 446/408, 84/465, 84/467, 84/468, 482/44, 482/47, 482/49, 601/40
• US Class Current: 482/47
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/16 for hands or fingers for teaching typing G09B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/34 Switch arrangements, e.g. keyboards or mechanical switches specially adapted for electrophonic musical instruments

Abstract

A hand-muscle developer including a casing, a strap for fastening the casing to the hand, a music IC circuit board installed inside the casing, a speaker mounted on the casing and connected to the music IC circuit board, a battery power supply to provide power supply to the music IC circuit board, a plurality of melody keys mounted on the casing and respectively depressed by fingers to make electrical contact for triggering the music IC circuit board to produce a specific tone through the speaker, and a tuning means mounted on the casing and controlled by the thumb to tune the tones triggered by the melody keys.

Claims

1. A hand-muscle developer comprising:

a casing having at least one melody key chamber, and a tuning key chamber;

a hand strap configured to fit the dimensions and contours of the hand, said strap fixed to the outside of said casing;

a music IC circuit board mounted inside said casing;

a speaker mounted on said casing and electrically connected to said music IC circuit board;

a battery power supply installed in said casing and electrically connected to said music IC circuit board;

at least one melody key slidably mounted in said at least one melody key chamber such that, when fully depressed, electrical contact is made with said at least one melody key chamber triggering said IC circuit board to produce a specific tone through said speaker; and

a tuning means slidably mounted in said tuning key chamber for tuning the tones triggered by said melody keys.

2. The hand-muscle developer of claim 1 wherein said at least one melody key chamber comprises a tubular spring holder and a spring disposed in the tubular spring holder to support one melody key in the fully extended position.

3. The hand-muscle developer of claim 1 wherein said tuning key chamber comprises a tubular spring holder and a spring disposed in the tubular spring holder to support said tuning means in the fully extended position.

4. The hand-muscle developer of claim 1 wherein said casing has legs raised from an outside wall thereof for supporting said casing above a flat surface.

5. The hand-muscle developer of claim 1 wherein said tuning key chamber comprises a pair of upper contacts, a pair of bottom contacts, and a pair of intermediate contacts respectively electrically connected to respective contacts on said music IC circuit board;

said tuning means comprises a pair of fixed upper contacts, which are respectively connected to the pair of upper contacts of said tuning key chamber to tune the tones of said melody keys to a first mode when said tuning means is not depressed, a pair of fixed bottom contacts, which are respectively connected to the pair of bottom contracts of said tuning key chamber to tune the tones of said melody keys to a second mode when said tuning means is fully depressed, and a pair of movable intermediate contacts respectively supported on a respective spring and spaced between said fixed upper contacts and said fixed bottom contacts, which are respectively connected to the pair of intermediate contacts of said tuning key chamber to tune the tones of said melody keys to a third mode when said tuning means is moved to an intermediate position.