Patents by Inventor Mitsukazu Kuze

Mitsukazu Kuze 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: 6373958
    Abstract: An electro-mechanical-audio converter and an electro-mechanical-audio converting device using the same employed in mobile terminals such as mobile phones for generating paging vibration which realizes stable vibration function. The electro-mechanical-audio converter includes a housing (1a), movable part (2), forming a magnetic circuit, mounted on an opening of the housing (1a) through a suspension (3); and a detection coil (11) disposed near the movable part (2) for generating excitation voltage by vibration of the movable part (2). Strong vibration of the movable part (2) during resonance is detected by the detection coil (11) as an excitation voltage, and fed back. Accordingly, the electro-mechanical-audio converter and electro-mechanical-audio converting device using the same having an extremely stable vibration function, even when resonance frequency changes due to environmental changes such as ambient temperature, is made feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Enomoto, Masakuni Hirata, Takanori Fukuyama, Mitsukazu Kuze
  • Publication number: 20010043712
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes: a bottom plate; a center pole provided upwardly from the bottom plate; a yoke surrounding the center pole and having a plurality of slits; a magnet for providing a magnetic flux for the center pole and the yoke; a coil provided between the center pole and the yoke; a first annular member for supporting the coil; a plurality of support members for supporting the first annular member, the plurality of support members being inserted into the plurality of slits; and a diaphragm supported by the plurality of support members, wherein upper faces of the plurality of support members gradually decrease in height in a direction away from the first annular member, and wherein a lower face of the coil is located below a position at which the diaphragm is supported by the plurality of support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Mitsukazu Kuze, Shuji Saiki, Hiroyuki Takewa, Satoshi Koura
  • Patent number: 6259935
    Abstract: An electro-mechanical-acoustic transducing device includes: an electro-mechanical-acoustic transducer which has at least one resonance frequency, for converting an input electric signal into only vibration, or into both vibration and sound; a signal supplying unit for supplying a signal in a frequency band which includes at least one of the resonance frequencies of the electro-mechanical-acoustic transducer as the input signal of the electro-mechanical-acoustic transducer; and a frequency detector for detecting a signal component having a frequency corresponding to the mechanical resonance frequency of the electro-mechanical-acoustic transducer in an electric signal which is output from the electro-mechanical-acoustic transducer, and outputting the signal component as a part of an input signal to the signal supplying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Kazue Sato, Sawako Usuki, Mitsukazu Kuze
  • Patent number: 6208237
    Abstract: The present invention purposes to realize an electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer capable of generating both strong vibration and sound. In an electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer of the present invention, mass of a mechanical vibration system of the electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer is increased by attaching a weight to a magnetic circuit unit or integrated the weight with the magnetic circuit unit, whereby large vibration is obtained from the electro-mechanical and acoustic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Sawako Usuki, Mitsukazu Kuze