Patents by Inventor Kiyokazu Sato

Kiyokazu Sato 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: 9300770
    Abstract: The electronic device including a piezoelectric element, a vibration plate having the piezoelectric element fixed thereto for generating air conduction sound by vibrating the piezoelectric element and sound to be transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body, a housing having the vibration plate fixed thereto, and an operation key provided to the housing, makes vibration of the vibration plate not likely to be transmitted to the operation key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Tomoaki Miyano, Satoshi Mizuta, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama
  • Publication number: 20160073202
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a housing and an acoustic device configured to generate vibration sound that is transmitted through vibration of a part of a human body. The acoustic device includes a panel configured to be joined to the housing; a piezoelectric element configured to be joined to the panel for vibrating the panel; and a vibration adjusting unit configured to be joined to the panel and vibrated together with the panel by the piezoelectric element. With the above configuration, a frequency characteristic is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa NABATA, Satoshi MIZUTA, Tomoaki MIYANO, Kiyokazu SATO, Akio KIHARA, Shun KAZAMA, Yasuhiro KATAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9251991
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a laser ion source. The laser ion source includes a vacuum chamber which is vacuum-exhausted and in which a target is transported and set, a valve which is opened when the target is transported into the vacuum chamber and is closed except for the transportation, a target supply chamber which holds the target to be movable, and a transportation unit which transports to the vacuum chamber the target held on the target supply chamber while opening the valve after the target supply chamber is vacuum-exhausted while closing the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akiko Kakutani, Kazuo Hayashi, Akihiro Osanai, Kiyokazu Sato, Takeshi Yoshiyuki, Tsutomu Kurusu
  • Patent number: 9204223
    Abstract: In order to be appropriately usable as an electric device for vibrating a panel attached to a housing, an electronic device including a piezoelectric element; a housing having a first principle plane having the piezoelectric element fixed thereto and a second principle plane opposite to the first principle plane; and a lid member having a joint portion for removably joining to the second principle plane; causes the housing to generate sound transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body, such that the piezoelectric element is provided on a first side in a first direction parallel to the first principle plane, and a joint position of the joint portion is provided on a second side opposite to the first side in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama
  • Publication number: 20150340150
    Abstract: An inductor includes a stacked body having a first through hole, and an insulation film covering the stacked body. The stacked body includes a first wiring, a first insulation layer stacked on the first wiring and including a second through hole exposing the first wiring, a first adhesive layer stacked on the first insulation layer and including a third through hole communicating with the second through hole, a second wiring stacked on the first adhesive layer and including a fourth through hole communicating with the third through hole, a second insulation layer stacked on the second wiring and including a fifth through hole communicating with the fourth through hole, and a first through electrode with which the second to fifth through holes are filled. The first and second wirings are connected to form a helical coil. The fifth through hole has a larger planar shape than the fourth through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Kiyokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9191748
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a housing and an acoustic device configured to generate vibration sound that is transmitted through vibration of a part of a human body. The acoustic device includes a panel configured to be joined to the housing; a piezoelectric element configured to be joined to the panel for vibrating the panel; and a vibration adjusting unit configured to be joined to the panel and vibrated together with the panel by the piezoelectric element. With the above configuration, a frequency characteristic is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama
  • Patent number: 9191749
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that is capable of reducing sound leakage from a vibration plate vibrated by a piezoelectric element. An electronic device 1 of the present invention includes: a piezoelectric element 30; and a vibration plate 10 configured to be vibrated by the piezoelectric element 30. Vibration sound is transmitted by the vibration plate vibrating a part of a human body. The piezoelectric element 30 is vibrated using a processed sound signal in which at least a part of frequency components of a sound reproduction signal that are higher than a predetermined threshold value is cut or attenuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama
  • Patent number: 9167689
    Abstract: A wiring substrate includes an insulation substrate including a first surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, and first and second through-holes penetrating the insulation substrate from the first surface to the second surface; a wiring layer formed on the first surface of the insulation substrate; a first via formed in the first through-hole and connected to the wiring layer; a bus line positioned away from the wiring layer and the first via, and formed on the first surface of the insulation substrate; and a second via formed in the second through-hole and connected to the bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Takayuki Matsumoto, Kiyokazu Sato, Osamu Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9143867
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a piezoelectric element; a vibration plate to which the piezoelectric element is joined for vibration; and a housing to which the vibration plate is joined. Vibration sound, which is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body, is generated by the vibration plate. The vibration plate includes, in a plan view thereof, a first area including a joining portion with the piezoelectric element and a second area located further away from the joining portion than the first area is, and rigidity in a first area is lower than rigidity in the second area. With the above configuration, sound leakage or the like is reduced, and usability of the electronic device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama
  • Patent number: 9131299
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device 1, including: a piezoelectric element 30; a panel 10 configured to support the piezoelectric element 30; and a housing 60 configured to hold the panel 10 and conduct a vibration through the panel 10, the panel 10 generating air-conduction sound and vibration sound that is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body. The housing 60 includes a first housing portion 62 and a second housing portion 61 located inward of the first housing portion 62, and rigidity-reinforcing portions (63, 150; 64, 160; 65, 66, 170) are disposed between the first housing portion 62 and the second housing portion 61 for improving rigidity of the housing 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Masanori Umehara, Motonori Imamura
  • Patent number: 9111713
    Abstract: Provide an ion source for outputting ion beam with high purity of polyvalent positive ion. The ion source 10 includes: a target 12 from which electron and positive ion are generated by plasma formed by laser 13 irradiation; a first power supply source (first voltage E1) that sets an electric potential of the target 12 higher than that of a destination of the positive ion (corresponding to an acceleration channel 18 in FIG. 1); and a second power supply source (second voltage E1) that sets an electric potential of on a pass (corresponding to a filter electrode 15 in FIG. 1) from the target 12 to the destination 18 higher than that of the target 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akiko Kakutani, Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Kiyokazu Sato, Akihiro Osanai, Takeshi Yoshiyuki, Tsutomu Kurusu, Kazuo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9087678
    Abstract: A laser-ablation plasma generator generates laser-ablation plasma from a target in a vacuum vessel. An ion beam extractor generates an ion beam by extracting ions included in the laser-ablation plasma from the vacuum vessel. An ion detector detects unintended ions other than intended ions, which are obtained by ionizing the elements in the target, out of ions in the vacuum vessel and outputs a detection signal representing a value which is a number of the unintended ions or a mixing ratio of the unintended ions to the intended ions as a detection result. The ion source using the laser beam makes it possible to normally monitor unintended ions other than intended ions out of ions in the vacuum vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akiko Kakutani, Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Kiyokazu Sato, Takeshi Yoshiyuki, Tsutomu Kurusu
  • Publication number: 20150156295
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that may reduce sound leakage from a housing and the like vibrated by a vibrator and echo caused by the sound leakage is provided. An electronic apparatus includes a panel, a panel retainer for supporting the panel, and an element for vibrating the panel and thereby generating a vibration sound to be delivered via a human body, wherein a region of the panel near a disposing position of the element is thinner in a normal direction of the panel than a remaining region of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Kazama, Akio Kihara, Kiyokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20150110318
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a housing; a vibration body disposed in the housing; and a microphone disposed in the housing. By vibrating the vibration body, the electronic device transmits air conduction sound and vibration sound that is generated by the vibration. During the generation of the sounds, howling reduction processing is performed, so that usability of the electronic device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Miyano, Tomohiro Inagaki, Kenichi Ozasa, Satoshi Mizuta, Kiyokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20150043750
    Abstract: An echo caused by sound leakage from a housing that vibrates due to a vibrating body is reduced. An electronic device (1) according to the present invention includes a piezoelectric element (30), a vibrating plate (10) that vibrates due to the piezoelectric element (30), microphones (42, 43), and an equalizer (44), the electronic device (1) causing the vibrating plate (10) to generate air-conducted sound and vibration sound that is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body. The equalizer (44) makes a low-range emphasis setting, to emphasize a low frequency range more than a high frequency range of the air-conducted sound, when the volume of the air-conducted sound collected by the microphones (42, 43) exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama
  • Publication number: 20150035639
    Abstract: A coil substrate includes a plurality of structural bodies, each of which comprises a first insulating layer, a wiring formed on the first insulating layer and configured to serve as a part of a spiral coil, and a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer and configured to cover the wiring. The plurality of structural bodies are stacked via an adhesion layer. The spiral coil is formed by series-connecting the wirings of adjacent ones of the plurality of structural bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Kiyokazu SATO
  • Publication number: 20150036843
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device 1, including: a piezoelectric element 30; a panel 10 configured to support the piezoelectric element 30; and a housing 60 configured to hold the panel 10 and conduct a vibration through the panel 10, the panel 10 generating air-conduction sound and vibration sound that is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body. The housing 60 includes a first housing portion 62 and a second housing portion 61 located inward of the first housing portion 62, and rigidity-reinforcing portions (63, 150; 64, 160; 65, 66, 170) are disposed between the first housing portion 62 and the second housing portion 61 for improving rigidity of the housing 60.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Masanori Umehara, Motonori Imamura
  • Publication number: 20150030189
    Abstract: The content of sound leakage from a vibrating plate that vibrates due to a piezoelectric element is made difficult to recognize. An electronic device (1) according to the present invention includes a piezoelectric element (30) and a vibrating plate (10) that vibrates due to the piezoelectric element (30), the electronic device (1) causing the vibrating plate (10) to generate air-conducted sound and vibration sound that is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body. The electronic device (1) also includes an air-conducted sound reducing unit that makes a portion or all of the air-conducted sound difficult to hear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama
  • Publication number: 20150030188
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a piezoelectric element; a vibration plate to which the piezoelectric element is joined for vibration; and a housing to which the vibration plate is joined. Vibration sound, which is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body, is generated by the vibration plate. The vibration plate includes, in a plan view thereof, a first area including a joining portion with the piezoelectric element and a second area located further away from the joining portion than the first area is, and rigidity in a first area is lower than rigidity in the second area. With the above configuration, sound leakage or the like is reduced, and usability of the electronic device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama
  • Publication number: 20150018046
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that can be appropriately used as a type of electronic device that vibrates a panel attached to a housing. The electronic device includes a piezoelectric element, a panel, to which the piezoelectric element is attached, that vibrates due to the piezoelectric element to generate a vibration sound transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body, a housing supporting the panel with a first face, a microphone contained within the housing and disposed on a second face, and a buffer that damps vibration transmitted from the panel to the microphone through the first face and/or the second face, thereby reducing noise picked up by the microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabata, Satoshi Mizuta, Tomoaki Miyano, Kiyokazu Sato, Akio Kihara, Shun Kazama, Yasuhiro Katayama