Patent ID: 7283637

Claim:
An exciting device, comprising: a thin and long exciting member whose length is larger than width; and vibration generating means for vibrating the exciting member, wherein the vibration generating means comprises a magnet fixed to a middle of the exciting member or the sound-producing vibration body; and a coil fixed to the other of the middle of the exciting member or the sound-producing vibration body, wherein vibration is transmitted to the exciting member by current that flows to the coil and a magnetic field that is generated by the magnet and crosses the coil, wherein the exciting member made of a magnetic material functions as a magnetic yoke that transmits the magnetic field generated by the magnet, wherein both ends in a vertical direction of the exciting member are fixed to a sound-producing vibration body of a main body of an apparatus, and wherein the vibration of the exciting member is transmitted to the sound-producing vibration body through the both ends of the exciting member so that the sound-producing vibration body produces sound.