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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
May. 21, 2014
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Tomohiro Inagaki, Yokohama, JP;
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The disclosed acoustic device and method of using the same allow perception of a bright, clear sound. In an acoustic device () for transmitting sound to a user through vibration conduction by contacting a vibrating body () to a human auricle, when a measurement system (), provided with an ear model () including an artificial auricle () and an artificial external ear canal () and with a microphone () that measures air-conducted sound in the artificial external ear canal (), measures the air-conducted sound upon the acoustic device () outputting a fundamental frequency at a predetermined frequency in an audible frequency band while placed in contact with the ear model (), three or more harmonics at or above the sixth harmonic and having a volume exceeding a volume 45 dB below the volume of the fundamental frequency are measured.