Patents by Inventor Robert Preston Parker
Robert Preston Parker 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).
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Patent number: 8459404Abstract: A loudspeaker component includes a unitary plastic element that defines at least a portion of (i) a first acoustic volume that can be acoustically energized by an electro-acoustic driver, (ii) a first port which extends from the first acoustic volume and conducts acoustic energy from the first acoustic volume towards an environment external to a loudspeaker in which the plastic element resides, and (iii) a second port which conducts acoustic energy from a second acoustic volume, defined by the loudspeaker, towards the external environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Michael Joseph Murray, Jacques S. Getzoyan, James R. Paldino, Robert Preston Parker, Peter J. Wagner, II
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Patent number: 8397861Abstract: A surround for supporting a diaphragm used to create acoustic waves includes a plurality of first rib sections extending away from the diaphragm and a second rib section having a zigzag pattern and being secured to an end of each of the first rib sections. As the diaphragm starts moving away from a home position in an intended direction of travel which is substantially perpendicular to a plane in which the diaphragm lies when the diaphragm is in the home position, the zigzag pattern of the second rib section starts to straighten out.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Zhen Xu, Robert Preston Parker, Allen T. Graff
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Publication number: 20130037344Abstract: A loudspeaker component includes a unitary plastic element that defines at least a portion of (i) a first acoustic volume that can be acoustically energized by an electro-acoustic driver, (ii) a first port which extends from the first acoustic volume and conducts acoustic energy from the first acoustic volume towards an environment external to a loudspeaker in which the plastic element resides, and (iii) a second port which conducts acoustic energy from a second acoustic volume, defined by the loudspeaker, towards the external environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventors: Michael Joseph Murray, Jacques S. Getzoyan, James R. Paldino, Robert Preston Parker, Peter J. Wagner, II
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Publication number: 20130034255Abstract: A loudspeaker assembly, including an acoustic waveguide; an acoustic driver mounted in the waveguide so that a first surface radiates sound waves into the waveguide so that the sound waves are radiated from the waveguide; and an acoustic volume acoustically coupled to the acoustic waveguide for increasing the amplitude of the sound waves radiated from the acoustic waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Inventors: Robert Preston Parker, Eric J. Freeman, Jeffrey J. Hoefler
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Patent number: 8351629Abstract: A loudspeaker assembly, including an acoustic waveguide; an acoustic driver mounted in the waveguide so that a first surface radiates sound waves into the waveguide so that the sound waves are radiated from the waveguide; and an acoustic volume acoustically coupled to the acoustic waveguide for increasing the amplitude of the sound waves radiated from the acoustic waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventors: Robert Preston Parker, Eric J. Freeman, Jeffrey J. Hoefler
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Publication number: 20120328141Abstract: A ported electroacoustical device that uses the action of the port to provide cooling airflow across a heat producing device. The device includes a loudspeaker enclosure including a first acoustic port, an acoustic driver, mounted in the loudspeaker enclosure. The device also includes a heat producing device. The acoustic driver and the acoustic port are constructed and arranged to coact to provide a cooling, substantially unidirectional airflow across the heat producing device, thereby transferring heat from the heat producing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Robert Preston Parker, Antonio M. Lage
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Patent number: 8315419Abstract: A sound producing system includes an electro-acoustic transducer having an electromagnetic motor for moving a diaphragm of the transducer back and forth to create acoustic waves. The diaphragm has a surface that includes one or more of a surface of a dust cap of the diaphragm, a surface of a cone of the diaphragm, and a portion of a surface of a surround of the diaphragm. A solid gas impermeable cover faces the diaphragm surface and has a surface which faces the diaphragm surface. At least a portion of the cover surface has a contour which is substantially the same as a contour of the diaphragm surface. The system includes an asymmetric exit for the acoustic waves to leave a volume defined between the diaphragm surface and the cover surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Allen T. Graff, Robert Preston Parker, John R. Bruss
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Patent number: 8295526Abstract: A television includes a flat panel display device for presenting video images, a housing for supporting the flat panel display device, and a first acoustic volume located substantially (a) inside the housing, and (b) behind the display device. Two or more acoustic drivers are provided for acoustically energizing the acoustic volume. The drivers are positioned such that acoustic energy put into the acoustic volume from the drivers is substantially additive and vibrational energy from the drivers substantially cancels out.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Kevin J. Bastyr, Jacky Chi-Hung Chan, Brian J. Gawronski, Hilmar Lehnert, Robert Preston Parker
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Patent number: 8107662Abstract: A ported electroacoustical device uses the action of the port to provide cooling airflow across a heat producing device. The device includes a loudspeaker enclosure including a first acoustic port, and an acoustic driver, mounted in the loudspeaker enclosure. The device also includes a heat producing device. The acoustic driver and the acoustic port are constructed and arranged to coact to provide a cooling, substantially unidirectional airflow across the heat producing device, thereby transferring heat from the heat producing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Bose CorporationInventor: Robert Preston Parker
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Patent number: 8103035Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing. A waveguide is located within the housing. The waveguide includes a first subsection that bends around a first axis and has a first cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio that is substantially different from unity. A second subsection bends around a second axis that is non-parallel to the first axis and includes a second cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio that is substantially different from unity. A third subsection acoustically couples the first subsection to the second subsection. The third subsection includes a third cross-sectional area with an aspect ration that varies between the first aspect ratio and the second aspect ratio.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Robert Preston Parker, Roman Litovsky, Jacky Chi-Hung Chan, Todd Charter Brown, Lino A. Pucci
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Publication number: 20110150259Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing. A waveguide is located within the housing. The waveguide includes a first subsection that bends around a first axis and has a first cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio that is substantially different from unity. A second subsection bends around a second axis that is non-parallel to the first axis and includes a second cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio that is substantially different from unity. A third subsection acoustically couples the first subsection to the second subsection. The third subsection includes a third cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio that varies between the first aspect ratio and the second aspect ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Robert Preston Parker, Roman Litovsky, Jacky Chi-Hung Chan, Todd Charter Brown, Lino A. Pucci
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Publication number: 20110113371Abstract: A user interface for an audio/visual device incorporates the ability to allow a user to interact with two different menus that are displayed simultaneously on a single display element, perhaps one a racetrack menu and the other an on-screen menu of a source device, and incorporates a visual indication of user error that is displayed where the user has operated a first manually-operable control associated with a first one of the menus to move its marker about and has then operated a second manually-operable control associated with the second one of the menus in an apparent errant attempt to select a menu item of the first one of the menus within a predetermined period of time or at a time when it is known that operation of the second manually-operable control to select something is not associated with a valid function, perhaps as a result of the selection of a particular source of audio/visual programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Robert Preston Parker, John Michael Sakalowsky, Santiago Carvajal
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Publication number: 20110109573Abstract: A user interface for an audio/visual device takes measurements of a touch sensor that are indicative of the current position of a tip of a finger of a user against a touch-sensitive surface of the touch sensor on a recurring basis, maintains a predetermined quantity of those measurements in a storage accessible to a processing device implementing at least a portion of the user interface, and employs measurements taken of the touch sensor at a predetermined amount of time into the past in response to an indication of the user having exerted increased pressure against the touch-sensitive surface via the tip to determine the position of that tip at a time relatively shortly before the user began to exert the increase in pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Mark H. Deslippe, Robert Preston Parker, John Michael Sakalowsky, Santiago Carvajal
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Publication number: 20110037906Abstract: A television includes a flat panel display device for presenting video images, a housing for supporting the flat panel display device, and a first acoustic volume located substantially (a) inside the housing, and (b) behind the display device. Two or more acoustic drivers are provided for acoustically energizing the acoustic volume. The drivers are positioned such that acoustic energy put into the acoustic volume from the drivers is substantially additive and vibrational energy from the drivers substantially cancels out.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: Brian J. Gawronski, Jacky Chi-Hung Chan, Hilmar Lehnert, Robert Preston Parker
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Patent number: 7699139Abstract: A surround for supporting a diaphragm used to create acoustic waves includes a rib section extending away from the diaphragm and a membrane section that is supported by the rib section. The membrane section has a thickness in a direction substantially normal to opposing top and bottom surfaces of the membrane section which is substantially thinner than a thickness of the rib section in a direction substantially normal to opposing top and bottom surfaces of the rib section. A restoring force returning the diaphragm to a home position is contributed to more due to deformation of the rib section than to deformation of the membrane section.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: K. Venkat Subramaniam, Zhen Xu, Robert Preston Parker, Jason D. Silver
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Publication number: 20100021000Abstract: A sound producing system includes an electro-acoustic transducer having an electromagnetic motor for moving a diaphragm of the transducer back and forth to create acoustic waves. The diaphragm has a surface that includes one or more of a surface of a dust cap of the diaphragm, a surface of a cone of the diaphragm, and a portion of a surface of a surround of the diaphragm. A solid gas impermeable cover faces the diaphragm surface and has a surface which faces the diaphragm surface. At least a portion of the cover surface has a contour which is substantially the same as a contour of the diaphragm surface. The system includes an asymmetric exit for the acoustic waves to leave a volume defined between the diaphragm surface and the cover surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: Allen T. Graff, Robert Preston Parker, John R. Bruss
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Publication number: 20090245563Abstract: A ported electroacoustical device uses the action of the port to provide cooling airflow across a heat producing device. The device includes a loudspeaker enclosure including a first acoustic port, and an acoustic driver, mounted in the loudspeaker enclosure. The device also includes a heat producing device. The acoustic driver and the acoustic port are constructed and arranged to coact to provide a cooling, substantially unidirectional airflow across the heat producing device, thereby transferring heat from the heat producing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventor: Robert Preston Parker
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Patent number: 7584820Abstract: An apparatus includes an acoustic device comprising a waveguide having a sound opening at one end facing a space, an audio source, an acoustic driver at another end of the waveguide, the acoustic driver facing a listening area, and structure supporting the acoustic device, the audio source, and the acoustic driver, as an integrated audio system, the acoustic driver and the opening in the waveguide facing in substantially different directions from the structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2004Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Robert Preston Parker, Dewey Potter
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Publication number: 20090214066Abstract: A loudspeaker assembly, including an acoustic waveguide; an acoustic driver mounted in the waveguide so that a first surface radiates sound waves into the waveguide so that the sound waves are radiated from the waveguide; and an acoustic volume acoustically coupled to the acoustic waveguide for increasing the amplitude of the sound waves radiated from the acoustic waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Robert Preston Parker, Eric J. Freeman, Jeffrey J. Hoefler
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Patent number: 7565948Abstract: An acoustic waveguide system contains a trunk waveguide and a number of branch waveguides. The trunk waveguide section defines an interior passage and includes at least one open end. A number of branch waveguide sections define an interior passage and include a junction end and a terminal end, with the junction end coupled to the trunk waveguide. One or more cavities can be coupled to at least one of the trunk or branch sections and communicate therewith through a vent for damping the resonance peak of a target standing wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Robert Preston Parker, Dewey Potter, Hal P. Greenberger