Sony Corporation

Kenichi Katayama

Takuya Niitsu

Hiroyuki Ono

Tatsuya Sakata

Hitoshi Takahashi

Ikuo Shinohara

Hiroyoshi Maeda

Keiichi Takagi

Masamoto Noguchi

Mitsuhiro Nakamura

Koji Nageno

Tetsuya Nakamura

Masayuki Kihara

A flat image display device that has a bracket and a frame section integrally formed by a transparent material, an apparatus mounting section is disposed in an inner peripheral edge of the frame section, and parts fixing sections that are disposed on the outside of the frame section. A front panel is formed by a transparent material and disposed on the front surface side of the bracket; an apparatus body section has a screen surface that is mounted at the apparatus mounting section of the bracket. One or more signal paths send and receive electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections. This enables sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections that send and receive electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function.

Flat type image display apparatus

There are provided a bracketthat has a frame sectionintegrally formed by a transparent material, an apparatus mounting sectiondisposed in an inner peripheral edge of the frame section, and parts fixing sections, . . . disposed on the outside of the frame section; a front panelthat is formed by a transparent material and disposed on the front surface side of the bracket; an apparatus body sectionthat has a screen surfaceand is mounted at the apparatus mounting section of the bracket; holding membersthat hold the front panel and the bracket in the state that they are connected together at the front and rear; and functional sections that are fixed to the parts fixing sections of the bracket so as to be disposed on the outside of the front panel, and that sends and receives electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function. Signal pathsto perform sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections are formed in the inside of the bracket or in a boundary portion between the front panel and the bracket. This enables sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections that send and receive electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function, while maintaining good design quality.

Flat type image display device

A remote control signal transmission device includes a plurality of operation keys; a detector for detecting which operation keys have been operated; a memory for storing correspondence tables between the operation keys and remote control signals, with each of the correspondence tables differing depending on an electronic apparatus taken as a remote control target; a setter that receives a detection output of the detector and, when consecutive operation of a pre-defined plurality of said operation keys is detected as the detection output, selects a correspondence table for an electronic apparatus corresponding to the consecutive operation from within a plurality of the correspondence tables stored in the memory; a remote control signal generator, the signal from which corresponds to an operated key according to a correspondence table set by the setter and transmitting the remote control signal to electronic apparatus taken as the control target; and a setting protector for protecting settings of the setting means.

Remote control signal transmission device

A headphone includes a pair of housing members into which speaker units and diaphragms are accommodated, protector members having sound radiating portions on which a plurality of sound radiating apertures are bored and respectively provided on the pair of housing members at their sound radiation sides from which sound is radiated by a vibration of the diaphragms, and supporting members for supporting the housing members within a cavum concha of an auricle of a listener's ear so that the sound radiating portion is opposed to the entrance of an external auditory meatus in the auricle of the listener's ear, wherein the housing member has a concave portion that is engaged with one portion of the auricle of the listener's ear when the housing member is fitted into the auricle of the listener's ear.

Headphone

A headphone includes an electro-acoustic transducer, a housing, and first, second and third members. The electro-acoustic transducer includes a diaphragm and is supplied with a signal through a cord. The housing is shaped in such a way as to be accommodated into a concave portion of an auricle and includes an accommodating portion in which the electro-acoustic transducer is accommodated and a projecting portion for leading the cord from the inside of the housing to the outside of the housing. The accommodating portion has a first opening so that the electro-acoustic transducer is exposed to the outside from the first opening. The projecting portion is formed on the rear surface of the accommodating portion. A first member is provided so as to cover the whole surface of the diaphragm and the first opening and is made of a metal material. The first member has a plurality of first openings. A second member is provided on the first member so as to cover the first member and is made of a synthetic resin material. The second member has a plurality of second openings whose diameters are smaller than those of the first openings. A third member is attached to the housing so as to cover the housing having the second member attached at a portion in which the first opening is formed, and is made of an elastic material. The third member has a second opening which is smaller than the first opening.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kenichi Katayama