Patents Assigned to Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
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Patent number: 9517740Abstract: A loudspeaker device is installed in a space between a bumper reinforcement for reinforcing a bumper of a vehicle and a bumper absorber attached to a front side of the bumper reinforcement. An approach notification sound output from a front side of the loudspeaker device is radiated outside through a first opening provided on a driver's seat side of the bumper absorber. An approach notification sound output from a rear side of the loudspeaker device passes through a sound path between the bumper reinforcement and the bumper absorber and is then radiated outside through a second opening provided on a passenger seat side of the bumper absorber.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Okuyama, Yutaka Moriyama, Tomokazu Nitta
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Publication number: 20160360305Abstract: A speaker device includes a voice coil; a pair of lead wires configured to be pulled out of the voice coil; a vibrating body connecting to the voice coil; and a magnetic circuit including a yoke. The yoke includes a frame that supports the vibrating body, the pair of lead wires is configured to pass through a space that is located between the frame and the vibrating body, the pair of lead wires is configured to pass above a cutout of the yoke and bend towards and through the space, and the pair of lead wires is configured to be substantially symmetrical with respect to the center of the voice coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicants: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventor: Kazuaki Watanabe
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Patent number: 9510099Abstract: Provided is a speaker device with which high strength can be obtained for the connection between an outer peripheral region of an edge and an attachment part of a frame, even while reducing a size of the speaker device without sacrificing a breadth of a diaphragm and the edge. This speaker device (10, 20, 30) includes: a diaphragm (11, 21) that radiates sound; an edge (12, 22, 32) arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm (11, 21); a frame (13, 33) arranged in an outer periphery of the edge (12, 22, 32) and including an annular attachment part (13a, 33a) connected to an outer peripheral region (12b, 22b, 32b) of the edge (12, 22, 32); and an annular connecting member (17) arranged between the outer peripheral region (12b, 22b, 32b) and the attachment part (13a, 33a) and adhered to the outer peripheral region (12b, 22b, 32b) and the attachment part (13a, 33a).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Shintaro Niidera
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Patent number: 9451344Abstract: A speaker device includes a voice coil, a lead wire configured to be pulled out of the voice coil, a vibrating body connecting to the voice coil, a magnetic circuit comprising a yoke, and a frame that supports the vibrating body. The yoke includes a bottom portion including a plurality of corners and a side portion extending toward the vibrating body from one side of the bottom portion. The lead wire is configured to pass through a space that is outside of and next to the side portion of the yoke and between the frame and the vibrating body. The lead wire is configured to pass above a cutout of the yoke and bend toward and through the space.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventor: Kazuaki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20160241941Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro NIIDERA, Satoshi HACHIYA
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Patent number: 9419059Abstract: A first luminous body is formed on a substrate and is linear. A second luminous body is also formed on the substrate and is linear. The second luminous body extends in parallel with the first luminous body. A first anode and a first cathode are formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the first luminous body. A second anode and a second cathode are also formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the second luminous body. The first anode and the first cathode extend in parallel with each other, and the second anode and the second cathode extend in parallel with each other. In a range overlapping with the first luminous body when seen in a plan view, the first anode is not connected to the second anode, and the first cathode is not connected to the second cathode.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Masaki Murakata, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 9420662Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a first light-emitting region (100) and a second light-emitting region (200). The first light-emitting region (100) emits a light ray having a first color by making a first light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, the second light-emitting region (200) emits alight ray having the first color (for example, daylight color, natural white color, white color, warm white color, or incandescent color) by making a second light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, at least one kind of light-emitting layer included in the second light-emitting layer group emits a light ray having a different spectrum peak from all of the light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting layer group. Therefore, the color-rendering properties of light emitted from the light-emitting device (10) are improved.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Shigehiro Umetsu, Hiroki Tan, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 9351058Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Niidera, Satoshi Hachiya
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Patent number: 9338859Abstract: An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source for illumination with adjustable color and adjustable brightness; a memory unit in which illumination conditions corresponding to a plurality of scenes are stored; a detection unit for detecting the color and brightness of ambient light at an installation position of the makeup mirror set; a selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of scenes according to an input operation; an acquisition unit for acquiring, from the memory unit, illumination conditions corresponding to the scene selected through the selection unit; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the color and brightness of the surface light source according to the color and brightness of the ambient light detected by the detection unit and the illumination conditions acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazufumi Adachi, Kazunaga Ida, Taku Ito, Harumi Nakamura, Meiji Kitamura, Takeshi Nakamura, Yosuke Sato, Takuo Shinohara
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Publication number: 20160118617Abstract: An organic EL element (10) includes a first electrode (110), an organic layer (120), and a second electrode (130). The organic layer (120) is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). The second electrode (130) includes Ga in the vicinity of an interface with the organic layer (120). The second electrode (130) includes, for example, a Ga-containing layer (132) and a conductive layer (134). In the Ga-containing layer (132), an element having a highest content rate is Ga. The Ga-containing layer (132) is, for example, a thin Ga layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji SAITO, Hiroshi ABIKO, Hiroki TAN, Teruichi WATANABE, Kunihiko SHIRAHATA
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Patent number: 9290498Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, fully secure of driving stability, and of a simple configuration. The organic EL device comprises organic layers comprising a hole-transporting layer and a light-emitting layer sandwiched between an anode and a cathode. The light-emitting layer contains a fluorescent light-emitting material and an electron- and/or exciton-blocking layer containing an indolocarbazole derivative represented by general formula (2) is disposed between the hole-transporting layer and the light-emitting layer so as to be adjacent to the light-emitting layer. In general formula (2), ring B is a heterocyclic ring fused to the adjacent rings and represented by formula (1c), Z is an n-valent aromatic hydrocarbon group or aromatic heterocyclic group, and n is 1 or 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD., PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Kai, Toshihiro Yamamoto, Masaki Komori, Kazuaki Yoshimura, Taishi Tsuji, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Toshinao Yuki, Yusuke Nakajima
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Publication number: 20160057540Abstract: Provided is a speaker device with which high strength can be obtained for the connection between an outer peripheral region of an edge and an attachment part of a frame, even while reducing a size of the speaker device without sacrificing a breadth of a diaphragm and the edge. This speaker device (10, 20, 30) includes: a diaphragm (11, 21) that radiates sound; an edge (12, 22, 32) arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm (11, 21); a frame (13, 33) arranged in an outer periphery of the edge (12, 22, 32) and including an annular attachment part (13a, 33a) connected to an outer peripheral region (12b, 22b, 32b) of the edge (12, 22, 32); and an annular connecting member (17) arranged between the outer peripheral region (12b, 22b, 32b) and the attachment part (13a, 33a) and adhered to the outer peripheral region (12b, 22b, 32b) and the attachment part (13a, 33a).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Shintaro NIIDERA
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Publication number: 20160052449Abstract: A sound path member covers a rear side of a bumper reinforcement for reinforcing a bumper of a vehicle and forms a sound path for a loudspeaker device between the sound path member and the bumper reinforcement. The sound path member is provided so that the sound path has a return portion. The loudspeaker device is arranged between the bumper reinforcement and the sound path member. Consequently, a sound radiated from a front side of the loudspeaker device is radiated through an opening of the bumper reinforcement, and a sound radiated from a rear side of the loudspeaker device passes through the sound path and is then radiated through an opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi OKUYAMA, Yutaka MORIYAMA, Tomokazu NITTA
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Publication number: 20160039375Abstract: A loudspeaker device is installed in a space between a bumper reinforcement for reinforcing a bumper of a vehicle and a bumper absorber attached to a front side of the bumper reinforcement. An approach notification sound output from a front side of the loudspeaker device is radiated outside through a first opening provided on a driver's seat side of the bumper absorber. An approach notification sound output from a rear side of the loudspeaker device passes through a sound path between the bumper reinforcement and the bumper absorber and is then radiated outside through a second opening provided on a passenger seat side of the bumper absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi OKUYAMA, Yutaka MORIYAMA, Tomokazu NITTA
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Publication number: 20160041389Abstract: Provided is a low-cost display system with a small-sized shutter shielding an opening portion in an accommodation state. In a display system in which a display device displaying an image is located at different positions as a use position and an accommodation position, the display system includes a first shutter and a second shutter which are formed so that opening portions are wider than the display device. Here, when the display device is located at the use position, at least a part of the display device is located near the front surface of the first shutter and the second shutter and at least one of the first shutter and the second shutter is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki SATO
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Publication number: 20160037262Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, MOGAMI DENKI CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuharu KAWATA, Haruki HOSHIKAWA, Yoshihiro SATO, Takanobu SAITO
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Patent number: 9241220Abstract: A speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably along a vibration direction, and a driving part disposed in proximity of the frame and vibrating the diaphragm corresponding to an audio signal. The driving part includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap formed along a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm, a voice coil supporting part having a voice coil and vibrating along the magnetic gap, and a vibration-direction-conversion part direction-converting the vibration of the voice coil supporting part and transmitting the vibration to the diaphragm. The vibration-direction-conversion part includes a link body angle-converting a link part formed between the voice coil supporting part and the diaphragm.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2008Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yasumi Umetsu, Minoru Horigome
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Publication number: 20150365745Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro NIIDERA, Satoshi HACHIYA
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Patent number: 9215766Abstract: A drive device for a light-emitting element that improves accuracy while driving the light-emitting element at small currents for which a comparatively simple configuration is provided. The drive device includes detecting means, comparing means, a driving voltage source, and offset means. The detecting means detects a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through a first resistor for current detection. The first resistor is coupled to a light-emitting element in series. The comparing means compares a magnitude of the detection voltage of the detecting unit with a comparison voltage. The driving voltage source applies a voltage corresponding to a comparison result by the comparing means to a series circuit of the light-emitting element and the first resistor. The offset means corrects the voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the first resistor by a correction voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Hideo Ochi, Nobuhiko Saegusa, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20150317044Abstract: To provide an electronic apparatus capable of easily and accurately performing an operation of changing a display. A navigation system displays standard map information in small scale on a liquid crystal display device, and displays status information on movement speed of a vehicle or guidance information on distance and direction to a cross point to turn next on a head-up display device. Only while a contact of a contact body on a surface of a touchpad continues to be detected, first scaled-up map information as the scaled-up standard map information continues to be displayed on the liquid crystal display device instead of the standard map information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto ABE, Koji SASAHARA, Takeru MIKI