Vibration actuator and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12095331-B2
Application number	US-202217835993-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2022
Priority date	May 31, 2019
Publication date	Sep 17, 2024
Grant date	Sep 17, 2024

Abstract

A vibration actuator includes: a movable body having: a disk-shaped magnet; a pair of magnetic parts fixed to both surfaces of the magnet; and a pair of spring stopper parts connected to the magnetic parts; a pair of elastic support parts connected to the spring stopper parts and configured to support the movable body; a fixing body configured to connect to the elastic support parts with a protection wall portion, a pair of annular coils and a magnetic shield disposed in this order at an outer circumferential side, and accommodate the movable body such that the movable body is capable of reciprocally vibrating in an axial direction; and a cylindrical resin case having, on a circumferential wall portion, an opening portion for wires for supplying power to the coils and configured to close upper and lower faces of the circumferential wall portion and accommodate the fixing body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vibration actuator comprising:
a movable body comprising: a disk-shaped magnet having front and rear surfaces and not provided with a through hole between the front and rear surfaces; a pair of magnetic parts respectively fixed to the front and rear surfaces of the disk-shaped magnet; and a pair of spring retaining parts respectively connected to the pair of magnetic parts;
a pair of elastic support parts respectively connected to the pair of spring retaining parts and configured to support the movable body;
a fixing body comprising a cylindrical protection wall portion forming a hollow inner space, a pair of annular coils and a cylindrical magnetic shield and configured to connect to the pair of elastic support parts in a state where the cylindrical protection wall portion, the pair of annular coils and the cylindrical magnetic shield are disposed in this sequential arrangement order from an outer circumferential side of the movable body, and accommodate the movable body in the hollow inner space such that the movable body is capable of reciprocally vibrating in an axial direction; and
a resin case which comprises a circumferential wall portion and a lid portion configured to close the circumferential wall portion and accommodates therein the fixing body, the circumferential wall portion having a cutout portion configured to engage with the lid portion and an opening portion for wires, the opening portion for wires being in communication with the cutout portion, and the wires being configured to supply power to the pair of annular coils, wherein
the cylindrical protection wall portion comprises: a cylindrical portion disposed between the movable body and the pair of annular coils; and a pair of flanges which extend outward in a radial direction from upper and lower end portions of the cylindrical portion and interpose therebetween the cylindrical magnetic shield such that a center in length of the cylindrical magnetic shield in the axial direction coincides with a center of the movable body in the axial direction.

2. The vibration actuator according to claim 1 ,
wherein the lid portion of the resin case comprises a vent hole.

3. The vibration actuator according to claim 1 ,
wherein the resin case comprises a wire fixation portion configured to fix wires in the circumferential wall portion.

4. An electronic apparatus comprising the vibration actuator according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Takahashi Yuki
• Sekiguchi Chikara
• Shimomura Shigeyuki
• Kumanomido Yoshihiro
• Kodama Daisuke
• Yoshii Yuta
• Inamoto Shigenori
• Minebea Mitsumi Inc

Inventors

• Takahashi Yuki
• Sekiguchi Chikara
• Shimomura Shigeyuki
• Kumanomido Yoshihiro
• Kodama Daisuke
• Yoshii Yuta
• Inamoto Shigenori

Classifications

• G08B6/00

  Tactile signalling systems, e.g. tactile personal calling systems · CPC title

• H02K11/01

  for shielding from electromagnetic fields {, i.e. structural association with shields} (means for preventing or reducing eddy-current losses in the winding heads by shielding H02K3/42) · CPC title

• H02K33/04 Primary

  wherein the frequency of operation is determined by the frequency of uninterrupted AC energisation · CPC title

• H02K33/02 Primary

  with armatures moved one way by energisation of a single coil system and returned by mechanical force, e.g. by springs · CPC title

• H02K33/14 Primary

  wherein the alternate energisation and de-energisation of the two coil systems are effected or controlled by movement of the armatures · CPC title