Abstract: In a drive control circuit of a linear vibration motor, the drive signal generating unit generates a drive signal whose phase is opposite to that of the drive signal generated during the motor running, after the running of the linear vibration motor has terminated; this drive signal of opposite phase includes a high impedance period during which the driver unit is controlled to a high impedance state. An induced voltage detector detects an induced voltage occurring in the coil. A comparator has a function as a hysteresis comparator in which the output level does not vary in a predetermined dead band, and the comparator outputs a high-level signal or a low-level signal during the high impedance period. When an in-phase signal is consecutively outputted from the comparator during the consecutive high-impedance periods, the drive signal generating unit determines that the linear vibration motor has come to a stop.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vibration module for a portable terminal that includes a housing, a magnetic moving part movable in a first direction within the housing; an elastic member supported between the opposite ends of the magnetic moving part and inner walls of the housing, and a solenoid coil provided in the housing. The vibration module is positioned at one end of the moving section by the magnetic force of the magnetic moving part and an object around the magnetic moving part, allowing the vibration module to provide a user with a feeling similar to a click feeling via the acceleration produced at a stopping instant. In addition, when vibrating, the vibration module generates sufficient vibration power through acceleration at the instant of changing moving direction at the ends of the moving section, to provide an alarm function, such as an incoming call notification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to synchronized vibration devices that can provide haptic feedback to a user. A wide variety of actuator types may be employed to provide synchronized vibration, including linear actuators, rotary actuators, rotating eccentric mass actuators, and rocking mass actuators. A controller may send signals to one or more driver circuits for directing operation of the actuators. The controller may provide direction and amplitude control, vibration control, and frequency control to direct the haptic experience. Parameters such as frequency, phase, amplitude, duration, and direction can be programmed or input as different patterns suitable for use in gaming, virtual reality and real-world situations.

Abstract: A vibration generator 1 has an attachment structure of a spring by which the attachment error of the spring elastically supporting a mover composed of a magnet and a yoke does not become the error of the span of the spring to make it possible to improve the ease and yield of manufacture. The vibration generator 1 includes a mover which is composed of a magnet 5 and yokes 4, 7a and 7b, and a spring 6 which is composed of an integrally molded article made of an elastomeric material and elastically supports the mover to allow the mover to vibrate in the central axis direction C. The spring is arranged on the outside of a coil 3 in a radial direction thereof and extends along the radial direction.

Abstract: An improved electromagnetic actuator having a coil (10) on which a current is impressed, a magnet (20) that forms a magnetic circuit across a magnetic gap (G) with a magnet yoke (21), and having a diaphragm (11) that vibrates when a high-frequency current is impressed, and a vibration plate (22) that vibrates when a low-frequency current is impressed, with these parts enclosed within a basket (3) and the coil (10) placed within the magnetic gap (G). As one invention, a radial array of magnets, a vibration plate with a double-suspension structure, and a bottom plate of magnetic shielding material are placed in the basket to suppress the leakage of magnetic flux.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromagnetic electro-acoustic transducer to be used for generating an incoming indicator tone for mobile phones and the like. A resin magnet 11 is formed with a hard magnetic material and a soft magnetic material, the lowest resonant frequency can be easily set by changing the magnetic flux density in a magnetic gap by changing the compound ratio of the soft magnetic material, a high magnetic flux density is attained by increasing the magnetic permeability of the resin magnet 11 with the soft magnetic material, thus achieving a smaller size as well as a higher sound pressure through an increase in the driving force exerted to the diaphragm.

Abstract: An electromagnetic device is provided with a coil bobbin (1) supporting an excitation coil (5) and a U-shaped movable iron piece (2) whose one side (2a) is inserted in and fixed to a hollow section (1a) of the coil bobbin (1) in a state where it is held between a pair of iron cores (3) and (4). A remaining side (2b) of the U-shaped movable iron piece (2) is inserted in a through-hole section (1c) of the coil bobbin (1) and has a resilient characteristic that it is spaced away from the one side (2a). The top surface of each of rising sections (3a) and (3b) of the iron cores (3) and (4) is configured by bending the end of each of the rising sections (3a) and (3b) and is located to be opposite to the top of the remaining side (2b) at a preset distance away.

Abstract: A delay estimation method and a receiver in a radio system. Signals originate from one or several transmitters and propagate along several paths. One path (73-77) is selected at a time for estimation. The least squares minimization between the received signal and the code bank model is solved path by path (73-77) and delay by delay. The delay of only one selected path is changed at a time. Using the minimization results the delays of the other paths (73-77) remain unchanged. The minimization results establish the delay with the minimized result at most equal to the results for other delays. This delay is used as the constant value of the path (73-77) when the delays of the other paths are searched. The method provides the delays of all the paths (73-77) of all users simultaneously without information on user symbols or attenuation coefficients of the channel.

Abstract: A ring magnet having improved linearity and/or peak value in a space magnetic flux density distribution, comprising at least one first radially anisotropic region having a radial anisotropy direction of 89° or more relative to a center axis thereof, and at least one second radially anisotropic region having a radial anisotropy direction of 40° or more and less than 89° relative to a center axis thereof, the first and second radially anisotropic regions being arranged along the center axis such that a space magnetic flux density distribution on an inner or outer surface of the ring magnet has increased linearity and/or peak value.

Abstract: A multi-functional vibration actuator comprises a magnetic circuit flexibly supported by a suspension fixed to the magnetic circuit, a coil arranged at a gap of the magnetic circuit, and a vibration transmitting portion. The coil includes at least two coils. One of the coils is a main coil. Another coil is an auxiliary coil. Even if the coil jumps out of the uniform magnetic flux distribution of a magnetic pole gap during movement, a uniform magnetic flux is always applied of the coil.

Abstract: A solderless pressure contact between a cap or ferrule of a fuse and the end of a fusible element that has been bent around the rim of the casing of the fuse from the space inside the casing to the outer surface thereof. A normal ferrule is used, i.e. a ferrule having a planar end surface rather than one having an end surface projecting into the casing of the fuse. The side wall, or lateral wall, of the ferrule is provided with a tab being hingedly supported at the axially inner end thereof by the lateral wall of the ferrule. The aforementioned tab slants from its point of support by the lateral all of the ferrule, or from the axially inner end thereof, axially outwardly and radially inwardly into firm engagement with the end of the fusible element on the outer surface of the casing. This pressure contact requires the use of casings which are electically deformable according to Hooks law, or have a memory, i.e. tend to assume their original shape after having been deformed.

Abstract: The invention is predicated on the use of synthetic resins as materials for fuse casings or fuse tubes because synthetic resins are relatively easily deformable. This invention is particularly applicable in connection with fuse tubes made of polyester resin and glass fibers. Such tubes lend themselves to making solderless fuse terminals, i.e. electrically conductive joints between the ferrules, or fuse caps, and the fusible element, or elements, inside the fuse tube. The fusible element is located inside the casing or fuse tube and bent over the rim thereof, and has a portion that engages the outer surface of the casing.

Abstract: A coil is wound on a hollow plastic bobbin and mounted in a U-shaped ferromagnetic frame, there being a pair of aligned bosses on opposite sides of the bobbin bore at one end thereof fitting into cooperating slots in the frame. A ferromagnetic core is axially movable within the hollow bobbin and is urged away from the bottom of the frame by a leaf spring. A compact plastic housing covers the bobbin, coil, and the upper portion of the frame, and electric terminals, mounted in pockets at the top of the bobbin, project through slots in the housing to the exterior. Portions of the bobbin are extruded into openings in the base of the terminals to hold them in place, and a pair of tabs on the bobbin interact with slots in the housing, and posts on the inside corners of the housing form abutments to prevent over-insertion of the tabs in the slots. A hook on the bottom of the frame is shaped to be engageable with an opening in external support elements of differing thickness to facilitate installation.