Vibration generator
OwnerTakahito Imagawainventor
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Abstract
A vibration generator has an oscillator including a magnet and a holding member for holding the oscillator based on a magnetic force emitted from the oscillator. The holding member includes a magnet or a magnetic body. The oscillator vibrates relative to the holding member. A magnetic force between the oscillator and the holding member defines a natural period of vibration of the oscillator relative to the holding member. When a periodic current is supplied to an electromagnetic coil fixed to the holding member, the oscillator vibrates relative to the holding member so as to synchronize with the period of the periodic current. By synchronizing the period of the periodic current with a natural period, the oscillator resonates.
Claims20
A vibration generator comprising:
- an oscillator including a permanent magnet generating a stationary magnetic field;
- a holding member for holding the oscillator based on a static magnetic force due to the stationary magnetic field between the oscillator and the holding member, the holding member including a permanent magnet or a magnetic body, so that the holding member holds the oscillator at a stable position due to the static magnetic force, the oscillator being capable of vibrating relative to the holding member about the stable position, the static magnetic force defining a resonance period of vibration of the oscillator about the stable position relative to the holding member;
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- an electromagnetic coil fixed to the holding member, wherein, when a periodic current is not supplied to the electromagnetic coil, the oscillator remains stationary at the stable position, when the periodic current is supplied to the electromagnetic coil, the oscillator vibrates about the stable position relative to the holding member so as to synchronize with the period of the periodic current, and resonates by synchronizing the period of the periodic current with the resonance period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.