Patents by Inventor Kei Tanabe

Kei Tanabe 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).

  • Publication number: 20180220227
    Abstract: An acoustic apparatus may include a frame having an annular open portion that opens in an axial direction; a diaphragm supported by being attached to the annular open portion via a flexible edge member so as to be capable of vibrating in the axial direction; and a driving unit connected to the diaphragm at a center portion of the diaphragm, where the driving unit is configured to apply a driving force in the axial direction to the diaphragm. The diaphragm has a rotationally symmetric shape around an axis of the diaphragm when viewed in the axial direction. The diaphragm includes a sheet member having an orientation dispersion structure in which shape-anisotropic fillers are dispersed in a resin with long axes of the fillers oriented in one predetermined direction, and the diaphragm has mechanical characteristics having two-fold rotation symmetry around the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Kei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180194298
    Abstract: A vehicle speaker system includes a speaker having a diaphragm that generates a sound pressure, a frame that supports the diaphragm vibratably, and a driving unit attached to the frame to drive the diaphragm. A position of the speaker relative to a partition separating a vehicle-cabin inner space and an engine compartment inner space is determined so that the sound pressure generated by an action of the diaphragm passes through an opening in the partition. A shield member is provided with at least a part thereof being located between the speaker and an obstacle generation source located in the engine compartment inner space to obstruct an operation of the speaker. An open part allowing a first space provided between the speaker and the shield member to communicate with the engine compartment inner space is provided in such a direction as not to be directed toward the obstacle generation source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Kei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180176677
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted acoustic apparatus includes a frame including an annular portion and a supporting portion and attachable to an opening of a partition plate between an in-cabin space and an outside-cabin space, a diaphragm vibratorily supported by the annular portion, a magnetic circuit supported by the supporting portion and having a magnetic gap, a cylindrical bobbin provided on the diaphragm with one end thereof projecting from one side of the diaphragm, a voice coil wound around the bobbin and positioned in the magnetic gap, and a rear cover member defining an air chamber provided between the rear cover member and the diaphragm. The rear cover member is vibratorily supported and allows back pressure to be conducted to the outside-cabin space. An air path between the air chamber and the in-cabin space follows a route passing through a space on an inner side of the bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Kei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9983273
    Abstract: A magnetic field detecting sensor includes a bridge circuit which is connected to multiple magnetoresistive effect elements and is capable of outputting a differential voltage between specified connection points, a magnetic field generating conductor for providing the magnetoresistive effect elements with a magnetic field in a direction opposite to that of the detection magnetic field by disposing a magnetic body near the center of the bridge circuit, a differential operation circuit which the differential voltage is input in and makes a feedback current flow to the magnetic field generating conductor, wherein the feedback current generates the magnetic field in a direction opposite to that of the detection magnetic field in the magnetic field generating conductor, and a voltage converting circuit for outputting the feedback current as a voltage value. The magnetic field generating conductor and the magnetoresistive effect elements are formed in the same stacked body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Tamon Kasajima, Kei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9942636
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted speaker system achieves improvement in the weather resistance against a vehicle exterior environment and enables degradation in sound quality to be prevented. In the vehicle-mounted speaker system, a supporting member separating a vehicle interior space from a vehicle exterior space is provided with an opening. The supporting member supports a speaker, and a rear cover covering the back of the speaker closes the opening. The rear cover includes an annular flexible member supported by the supporting member, and a non-flexible vibrating plate supported by an inner portion of the annular flexible member. An enclosed space is defined between the rear cover having such a configuration and a diaphragm of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kei Tanabe, Ryo Ito, Akio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180084345
    Abstract: A speaker in the present disclosure includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap, a frame fixed to the magnetic circuit, a voice coil disposed in the magnetic gap, a cylindrical bobbin around which the voice coil is formed, and a diaphragm configured so that the inner circumferential side of the diaphragm is fixed to the bobbin and the outer edge of the diaphragm is supported by the frame with an edge member intervening therebetween. The diaphragm has an elliptical shape that is non-axisymmetric with respect to a center axis passing through the center of the bobbin. The diaphragm is formed by vacuum molding of a sheet-like raw material (thermoplastic CFRP sheet) in which long-fiber fillers are oriented in one direction in a thermoplastic resin. The orientation of the long-fiber fillers is set so as to match the short-axis direction of the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kei TANABE, Masami ANZAI, Yu YAMAGAMI, Takahiro AOKI, Yusuke YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180063610
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted speaker system achieves improvement in the weather resistance against a vehicle exterior environment and enables degradation in sound quality to be prevented. In the vehicle-mounted speaker system, a supporting member separating a vehicle interior space from a vehicle exterior space is provided with an opening. The supporting member supports a speaker, and a rear cover covering the back of the speaker closes the opening. The rear cover includes an annular flexible member supported by the supporting member, and a non-flexible vibrating plate supported by an inner portion of the annular flexible member. An enclosed space is defined between the rear cover having such a configuration and a diaphragm of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kei Tanabe, Ryo Ito, Akio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9591388
    Abstract: An in-car audio system includes a speaker unit. A frame of the speaker unit is fixed to a support plate serving as part of the structural member of a vehicle via a partition wall member. The support plate has an opening formed therein. A duct is connected to the opening, and the opening communicates with the outside of the vehicle. A space surrounded by the speaker unit, the support plate, and a partition wall member serves as a first acoustic resonance space, and a communication channel located inside the duct serves as a second acoustic resonance space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Kei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9479873
    Abstract: A support chassis mounted on a sounding side of a speaker apparatus is formed of an iron material. The support chassis is formed in a shape in which a central supporting part nears a main-body chassis. A magnetic field generating unit is fixed to the central supporting part on a side of a recess of the support chassis. The support chassis includes a frame part, the central supporting part, and spoke parts. In the spoke part, a width dimension D1 of an inner end part is formed narrower than a width dimension D2 of an outer end part. Therefore, a resistance in a case where a magnetic flux passes through the spoke part increases, and the leaked magnetic field is hardly induced from the magnetic field generating unit to the spoke part. Therefore, a reduction in a speaker output can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Yamagami, Arata Tada, Kei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9454793
    Abstract: A display control device and technique for controlling displays on a display unit, in which a plurality of display segments are two-dimensionally arranged (e.g. a dot matrix type display unit), is provided. The technique is effectively applicable to a write data latch circuit of a memory for storing display data in the display control device, such as, for example, a liquid crystal display control device, a mobile electronic apparatus, etc. A display drive control technique for controlling a moving picture display mode of a display device is also provided. The display drive control circuit controls a picture display mode of a display device for displaying still pictures and moving pictures to a liquid crystal display device, such as, for example, a dot matrix type display devices, an organic EL display device, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Display Devices GK
    Inventors: Kunihiko Tani, Yoshikazu Yokota, Goro Sakamaki, Takashi Ohyama, Shigeru Ohta, Kei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20160266219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic sensor which can detect a weak magenetic field and improve the detection precision with an easy and convenient configuration. A magnetic sensor is provided with a magnetic body changing the direction of a magnetic field input to a magnetoresistance effect element in the vicinity of the magnetoresistance effect element in which the resistance value changes according to the direction of the input magnetic field, the magnetic body has at leas one projection portion in the direction almost parallel to direction in which the magnetic induction occurs in the magnetoresistance effect element. The direction in which the projection portion of the magnetic body projects is substantially parallel to the direction in which the magnetization of the magnetoresistance effect element is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei TANABE
  • Publication number: 20160266218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic sensor which can improve the detection precision of a weak magnetic field and can be downsized. A magnetic sensor is provided with a magnetic body changing the direction of a magnetic field input to a magnetoresistance effect element in the vicinity of the magnetoresistance effect element in which the resistance value changes according to the direction of the input magnetic field, the magnetic body has a mean for changing the direction of a magnetic field on the surface at a side where the magnetoresistance effect element is formed. The chamfer part of the magnetic body may be chamfered with a shape having at least one flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei TANABE
  • Publication number: 20160266216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic sensor which can improve the detection precision of a weak magnetic field. A magnetic sensor wherein a magnetic body which changes the direction of a magnetic field input to a magnetoresistance effect element is provided in the vicinity of the magnetoresistance effect element in which the resistance value changes according to the direction of the input magnetic field, and the magnetic body has a recess with a concave shape on the surface at a side where the magnetoresistance effect element is formed. The center of the recess may be substantially identical to that of the magnetic body. The concave shape may at least include polygon having three or more sides, or may at least include arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei TANABE
  • Publication number: 20160029127
    Abstract: A support chassis mounted on a sounding side of a speaker apparatus is formed of an iron material. The support chassis is formed in a shape in which a central supporting part nears a main-body chassis. A magnetic field generating unit is fixed to the central supporting part on a side of a recess of the support chassis. The support chassis includes a frame part, the central supporting part, and spoke parts. In the spoke part, a width dimension D1 of an inner end part is formed narrower than a width dimension D2 of an outer end part. Therefore, a resistance in a case where a magnetic flux passes through the spoke part increases, and the leaked magnetic field is hardly induced from the magnetic field generating unit to the spoke part. Therefore, a reduction in a speaker output can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Masaru Yamagami, Arata Tada, Kei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20150331072
    Abstract: A magnetic field detecting sensor includes a bridge circuit which is connected to multiple magnetoresistive effect elements and is capable of outputting a differential voltage between specified connection points, a magnetic field generating conductor for providing the magnetoresistive effect elements with a magnetic field in a direction opposite to that of the detection magnetic field by disposing a magnetic body near the center of the bridge circuit, a differential operation circuit which the differential voltage is input in and makes a feedback current flow to the magnetic field generating conductor, wherein the feedback current generates the magnetic field in a direction opposite to that of the detection magnetic field in the magnetic field generating conductor, and a voltage converting circuit for outputting the feedback current as a voltage value. The magnetic field generating conductor and the magnetoresistive effect elements are formed in the same stacked body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiro OGAWA, Tamon KASAJIMA, Kei TANABE
  • Publication number: 20150115938
    Abstract: A magnetic field detection device includes: a first magnetic field generating part, including a first magnetic field generating conductor; a first magnetic field detection part, including a first magnetic field detection element and a first differential operation part, wherein a first output of the first magnetic field detection element corresponding to the environment magnetic field is inputted into the first differential operation part, and a first feedback current flows into the first magnetic field generating conductor, and thus the first magnetic field generating part provides the first magnetic field detection element with a first feedback current magnetic field, with a direction opposite to the environment magnetic field; a second magnetic field generating part, including a second magnetic field generating conductor, in which a second current corresponding to the first feedback current flows; and a second magnetic field detection part, including a second magnetic field detection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Tamon KASAJIMA, Kei TANABE, Akihiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150098586
    Abstract: An in-car audio system includes a speaker unit. A frame of the speaker unit is fixed to a support plate serving as part of the structural member of a vehicle via a partition wall member. The support plate has an opening formed therein. A duct is connected to the opening, and the opening communicates with the outside of the vehicle. A space surrounded by the speaker unit, the support plate, and a partition wall member serves as a first acoustic resonance space, and a communication channel located inside the duct serves as a second acoustic resonance space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventor: Kei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8907962
    Abstract: No flicker is displayed on the display screen during display of moving pictures and power consumption can be reduced by adding a high quality moving picture display function. Moreover, the number of times of transfer of moving pictures by comprising a still-picture • text • system • I/O bus • interface and a moving picture interface (external display interface), providing a display operation change register (DM) and a RAM access change register (RM) which are changed selectively depending on display content (display mode) displayed on a display device and displaying the display data on the display device via a picture memory even in the moving picture display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas SP Drivers Inc.
    Inventors: Goro Sakamaki, Takashi Ohyama, Shigeru Ohta, Kei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20140043348
    Abstract: A display control device and technique for controlling displays on a display unit, in which a plurality of display segments are two-dimensionally arranged (e.g. a dot matrix type display unit), is provided. The technique is effectively applicable to a write data latch circuit of a memory for storing display data in the display control device, such as, for example, a liquid crystal display control device, a mobile electronic apparatus, etc. A display drive control technique for controlling a moving picture display mode of a display device is also provided. The display drive control circuit controls a picture display mode of a display device for displaying still pictures and moving pictures to a liquid crystal display device, such as, for example, a dot matrix type display devices, an organic EL display device, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicants: Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd., Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Tani, Yoshikazu Yokota, Goro Sakamaki, Takashi Ohyama, Shigeru Ohta, Kei Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20140009480
    Abstract: No flicker is displayed on the display screen during display of moving pictures and power consumption can be reduced by adding a high quality moving picture display function. Moreover, the number of times of transfer of moving pictures by comprising a still-picture • text • system • I/O bus • interface and a moving picture interface (external display interface), providing a display operation change register (DM) and a RAM access change register (RM) which are changed selectively depending on display content (display mode) displayed on a display device and displaying the display data on the display device via a picture memory even in the moving picture display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Sakamaki, Takashi Ohyama, Shigeru Ohta, Kei Tanabe