Pad generating rhythmic sound waves

• US 9,280,963 B1
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Sung Min, Sah, Sung Jin, Oh, Kwang Myung, Lee, Hui Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Warren, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE
• Application Number:
  US14/548,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20160049141A1
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 846/35, 846/11, 846/00, 844/11.R, 844/11.P, 844/14, 345/173
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/02 Drums; Tambourines with drumheads
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/03 Practice drumkits or pads
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/06 Castanets, cymbals, triangles, tambourines without drumheads or other single-toned percussion musical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/08 Multi-toned musical instruments with sonorous bars, blocks, forks, gongs, plates, rods or teeth
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/10 Details of, or accessories for, percussion musical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/20 Drumheads
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/26 Mechanical details of electronic drums
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/40 Rhythm
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/42 comprising tone forming circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/161 with 2D or x/y surface coordinates sensing graphical user interface or touchscreen input G10H2220/091; microtonal keyboard G10H2210/401
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/00 Instruments in which the tones are synthesised from a data store, e.g. computer organs

Abstract

A pad for generating rhythmic sound waves according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: at least two first patterns configured to generate a first sound wave in response to friction; and at least two second patterns configured to generate a second sound wave in response to the friction, wherein each of the first patterns is spaced and positioned in a constant distance, the at least two second patterns are positioned between the spaced first patterns, and for each of specific directions between the spaced first patterns, the first patterns and the second patterns are spaced and positioned in a different distance.

Claims

1. A pad for generating rhythmic sound waves, the pad comprising:

at least two first patterns configured to generate a first sound wave in response to friction and spaced apart from each other in an outward direction from a center in an x-y plane; and

at least two second patterns configured to generate a second sound wave in response to the friction,

wherein each of the at least two first patterns is spaced and positioned in a constant distance, the at least two second patterns are positioned between two spaced first patterns among the at least two first patterns, and spaced distances between any one of the at least two first patterns and any one of the at least two second patterns are different in the outward direction from the center, and

wherein the outward direction includes a first direction, a second direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction.

2. The pad according to claim 1, wherein the at least two first patterns and the at least two second patterns are patterns formed in relief or intaglio, and because materials or physical characteristics are different from each other, different first sound wave and second sound wave are generated.

3. The pad according to claim 1, wherein the constant distance which the at least two first patterns are spaced is L,

in the first direction spaced distance of one first pattern among the at least first patterns and a second pattern adjacent to the one first pattern, a spaced distance of two second patterns among the at least two second patterns, and a spaced distance of another second pattern and another first pattern adjacent to the other second pattern are sequentially

4. The pad according to claim 1, wherein each of the at least two first patterns and the at least two second patterns has a polygon or a circular shape surrounding a periphery of the rhythmic sound wave pad.

5. The pad according to claim 1, wherein ratio t/T of a time interval t of a sound wave generated by a spaced distance of one first pattern among the at least two first patterns and a second pattern adjacent to the one first pattern, a spaced distance of two second patterns among the at least two second patterns, and a spaced distance of another second pattern and another first pattern adjacent to the other second pattern and a time interval T of a sound wave generated by a spaced distance of the one first pattern and the other first pattern is different for each of the first, second, third, and fourth directions of the outward direction.

6. A pad for generating rhythmic sound waves, the pad comprising:

at least two first patterns configured to generate a first sound wave in response to friction and spaced apart from each other in an outward direction from a center in an x-y plane; and

at least two second patterns configured to generate a second sound wave in response to the friction,

wherein each of the at least two first patterns is spaced and positioned in a constant distance, the at least two second patterns are positioned between two spaced first patterns among the at least two first patterns, and spaced distances between any one of the at least two first patterns and any one of the at least two second patterns are different in the outward direction from the center, and

wherein the outward direction includes a first direction, a second direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction, and

wherein a ratio t/T of a time interval t of a sound wave generated by a spaced distance of one first pattern and a second pattern adjacent to the one first pattern, a spaced distance of two second patterns among the at least two second patterns, and a spaced distance of another second pattern and another first pattern adjacent to the other second pattern and a time interval T of a sound wave generated by a spaced distance of the one first pattern and the other first pattern is different for each of the first, second, third, and fourth directions of the outward direction.