Patents Assigned to AKG Acoustics GmbH
  • Patent number: 7172052
    Abstract: A headphone has a headband and two earpieces each connected to the headband so as to be pivotable about at least two pivot axes. The two pivot axes intersect one another at a point of intersection that is positioned on or near a central axis of the earpiece, respectively. Arms connect the earpieces to the headband, wherein the arms define a first one of the two pivot axes, respectively. A second one of the two pivot axes is fixedly arranged on the headband, respectively. In this way, the earpieces are rotatable about the arms and the arms are rotatable relative to the headband about the second pivot axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus
  • Patent number: 7151840
    Abstract: A miniaturized electro-dynamic sound transducer has a housing made of deep drawn sheet metal. A magnet system with a magnet is arranged in the housing. A diaphragm provided with a coil is arranged in the housing, and wires extend from the coil to contacts. The housing has an outer diameter of maximally 20 mm. The thin sheet metal of the housing has an average thickness of maximally 0.2 mm. The magnet system has a lower pole piece and an upper pole piece, wherein the pole upper and lower pieces are made of sheet steel having a thickness of at least 1.5 times an average thickness of the bottom of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventors: Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus, Ernst Stöttinger
  • Patent number: 7091893
    Abstract: A loudspeaker control circuit includes a bit splitter, a complement module and a digital-to-analog converter. The bit splitter divides a data item representing an acoustic signal into a high order bit group and a low order bit group. The complement module determines a complement of at least one of the high order bit group and the low order bit group. The complement module may be connected in series to the digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter converts the high order bit group and the low order bit group from a digital format to an analog format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Otto Seknicka
  • Patent number: 7072483
    Abstract: A headphone has a headband and two earpieces each connected to the headband so as to be pivotable relative thereto. When assuming a Cartesian coordinate system having a Z plane that is a symmetry plane of the headphone, having a Y plane that is positioned perpendicularly to the Z plane and extends through a center of the headband, and having an X plane that is positioned perpendicularly to the Z and Y planes at any desired height, a pivot axis is provided between the headband and the earpiece, respectively, wherein the pivot axis is positioned at an angle of at least 10° relative to the X, Y, and Z planes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus
  • Patent number: 7013017
    Abstract: A microphone capsule support in which the microphone capsule is mounted elastically in a microphone housing using two annular diaphragms. The capsule is connected through the annular diaphragms to a bearing bushing and a cover is connected to the bearing bushing at least in an essentially air-tight manner, such that a closed volume is formed by the lower annular diaphragm, the cover and the capsule. A small opening is provided for connecting the closed volume to the atmosphere. The bearing bushing and/or the cover are connected to the microphone housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Gino Pavlovic
  • Patent number: 6885751
    Abstract: An electrostatic pressure-gradient microphone capsule to be mounted essentially flush in or behind especially flat mounting surfaces includes a capsule housing with two sound inlet openings which may be divided, a diaphragm tightly mounted on a diaphragm ring, an electrode and possibly an acoustic friction. The two sound entry openings are arranged on one side of the capsule housing, i.e., the front side, and one sound entry opening is connected acoustically conductively with the front side of the diaphragm and the other sound entry opening is connected acoustically conductively with the rear side of the diaphragm, and the diaphragm is arranged essentially parallel to the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Pribyl
  • Patent number: 6845167
    Abstract: An electroacoustic microphone transducer operating electrostatically has a microphone capsule, a flexprint, and a high-resistance pre-amplifier mounted on the flexprint and arranged in the microphone capsule. A post amplifier is arranged on a printed board. The flexprint has at least one part projecting past a cross-section of the microphone capsule. The flexprint is connected directly to the printed board of the post amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Pribyl
  • Patent number: 6792123
    Abstract: An electrostatically operating electroacoustic transducer, operating as a sound receiver and configured to be mounted in a microphone capsule, has an electrode and a diaphragm connected to one another at a spacing from one another by a spacer ring, wherein on the electrode at least one first electric resistor is arranged which is connected to a power supply during operation of the microphone. The resistor is heated to prevent condensation of water vapor, and this improves the resistance of the microphone against ambient humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Gino Pavlovic
  • Patent number: 6789311
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wire includes pressing a lacquer-coated wire having a round cross-section into a wire having a long cross-sectional axis and a short cross-sectional axis, wherein the ratio of the axes is at most 3:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fidi, Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus
  • Publication number: 20040165735
    Abstract: The invention relates to an array microphone with several individual microphones (1-4) connected with a signal processor (11) that for each individual microphone, comprises at least one digital filter, in particular for voice recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Opitz
  • Patent number: 6668066
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer of small dimensions has a cup-shaped component made of a metallizable plastic material embedded in a housing component having a housing shape and being of a non-metallizable plastic material. The cup-shaped component has an inner surface provided with a metal coating. A magnet is arranged in the cup-shaped component. A diaphragm is connected to the housing component and has an oscillation coil configured to interact with the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Pribyl
  • Patent number: 6639991
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer, functioning as an acoustic pick-up or as a sound generator, has a housing having a bottom and a wall portion. A diaphragm is connected to the housing opposite the bottom and encloses a diaphragm volume. An electromagnetic system is arranged in the housing and has a coil connected to the diaphragm. The housing has at least one cutout cooperating with at least one projection provided on a device in which the electroacoustic transducer is to be mounted. The projection defines a passage between the diaphragm volume and a volume at the back of the housing and thus forms the main air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Hannes Lehdorfer
  • Publication number: 20030189038
    Abstract: A method and device for winding and baking compact coils of wire with at least one baked enamel layer on a heated winding mandrel. The method includes providing the winding mandrel at the beginning of winding with a temperature which is above the softening temperature of the baked lacquer. The device includes at least one electrical heating cartridge arranged in the interior of the winding mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Djordjevic Milorad
  • Patent number: 6622820
    Abstract: A pop shield for a microphone, the microphone having a housing and an electroacoustic transducer arranged in the housing and having a main voice input direction in an axial direction of the housing, is in the form of a cover of a first open-pore foam. The cover and the housing together enclose the electroacoustic transducer. The cover has, at least in the main voice input direction, two foam layers spaced apart from one another and defining a space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Gino Pavlovic
  • Patent number: 6619969
    Abstract: A plug, particularly for connecting a musical instrument, a microphone, or the like, to an amplifier, a recording device, or the like, the plug includes a central rod-shaped conductor, a mushroom-shaped part at an end of the rod-shaped conductor, a sleeve of electrically conductive material surrounding the rod-shaped conductor at a radial distance, and an insulating material separating the rod-shaped conductor and the sleeve. A cylindrical bolt is mounted at another end of the rod-shaped conductor and has two bolt portions with different diameters extending transversely of the rod-shaped conductor. The sleeve has electrically conductively connected thereto a surface portion which at least partially surrounds at a radial distance and is electrically insulated from the bolt portion having a smaller diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Scheider, Michael Szolga
  • Patent number: D504678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Rührig
  • Patent number: D508904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Schwald
  • Patent number: D516546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Sobol
  • Patent number: D481709
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Solderits
  • Patent number: D498232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Rührig