Patents by Inventor Shuji Saiki

Shuji Saiki 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: 20100150389
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a speaker for use in audio/video apparatuses and a small-sized speaker device capable of realizing preferable reproduction a bass sounds. In order to attain this, in the present invention, a pressure adjusting body is coupled to a portion of a magnetic circuit or a frame, which is a component of a speaker unit, to constitute the speaker unit. The speaker unit is mounted to a small-sized cabinet to constitute a speaker device, which enables realization of preferable reproduction of bass sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Sumiyama, Satoshi Koura, Yoshimichi Kajihara, Koji Sano, Kazuki Honda, Satoshi Itoh, Shuji Saiki, Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shinya Mizone
  • Publication number: 20100135516
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system according to the present invention includes a cabinet, a loudspeaker unit attached to an opening formed in the cabinet, a gas adsorber provided in the cabinet and operable to physically adsorb gas in the cabinet to equivalently increase a volume of an inside of the cabinet, and a dehumidifier attached to an opening formed in the cabinet and operable to discharge damp air in the cabinet to the outside when a DC voltage is applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Toshiyuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 7724915
    Abstract: A speaker device that comprises a cabinet and a speaker unit. The speaker unit is attached to an opening portion formed in a front surface of the cabinet. The speaker unit has a back surface frame, a front surface frame, a first magnetic circuit, a second magnetic circuit, an edge, a damper, a diaphragm, a voice coil bobbin, and a voice coil. A non-magnet member which is a portion of the diaphragm, the first magnetic circuit, and the second magnetic circuit play a role as a negative stiffness mechanism to suppress an influence of an acoustic stiffness, thereby achieving a small-size speaker device capable of reproducing low-frequency sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20100074463
    Abstract: A material for improving the sound pressure level at the bass reproduction limit of the present invention is composed of an activated carbon having a cumulative pore volume of 0.4 ml/g or more for the pores each having a radius of 50 angstroms or less. Preferably, this activated carbon has a cumulative pore volume of 0.1 ml/g or less for the pores each having a radius of 7 angstroms or less. In particular, when a sound pressure level improving material in which the activated carbon has a cumulative pore volume of 0.5 ml/g or more for the pores each having a radius of 18 angstroms or less is installed in a cabinet of a loudspeaker device, the material alleviates pressure fluctuations of a gas within the cabinet caused by vibration of a loudspeaker, and thus a very good bass reproduction effect is attained. Moreover, in the case where a sound pressure level improving material in which the activated carbon has a cumulative pore volume of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicants: Kuraray Chemical Co., Ltd., Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Fukunishi, Takanori Kitamura, Kengo Tabata, Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki, Yoshimichi Kajihara, Satoshi Koura
  • Publication number: 20090316920
    Abstract: A speaker device includes a cabinet, a speaker unit, a port, a cartridge, and an adsorbent material. The adsorbent material is disposed in the interior of the cartridge. The cartridge is a container removable from the cabinet. When the adsorbent material is deteriorated, the cartridge is replaced or the adsorbent material is reactivated, thereby making it possible to maintain, over a long period of time, the effect of physical adsorption provided by the adsorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MATSUMURA, Shuji Saiki, Sawako Kano, Mitsukazu Kuze
  • Publication number: 20090245562
    Abstract: The speaker system according to the present invention is a speaker system in which a sound is emitted into a closed space from the back surface of a speaker unit, and has characteristic that gas in the closed space is physically adsorbed by a gas adsorber obtained by adding a binder to a porous material including a plurality of grains so as to perform molding. The speaker system according to the present invention is capable of reproducing, even when a small cabinet is used, low frequency sound while suppressing reduction in sound pressure level as compared to a conventional art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Toshiyuki Matsumura, Akiko Fujise
  • Patent number: 7536211
    Abstract: A speaker system includes a display panel for displaying an image; a transparent panel provided such that the image displayed in the display panel is viewed through the transparent panel; an electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer having a diaphragm for outputting a sound by vibrating the diaphragm in accordance with an electric signal; and an acoustic signal transfer member for transferring the sound output from the electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer to a space provided between the display panel and the transparent panel. The transparent panel is allowed to be vibrated by the sound transferred to the space from the electric-mechanical-acoustic transducer via the acoustic signal transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Sawako Usuki, Shuhei Konishi
  • Publication number: 20090120715
    Abstract: A speaker system includes a speaker unit, a cabinet, a plurality of protruding materials, and a gas adsorbing material. The cabinet forms a chamber at a backside of the speaker unit. The plurality of protruding materials are formed inside the chamber and connected to the cabinet. The gas adsorbing material is supported, in a space, by the plurality of protruding materials. Accordingly, it is possible to easily increase a contact area between the gas adsorbing material and the space the resurrounding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: Shuji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20090028370
    Abstract: A speaker system according to the present invention includes: a cabinet; at least one speaker unit fixed to the cabinet; and a gas adsorbent which is situated inside the cabinet and which is made from a porous material. The speaker unit is configured with moisture-proof component parts. In the speaker system, a tubular structure which has a tubular hollow for allowing ventilation between an inside and an outside of the cabinet is provided. A resonant frequency which is determined by an acoustic impedance of the tubular structure and an acoustic impedance of the cabinet is lower than a minimum resonant frequency of an acoustic impedance of the speaker system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki
  • Patent number: 7477755
    Abstract: A speaker system according to the present invention comprises a cabinet (10), a speaker unit (11), a first parting board (12), a drone cone (13), an adsorption member (14), a second parting board (15), a backboard (16), a variable mechanism (17), and a port (18). A sound pressure generated by the speaker unit (11) causes a pressure variation in a second chamber (R12) via the drone cone (13). The adsorption member (14) with an effect of physical adsorption is operable to suppress the pressure variation. Furthermore, by displacing the diaphragm (171), the variable mechanism (17) is operable to reduce a pressure variation of a direct current component, which is caused by variations in ambient temperature or atmospheric pressure of the speaker system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Mitsukazu Kuze, Toshiyuki Matsumura, Sawako Kano
  • Patent number: 7463747
    Abstract: A loudspeaker unit (2) of a loudspeaker system (1) is fitted to a cabinet (4). An absorbent (3) is disposed in a hollow chamber (R) inside the cabinet (4) and absorbs a gas inside the hollow chamber (R). A phase inverting mechanism (8) inverts the phase by resonating with a sound of a specific frequency radiated from the loudspeaker unit (2) into the hollow chamber (R) and radiates this sound to outside. The watertight means of the phase inverting mechanism (8) prevents invasion of moisture into inside the hollow chamber (R) from outside the cabinet (4) through the phase inverting mechanism (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsukazu Kuze, Shuji Saiki, Sawako Kano, Toshiyuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 7454025
    Abstract: In a loudspeaker device of the present invention, an interior space of a cabinet is parted into first and second chambers, a diaphragm on which ring-shaped magnetic boards are fixed is attached to a parting board via an edge portion, and ring-shaped fixed magnets are provided so as to face the magnetic boards, respectively. Vibration of the diaphragm vibrated by sound pressure from a speaker unit is intensified by forces of attraction of the magnets in order to reduce an acoustic stiffness of the cabinet and equivalently increase a cabinet volume, thereby realizing satisfactory bass reproduction with a small cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20080170737
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system according to the present invention comprises a cabinet, a speaker unit mounted in the cabinet, and a powdery gas absorption material which is disposed in an internal space of the cabinet and physically absorbs gas being present in the internal space of the cabinet. An average particle diameter of the gas absorption material is less than 0.1 mm. Thus, according to the present invention, the loudspeaker system which expands a low frequency band, prevents a reduction in an acoustic pressure level, exhibits a volume expansion effect also in a high frequency band of 100 to 200 Hz or more, is compact, and enables enriched bass reproduction can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Toshiyuki Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20080135327
    Abstract: A sound absorbing structure according to the present invention comprises: a housing having a front face, and a side face which is provided perpendicularly around at least a part of an edge portion of the front face; a gas adsorption material for physically adsorbing gas in an interior space delimited by the front face and the side face of the housing, which gas adsorption material is placed in the interior space; sealing means for sealing the gas adsorption material from outside thereof; and an acoustic connection section for functioning as an acoustic mass so as to acoustically connect an exterior space and the interior space of the housing, which acoustic connection section is provided in at least one of the front face and the side face. The sound absorbing structure according to the present invention realizes both sound absorption in a low-pitched range and a reduction in the size of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki
  • Patent number: 7382890
    Abstract: A sound reproduction device includes an LCD 20, which is an exemplary front panel, a case 22, and an electromechanical acoustic transducer 23. The LCD 20 is operable to perform a predetermined operation in response to an electrical signal applied thereto. A space 24 for sound emission is formed between the case 22 and the LCD 20. The electromechanical acoustic transducer 23 is connected to the case 22, and emits sound to the space 24. If the electromechanical acoustic transducer 23 emits the sound to the space 24, energy of the emitted sound causes the LCD 20 to vibrate and thereby to externally output the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Sawako Usuki
  • Publication number: 20070286449
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system comprises a cabinet (11), a speaker unit (12), a package body (13), a filler gas (15), and an absorbent (14). The speaker unit (12) is mounted in the cabinet (11). At least one package body (13) is disposed in a vacant space (Ra) inside of the cabinet (11) and is structured by a bag body for sealing materials thereinto from outside thereof. A predetermined amount of the filler gas (15) is sealed into the package body (13). A predetermined amount of the absorbent (14) is sealed into the package body (13) and physically absorbs the filler gas (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki, Sawako Kano, Mitsukazu Kuze
  • Publication number: 20070274556
    Abstract: A speaker device of the present invention roughly comprises a cabinet (1) and a speaker unit (2a). The speaker unit (2a) is attached to an opening portion formed in a front surface of the cabinet (1). The speaker unit (2a) has a back surface frame (3a), a front surface frame (4a), a first magnetic circuit (5a), a second magnetic circuit (6a), an edge (7a), a damper (8a), a diaphragm (9a), a voice coil bobbin (10a), and a voice coil (11a). A non-magnet member (91a) which is a portion of the diaphragm (9a), the first magnetic circuit (5a), and the second magnetic circuit (6a) play a role as a negative stiffness mechanism to suppress an influence of an acoustic stiffness, thereby achieving a small-size speaker device capable of reproducing low-frequency sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Matsumura, Shuji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20070206830
    Abstract: In an electroacoustic transducer of the present invention, a casing supports a diaphragm, a drive coil is provided on the diaphragm, a first magnetic structure has a first space in a center thereof provided within the casing such that a center axis penetrates the first space, and a second magnetic structure has a second space in a center thereof provided within the casing on a side opposed to the first magnetic structure with respect to the diaphragm, such that the center axis penetrates the second space. The first magnetic structure is oriented such that a magnetization direction thereof is parallel to the center axis. The second magnetic structure is oriented such that a magnetization direction thereof is opposite to the magnetization direction of the first magnetic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Sawako Usuki, Shuji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20070201712
    Abstract: A speaker system of the present invention comprises a cabinet, at least one speaker unit attached to the cabinet, and a plurality of passive radiators attached to the cabinet and each including a diaphragm and a supporting system supporting the diaphragm. The speaker system of the present invention is configured so that distortion components of sound pressures radiated from the supporting systems of the plurality of passive radiators are canceled with each other, and sounds radiated by the plurality of passive radiators are radiated in substantially the same direction from the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventor: Shuji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20070195982
    Abstract: A speaker unit (11) is attached to an opening section formed on an front surface of a cabinet (10). In an inside of the cabinet (10), fibrous activated carbon (12) (activated carbon fiber) is located. A pressure change in the inside of the cabinet, which changes according to a sound pressure of the speaker unit (11), is suppressed by physical adsorption by the activated carbon (12). Further, since the activated carbon fiber has micro pores, which physically adsorbs a gaseous body, situated on a surface of the fiber, a loss in acoustic energy at the time of physical adsorption is small, and thus it is possible to prevent deterioration in a sound pressure level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Shuji Saiki, Toshiyuki Matsumura