Portable turntable device, system, and method

• US 9,672,844 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2017
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Love Turntable, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Love Turntable, Inc.
• Inventors: Pinhas, Charles-Henri
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Allen T
• Application Number:
  US15/403,001
• Publication Number:
  US 20170125039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 147 Days
• Field of Search: 720724, 369 95, 3692721, 3692751, 3692755, 369280, 369283
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 17/00 Guiding record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor guiding cards or sheets G06K13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 17/04 Feeding or guiding single record carrier to or from transducer unit guiding during transducing operation G11B17/34
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 21/006 for track following
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 21/043 for stationary discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 21/046 details of the feed mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 21/06 the record carrier having mechanical means to ensure traverse movement of the head , e.g. grooves
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 3/10 Arranging, supporting, or driving of heads or of transducers relatively to record carriers guiding record carriers G11B17/00, driving record carriers G11B19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 3/40 Driving of heads relatively to stationary record carriers for transducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 3/46 Constructions or forms ; Dispositions or mountings, e.g. attachment of point to shank attachment of stylus directly to transducer H04R1/16
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 3/60 Turntables for record carriers

Abstract

A turntable device, comprising: a spindle and two arms. The two arms may comprise: a housing; one or more buttons; a spindle engagement portion; a stylus cartridge; a power supply; one or more wireless communication devices; a linear actuator; a motor; and a vertical solenoid. The spindle may receive a phonographic record, and the spindle engagement portion may engage with the spindle, such that the arms are entirely supported via said spindle and only the spindle.

Claims

1. A turntable device for playing both sides of a record simultaneously, comprising:

a spindle; and

two arms, a first arm and a second arm, each arm comprising;

a housing;

one or more buttons;

a spindle engagement portion;

a stylus cartridge;

a power supply;

one or more wireless communication devices;

a linear actuator;

a motor; and

a vertical solenoid;

wherein said spindle is adapted to operatively engage with a phonographic record and said two arms;

wherein said first arm is positioned above said phonographic record and said second arm is positioned below said phonographic record;

wherein said spindle engagement portions of said two arms engage with said spindle, such that said phonographic record is entirely supported above said second arm via said spindle and said second arm is entirely supported above said phonographic record via said spindle;

wherein said first arm plays a top side of said phonographic record at the same time that said second arm plays an underside of said phonographic record;

wherein within each of said two arms said linear actuator is configured to move said stylus cartridge along a length of said two arms; and

wherein within each of said two arms said vertical solenoid is configured to allow a stylus of said stylus cartridge to engage with said phonographic record.

2. The turntable device of claim 1, wherein each of said two arms further comprise one or more sensors;

wherein said one or more sensors are configured to cause said linear actuator to move said stylus cartridge along said length of one of said two arms in order to begin a desired track on said phonographic record.

3. The turntable device of claim 2, wherein said two arms are configured to automatically determine a speed of said phonographic record.

4. The turntable device of claim 2, wherein each of said two arms further comprise a speed switch that allows a user to manually select a revolution speed that conforms with a speed of said phonographic record.

5. The turntable device of claim 2, wherein said one or more buttons is a single button that allows a user to control a plurality of operating functions of said two arms;

wherein said plurality of operating functions of said two arms are selected from the group of operating functions consisting of;

turning on;

turning off;

selecting said desired track;

skipping one or more tracks;

pausing; and

muting.

6. The turntable device of claim 2, wherein said one or more buttons is a display touch screen.

7. The turntable device of claim 6, wherein said display touch screen allows a user to control a plurality of operating functions of said two arms;

wherein said plurality of operating functions of said two arms are selected from the group of operating functions consisting of;

turning on;

turning off;

selecting said desired track;

skipping one or more tracks;

pausing; and

muting.

8. The turntable device of claim 1, wherein each of said two arms further comprises a display;

wherein said phonographic record has a plurality of tracks;

wherein said display shows which track of said plurality is currently being played.

9. The turntable device of claim 2, wherein said two arms further comprise a circuit board;

wherein said one or more wireless communication devices are coupled to said circuit board and are configured to send and receive signals from one or more computing devices.

10. The turntable device of claim 9, wherein said one or more computing devices comprise a software application.

11. The turntable device of claim 10, wherein said software application is configured to allow a user to control a plurality of operating functions of said two arms from said one or more computing devices;

wherein said plurality of operating functions of said two arms are selected from the group of operating functions consisting of;

turning on;

turning off;

selecting said desired track;

skipping one or more tracks;

selecting a record speed;

alarm clock function;

pausing; and

muting.

12. The turntable device of claim 11, wherein said one or more computing devices are one or more mobile smartphones.

13. The turntable device of claim 2, wherein said wherein each of said two arms is configured to send or receive data or sound to an external device.

14. The turntable device of claim 13, wherein said external device is selected from the group of external devices consisting of:

speakers;

headphones; and

one or more computing devices.

15. The turntable device of claim 13, wherein external device is one or more speakers;

wherein said one or more speakers have a substantially hollow interior;

wherein said substantially hollow interior of said one or more speakers is used as a storage receptacle for said turntable device; and

wherein said storage receptacle is configured to receive and store at least one arm and at least one base.

16. A turntable device, comprising:

a base;

two speakers;

a spindle; and

at least one arm, said at least one arm comprising;

a housing;

one or more buttons;

a spindle engagement portion;

a stylus cartridge;

one or more wireless communication devices;

a linear actuator; and

a vertical solenoid;

wherein said base is adapted to receive a phonographic record;

wherein said spindle engagement portion is configured to engage with said spindle;

wherein said arm is configured to revolve around said base at said spindle;

wherein said linear actuator is configured to move said stylus cartridge along a length of said arm;

wherein said vertical solenoid is configured to allow a stylus of said stylus cartridge to engage with said phonographic record that is loaded on said base; and

wherein each of said two speakers have a substantially hollow interior, such that said two speakers, when combined, are configured to receive and store said arm, said spindle, and said base.

17. The turntable device of claim 16, wherein said arm further comprises one or more sensors;

wherein said one or more sensors are configured to cause said linear actuator to move said stylus cartridge along said length of said arm in order to begin a desired track on said phonographic record.

18. The turntable device of claim 17, wherein said arm is configured to automatically determine a speed of said phonographic record.