Patents by Inventor Suemei Fukuhara

Suemei Fukuhara 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: 10491984
    Abstract: Provided is a loudspeaker device that can improve sound quality. The loudspeaker device includes: a loudspeaker housing; a first loudspeaker unit provided in a first wall of the loudspeaker housing; and an acoustic tube communicating an inside and an outside of the loudspeaker housing to each other. The acoustic tube has a predetermined length, and is accommodated in the loudspeaker housing and is helically shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Honda, Takafumi Yuasa, Akihisa Kawamura, Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki, Satoshi Takayama, Suemei Fukuhara, Isao Kuramitsu, Ippei Kiyama
  • Patent number: 10469925
    Abstract: A speaker device includes: a loudspeaker including a diaphragm and a field portion disposed rearwardly of the diaphragm; and a cabinet accommodating the field portion. The loudspeaker also includes a mounting member with which the loudspeaker is mounted to the cabinet, and a mounting plane of the mounting member includes a center of gravity of the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suemei Fukuhara, Kazuki Honda, Takafumi Yuasa, Churo Sato, Ippei Kiyama, Satoshi Takayama
  • Publication number: 20190045285
    Abstract: A speaker device includes: a loudspeaker including a diaphragm and a field portion disposed rearwardly of the diaphragm; and a cabinet accommodating the field portion. The loudspeaker also includes a mounting member with which the loudspeaker is mounted to the cabinet, and a mounting plane of the mounting member includes a center of gravity of the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: SUEMEI FUKUHARA, KAZUKI HONDA, TAKAFUMI YUASA, CHURO SATO, IPPEI KIYAMA, SATOSHI TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180249243
    Abstract: A loudspeaker device includes: a plurality of loudspeaker units; and a plurality of horns provided in the plurality of loudspeaker units, respectively, the plurality of horns each restricting spread of sound output from a corresponding one of the loudspeaker units to a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: KAZUKI HONDA, TAKAFUMI YUASA, AKIHISA KAWAMURA, TOSHIYUKI MATSUMURA, SHUJI SAIKI, SATOSHI TAKAYAMA, SUEMEI FUKUHARA, ISAO KURAMITSU, IPPEI KIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180242061
    Abstract: A loudspeaker device includes: a loudspeaker housing; a first loudspeaker unit provided in a first wall of the loudspeaker housing; and an acoustic tube communicating an inside and an outside of the loudspeaker housing to each other. The acoustic tube has a predetermined length, and is accommodated in the loudspeaker housing while spirally bent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: KAZUKI HONDA, TAKAFUMI YUASA, AKIHISA KAWAMURA, TOSHIYUKI MATSUMURA, SHUJI SAIKI, SATOSHI TAKAYAMA, SUEMEI FUKUHARA, ISAO KURAMITSU, IPPEI KIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100119091
    Abstract: An acoustic reproduction device includes first speaker units 12 and 15 that emit sound in an inward direction and second speaker units 13 and 16 that emit sound in a forward or outward direction. The first speaker units are arranged at positions symmetrical with respect to a listening center axis, and so are second speaker units. The device further includes first and second processing units that process center channel signals as signals for the first and the second speaker units, respectively. Front channel signals are superimposed on an output signal of the second processing unit. The first processing unit includes a HPF 33 and a first high-shelf block 34 for boosting a high-range component. The second processing unit includes an LPF 38, a low-shelf block 36 for attenuating a low-range component, and a second high-shelf block 37 for attenuating a high-range component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suemei Fukuhara, Tsunenari Nishikawa, Shoji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6343132
    Abstract: The present invention provides a loudspeaker capable of matching a sound image and a picture image on a screen of an image reproducer with each other in simple construction and a simple method of installation. The loudspeaker is located above the image reproducer in the vicinity thereof and so constructed as to reproduce a center channel signal in a multichannel sound signal for a movie or the like as a principal object, which comprises a main speaker unit, particular band preventing means for suppressing the level of a particular band in a band of not less than approximately 4 kHz of the main speaker unit, a sub-speaker unit, particular band passing means connected to the sub-speaker unit for passing only the particular band, and a dispersing device located on a front surface of the sub-speaker unit and so constructed that a reproduced sound radiated from the sub-speaker unit is mainly composed of a diffused sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suemei Fukuhara, Isao Kuramitsu, Tatsuya Omori, Toshiyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 5140460
    Abstract: A motion-picture screen for projecting an optical image, which comprises a weaved knit having an adequate air permeability. One surface of the weaved knit is coated with a colored material so as to keep a high acoustic permeability concurrently with shutting the light from a wall or the like existing at the rear side of the screen. The other surface of the weaved knit is used as a surface onto which the optical image is projected by a projector, thereby providing an excellent contrast and a high image quality on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suemei Fukuhara, Satoshi Kageyama
  • Patent number: 5073945
    Abstract: An improved dipole type characteristic loudspeaker system has a pair of loudspeakers (1 and 2) which are mounted on the front baffle board (4) and the back baffle board (5) of a console (3) and are connected to be driven in each-other opposite phase relation and have substantially the same acoustic characteristics in the medium and high frequency range but different acoustic characteristic in low frequency range; such loudspeaker system produces good surround-sound effect when used as back loudspeakers only with small number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kageyama, Suemei Fukuhara