Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Inagaki

Tomohiro Inagaki 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: 9699569
    Abstract: A measurement system includes an ear model including an artificial auricle (51) and an artificial external ear canal (53); and an air-conducted sound gauge (200) that measures air-conducted sound in the artificial external ear canal (53), and while an acoustic device (1) that includes a vibrating body and transmits sound to a user by contacting the vibrating body to a human auricle is placed in contact with the ear model (50) of the measurement system, the measurement system executes control for measurement, with the air-conducted sound gauge, of harmonics in an air-conducted component generated by a pure tone emitted by the acoustic device (1) and control to display the result of the measurement on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9686622
    Abstract: This acoustic reproduction device can suppress a loss in sense of volume and sense of comfort. The acoustic reproduction device causes a user to hear sound and is provided with a vibration unit (10), which includes a piezoelectric element (101) that flexes and a panel (102) that vibrates by being bent directly by the piezoelectric element (101), and with a holder (60), which holds the vibration unit (10) at a position where the vibration unit (10) contacts the user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9618385
    Abstract: Provided is a measuring apparatus capable of measuring a vibration amount weighted with characteristics of vibration transmission to a human ear and capable of evaluating correctly an electronic device having a vibrator. A measuring apparatus 10 configured to evaluate an electronic device 100 that transmits vibration sound to a human ear by pressing a vibrator 102 held in a housing 101 thereto, including an ear simulator 50 that mimics a human ear, and a vibration detection unit 55 disposed on a periphery 52 of an artificial ear canal 53 formed in the ear simulator 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Inagaki, Yoichi Hirata
  • Patent number: 9596535
    Abstract: A vibration pickup device for measuring an electronic device that transmits sound to a user via vibration transmission by pressing a vibrating body held in a housing against a human ear includes a plate-shaped vibration transmission member and a vibration pickup joined to a portion of the vibration transmission member. The vibration transmission member is mountable on a peripheral portion of an artificial external ear canal, formed in an ear model unit modeled after a human ear, and includes a hole in communication with the artificial external ear canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9591401
    Abstract: A vibration pickup device for measuring an electronic device that transmits sound to a user via vibration transmission by pressing a vibrating body held in a housing against a human ear includes a plate-shaped vibration transmission member and a vibration pickup joined to a portion of the vibration transmission member. The vibration transmission member is mountable on a peripheral portion of an artificial external ear canal, formed in an ear model unit modeled after a human ear, and includes a hole in communication with the artificial external ear canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9591389
    Abstract: According to the present invention, air conduction sound and human body vibration sound (e.g. bone conduction sound) are transmitted to a user without a need for pressing a vibration body itself to an ear. An electronic device 1 of the present invention includes: a panel 10; a housing 60 configured to support the panel 10; and a piezoelectric element 30 attached to the panel 10. The panel 10 is deformed due to deformation of the piezoelectric element 30, and air conduction sound and human body vibration sound are transmitted to an object that is in contact with the deformed panel 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Horii, Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9571932
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Miyano, Tomohiro Inagaki, Kenichi Ozasa, Satoshi Mizuta, Kiyokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20160353220
    Abstract: Provided is a measuring apparatus capable of measuring a vibration amount weighted with characteristics of vibration transmission to a human ear and capable of evaluating correctly an electronic device having a vibrator. A measuring apparatus 10 configured to evaluate an electronic device 100 that transmits vibration sound to a human ear by pressing a vibrator 102 held in a housing 101 thereto, including an ear simulator 50 that mimics a human ear, and a vibration detection unit 55 disposed on a periphery 52 of an artificial ear canal 53 formed in the ear simulator 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro INAGAKI, Yoichi HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20160320233
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement system for evaluating an electronic apparatus that, when a vibrator of the electronic apparatus is pressed against the human ear, delivers a sound generated by vibration of the vibrator. The measurement system includes: an ear-shaped unit composed of an ear model simulating the human ear and an artificial ear canal portion constituting an artificial ear canal extending from the ear model; an artificial mandible portion disposed next to the artificial ear canal portion in the ear-shaped unit in a planar view; and a vibration detection unit that is disposed on a plane of the artificial mandible opposite to the ear model and detects and outputs vibration delivered to the artificial mandible portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 9485593
    Abstract: This acoustic device can suppress a loss in sense of volume and sense of comfort. The acoustic device includes a vibration unit (10) including a piezoelectric element (101) that flexes and a panel (102) that vibrates by being bent directly by the piezoelectric element (101). The panel (102) includes a concavity (104), and the concavity (104) is contacted to a user's ear, causing the user to hear sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9467773
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic device 1 that allows a user to listen to vibration sound that is transmitted when a vibrator 10 held in a housing 60 is pressed against the user's body and a part of the use's body is vibrated. The electronic device 1 has a microphone 7 and vibrates the vibrator 10 based on ambient sound collected by the microphone 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporatiion
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9462374
    Abstract: A vibration pickup device for measuring an electronic device that transmits sound to a user via vibration transmission by pressing a vibrating body held in a housing against a human ear includes a plate-shaped vibration transmission member and a vibration pickup joined to a portion of the vibration transmission member. The vibration transmission member is mountable on a peripheral portion of an artificial external ear canal, formed in an ear model unit modeled after a human ear, and includes a hole in communication with the artificial external ear canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: kYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9438990
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that generates, by vibrating a vibration body, vibration sound by the vibration. The electronic device executes a side tone function by using sound collected by a microphone 7 during the vibration of the vibration body. When an open/close detector 100 detects a closed state, the electronic device also stops the side tone, improving usability of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Miyano, Tomohiro Inagaki, Shun Kazama, Akio Kihara
  • Patent number: 9420012
    Abstract: Image data corresponding to an image captured by a communication terminal device is transmitted from a communication unit of the communication terminal device which is connected to a network to a counter party device which is a counter party of the teleconference. An image display setting indicating whether the captured image is displayed in the counter party device is acquired, according to transmission of the image data. When it is determined that the captured image is in a first state, and the image display setting indicating that the captured image is displayed is acquired, notification information is output from a notification unit of the communication terminal device. When it is determined that the captured image is in a second state, and the image display setting indicating that the captured image is not displayed is acquired, notification information is not output from the notification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20160191577
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of a first terminal configured to be connectable to a network, causes the first terminal to execute a first reception operation of receiving specific data relating to each of other terminals, a storage operation of storing identification information and position information in association with each other, a display command operation of transmitting, to a second terminal, a command to display document data on a second display of the second terminal, a second reception operation of receiving state information, the state information indicating a display state on the second display, an identification operation of identifying position information associated with identification information of the second terminal, based on the identification information and the position information stored in the storage, and a display operation of displaying a corresponding image in an identified position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20160165359
    Abstract: A measurement system includes an ear model including an artificial auricle (51) and an artificial external ear canal (53); and an air-conducted sound gauge (200) that measures air-conducted sound in the artificial external ear canal (53), and while an acoustic device (1) that includes a vibrating body and transmits sound to a user by contacting the vibrating body to a human auricle is placed in contact with the ear model (50) of the measurement system, the measurement system executes control for measurement, with the air-conducted sound gauge, of harmonics in an air-conducted component generated by a pure tone emitted by the acoustic device (1) and control to display the result of the measurement on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 9363591
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a housing, a piezoelectric element, and a panel, which is attached to the housing and has a contact area contacting a part of human body, configured to vibrate by the piezoelectric element to generate a vibration sound to be transmitted by vibrating the part of human body, such that pressure from inside of the housing at the contact area of the panel is smaller than pressure from inside of the housing at different area from the contact area. Thereby the sound pressure property is improved, and thus the electronic device preferably transmits air conduction sound and vibration sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Ozasa, Hayato Mizuno, Hiroto Yahagi, Keiichi Nagoshi, Tsutomu Zaima, Koutatsu Kanayama, Tomoaki Nakamura, Hideo Tomioka, Takuji Masunaga, Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20160143563
    Abstract: This measurement system quantitatively presents the effect of wearing an acoustic device that transmits sound to a user by contacting a vibrating body to a human auricle. In a measurement system (10) including an ear model (50), which is provided with an artificial auricle (51) and an artificial external ear canal (53), and an air-conducted sound gauge (60) that measures air-conducted sound in the artificial external ear canal, while an acoustic device (1) is contacted to the ear model (50) of the measurement system (10), the acoustic device (1) including a vibrating body (10a) and transmitting sound to a user by contacting the vibrating body (10a) to a human auricle, the measurement system (10) measures, with the air-conducted sound gauge (60), air-conducted sound generated by the acoustic device (1) and presents the result of measurement together with a characteristic corresponding to when the user wears the acoustic device (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20160150328
    Abstract: A measurement device (10) for evaluating an electronic device (100) that causes sound to be heard via vibration transmission by pressing a vibrating body against a human ear includes an ear model (50) modeled after a human ear and vibration pickups (57a) and (57b) disposed at a periphery of an artificial external ear canal (53) formed in the ear model (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20160134977
    Abstract: The disclosed acoustic device and method of using the same allow perception of a bright, clear sound. In an acoustic device (1) for transmitting sound to a user through vibration conduction by contacting a vibrating body (10a) to a human auricle, when a measurement system (10), provided with an ear model (50) including an artificial auricle (51) and an artificial external ear canal (53) and with a microphone (62) that measures air-conducted sound in the artificial external ear canal (53), measures the air-conducted sound upon the acoustic device (1) outputting a fundamental frequency at a predetermined frequency in an audible frequency band while placed in contact with the ear model (50), three or more harmonics at or above the sixth harmonic and having a volume exceeding a volume 45 dB below the volume of the fundamental frequency are measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro INAGAKI