Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Miyata

Mitsuo Miyata 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: 9659580
    Abstract: A moving-magnet type pickup cartridge is disclosed, which includes a cantilever, a stylus chip attached to a front end part in a longitudinal direction of the cantilever, a damper disposed at a base end part in the longitudinal direction of the cantilever and configured to support the cantilever in a swingable manner, a magnet disposed in the longitudinal direction of the cantilever and immediately above the stylus chip at the front end part of the cantilever, and configured to vibrate with vibration of the stylus chip, and a yoke formed in a U-shape, having generating coils being wound thereon, and having magnetic poles at both leg parts thereof being disposed to face the magnet. With this configuration, there is provided a moving-magnet type pickup cartridge enables not only to ensure a large output signal but also to obtain a faithfully reproduced sound with little distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA AUDIO-TECHNICA
    Inventor: Mitsuo Miyata
  • Patent number: 9497548
    Abstract: Provided are a vibration unit which includes a pair of right and left coils that vibrate in response to vibration of a stylus attached to a cantilever and a magnetic circuit which includes a magnet and a pair of yokes and forms a magnetic path. The coils to be disposed in a gap between the pair of yokes are flat coils having perfect circular shapes, and V-shaped notches are formed on opposing surfaces, with the coils interposed therebetween, of the pair of yokes 4. An intersection angle of the V-shaped notch is set to be an angle to allow channel separation between right and left output signals to be obtained by the pair of coils to be equal to or larger than 20 db.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA AUDIO-TECHNICA
    Inventor: Mitsuo Miyata
  • Publication number: 20160314806
    Abstract: A moving-magnet type pickup cartridge is disclosed, which includes a cantilever, a stylus chip attached to a front end part in a longitudinal direction of the cantilever, a damper disposed at a base end part in the longitudinal direction of the cantilever and configured to support the cantilever in a swingable manner, a magnet disposed in the longitudinal direction of the cantilever and immediately above the stylus chip at the front end part of the cantilever, and configured to vibrate with vibration of the stylus chip, and a yoke formed in a U-shape, having generating coils being wound thereon, and having magnetic poles at both leg parts thereof being disposed to face the magnet. With this configuration, there is provided a moving-magnet type pickup cartridge enables not only to ensure a large output signal but also to obtain a faithfully reproduced sound with little distortion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Mitsuo MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20160192080
    Abstract: Provided are a vibration unit which includes a pair of right and left coils that vibrate in response to vibration of a stylus attached to a cantilever and a magnetic circuit which includes a magnet and a pair of yokes and forms a magnetic path. The coils to be disposed in a gap between the pair of yokes are flat coils having perfect circular shapes, and V-shaped notches are formed on opposing surfaces, with the coils interposed therebetween, of the pair of yokes 4. An intersection angle of the V-shaped notch is set to be an angle to allow channel separation between right and left output signals to be obtained by the pair of coils to be equal to or larger than 20 db.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Mitsuo MIYATA
  • Patent number: 8233655
    Abstract: Headphones capable of giving an optimum mounting feeling to the head of everybody by merely being mounted and without special adjustment, and also capable of being mounted for many hours without giving stress to the user. A headphone cabinet is connected to one end of a link arm, a head pad is provided at the other end of the link arm, and a lateral pressure produced by a spring member is distributed to the headphone cabinet and the head pad via the link arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventor: Mitsuo Miyata
  • Patent number: 8098873
    Abstract: In headphones in which headphone units are worn on the head via a headband having a predetermined urging force, a substantially constant urging force is always obtained without being influenced by a difference in width and shape of the user's head. In headphones 100 including a headphone unit 200 in which an electroacoustic transducer is incorporated in a housing 210; and a head wearing means (for example, a headband 110) for supporting the headphone unit 200 via a hanger member, the headphone unit 200 being held at the ear position of the head in a state of being urged by the head wearing means, the hanger member is a support frame 120 arranged around the housing 210 of the headphone unit 200, and the headphone unit 200 is supported on the support frame 120 via a plurality of constant force spiral springs 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventors: Okitsugu Furuya, Yosuke Sato, Mitsuo Miyata
  • Publication number: 20100034414
    Abstract: There is provided a headphones capable of giving an optimum mounting feeling to the head of everybody by merely being mounted and without special adjustment, and also capable of being mounted for many hours without giving stress to the user. A headphone cabinet 5 is connected to one end of a link arm 4, a head pad 6 is provided at the other end of the link arm 4, and a lateral pressure produced by a spring member 3 is distributed to the headphone cabinet 5 and the head pad 6 via the link arm 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA AUDIO-TECHNICA
    Inventor: Mitsuo Miyata
  • Patent number: 7418786
    Abstract: A marking device is disclosed which efficiently reduces damage affecting the gimbal mechanism even when such is used under sever conditions and is dropped from a high position. A marking device has a support mounted inside a housing, a light source unit holder swingably suspended by the support through a gimbal mechanism, and a light source unit mounted on the light source unit holder so as to diffuse a light flux only in a single direction to radiate a line of light. The support is coupled with said housing 1 through dampers with upper portion and lower portion formed of an impact absorber, and when outside impact is applied, the damper absorbs impact energy to prevent the impact force from being transmitting to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventor: Mitsuo Miyata
  • Publication number: 20070165900
    Abstract: In headphones in which headphone units are worn on the head via a headband having a predetermined urging force, a substantially constant urging force is always obtained without being influenced by a difference in width and shape of the user's head. In headphones 100 including a headphone unit 200 in which an electroacoustic transducer is incorporated in a housing 210; and a head wearing means (for example, a headband 110) for supporting the headphone unit 200 via a hanger member, the headphone unit 200 being held at the ear position of the head in a state of being urged by the head wearing means, the hanger member is a support frame 120 arranged around the housing 210 of the headphone unit 200, and the headphone unit 200 is supported on the support frame 120 via a plurality of constant force spiral springs 130.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA AUDIO-TECHNICA
    Inventors: Okitsugu Furuya, Yosuke Sato, Mitsuo Miyata
  • Publication number: 20070113745
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a marking device which efficiently reduces damage affecting the gimbal mechanism even when it is used under sever conditions and it is dropped from the high location. A marking device has a support 2 mounted inside a housing 1, a light source unit holder swingably suspended by the support 2 through a gimbal mechanism 3, and a light source unit 5, 6 mounted on this light source unit holder 4 so as to diffuse a light flux only in a single direction to radiate line light. The support 2 is coupled with said housing 1 through dampers 7, 8 with upper portion and lower portion formed of impact absorber, and when outside impact is applied, the damper absorbs impact energy to prevent the impact force from transmitting to the support 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventor: Mitsuo Miyata
  • Patent number: 6081604
    Abstract: A head-phone having a case member storing therein a headphone unit, wherein a coating film containing a light discolor pigment to be discolored by irradiation of sun light is provided on the whole surface or a predetermined surface of the case member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventors: Hideto Hikichi, Mitsuo Miyata, Hiroyuki Suzuki