Abstract: An audio apparatus includes a main body, a plurality of speakers provided in the main body, a storage section configured to store a conversion table which indicates a correspondence between postures of the main body and control contents of audio signals to be supplied to the speakers, and a control section configured to refer to the conversion table of the storage section, and control the audio signals to be supplied to the speakers in accordance with a posture of the main body.

Abstract: A connection device includes: a pedestal having a placement face; a connector provided in the placement face of the pedestal; a support provided adjacent to the pedestal and extended in a direction crossing the placement surface of the pedestal and having a face to define a space for placing a portable terminal on the connector and on a contact face in the face of the support, the contact face being movable in a thickness direction of the support; and an elastic member that is deformed by the movement of the contact face and applies an elastic force generated by the deformation in a direction of blocking the movement of the contact face with respect to the thickness direction of the support.

Abstract: A stand for a portable electronic device includes: an annularly-formed stand body having a first end face and a second end face apart from each other in a direction vertical to a face forming an annular circle of the stand body, the stand body holding therein the portable electronic device to be inserted from a side of the first end face; and a leg portion having side surfaces projected radially outside the stand body so as to reduce the width dimension between the side surfaces. A grounding surface of the stand to be grounded when the stand is mounted is selected from the second end face of the stand body and one of the side surfaces of the leg portion.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a speaker enclosure that includes a plurality of faces which surround so as to have an internal space tightly closed, a cut-away portion that is cut away along a contour of a virtual plane figure surrounded by a line on one face of the speaker enclosure while a part of the contour as a connection portion is left, a sealing member that covers the cut-away portion so as to tightly seal the internal space of the speaker enclosure, and a loudspeaker that is provided on any face of the speaker enclosure. A portion of the face surrounded by the cut-away portion is a diaphragm capable of vibrating due to bending elasticity while a near portion of the connection portion serves as a point of support. The sealing member is attached to the diaphragm and a peripheral portion which includes a portion of the one face surrounding the diaphragm so as to tightly seal the internal space of the speaker enclosure in a state that the diaphragm can vibrate.

Abstract: A connection device includes: a pedestal having a placement face; a connector provided in the placement face of the pedestal; a support provided adjacent to the pedestal and extended in a direction crossing the placement surface of the pedestal and having a face to define a space for placing a portable terminal on the connector and on a contact face in the face of the support, the contact face being movable in a thickness direction of the support; and an elastic member that is deformed by the movement of the contact face and applies an elastic force generated by the deformation in a direction of blocking the movement of the contact face with respect to the thickness direction of the support.

Abstract: There is provided a connecting apparatus for connecting to an electronic apparatus including a connector, the connecting apparatus including: a body that includes a base portion and a back portion substantially perpendicular to each other so as to define a holding space for holding the electronic apparatus; a connector provided on the base portion, and to be connected with the connector of the electronic apparatus; and a positioning unit which adjusts the electronic apparatus to a predetermined position with respect to the base portion in a state where the connector of the electronic apparatus is connected to the connector of the connecting apparatus.

Abstract: An optical pickup has a light source for generating a laser light, an objective lens for condensing the laser light to form a light spot so as to irradiate an optical disk formed of a substrate and having a pair of major surfaces spaced from each other by a thickness of the substrate and a recording face interposed between the major surfaces, and an actuator for moving the objective lens in a direction of the thickness of the optical disk within a total movable range so as to focus the light spot on either one of the recording face and the major surface. The total movable range of the objective lens is set to be equal to or more than a sum of an allowance range and an additional range. The allowance range is set to allow the objective lens to keep a constant distance between the objective lens and the recording face even when a level of the optical disk varies in the direction of the thickness.

Abstract: A stand for a portable electronic device includes: an annularly-formed stand body having a first end face and a second end face apart from each other in a direction vertical to a face forming an annular circle of the stand body, the stand body holding therein the portable electronic device to be inserted from a side of the first end face; and a leg portion having side surfaces projected radially outside the stand body so as to reduce the width dimension between the side surfaces. A grounding surface of the stand to be grounded when the stand is mounted is selected from the second end face of the stand body and one of the side surfaces of the leg portion.

Abstract: There is provided a connecting apparatus for connecting to an electronic apparatus including a connector, the connecting apparatus including: a body that includes a base portion and a back portion substantially perpendicular to each other so as to define a holding space for holding the electronic apparatus; a connector provided on the base portion, and to be connected with the connector of the electronic apparatus; and a positioning unit which adjusts the electronic apparatus to a predetermined position with respect to the base portion in a state where the connector of the electronic apparatus is connected to the connector of the connecting apparatus.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a loudspeaker, a sound wave guiding portion that has an opening portion, and guides a sound emitted from the loudspeaker to radiate the sound from the opening portion, and a thermal change portion that is provided on the sound wave guiding portion to form a temperature gradient in a space in the sound wave guiding portion.

Abstract: A loudspeaker enclosure includes a first sound wave guiding portion that partitions a first space which is separated by one face of a diaphragm of a loudspeaker and has a first opening portion, and a second sound wave guiding portion that partitions a second space which is separated by the other face of the diaphragm of the loudspeaker and has a second opening portion. The second opening portion of the second sound wave guiding portion is provided around the first opening portion of the first sound wave guiding portion. A position of the second opening portion of the second sound wave guiding portion is set so that a second sound wave emitted from the second opening portion of the second sound wave guiding portion is emitted in a direction to suppress a spread of a first sound wave emitted from the first opening portion of the first sound wave guiding portion.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for drawing a visible image on an optical disk incorporate an optical pickup, which irradiates an optical beam onto the optical disk through its objective lens. The optical disk, which has a target layer on which the drawing is to be performed, is rotated while applying an oscillation signal to a focus actuator of the optical pickup to thereby vibrate the objective lens in an optical-axis direction thereof so that the focus point of the optical beam recurrently passes through the target layer of the optical disk. The power of the optical beam is controlled to form a recording spot on the target layer each time the focus point of the optical beam passes through the target layer so that a visible light property of the target layer is changed to thereby perform the drawing on the target layer.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a speaker enclosure that includes a plurality of faces which surround so as to have an internal space tightly closed, a cut-away portion that is cut away along a contour of a virtual plane figure surrounded by a line on one face of the speaker enclosure while a part of the contour as a connection portion is left, a sealing member that covers the cut-away portion so as to tightly seal the internal space of the speaker enclosure, and a loudspeaker that is provided on any face of the speaker enclosure. A portion of the face surrounded by the cut-away portion is a diaphragm capable of vibrating due to bending elasticity while a near portion of the connection portion serves as a point of support. The sealing member is attached to the diaphragm and a peripheral portion which includes a portion of the one face surrounding the diaphragm so as to tightly seal the internal space of the speaker enclosure in a state that the diaphragm can vibrate.

Abstract: A method is designed for drawing a visible image on an optical disk recordable by means of an optical pickup which irradiates an optical beam onto the optical disk through an objective lens of the optical pickup. The method is carried out by the steps pf rotating the optical disk having a target layer on which the drawing is to be performed, applying an oscillation signal to a focus actuator of the optical pickup to thereby vibrate the objective lens in an optical-axis direction thereof so that a focus point of the optical beam recurrently passes through the target layer of the optical disk, and controlling a power of the optical beam to form a recording spot on the target layer each time the focus point of the optical beam passes through the target layer so that a visible light property of the target layer is changed to thereby perform the drawing on the target layer.

Abstract: An optical pickup has a light source for generating a laser light, an objective lens for condensing the laser light to form a light spot so as to irradiate an optical disk formed of a substrate and having a pair of major surfaces spaced from each other by a thickness of the substrate and a recording face interposed between the major surfaces, and an actuator for moving the objective lens in a direction of the thickness of the optical disk within a total movable range so as to focus the light spot on either one of the recording face and the major surface. The total movable range of the objective lens is set to be equal to or more than a sum of an allowance range and an additional range. The allowance range is set to allow the objective lens to keep a constant distance between the objective lens and the recording face even when a level of the optical disk varies in the direction of the thickness.