US 12,009,719 B2
Vibration generating device
Masanobu Maeda, Miyagi (JP); and Katsutoshi Suzuki, Miyagi (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/805,737.
Application 17/805,737 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/041680, filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-223725 (JP), filed on Dec. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0302813 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H02K 33/02 (2006.01); B06B 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC H02K 33/02 (2013.01) [B06B 1/045 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vibration generating device comprising:
a housing including a substantially rectangular bottom plate and four side plates, the housing having an interior space;
a vibrator including a magnet;
a resilient member between the housing and the vibrator;
a coil configured to generate a magnetic field that causes the vibrator to vibrate; and
a bracket including a coil-mounting portion on which the coil is mounted,
wherein the housing includes bracket supports provided at one ends of two side plates facing each other among the four side plates, the one ends being situated opposite the other ends, of the two side plates, to which the bottom plate is connected,
wherein the bracket includes connection portions bonded to the respective bracket supports, and
wherein the bracket supports of the housing and the connection portions of the bracket are connected together in a state in which the bracket is placed in the interior space of the housing.