Patents by Inventor Daniel Steven Kane

Daniel Steven Kane 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).

  • Asymmetric and continuously curved speaker driver enclosure to optimize audio fidelity
    Patent number: 7604091
    Abstract: An improved system and method for reducing standing waves and diffracted waves in speaker a driver enclosure is disclosed. The speaker driver enclosure has an interior enclosure surface, shaped such that any cross section taken of it comprises a looped, substantially continuously curved, non-rational B spline. A rear enclosure surface is provided, the rear enclosure surface being shaped substantially the same as the interior enclosure surface and offset from the interior enclosure by a wall thickness. An outer baffle surface has slightly varying curvatures such that substantially any cross section taken of it comprises a continuously curved, non-rational B spline and a flat surface shaped such that at least one loudspeaker driver may be mounted to it. A loudspeaker driver is mounted to the flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Steven Kane, Kirk Samuel Lombardo
  • ASYMMETRIC AND CONTINUOUSLY CURVED SPEAKER DRIVER ENCLOSURE TO OPTIMIZE AUDIO FIDELITY
    Publication number: 20080308344
    Abstract: An improved system and method for reducing standing waves and diffracted waves in speaker a driver enclosure is disclosed. The speaker driver enclosure has an interior enclosure surface, shaped such that any cross section taken of it comprises a looped, substantially continuously curved, non-rational B spline. A rear enclosure surface is provided, the rear enclosure surface being shaped substantially the same as the interior enclosure surface and offset from the interior enclosure by a wall thickness. An outer baffle surface has slightly varying curvatures such that substantially any cross section taken of it comprises a continuously curved, non-rational B spline and a flat surface shaped such that at least one loudspeaker driver may be mounted to it. A loudspeaker driver is mounted to the flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Altec Lansing, a Division of Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Steven Kane, Kirk Samuel Lombardo