Patents by Inventor Takehiko Tanabu

Takehiko Tanabu 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: 8516681
    Abstract: In a loud speaker, the diaphragm has a protruded part protruding on a yoke side on the inside and in the vicinity of an inner coupling part as a coupled portion to a voice coil. The loud speaker can be manufactured with the voice coil accurately positioned with respect to a diaphragm, and the voice coil is accurately vibrated vertically inside a magnetic gap. The possibility of the voice coil coming into contact with a plate and a yoke as a magnetic circuit body of the loud speaker can be reduced, thereby to improve production efficiency and a yield at the time of manufacturing the loud speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsukazu Kuze, Takehiko Tanabu, Satoshi Itoh, Masashi Kawabe, Mamiko Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20120213398
    Abstract: A speaker includes a magnetic circuit, frame, diaphragm, voice coil, and terminals. The frame has an opening and is coupled to the magnetic circuit, and includes a resin portion. The diaphragm is coupled to a rim of the opening of the frame. The voice coil includes lead wires and is coupled to the diaphragm, and a part of the voice coil is disposed at a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit. The terminals are coupled to the frame by insert-molding. An outer shape formed of the frame and the terminals is one of a rectangle or a square. The resin portion of the frame has cut-away sections at corners of its outer shape. The terminals include protruding sections protruding from the cut-away sections, and the lead wires of the voice coil are connected to the protruding sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoh, Takehiko Tanabu, Mitsukazu Kuze, Masashi Kawabe, Tatsuya Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20110135138
    Abstract: In a loud speaker, the diaphragm has a protruded part protruding on a yoke side on the inside and in the vicinity of an inner coupling part as a coupled portion to a voice coil. The loud speaker can be manufactured with the voice coil accurately positioned with respect to a diaphragm, and the voice coil is accurately vibrated vertically inside a magnetic gap. The possibility of the voice coil coming into contact with a plate and a yoke as a magnetic circuit body of the loud speaker can be reduced, thereby to improve production efficiency and a yield at the time of manufacturing the loud speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsukazu Kuze, Takehiko Tanabu, Satoshi Itoh, Masashi Kawabe, Mamiko Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20050271226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a loudspeaker, which is used in a mobile communication device such as a portable phone and includes two loudspeakers in one casing, and provides the loudspeaker having stable characteristics (e.g., a sound-pressure frequency characteristic). According to the loudspeaker of the present invention, yoke (3A) is integrated by insert-molding in molding frame (1C). Thus, inserting variations caused by connecting variations, which is generated between the frame and the yoke in assembling a conventional loudspeaker, can be restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: MASTSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO.,
    Inventors: Takehiko Tanabu, Hiroshi Yano
  • Patent number: D565548
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiko Yoshinaga, Takeshi Shimokawatoko, Koji Sano, Takehiko Tanabu
  • Patent number: D571358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiko Yoshinaga, Takeshi Shimokawatoko, Koji Sano, Takehiko Tanabu