Patents by Inventor Yasuo Kawabata

Yasuo Kawabata 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: 10993018
    Abstract: Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality is improved. Included are a support fixed to a mount base, a speaker unit including a portion to be fixed, and a base casing holding the speaker unit, and the speaker unit is fixed to the support and the base casing with the portion to be fixed being sandwiched between the support and the base casing. With this configuration, the speaker unit will be held stably, a great oscillation from a diaphragm of the speaker unit is less transmitted to the parts other than the diaphragm of the speaker unit, to the member holding the speaker unit, or the like. Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Kikuchi, Yohei Fukuma, Nobukazu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Matsutani, Yoshio Ohashi, Yasuo Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20210041774
    Abstract: An image display unit according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image display device, a primary shaft portion, a holding portion, a first acting portion, and a second acting portion. The primary shaft portion extends in a direction. The holding portion holds the image display device, and is connected to the primary shaft portion to be movable in parallel with the direction in which the primary shaft portion extends. The first acting portion is capable of moving the holding portion in a first direction extending in parallel with the direction in which the primary shaft portion extends. The second acting portion is capable of moving the holding portion in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction extending in parallel with the direction in which the primary shaft portion extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: YOHEI FUKUMA, YASUO KAWABATA, TORU NAGARA
  • Patent number: 10405100
    Abstract: A sound conversion efficiency and a sound quality is improved. Included are an oscillating element that is expanded and contracted in response to a drive signal, two oscillating bodies that are positioned on opposite sides across the oscillating elements, have end faces arranged respectively in contact with both ends of the oscillating element in an expanding and contracting direction, and are oscillated by expansion and contraction of the oscillating element, and an urging spring that urges the two oscillating bodies and press the end faces against both the ends, respectively. Thus, the oscillating element is expanded and contracted, and the oscillating bodies are oscillated with the end faces of the oscillating bodies urged by the urging spring being in contact with both the ends of the oscillating element in the expanding and contracting direction of the oscillating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Fukuma, Kohei Kikuchi, Nobukazu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Matsutani, Yasuo Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20170332166
    Abstract: Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality is improved. Included are a support fixed to a mount base, a speaker unit including a portion to be fixed, and a base casing holding the speaker unit, and the speaker unit is fixed to the support and the base casing with the portion to be fixed being sandwiched between the support and the base casing. With this configuration, the speaker unit will be held stably, a great oscillation from a diaphragm of the speaker unit is less transmitted to the parts other than the diaphragm of the speaker unit, to the member holding the speaker unit, or the like. Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: KOHEI KIKUCHI, YOHEI FUKUMA, NOBUKAZU SUZUKI, KAZUHIRO MATSUTANI, YOSHIO OHASHI, YASUO KAWABATA
  • Publication number: 20170325031
    Abstract: A sound conversion efficiency is improved, and a sound quality is improved. Included are an oscillating element that is expanded and contracted in response to a drive signal, two oscillating bodies that are positioned on opposite sides across the oscillating elements, have end faces arranged respectively in contact with both ends of the oscillating element in an expanding and contracting direction, and are oscillated by expansion and contraction of the oscillating element, and an urging spring that urges the two oscillating bodies and press the end faces against both the ends, respectively. Thus, the oscillating element is expanded and contracted, and the oscillating bodies are oscillated with the end faces of the oscillating bodies urged by the urging spring being in contact with both the ends of the oscillating element in the expanding and contracting direction of the oscillating element. As a result, the sound conversion efficiency can be improved, and the sound quality can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: YOHEI FUKUMA, KOHEI KIKUCHI, NOBUKAZU SUZUKI, KAZUHIRO MATSUTANI, YASUO KAWABATA
  • Publication number: 20090020274
    Abstract: A heat diffusing device includes first and second metallic thin plates that are alternately laminated to each other, and that are joined along with an upper sealing metallic thin plate and a lower sealing metallic thin plate by diffusion joining so as to form a sealed space in an interior defined by the first and second thin plates and the upper and lower sealing metallic thin plates. A C-shaped groove defined by a steep wall face is formed at a wall face defining the sealed space due to a difference (?w) between the dimensions of the first metallic thin plates and the dimensions of the second metallic thin plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Kawabata
  • Patent number: 7369459
    Abstract: A forward-looking sonar includes a transducer array which is divided into a first sub array and a second sub array, a first beamforming section for forming a first receiving beam with the first sub array, and a second beamforming section for forming a second receiving beam with the second sub array. The forward-looking sonar receives target echoes from a wide sounding area with these receiving beams. The forward-looking sonar further includes a position measurement section for determining the position of a target based on the direction of the target calculated from a phase difference between the echoes from the target received by the first and second receiving beams by a split-beam method and the distance to the target calculated from time needed for receiving the echoes after transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasuo Kawabata, Tokihiko Hamada, Hidetoshi Kaida
  • Publication number: 20070291589
    Abstract: A forward-looking sonar includes a transducer array which is divided into a first sub array and a second sub array, a first beamforming section for forming a first receiving beam with the first sub array, and a second beamforming section for forming a second receiving beam with the second sub array. The forward-looking sonar receives target echoes from a wide sounding area with these receiving beams. The forward-looking sonar further includes a position measurement section for determining the position of a target based on the direction of the target calculated from a phase difference between the echoes from the target received by the first and second receiving beams by a split-beam method and the distance to the target calculated from time needed for receiving the echoes after transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kawabata, Tokihiko Hamada, Hidetoshi Kaida