Vibration structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12343759-B2
Application number	US-202117546612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2021
Priority date	Oct 23, 2019
Publication date	Jul 1, 2025
Grant date	Jul 1, 2025

Abstract

A vibration structure that includes a member having a vibrator that vibrates along a plane direction; a housing that holds the member; and a cushioning material connecting the housing to the member, in which a thickness of the cushioning material in a direction orthogonal to a plane direction of the housing is greater than a length of a gap between the member and the housing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration structure comprising:
a member having a vibrator configured to vibrate along a plane direction;
a housing configured to hold the member, the housing having a recess; and
a cushioning material in the recess and connecting the housing to the member,
wherein a thickness of the cushioning material in a direction orthogonal to a plane direction of the housing is greater than a length of a gap between the member and the housing, and
wherein a width of the recess in the plane direction is larger than a width of the cushion material in the plane direction such that a side surface of the cushion material is not restrained by a side surface of the recess.

2. The vibration structure according to claim 1 , wherein the member includes:
a flat plate having a first main surface and a second main surface, and
wherein the vibrator is connected to the first main surface of the flat plate.

3. The vibration structure according to claim 2 , wherein the housing has a cavity at a position overlapping the flat plate in a plan view of the vibration structure,
the cushioning material is connected to the housing and the second main surface of the flat plate, and
the length of the gap is between the second main surface of the flat plate and the housing.

4. The vibration structure according to claim 3 , wherein the cushioning material is disposed at a position separated from the cavity by a predetermined distance in the plan view.

5. The vibration structure according to claim 3 , wherein the cushioning material is disposed along the cavity in the plan view.

6. The vibration structure according to claim 3 , wherein the cushioning material surrounds the cavity in the plan view.

7. The vibration structure according to claim 1 , wherein the recess has a sectional shape that expands in a direction from the housing toward the member.

8. The vibration structure according to claim 1 , wherein the cushion material has a sectional shape that changes in a direction from the housing toward the member.

9. The vibration structure according to claim 8 , wherein the sectional shape of the cushion material is thicker at respective ends thereof in contact with the housing and the member than at a center thereof.

10. The vibration structure according to claim 8 , wherein the sectional shape of the cushion material is a tapered shape.

11. The vibration structure according to claim 10 , wherein the tapered shape of the cushion material is thicker at an end thereof in contact with the member.

12. The vibration structure according to claim 1 , wherein the member includes:
a flat plate having a first main surface and a second main surface, and
wherein the vibrator is connected to the first main surface of the flat plate.

13. The vibration structure according to claim 12 , wherein
the cushioning material is connected to the housing and the vibrator, and
the length of the gap is between the vibrator and the housing.

14. The vibration structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the cushioning material is connected to the housing and the vibrator, and
the length of the gap is between the vibrator and the housing.

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Endo Jun
• Otera Shozo
• Ishiura Yutaka

Classifications

• G06F3/016 Primary

  Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user · CPC title

• B06B1/0688

  with foil-type piezoelectric elements, e.g. PVDF · CPC title

• G06F3/03547

  Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface · CPC title

• H02N11/00

  Generators or motors not provided for elsewhere; Alleged perpetua mobilia obtained by electric or magnetic means (by hydrostatic pressure F03B17/04; {by mechanical means F03G7/10;} by dynamo-electric means, {including arrangements of permanent magnets interacting with other permanent magnets,} H02K53/00) · CPC title

• B06B1/0603 Primary

  using a piezoelectric bender, e.g. bimorph · CPC title