Ovation Piezzo Type Pickup Japanese Patent

A piezoelectric bridge pickup for guitars and other stringed instruments featuring a flexible circuit board with pairs of laterally polarized piezoelectric crystals for each string, mounted beneath individual saddles. The design reduces crosstalk between adjacent strings, improves assembly ease, and includes active semiconductor circuits (op-amp modules) for each channel providing high-impedance input and low-impedance output. The pickup body is made from graphite/epoxy composite material with a decorative plastic cap.