Patents by Inventor Kazuharu Kawata

Kazuharu Kawata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9635463
    Abstract: Provided are a vibrating body for speaker device which prevents interlayer from peeling in advance and includes a large effective vibration area, and a speaker device including this vibrating body for speaker device. The vibrating body for speaker device includes a first interlaced fiber member, and a second interlaced fiber member which overlaps with the first interlaced fiber member, and one of the first interlaced fiber member and the second interlaced fiber member includes polyvinyl alcohol fibers containing boron, and an outer circumferential portion of the first interlaced fiber member is larger than an outer circumferential portion of the second interlaced fiber member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, MOGAMI DENKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kawata, Haruki Hoshikawa, Yoshihiro Sato, Takanobu Saito
  • Patent number: 9521490
    Abstract: A diaphragm can be obtained which exhibits large internal loss and Young's modulus and which can be produced efficiently. A speaker diaphragm 1 comprises at least one layer 1A formed by molding a component member configured by a fiber and a tangled fiber body of a synthetic fiber. The synthetic fiber is a polyvinyl alcohol fiber having boron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, Mogami Denki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kawata, Yoshihiro Sato, Hideki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160037262
    Abstract: Provided are a vibrating body for speaker device which prevents interlayer from peeling in advance and includes a large effective vibration area, and a speaker device including this vibrating body for speaker device. The vibrating body for speaker device includes a first interlaced fiber member, and a second interlaced fiber member which overlaps with the first interlaced fiber member, and one of the first interlaced fiber member and the second interlaced fiber member includes polyvinyl alcohol fibers containing boron, and an outer circumferential portion of the first interlaced fiber member is larger than an outer circumferential portion of the second interlaced fiber member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, MOGAMI DENKI CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuharu KAWATA, Haruki HOSHIKAWA, Yoshihiro SATO, Takanobu SAITO
  • Publication number: 20150010197
    Abstract: A diaphragm can be obtained which exhibits large internal loss and Young's modulus and which can be produced efficiently. A speaker diaphragm 1 comprises at least one layer 1A formed by molding a component member configured by a fiber and a tangled fiber body of a synthetic fiber. The synthetic fiber is a polyvinyl alcohol fiber having boron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kawata, Yoshihiro Sato, Hideki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060062423
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to ensure that when a speaker diaphragm having an adequate fire resistance is to be obtained, it is possible to ensure stability of various characteristics and thus avoid a deterioration of an audio characteristic of the speaker device. An expansive graphite is mixed/milled with at least one of a natural fiber, a chemical fiber, an inorganic fiber, a synthetic fiber and the like consisting of different fibers selected from the foregoing fibers (step of mixing/milling a fiber with an expansive graphite), thereby obtaining a paper slurry. The paper slurry is adjusted and heated at an adequate molding temperature necessary for the expansive graphite to expand, thereby effecting milling and molding (milling/molding step) and thus obtaining a milled material serving as a diaphragm substrate having a fire resistant layer formed by a heated expansion of the expanding agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kawata, Hideo Sekikawa, Toshihiro Ishigaki
  • Publication number: 20050178516
    Abstract: To give solution to a problem that a fire-retarded speaker component has a high hygroscopicity and thus exhibits deteriorated acoustic properties, the speaker component undergoes strength drop, elastic modulus drop and internal loss due to fire retardant and the increase of the number of treatment steps adds to manufacturing cost. A speaker component formed by a paper product including a triphenyl phosphate fire retardant is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Hideo Sekikawa, Kazuharu Kawata, Toshihiro Ishigaki