Abstract: An electret condenser microphone includes a microphone capsule having a diaphragm, a fixed electrode and an extraction electrode. The extraction electrode includes a closed-bottomed cylinder composed of a conductive material. The fixed electrode has holes extending from an air chamber between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode to an air chamber within the extraction electrode, and is fixed to a shoulder of the extraction electrode to form the air chamber that serves as acoustic capacitor within the extraction electrode.

Abstract: A cap body 3 is provided for covering a housing of a microphone body 2. The cap body 3 has an insertion hole 32 into which the housing is inserted, sound collecting holes 31a and 31b through which the exterior of the cap body 3 is in communication with the insertion hole 32. While the housing is inserted into the insertion hole 32, a sound collector 21 lies in the insertion hole 32, and the axis line direction of the sound collecting holes 31a and 31b are different from the directive axis of the microphone body 2 of which the housing is inserted in the insertion hole 32.

Abstract: An earmuff and a headphone includes: a headband; an ear cup attached to the headband; a baffle board fixed on the ear cup; an ear pad engaged to the baffle board. An air-permeable member provided between the baffle board and the ear pad.

Abstract: The present invention provides a unidirectional microphone by adding an output from an omnidirectional condenser microphone unit and an output from a bi-directional ribbon microphone unit together. A condenser microphone unit 10 and a ribbon microphone unit 20 are connected in series via a step-up transformer 30, and the respective sound signals from the microphone units 10 and 20 are added together and are output from a source S of an FET 14.

Abstract: A ribbon microphone unit includes a pair of magnets generating a magnetic field, a ribbon diaphragm disposed in the magnetic field generated by the magnets, and a circuit substrate provided with signal paths that conduct electrical signals generated by vibration of the ribbon diaphragm to output terminals. The signal paths are symmetrical about the longitudinal central axis of the ribbon diaphragm.

Abstract: A stereo capacitor microphone unit includes: two unidirectional microphone units integrally formed with respective fixed electrodes of the unidirectional microphone units facing each other; and an insulating spacer that is interposed between the fixed electrodes and provided with a gap formed at a portion of an outer periphery towards radial direction. The gap communicates fixed electrode rear spaces of the respective unidirectional microphone units with an external space to serve as a common rear acoustic terminal for the unidirectional microphone units.

Abstract: Diaphragms of a plurality of capacitor microphone units are arranged in the same plane and the capacitor microphone units are connected in series to make an output from an impedance converter connected to one capacitor microphone unit drives a ground side of another capacitor microphone unit connected to the impedance converter.

Abstract: A head of a condenser microphone includes: a condenser microphone unit; a housing supporting the condenser microphone unit; a first circuit board arranged adjacent to the condenser microphone unit in the housing; a second circuit board arranged remote from the condenser microphone unit and separated from the first circuit board in the housing; and a magnetic sheet arranged between and separated from the first circuit board and the second circuit board in the housing, the first circuit board including a circuit for processing an audio signal from the condenser microphone unit; the second circuit board including a DC-DC converter circuit unit for generating a polarization voltage to be applied to the condenser microphone unit.

Abstract: A highly directional microphone includes an acoustic tube and a microphone unit that is disposed inside the base end of the acoustic tube. The acoustic tube is composed of an elastic material. An adjustable member elongates and contracts the distance between the microphone unit and the front end of the acoustic tube. The acoustic tube is held by an acoustic-tube protector having openings on a peripheral wall thereof. The base end of the acoustic tube is integrated to the acoustic-tube protector, and the front end of the acoustic tube is connected to a sliding cylinder that is slidably fitted in the axis direction of the acoustic tube along the acoustic-tube protector.

Abstract: A condenser microphone which prevents a directional axis from varying depending on a sound source frequency is provided. The condenser microphone includes a first reflector member 2 provided below the microphone unit 17 and covering an electronic circuit substrate 19 and a second reflector member 3 formed in the same shape as the first reflector member and provided above the microphone unit, the first reflector member and the second reflector member being disposed symmetrically with respect to the microphone unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitor microphone unit including a diaphragm, a fixed electrode that is arranged opposite to the diaphragm with a space provided between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode so that a capacitor is formed between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode, an insulating base that is disposed on a rear side of the fixed electrode and supports the fixed electrode, and a ring-shaped acoustic resistance material that is disposed on a front side of the insulating base, all of which are incorporated in a unit casing. A skin layer is formed on at least one of a front side and a rear side of the acoustic resistance material, and the skin layer has a higher density than that inside the acoustic resistance material, whereby acoustic resistance can be readily controlled.

Abstract: A stereo microphone includes a supporter that is made of an elastic material. The supporter fixes two unidirectional microphone units at certain angles. A moving part is used to apply external force to a part of the supporter so that an angle formed by main axes of the respective unidirectional microphone units is changed by deformation of the supporter.

Abstract: A boundary microphone is provided to effectively reduce noises caused by external electromagnetic waves by providing electrostatic shielding, including on the portion of lead wires from a microphone unit to a circuit board. The boundary microphone has a base plate, a cover, a circuit board, and a microphone unit mounted in the opening with a metallic holder. A shield pattern for electrostatically shielding inside of the recess with the base plate is formed on the circuit board. The holder is configured to include a cylindrical section into which a rear end side of the microphone unit is fitted, and a D-cut section in which a part of a circumferential surface and a base surface of a cylinder with a base integral with the cylindrical section are cut away in parallel to a board surface of the circuit board, and the lead wire is routed within the D-cut section.

Abstract: Provided is an integrated gooseneck condenser microphone including a microphone unit and an output module which are connected to each other. The gooseneck condenser microphone can improve the connection strength of a microphone housing and prevent the generation of noise due to disturbance electromagnetic waves. The gooseneck condenser microphone includes a connection member 20b which is provided at the rear end of a shielded housing 20a and into which the leading end of a supporting pipe 30 is inserted and an electrical insulating member 6 that is interposed between the connection member and the supporting pipe and electrically insulates the connection member from the supporting pipe. A groove portion 5 is formed in the inner circumferential surface of the connection member along the circumferential direction, and the leading ends of the supporting pipe and the electrical insulating member inserted into the connection member are fitted to the groove portion while the diameters thereof are expanded.

Abstract: To provide an insulator, which supports a fixed pole in a unidirectional condenser microphone in a shareable manner among microphones that are different in the distance between acoustic terminals from one another. Coarse adjustment is performed on an insulator 31 including a plurality of sound holes 32 drilled therein by acoustically closing a predetermined sound hole 32 among the plurality of sound holes 32 by a predetermined sound hole closing means, and fine adjustment is performed by applying a predetermined amount of compressive force to an acoustic resistance member 40 by an acoustic resistance adjusting means 50 (adjustment nut 51), so as to adjust acoustic resistance present in a sound wave passage from a rear acoustic terminal to the back of a diaphragm.

Abstract: There is provided a gooseneck condenser microphone that is further strengthened the shield structure of a support pipe and is less prone to causing a trouble. This condenser microphone has a support pipe 30 for supporting a condenser microphone unit 10 and an output module part 20, a microphone cable 40 in which a shielding wire 44 is exposed is inserted in the support pipe 30, and a conductive sealant agent 50 is filled in a void between the microphone cable 40 and the support pipe 30.

Abstract: A capacitor microphone includes: a capacitor microphone unit including a diaphragm that vibrates upon receiving sound waves and a fixed electrode arranged opposite to the diaphragm with a space therebetween; and a polarization voltage generating circuit that generates polarization voltage to be applied across the diaphragm and the fixed electrode. The polarization voltage generating circuit includes an oscillating circuit that alternately turns on and off DC power, coils to boost the voltage of the power alternately turned on and off, and a DC boosting circuit including a rectifying circuit that rectifies the boosted voltage. The coils are formed of two inductors that are electromagnetically coupled and are provided with an electromagnetic coupling adjusting unit with which the level of electromagnetic coupling between the two inductors is adjusted to adjust the polarization voltage.

Abstract: There is provided a cooked rice molding apparatus which enables a rice mat to be easily moved and the rice mat to be stored. A rice mat formed into a plate shape by a forming section 3 is spread over a pick plate 5 placed on a slide tray 4, and the rice mat, along with the pick plate 5, is removed from the slide tray 4.

Abstract: A condenser microphone includes a cylindrical microphone case having a condenser microphone unit therein; a microphone connector having an insulating base, one ground pin and two signal pins are embedded in the microphone connector; and a cylindrical connector sleeve fitted in the microphone case and accommodating the microphone connector therein, in which the connector sleeve has a concave-convex part on the outer peripheral surface thereof, the concave-convex part is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the microphone case at a plurality of points after the connector sleeve is fixed into the end of the microphone case by fixing means, and thereby the connector sleeve is electrically conducted with the microphone case.

Abstract: A unidirectional condenser microphone unit includes a unit casing formed of a metallic cylindrical body and having a front acoustic terminal on a front surface thereof and a rear acoustic terminal on a side surface thereof, an electrostatic acousto-electric converter disposed inside the unit casing, and a shield member put on the rear acoustic terminal from an inside of the unit casing in a cylindrical shape. The shield member has a length approximately equal to an inner periphery length of the unit casing and a width covering the rear acoustic terminal. Also, the shield member is formed of a metal plate having spring elasticity, and includes a large number of holes for electromagnetic shield substantially throughout the entire surface thereof.