Patents by Inventor Fanghua Ling

Fanghua Ling 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: 10483451
    Abstract: A vibration device, including a housing having accommodating space, a vibrator, a stator and an elastic member for making the vibrator suspended in the accommodating space, the vibrator, the stator and the elastic member are accommodated in the housing, one of the vibrator and the stator includes a magnetic circuit unit while the other one includes a coil, the housing includes a pair of first side walls symmetrically arranged in a long axis direction of the housing and a pair of second side walls symmetrically arranged in a short axis direction, the elastic member includes a sheet-like spring perpendicular to vibrating direction of the vibrator, the spring includes a first fixing portion fixedly connected with the housing, a second fixing portion fixedly connected with the vibrator, and an N-shaped connecting portion connects the first fixing portion with the second fixing portion and extends along the short axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenli Wang, Hongfu Xu, Fanghua Ling, Yongsheng Lu
  • Patent number: 10478855
    Abstract: A linear vibration motor, including: a base, a vibrating unit, an elastic member, a first stopper and a second stopper. The elastic member includes two elastic members mutually spaced and arranged by stacking. Each elastic member includes a fixing arm fixed on the vibrating unit, two elastic arms bending and extending from the fixing arm, and two connecting arms respectively bending and extending from ends of the elastic arms, the connecting arms are respectively fixed on the base; the first stopper is fixed at a side of the fixing arm away from the vibrating unit; the second stopper is fixed on a side of the connecting arm close to the vibrating unit; the first stopper and the second stopper are mutually spaced and an orthographic projection of the first stopper along the vibrating direction at least partially falls into the second stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Jinquan Huang, Fanghua Ling, Wenli Wang
  • Patent number: 10447130
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor, including a housing having accommodating space, a vibrating unit and a stator unit accommodated in the housing, and an elastic member suspending the vibrating unit in the housing, the elastic member comprises a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm which are arranged at two ends of the vibrating unit, and a connecting arm connecting the first elastic arm with a second elastic arm as a whole. The linear vibration motor provided by the present disclosure effectively improves support strength of the elastic member in Z axis direction, and the vibrating unit will not offset in Y axis direction during vibrating. The elastic member is integrated as a whole, during assembling, only one elastic member is necessary, which is easy to assemble, and the positioning is accurate, thereby further improving vibration stability of the linear vibration motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10447134
    Abstract: Provided is a linear vibration motor, including a housing having accommodating space, a vibrating unit and a stator unit accommodated in the housing, and an elastic member suspending the vibrating unit in the housing, the elastic member includes a first elastic portion and a second elastic portion which are arranged at two ends of the vibrating unit, and a connecting member connecting the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion as an integrated structure, both the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion includes two elastic arms which are arranged by crossing with each other. The linear vibration motor provided by the present disclosure effectively improves support strength of the elastic member in Z axis direction, and the vibrating unit will not offset in Y axis direction during vibrating. The elastic member is integrated as a whole, which is easy to assemble, thereby further improving vibration stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10441973
    Abstract: A vibration device, including a shell, a cover plate, a vibrator, a stator and an elastic member, the cover plate is matched with the shell to form accommodating space, the vibrator, the stator and the elastic member are accommodated in the accommodating space, one of the vibrator and the stator includes a magnetic circuit unit while the other one includes a coil. the elastic member includes a first connecting portion fixedly connected with the vibrator, a pair of elastic portions bending and extending from two opposite ends of the first connecting portion, and a pair of second connecting portions extending from a tail end of each elastic portion in the direction facing each other, and the pair of second connecting portions is fixedly connected with the shell to suspend the vibrator in the accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Xu, Jinquan Huang, Hongfu Xu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10447129
    Abstract: A vibration motor includes a housing, an electromagnetic driving device accommodated in the housing, a vibrator, and an elastic component elastically supporting the vibrator. The vibrator has a hollow portion penetrating through upper and lower surfaces of the vibrator in a direction perpendicular to vibrating direction, and the hollow portion is defined by a first inner wall along the vibrating direction and a second inner wall connected with the first inner wall, the electromagnetic driving device is in the hollow portion and fixed on the housing, a distance between the electromagnetic driving device and the second inner wall in vibrating direction is greater than the maximum amplitude of the vibrator, on the housing, a stopper is provided between the inner wall and the electromagnetic driving device. The present disclosure can bring the product reliability under premise of guaranteeing the driving force and the size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Fanghua Ling, Zixu Hua
  • Patent number: 10384232
    Abstract: A linear vibration motor is disclosed. The linear vibration motor, includes a housing provided with an accommodation space; a vibrator accommodated in the accommodation space; and an electromagnet accommodated in the accommodation space. The vibrator includes a weight having a through-hole and a plurality of permanent magnets engaging with an inner wall of the through-hole. The electromagnet is located in the through-hole and separated from the permanent magnets. The electromagnet includes an iron core and a coil around the iron core for producing magnet fields interacting with the permanent magnets further for producing attracting and repelling force to drive the vibrator to vibrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Publication number: 20190252962
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor, including a base having a receiving space, a vibration unit located in the receiving space, an elastic member fixed to the base and suspending the vibration unit in the receiving space, and a coil fixed to the base and opposite to and spaced away from the vibration unit. The vibration unit includes a magnet, the magnet is opposite to and spaced away from the coil, the coil includes a first coil for connecting an electric signal and a second coil insulated from the first coil, and both ends of the second coil are connected to each other to form a closed loop. Compared with the related art, the linear vibration motor in the present disclosure has high reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Fanghua Ling, Xiaofeng Pu, Tao Zhang, Jinquan Huang
  • Patent number: 10355572
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The vibration unit further includes a slot for receiving a fixing part of the elastic member, and the slot includes a first part having a first width and a second part having a second width greater than the first width, and the first part is relatively closer to a distal end of the second fixing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10328461
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vibration motor, comprising a housing, a vibrator, an elastic member, a first block and a second block; the elastic member comprises first elastic member and second elastic member facing toward each other and each comprises a first fixing portion, two extending portions and two second fixing portions, the first fixing portion is fixed on the first surface, the two extending portion extend from the first fixing portion along two opposite directions and surrounds the second surface, the two second fixing portions are fixed on the side wall away from the first fixing portion; the first block is on a side of the first fixing portion corresponding to the side wall, the second block is on the side wall, faces towards the first block and is spaced from the first block. The second block is adjacent to the second fixing portion and is between the two second fixing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Fanghua Ling, Wenli Wang
  • Patent number: 10307791
    Abstract: The present application provides a linear vibration motor, including a base, a vibrating unit and an elastic member. The elastic member includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member, the first elastic member includes a first fixing arm, two first elastic arms and two first connecting arms; the two first elastic arms bend and extend from two ends of the first fixing arm, respectively; the two first connecting arms bend and extend from the two first elastic arms, respectively; each of the first elastic member and the second elastic member is arranged in central symmetry with respect to a central axis which goes through a geometric center of the vibrating unit and perpendicular to the vibrating direction. As compared with relevant art, the linear vibration motor of the present application has advantages of simple and high-efficient assembling, good vibrating performance and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Xingzhi Huang, Jinquan Huang, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10277103
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The coil assembly includes a coil located between the first magnet assembly and the second magnet assembly, and a coil support carrying the coil. The coil support includes a lower part mounted on the substrate, an upper part for carrying the coil, and a middle part spacing the upper part from the lower part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10211714
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The vibration unit includes a pit corresponding to the elastic member for providing an extra space for a tool to fix the elastic member to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10211713
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The vibration unit further includes a pair of slots for respectively receiving a fixing part of the elastic member, and each of the slot includes a volume recessed toward a direction far away from the fixing part. The two slots extend along two opposed directions. The vibration motor further includes a pair of gaskets each attached to the second fixing part and received in a corresponding slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10170967
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing; an elastic connecting piece accommodated in the housing; a fixed component; and a vibrating component suspended in the housing by the elastic connecting piece. One of the fixed component and the vibrating component includes a coil, and the other including a magnet. The vibration motor further includes a damping piece integrated with the elastic connecting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhilin Chai, Jinquan Huang, Hongfu Xu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10170968
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing having a receiving space; a vibration unit accommodated in the receiving space, the vibration unit including a main weight, a main pole plate, and a main magnet carried by the main pole plate, the main weight comprising a first weight, and a second weight opposed to and apart from the first weight; and a plurality of elastic members suspending the vibration unit in the receiving space. The main magnet is sandwiched between the first and second weights, and two ends of the main pole plate are respectively connected to the first weight and the second weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10164511
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The elastic member includes a second fixing part having a first segment with a first width, a second segment having a second width smaller than the first width for forming a step, and the vibration unit includes a latch corresponding to and engaging with the step for positioning the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10148148
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The vibration unit further includes a pair of slots for respectively receiving a fixing part of the elastic member, and each of the slot includes a volume recessed toward a direction far away from the fixing part. The two slots extend along two opposed directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Patent number: 10141824
    Abstract: A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The vibration unit further includes a slot for receiving a fixing part of the elastic member, and the slot includes a volume recessed toward a direction far away from the fixing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfu Xu, Zhilin Chai, Na Wu, Fanghua Ling
  • Publication number: 20180297069
    Abstract: A vibration motor, including: a shell having accommodating space, a driving device accommodated in the accommodating space, a vibrator, and an elastic component elastically supporting the vibrator; the elastic component includes a first fixing portion connected with the shell, a second fixing portion connected with the vibrator, and a deforming portion connecting the first fixing portion with the second fixing portion; the deforming portion includes at least two elastic arms and a bending portion connecting two adjacent elastic arms, the fixing portions move close to or away from each other under compression or stretching of the deforming portion, so that the vibrator vibrate along vibrating direction, a damping member is arranged at inner surface of the bending portion close to the two adjacent elastic arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Zixu Hua, Hongfu Xu, Jinquan Huang, Fanghua Ling