IP Library Granted Patent US 11,659,309
Granted Patent B2
US 11,659,309 · App. 16/343,467 · Granted May 23, 2023

Display apparatus

Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Yoshioka (Kanagawa, JP); Hideyuki Taguchi (Tokyo, JP); Hiroki Matsuoka (Saitama, JP); Shinpei Kondo (Kanagawa, JP)
H04R1/028G09F9/00H04M1/035H04R7/04H04R7/045H04R9/022H04R9/025H04R9/066H04R2201/003H04R2499/15
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Patent No.
US 11,659,309
App. No.
16/343,467
Granted
May 23, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thin plate-shaped display cell that displays image and a plurality of exciters disposed on a back surface of the display cell and causing the display cell to vibrate. The plurality of exciters is such configured that the plurality of exciters is regarded as one exciter when the plurality of exciters generates vibration in the display cell.

Claims (18)

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a thin plate-shaped display cell that displays images;

a glass substrate;

a plurality of exciters that is disposed on side of a back surface of the display cell and causes the display cell to vibrate; wherein

the plurality of exciters are configured to cause the plurality of exciters to be regarded as one exciter when the plurality of exciters generates vibration in the display cell, each of the plurality of exciters is able to vibrate the display cell independently of each other and is disposed in a spatial region, in the glass substrate, a maximum width of which is less than or equal to a half wavelength of 20 kHz, and each of the exciters is in contact with a respective vibration transmission member having a characteristic of repelling at least in a sound wave frequency region, wherein the vibration transmission member has a characteristic of repelling in the sound wave frequency region and following in the frequency region below the sound wave frequency region; and

one or more heat dissipation sheets, each in the form of a thin metal film, disposed between the display cell and the vibration transmission members, laminated on the back surface of the display cell, and contacted by one or more of the vibration transmission members.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the exciters each have a housing made by die-casting.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a counter plate that is disposed to face the display cell with a predetermined gap provided therebetween, wherein

in each of the exciters, the housing is fixed to the counter plate.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein in each of the exciters, the housing is fixed to a position that is different from a position facing the exciter, with respect to the back surface of the display cell.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of the exciters further comprises:

planar coils fixed to the back surface of the display cell; and

a permanent magnet that is disposed to face the plurality of planar coils with a predetermined gap provided therebetween.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein

the respective exciters are fixed to the planar coils and each have a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board being fixed to the back surface of the display cell, and

in the respective exciters, the planar coils are formed on a surface opposite to the display cell of the printed circuit board.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more heat dissipation sheets are configured by an aluminum alloy.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058263/0542 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 8, 2019
From: MASUDA, TOSHIHIKO; YOSHIOKA, HIROSHI; TAGUCHI, HIDEYUKI; MATSUOKA, HIROKI; KONDO, SHINPEI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049115/0844 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP JP2016-253664 · Feb 27, 2016 · national
JP JP2017-099629 · May 19, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190268681A1 · Aug 29, 2019