US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on May 12 for "Vibration plate and musical instrument" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,674, issued on May 12, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Vibration plate and musical instrument" was invented by Banri Abe (Hamamatsu, Japan), Ichiro Osuga (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masatsugu Okazaki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Shinji Sumino (Hamamatsu, Japan), Taishi Shinohara (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takashi Kitagawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takuya Abe (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration plate for a musical instrument includes: a plate-shaped vibration plate main body that has a deformation anisotropy property; a first elongated reinforcing member disposed on a first face of the vibration plate main body, and that...