Juhana Sadeharju wrote: >Have you ever wondered why the new OASYS, Nord Modular G2, etc. >have digital rotary knobs with the LED lights on the base >of the knob? The knobs have a problem: when one does not look at >the knobs from top, the LEDs are hidden by the knob itself and >thus the value may go unseen. > >It appears that Euphonix (http://www.euphonix.com) has a patent >on the knob where the LEDs are on the top of the knob (instead >of base). LEDs are always visible. > >Why I wanted to tell all this is that prior the patent, when >we had an electronics club at our elementary school, we came >up with this patented knob design -- and we thought and laughed >that it already must have been patented multiple times. Wrong. > >I have made an alternative design by now. > >Juhana > > When something as simple as that kind of functionality can be patened, you know something is wrong with the patent process. Rick B
