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Category Archives: Press Release
Draft Chapter R – 3 Coils With 6 Humbucking Circuits
Why electric guitar single-coil pickup circuits don’t have to have hum Continue reading
New U.S. Patent filed & background published
Yesterday, I filed my 3rd Non-Provisional Patent Application, and today published the background theory for it at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323686205_Making_Guitars_with_Multiple_Tonal_Characters The patent involves matched, single-coil pickups for humbucking circuits with reversible magnetic poles. I have a new area for publications of papers … Continue reading
Posted in Humbucking Pairs, Patent news, Press Release
Tagged circuits, guitar, humbucking, patent, pickups, ResearchGate, tonal character, tonal personality
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Coming Patents for 2018-2019
From simple principles of circuit theory, a patent currently in examination (a Non-Provisional Patent Application, or NPPA) develops and enumerates all possible combinations of pickup circuits, from 1 to infinity, which have potentially unique tones. It claims all such circuits … Continue reading
New PPA filed – June 20, 2017
On June 20, 2017, I filed a new Provisional Patent Application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. It covers modifications to two types of electro-magnetic guitar pickups, with horizontal and vertical coils, to provide information on the orientation of … Continue reading
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Tagged guitar, humbucking pairs, patent application, pickups, PPA, USPTO
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Second Patent Filed
Second Patent Filed: Combinations of Pickups with Potentially Unique Tones – Patent filed June 7, 2017 developing the math and circuit topologies to show how many different tones are possible from 1 to 8 single-coil pickups (Table 1), 1 to … Continue reading
Posted in Humbucking Pairs, News, Patent news, Press Release
Tagged Circuit, humbucking pairs, math, pickup combinations, second patent, tonal outputs, topologies, unique tones
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Patent Pending Dual Humbucker Switching Beats 3-way Switch
See Preliminary Results of Patent Pending 20-way Dual Humbucker Switching
General Equations for Humbucking Pairs
(c) 2016 Don Baker Combinations of pickups don’t tell you how to connect them together. They only tell you how many you have to work with. This article, General Equations for Combinations of Humbucking Pairs, provides development and equations for: … Continue reading
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Tagged general equations, Hexes. Octs, humbucking pairs, humbucking quads, unique combinations
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Open Letter to Pickup Makers
Good Morning, My name is Don Baker. I created the web site TulsaSoundGuitars.com and the sub-site HumbuckingPairs.com. Also the web sites aquarien.com, android-originals.com and theandroidsaxe.com. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 9,401,134 to me, described at: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160027422A1/en … Continue reading
Humbucking Quad PPA – 10s, 100s, 1000s of tones
Excerpts from Provisional Patent Application Filed for Humbucking Quads So KK number of humbuckers can have: KK = 2, 3, 4, 5 humbucking pairs 2*KK = 4, 6, 8, 10 humbucking pair tones KK = 1, 3, 6, … Continue reading