US 7,536,211 B2
Speaker system, mobile terminal device, and electronic device
Shuji Saiki, Nara (Japan); Sawako Usuki, Hyogo (Japan); and Shuhei Konishi, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/376,932.
Application 11/376932 is a division of application No. 10/185909, filed on Jun. 28, 2002, granted, now 7,050,600.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-196033 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2001; application No. 2001-219370 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2001; and application No. 2001-306145 (JP), filed on Oct. 02, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2006/0166698 A1, Jul. 27, 2006
Int. Cl. H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04Q 7/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—575.1  [455/350; 381/388; 381/423] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
6. An electronic device, comprising:
a speaker system; and
a housing for supporting the speaker system,
wherein the speaker system includes a display panel for displaying an image; a transparent panel provided such that the image displayed in the display panel is viewed through the transparent panel; an electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer having a diaphragm for outputting a sound by vibrating the diaphragm in accordance with an electric signal; and an acoustic signal transfer member for transferring the sound output from the electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer to a space provided between the display panel and the transparent panel, wherein the transparent panel is allowed to be vibrated by the sound transferred to the space from the electric-mechanical-acoustic-transducer via the acoustic signal transfer member.