US3748944A — Integrated circuit synthesis and bright wave orga…

Claim 1

Independent Claim 181 words

An integrated circuit package for supplying and keying octavely related notes for an electrical musical instrument comprising a supporting means having circuits thereon providing three binary divider chains, an input to one of said chains for connection to a fundamental clock, an input to a second of said chains for connection to a third harmonic clock, an input to the third of said chains for connection to a fifth harmonic clock, said chains providing sources for the fundamentals, octave harmonics, third, subthird, sixth, and fifth harmonics for several octavely related notes, a plurality of groups of keyers on said supporting means, one of said groups for each of said octavely related notes, each of said groups having separate keyers for the fundamental and each of the harmonics for one of said octavely related notes, a lead connected to all of the keyers in a group to turn on all the keyers connected thereto when energized, circuit means connecting the various frequency sources in said chains to the appropriate keyers in each of said groups, and an output system for saiD keyers.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 181 words

An integrated circuit package for supplying and keying octavely related notes for an electrical musical instrument comprising a supporting means having circuits thereon providing three binary divider chains, an input to one of said chains for connection to a fundamental clock, an input to a second of said chains for connection to a third harmonic clock, an input to the third of said chains for connection to a fifth harmonic clock, said chains providing sources for the fundamentals, octave harmonics, third, subthird, sixth, and fifth harmonics for several octavely related notes, a plurality of groups of keyers on said supporting means, one of said groups for each of said octavely related notes, each of said groups having separate keyers for the fundamental and each of the harmonics for one of said octavely related notes, a lead connected to all of the keyers in a group to turn on all the keyers connected thereto when energized, circuit means connecting the various frequency sources in said chains to the appropriate keyers in each of said groups, and an output system for saiD keyers.

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 81 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 1 in which each of said divider chains has means for resetting all of the dividers in its chain to predetermined starting positions when a synchronizing pulse is supplied to said means, and the divider chain for connection to said fundamental clock has means for supplying synchronizing pulses at a frequency which is a binary submultiple of the lowest frequency of the fundamental clock driven chain connected to any of said keyers.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 71 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 1 in which each of the keyers in a group of keyers when all in the group are turned on has an output determined by the level of an input voltage supplied thereof, and means for supplying independently selected voltages to individual keyers in said groups of keyers to relatively proportion the output levels of the fundamental and several harmonics keyed together.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 41 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 1 in which each of said divider chains has means for resetting all of the dividers in its chain to predetermined starting positions when a synchronizing pulse is supplied to said means.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 81 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 3 in which each of said divider chains has means for resetting all of the dividers in its chain to predetermined starting positions when a synchronizing pulse is supplied to said means, and the divider chain for connection to said fundamental clock has means for supplying synchronizing pulses at a frequency which is a binary submultiple of the lowest frequency of the fundamental clock driven chain connected to any of said keyers.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 64 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 1 having a second clock input connected to the third harmonic divider chain and a second clock input connected to the fifth harmonic divider chain, said second inputs to the third and fifth harmonic divider chains being connected to bypass the first divider stage of each of said third and fifth harmonic divider chains respectively.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 61 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 1 in which said output system includes means within the package to collect the outputs from said keyers in frequency bands, each of said bands including adjacent tone frequencies the fundamentals of which will pass together through a sine filter adapted to reject the third and higher order harmonics of the fundamentals.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 90 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 1 including a separate set of keyers on said supporting means connected for keying square wave signals from said fundamental divider chain in groups, each of the last said groups comprising at least a frequency at a certain level plus twice said frequency at half said certain level plus four times said frequency at one fourth said certain level, a second output system for said separate set of keyers, and circuit means for actuating the keyers in the last said groups.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 187 words

An integrated circuit package for supplying and keying at least one set of octavely related notes for an electrical musical instrument comprising a supporting means having circuits thereon providing at least three binary divider chains, an input to one of said chains for connection to a fundamental clock, inputs to at least two others of said chains for connection respectively to clocks which are octavely related to the third harmonic and fifth harmonic of the fundamental clock, said chains providing sources for at least the fundamentals, octave harmonics, third, subthird, sixth and fifth harmonics for a group of octavely related notes, a plurality of groups of keyers on said supporting means one of said groups for each of said octavely related notes, each of said groups having separate keyers for the fundamental and each of the harmonics for one note, a lead connected to all of the keyers in a group to turn on all the keyers connected thereto when energized, circuit means connecting the several frequency sources in said chains to the appropriAte keyers in each of said groups, and an output system for said keyers.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 187 words

An integrated circuit package for supplying and keying at least one set of octavely related notes for an electrical musical instrument comprising a supporting means having circuits thereon providing at least three binary divider chains, an input to one of said chains for connection to a fundamental clock, inputs to at least two others of said chains for connection respectively to clocks which are octavely related to the third harmonic and fifth harmonic of the fundamental clock, said chains providing sources for at least the fundamentals, octave harmonics, third, subthird, sixth and fifth harmonics for a group of octavely related notes, a plurality of groups of keyers on said supporting means one of said groups for each of said octavely related notes, each of said groups having separate keyers for the fundamental and each of the harmonics for one note, a lead connected to all of the keyers in a group to turn on all the keyers connected thereto when energized, circuit means connecting the several frequency sources in said chains to the appropriAte keyers in each of said groups, and an output system for said keyers.

Claim 12

Dependent Claim 71 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 9 in which each of the keyers in a group of keyers when all in the group are turned on has an output determined by the level of an input voltage supplied thereto, and means for supplying independently selected voltages to individual keyers in said groups of keyers to relatively proportion the output levels of the fundamental and several harmonics keyed together.

Claim 13

Dependent Claim 41 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 9 in which each of said divider chains has means for resetting all of the dividers in its chain to predetermined starting positions when a synchronizing pulse is supplied to said means.

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 81 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 9 in which each of said divider chains has means for resetting all of the dividers in its chain to predetermined starting positions when a synchronizing pulse is supplied to said means, and the divider chain for connection to said fundamental clock has means for supplying synchronizing pulses at a frequency which is a binary submultiple of the lowest frequency of the fundamental clock driven chain connected to any of said keyers.

Claim 15

Dependent Claim 81 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 10 in which each of said divider chains has means for resetting all of the dividers in its chain to predetermined starting positions when a synchronizing pulse is supplied to said means, and the divider chain for connection to said fundamental clock has means for supplying synchronizing pulses at a frequency which is a binary submultiple of the lowest frequency of the fundamental clock driven chain connected to any of said keyers.

Claim 16

Dependent Claim 64 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 9 having a second clock input connected to the third harmonic divider chain and a second clock input connected to the fifth harmonic divider chain, said second inputs to the third and fifth harmonic divider chains being connected to bypass the first divider stage of each of said third and fifth harmonic divider chains respectively.

Claim 17

Dependent Claim 61 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 9 in which said output system includes means within the package to collect the outputs from said keyers in frequency bands, each of said bands including adjacent tone frequencies the fundamentals of which will pass together though a sine filter adapted to reject the third and higher order harmonics of the fundamentals.

Claim 18

Dependent Claim 90 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 9 including a separate set of keyers on said supporting means connected for keying square wave signals from said fundamental divider chain in groups, each of the last said groups comprising at least a frequency at a certain level plus twice said frequency at half said certain level plus four times said frequency at one fourth said certain level, a second output system for said separate set of keyers, and circuit means for actuating the keyers in the last said groups.

Claim 19

Dependent Claim 149 words

An integrated circuit package for supplying and keying a plurality of notes for an electrical musical instrument comprising a supporting means having circuits thereon providing a plurality of binary divider chains, clock inputs individual to said chains to provide with said chains several series of octavely related musical note signals, one series for each of said chains, each of said clocks having a frequency that bears a musical third or fifth relationship to at least one of the others of said clocks, a plurality of keyers in groups, connections from three of said divider chains to each of said groups of keyers to provide each of said groups with a fundamental, an octave harmonic series, a third harmonic series, and a fifth harmonic, keying circuits connected to operate the keyers in each of said groups together and independently of other groups, and an output system connected to said keyers.

Claim 20

Dependent Claim 149 words

An integrated circuit package for supplying and keying a plurality of notes for an electrical musical instrument comprising a supporting means having circuits thereon providing a plurality of binary divider chains, clock inputs individual to said chains to provide with said chains several series of octavely related musical note signals, one series for each of said chains, each of said clocks having a frequency that bears a musical third or fifth relationship to at least one of the others of said clocks, a plurality of keyers in groups, connections from three of said divider chains to each of said groups of keyers to provide each of said groups with a fundamental, an octave harmonic series, a third harmonic series, and a fifth harmonic, keying circuits connected to operate the keyers in each of said groups together and independently of other groups, and an output system connected to said keyers.

Claim 21

Dependent Claim 29 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 17 in which there arE three clock inputs and the groups of keyers supply a series of octavely related notes.

Claim 22

Dependent Claim 29 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 17 in which there are five clock inputs and the groups of keyers supply two series of octavely related notes.

Claim 23

Dependent Claim 29 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 17 in which there are six clock inputs and the groups of keyers supply three series of octavely related notes.

Claim 24

Dependent Claim 29 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 17 in which there are eight clock inputs and the groups of keyers supply four series of octavely related notes.

Claim 25

Dependent Claim 34 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 17, including means for adjustably scaling the outputs of the keyers in said groups to vary the harmonic balance of the outputs of said groups.

Claim 26

Dependent Claim 34 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 18, including means for adjustably scaling the outputs of the keyers in said groups to vary the harmonic balance of the outputs of said groups.

Claim 27

Dependent Claim 34 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 19, including means for adjustably scaling the outputs of the keyers in said groups to vary the harmonic balance of the outputs of said groups.

Claim 28

Dependent Claim 34 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 20, including means for adjustably scaling the outputs of the keyers in said groups to vary the harmonic balance of the outputs of said groups.

Claim 29

Dependent Claim 34 words

An integrated circuit package as called for in claim 21, including means for adjustably scaling the outputs of the keyers in said groups to vary the harmonic balance of the outputs of said groups.

Annuity Stage	Window Opens	Payment Deadline	Surcharge Period Until	Estimated Fee	Status
3.5 Years (Year 4)	1976-07-30	1977-01-29	1977-07-31	$2000.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8)	1980-07-30	1981-01-29	1981-07-31	$3760.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12)	1984-07-30	1985-01-29	1985-07-31	$7700.00	Window Closed / Lapsed

Integrated circuit synthesis and bright wave organ system

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