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AKG Acoustics Ges.m.b.H
A Harman Company
Lemböckgasse 21-25
A-1230 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 86654-0
Contact Info - Departments:
http://www2.akg.com/akg_structuretree/powerslave,id,163,nod eid,,mynodeid,163,_language,EN.html
Web:
http://www.akg.com/

 

AKG Acoustics US
A Harman Company

914 Airpark Center Drive
Nashville, TN 37217
Phone: 615-620-3800
Fax: 615 620-3875
Email: akgusa@harman.com
Web: http://www.akgusa.com/

 

Founded: 1945 in Vienna, Austria by Dr. Rudolf Goerike and Ing. Ernst Pless. The envisaged company name is Phonophot.

1947: Goerike and Pless establish AKG Akustische u. Kino-Geraete Gesellschaft m.b.H. The trading license issued on June 3, 1946 describes the company as an establishment for "the manufacture of audio and film equipment" located at Nobilegasse in the 15th district of Vienna. (Ed. From the AKG web site)

Short company history on the AKG web site:
http://www2.akg.com/akg_structuretree/powerslave,id,39,nodeid,,mynodeid ,39,_language,EN.html

 

Patents:

U.S. Patent No. 5,050,217, 09/17/1991, Dynamic noise reduction and spectral restoration system, Orban, Robert A.

U.S. Patent No. 5,168,526, 12/01/1992, Distortion-cancellation circuit for audio peak limiting, Orban, Robert A.

U.S. Patent No. 5,282,252, 01/25/1994, Audio equalizer providing reciprocal equalization plus infinite-depth notch, Orban, Robert A.

U.S. Patent No. 5,444,788, 08/22/1995, Audio compressor combining feedback and feedfoward sidechain processing, Orban, Robert A.

U.S. Patent No. 5,574,791, 11/12/1996, Combined de-esser and high-frequency enhancer using single pair of level detectors, Orban, Robert A.

U.S. Patent No. 6,185,809, 02/13/2001, Method of manufacturing a diaphragm for an electroacoustic transducer, Pavlovic, Gino

U.S. Patent No. D442,166, 05/15/2001, Housing for microphone or loudspeaker, Schmidt, Eugen

U.S. Patent No. 6,344,730, 02/05/2002, Method and apparatus for determining the remaining operating time of battery-powered appliances, Rohrbock, Rupert and Wurzer, Josef

U.S. Patent No. 6,351,543, 02/26/2002, Micro-microphone, Lenhard-Backhaus, Hugo and Pribyl, Richard

U.S. Patent No. 6,510,231, 01/21/2003, Electroacoustic transducer, Barnert, Richard

 

Alumni:

 

Brakham, Andrew
Orban, Robert A.
 

 

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