Patents by Inventor Ernest Latham-Brown

Ernest Latham-Brown has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5193118
    Abstract: A vehicle sound reproducing system including four driver units that radiate in at least the upper frequency range and are located in respective front and rear, left and right side panels. Also, disclosed is a nonlocalizable woofer module placed below a front seat of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest Latham-Brown, Brian J. Gawronski, Peter W. Hubbe
  • Patent number: 4737992
    Abstract: A loudspeaker driver has a plastic basket having front and rear portions. The front portion is formed with six radial ribs extending between a central motor cup support and an annular rim. A cup-shaped front pole piece is molded into the pole support and formed with an axial groove for accommodating an axial lead extending from the front end of a voice coil that moves axially in a gap between the circumferential wall of the front pole plate and a circular rear pole plate and circular disk neodymium disk magnet sandwiched between the rear pole plate and the closed end of the front pole plate. Flat tinsel leads are crimped to ends of the voice coil and brought out through slits in the cone to terminals in opposite sides of the rear portion of the basket. The circumferential edge of the cone is clamped between the front and rear portions of the basket and ultrasonically bonded to an annular surface on the rear of the front portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest Latham-Brown, Rakesh C. Pandey, Brandon B. Westley, Robert D. White