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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Tomoyoshi Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 17/00 (2006.01); H04R 25/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/105 (2013.01); H04R 17/00 (2013.01); H04R 25/02 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01); H04R 2460/09 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed acoustic device includes a holderthat has one end abutting the inside of an inferior antihelix crus and other end abutting a depression between a tragus and an antitragus of a user's ear and a vibratorthat is held by the holderand, based on an audio signal, expands and contracts in a direction intersecting a direction of connecting the one end and the other end, and by the expansion and the contraction, causes the ear to vibrate.