US 12,103,040 B2
Vibration generating device
Kunio Sato, Miyagi (JP); Hiroshi Wakuda, Miyagi (JP); and Tadamitsu Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/446,351.
Application 17/446,351 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/007014, filed on Feb. 21, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-047616 (JP), filed on Mar. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0387231 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. H04R 9/02 (2006.01); B06B 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B06B 1/045 (2013.01) [H04R 9/025 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vibration generating device comprising:
a housing;
a diaphragm supported by the housing, and configured to generate sound by vibrating in a first direction; and
a vibration providing part attached to the housing, and configured to vibrate the housing,
wherein the vibration providing part vibrates the housing in the first direction at a first frequency, and vibrates the housing in a second direction at a second frequency lower than the first frequency,
wherein the vibration providing part includes
an inside housing,
a vibrator contained in the inside housing,
an elastic supporter configured to support the vibrator to be capable of vibrating along the first direction and along the second direction, and
a magnetic drive part configured to drive the vibrator along the first direction and along the second direction by using magnetic forces,
wherein the magnetic drive part includes
a first magnetic field generating part arranged on a vibrator side, and
a second magnetic field generating part arranged on an inside housing side, as to be positioned on an extended line of the vibrator in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and to the second direction,
wherein the elastic supporter is formed with a plate spring that includes
a plurality of folded parts each having a fold folded along the third direction, and
a flat part extending from one of the folded parts to another of the folded parts.