ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,920, issued on April 15, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Electronic cymbal and case attachment method" was invented by Ryo Tanida (Shizuoka, Japan) and Syota Kobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an electronic cymbal and a case attachment method with which even when a case is attached to a frame, the distribution of hit sensitivity against a hit on the frame is uniform. In this electronic cymbal (1), the case (8) is attached to the frame (4) by fitting an outer peripheral hooking section (8b) of a case (8) into an outer peripheral support section (4b) of a frame (4), and fitting an inn...