Kyocera Corporation

Talchi Kim

Seiji Horii

Kenichi Ozasa

Kosuke Teruyama

Masahiro Shinya

Hiroto Yahagi

Masayuki Zaitsu

Kazuchika Suzuki

Sachihiro Utsumi

A sound generator includes a housing and a vibrator. The vibrator includes at least one piezoelectric element and has at least of a part thereof inside the housing. A contact portion on the at least one piezoelectric element is configured to transmit generated vibration to an object outside of the sound generator. The at least one piezoelectric element generates vibration in response to a signal from outside the vibrator, and causes the object to vibrate and generate a sound to emit from the object.

Sound generator

A sound generator includes a housing (), a stand () supporting the housing (), a piezoelectric vibrator () including a piezoelectric element (), and an anchor applying a load to the piezoelectric vibrator (). While the load from the anchor is being applied to the piezoelectric vibrator (), the piezoelectric vibrator () deforms in response to a sound signal, and deformation of the piezoelectric vibrator () vibrates a mounting surface () on which the sound generator is mounted, causing sound to be emitted from the mounting surface ().

According to one of aspects, provided is an electronic device including a panel, a piezoelectric elementattached to the panel, and a substrateattached to a main surface of the piezoelectric element. The panelis configured to be deformed due to deformation of the piezoelectric element, and sound is transmitted to an object that is in contact with the deformed panel. The substrateincludes a basemade of resin, and signal linesandlaminated with the baseand connected to the main surface of the piezoelectric element. The substantially the entire main surface of the piezoelectric elementis covered by the base

Unit, electronic device, and method of manufacturing electronic device

According to one of some aspects, an electronic device includes: a display configured to display an icon corresponding to an application that performs communication with external; and a controller configured to change a display mode of the icon corresponding to the application based on a condition of the communication with the external.

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Yokohama, Japan

Talchi Kim