IP Library Granted Patent US 9,510,104
Granted Patent B2
US 9,510,104 · App. 14/647,899 · Granted Nov 29, 2016

Electroacoustic transducer, manufacturing method therefor, and electronic device utilizing same

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Patent No.
US 9,510,104
App. No.
14/647,899
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electroacoustic transducer comprises a plurality of layered piezoelectric vibrator units that are arranged side by side in a direction intersecting a vibrating direction, wherein the plurality of layered piezoelectric vibrator units comprise respectively, a plurality of piezoelectric vibrators with different resonance frequencies, arranged in the vibrating direction in layers with a predetermined space therebetween; a plurality of vibrating members that hold the plurality of piezoelectric vibrators respectively; and a frame that supports edges of the plurality of vibrating members, and the plurality of vibrating members are arranged in the vibrating direction in layers with a predetermined space therebetween such that an area of the each of the plurality of vibrating members increases or decreases monotonically in the vibrating direction.

Claims (14)

1. An electroacoustic transducer, comprising:

a plurality of layered piezoelectric vibrator units that are arranged side by side in a direction intersecting a vibrating direction, wherein

the plurality of layered piezoelectric vibrator units comprise respectively:

a plurality of piezoelectric vibrators, with different resonance frequencies arranged in the vibrating direction in layers with a predetermined space therebetween;

a plurality of vibrating members that hold the plurality of piezoelectric vibrators respectively; and

a frame that supports edges of the plurality of vibrating members, and

the plurality of vibrating members are arranged in the vibrating direction in layers with a predetermined space therebetween such that an area of each of the plurality of vibrating members increases or decreases monotonically in the vibrating direction.

2. The electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein an arrangement order of the plurality of vibrating members in a layered piezoelectric vibrator units is opposite to that of the plurality of vibrating members in an adjacent layered piezoelectric vibrator unit.

3. The electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of layered piezoelectric vibrator units comprise the plurality of vibrating members different in at least one of stiffness and thickness respectively.

4. The electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the electroacoustic transducer drives selectively one or more of the plurality of piezoelectric vibrators.

5. The electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of vibrating members comprise a vent.

6. An electronic device comprising:

the electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 ; wherein

the electronic device causes the piezoelectric vibrators to oscillate such that an ultrasonic wave(s) having a frequency of 20 kHz or higher is emitted.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2015
From: NEC MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 036037/0476 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 9, 2015
From: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
To: NEC MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035866/0495 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 28, 2015
From: ONISHI, YASUHARU
To: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035731/0178 →