Patents by Inventor Peter C. Santoro
Peter C. Santoro 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: 11716563Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a subwoofer. The subwoofer includes a housing having a plurality of walls which together define an acoustic cavity. The plurality of walls includes a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of sidewalls extending between the top and bottom walls and between the front and rear walls. A first transducer mounted to the front wall of the housing. The first transducer includes a diaphragm having a major axis and a minor axis. The major axis has a fist end proximate the bottom wall and an opposite, second end proximate the top wall, such that the major axis is arranged vertical, relative to ground when the subwoofer is rested on its bottom wall. The top wall has a handle such that the loudspeaker can be carried with the major axis arranged vertical to ground.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Greg J. Zastoupil, Peter P. Premo, Peter C. Santoro, Craig Small, Joseph J. Kutil, David Edwards Blore
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Publication number: 20210392431Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a subwoofer. The subwoofer includes a housing having a plurality of walls which together define an acoustic cavity. The plurality of walls includes a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of sidewalls extending between the top and bottom walls and between the front and rear walls. A first transducer mounted to the front wall of the housing. The first transducer includes a diaphragm having a major axis and a minor axis. The major axis has a fist end proximate the bottom wall and an opposite, second end proximate the top wall, such that the major axis is arranged vertical, relative to ground when the subwoofer is rested on its bottom wall. The top wall has a handle such that the loudspeaker can be carried with the major axis arranged vertical to ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Greg J. Zastoupil, Peter P. Premo, Peter C. Santoro, Craig Small, Joseph J. Kutil, David Edwards Blore
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Patent number: 11178797Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a line array assembly and a base for supporting the line array assembly. The line array assembly includes a plurality of electro-acoustic transducers arranged along a vertical axis and the base houses electronics for powering the line array assembly. The base and the line array assembly together define a flow path to facilitate a convective air flow to pass between the base and the line array assembly for cooling the electronics.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Peter C. Santoro, Thomas E. MacDonald
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Patent number: 11153680Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a housing that has a plurality of walls, which together define an acoustic cavity. An electro-acoustic transducer is mounted to a front wall of the housing, and a motion axis of the electro-acoustic transducer is offset from a centroid of the front wall. The loudspeaker is configured to be stacked with an other loudspeaker of identical construction in a first configuration such that the stacked loudspeakers radiate acoustic energy to produce an omnidirectional radiation pattern; and in a second configuration such that the stacked loudspeakers radiate acoustic energy to produce a cardioid radiation pattern. The loudspeaker includes keyed features which do not interlock and thereby inhibit stacking when the loudspeaker is in a first orientation relative to the other loudspeaker, and which interlock to allow stacking when the loudspeaker is in a second orientation relative to the other loudspeaker.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Craig Small, Peter C. Santoro
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Patent number: 11109125Abstract: A line array loudspeaker includes a first plurality of flexible joints, a first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers being linked to each other by the first plurality of flexible joints, and a first sectional horn assembly coupled to the first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers. The first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers is adjustable so that it can be positioned such that an axis that runs through an acoustic center of the first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers is articulable to produce three or more configurations including: a substantially straight configuration and a plurality of arcuate configurations.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph J. Kutil, Paul F. Fidlin, Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden, Kenneth D. Jacob
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Publication number: 20210258685Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a housing that has a plurality of walls, which together define an acoustic cavity. An electro-acoustic transducer is mounted to a front wall of the housing, and a motion axis of the electro-acoustic transducer is offset from a centroid of the front wall. The loudspeaker is configured to be stacked with an other loudspeaker of identical construction in a first configuration such that the stacked loudspeakers radiate acoustic energy to produce an omnidirectional radiation pattern; and in a second configuration such that the stacked loudspeakers radiate acoustic energy to produce a cardioid radiation pattern. The loudspeaker includes keyed features which do not interlock and thereby inhibit stacking when the loudspeaker is in a first orientation relative to the other loudspeaker, and which interlock to allow stacking when the loudspeaker is in a second orientation relative to the other loudspeaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Craig Small, Peter C. Santoro
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Patent number: 11095975Abstract: A line array loudspeaker has a first group of acoustic drivers comprising a first plurality of acoustic drivers each comprising an axis, the first plurality of acoustic drivers arranged so that their axes are parallel. There is a second plurality of acoustic drivers each comprising an axis, the second plurality of acoustic drivers arranged so that their axes are parallel. The first and second plurality of acoustic drivers are arranged such that a projection onto an azimuth plane of the axes of the first plurality of acoustic drivers intersects with a projection onto the azimuth plane of the axes of the second plurality of acoustic drivers at a first, fixed articulation angle. There is a second group of acoustic drivers that is adjacent to the first group. The second group comprises a third plurality of acoustic drivers each comprising an axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Greg Zastoupil, Joseph John Kutil, III, Peter C. Santoro
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Publication number: 20210136961Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a line array assembly and a base for supporting the line array assembly. The line array assembly includes a plurality of electro-acoustic transducers arranged along a vertical axis and the base houses electronics for powering the line array assembly. The base and the line array assembly together define a flow path to facilitate a convective air flow to pass between the base and the line array assembly for cooling the electronics.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Peter C. Santoro, Thomas E. MacDonald
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Publication number: 20210051398Abstract: A line array loudspeaker has a first group of acoustic drivers comprising a first plurality of acoustic drivers each comprising an axis, the first plurality of acoustic drivers arranged so that their axes are parallel. There is a second plurality of acoustic drivers each comprising an axis, the second plurality of acoustic drivers arranged so that their axes are parallel. The first and second plurality of acoustic drivers are arranged such that a projection onto an azimuth plane of the axes of the first plurality of acoustic drivers intersects with a projection onto the azimuth plane of the axes of the second plurality of acoustic drivers at a first, fixed articulation angle. There is a second group of acoustic drivers that is adjacent to the first group. The second group comprises a third plurality of acoustic drivers each comprising an axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Greg Zastoupil, Joseph John Kutil, III, Peter C. Santoro
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Patent number: 10735840Abstract: A device for securing an object to a ceiling includes a threaded rod, a bracket and a spring-loaded tab. The spring-loaded tab has a tab portion with an outer surface. The tab portion is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the threaded rod. When the device is attached to the object and the object moves into an opening in the ceiling for installation to the ceiling, the tab portion is urged from an extended position to enable the object to pass through the opening. Subsequently, the tab portion returns to its extended position such that the object can be temporarily supported by the tab within the ceiling opening. The bracket is configured so that during a removal process, a portion of the bracket urges the tab portion inward from the extended position to enable the object to be removed from the ceiling opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Peter C. Santoro, Dennis E. Meyer, Jr., Robert A. Warden, Gregor Mittersinker, Seung Hyuk Noh, Christopher J. O'Connell
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Publication number: 20200154182Abstract: A device for securing an object to a ceiling includes a threaded rod, a bracket and a spring-loaded tab. The spring-loaded tab has a tab portion with an outer surface. The tab portion is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the threaded rod. When the device is attached to the object and the object moves into an opening in the ceiling for installation to the ceiling, the tab portion is urged from an extended position to enable the object to pass through the opening. Subsequently, the tab portion returns to its extended position such that the object can be temporarily supported by the tab within the ceiling opening. The bracket is configured so that during a removal process, a portion of the bracket urges the tab portion inward from the extended position to enable the object to be removed from the ceiling opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Peter C. SANTORO, Dennis E. MEYER, JR., Robert A. WARDEN, Gregor MITTERSINKER, Seung Hyuk NOH, Christopher J. O'CONNELL
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Patent number: 10582298Abstract: A directional acoustic device with an acoustic source or an acoustic receiver and a conduit to which the acoustic source or acoustic receiver is acoustically coupled and within which acoustic energy travels in a propagation direction from the acoustic source or to the acoustic receiver. The conduit has a radiating portion that has a radiating surface with leak openings that define controlled leaks through which acoustic energy radiated from the source into the conduit can leak to the outside environment or through which acoustic energy in the outside environment can leak into the conduit. The radiating surface has a thin sheet with openings through the sheet, and a cover material with a greater acoustic resistance than an acoustic resistance of an opening. The cover material covers at least parts of at least some of the openings, to define controlled acoustic leaks into or out of the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph A. Coffey, Peter C. Santoro, Edwin C. Johnson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190261073Abstract: A line array loudspeaker includes a first plurality of flexible joints, a first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers being linked to each other by the first plurality of flexible joints, and a first sectional horn assembly coupled to the first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers. The first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers is adjustable so that it can be positioned such that an axis that runs through an acoustic center of the first plurality of electro-acoustic drivers is articulable to produce three or more configurations including: a substantially straight configuration and a plurality of arcuate configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph J. Kutil, Paul F. Fidlin, Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden, Kenneth D. Jacob
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Patent number: 10327051Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a first flexible panel, a first line array of electro-acoustic drivers, and at least one mechanically adjustable point. The first line array of electro-acoustic drivers are mounted on the first flexible panel and linked to each other by flexible joints in the first flexible panel. The at least one mechanically adjustable point enables articulation of the first flexible panel at the flexible joints to produce one or more of a substantially straight and an arcuate configuration of the first line array of electro-acoustic drivers.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph J. Kutil, Paul F. Fidlin, Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden, Kenneth D. Jacob
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Publication number: 20180367875Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a first flexible panel, a first line array of electro-acoustic drivers, and at least one mechanically adjustable point. The first line array of electro-acoustic drivers are mounted on the first flexible panel and linked to each other by flexible joints in the first flexible panel. The at least one mechanically adjustable point enables articulation of the first flexible panel at the flexible joints to produce one or more of a substantially straight and an arcuate configuration of the first line array of electro-acoustic drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph J. Kutil, Paul F. Fidlin, Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden, Kenneth D. Jacob
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Publication number: 20180288508Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a housing, a movable diaphragm within the housing for creating sound waves, and a grill secured to the loudspeaker which covers the diaphragm. At least a substantial portion of a perimeter of the grill has a peripheral region which is folded back on itself by an angle greater than about 95 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden
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Patent number: 10063948Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a first flexible panel, a first line array of electro-acoustic drivers, and at least one mechanically adjustable point. The first line array of electro-acoustic drivers are mounted on the first flexible panel and linked to each other by flexible joints in the first flexible panel. The at least one mechanically adjustable point enables articulation of the first flexible panel at the flexible joints to produce one or more of a substantially straight and an arcuate configuration of the first line array of electro-acoustic drivers.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph J. Kutil, Paul F. Fidlin, Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden, Kenneth D. Jacob
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Publication number: 20180176669Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a first flexible panel, a first line array of electro-acoustic drivers, and at least one mechanically adjustable point. The first line array of electro-acoustic drivers are mounted on the first flexible panel and linked to each other by flexible joints in the first flexible panel. The at least one mechanically adjustable point enables articulation of the first flexible panel at the flexible joints to produce one or more of a substantially straight and an arcuate configuration of the first line array of electro-acoustic drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Joseph J. Kutil, Paul F. Fidlin, Peter C. Santoro, Robert A. Warden, Kenneth D. Jacob
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Patent number: 9913013Abstract: A device for securing an object to a ceiling includes a threaded rod, a bracket and a spring-loaded tab. The spring-loaded tab has a tab portion with an outer surface. The tab portion is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the threaded rod. When the device is attached to the object and the object moves into an opening in the ceiling for installation to the ceiling, the tab portion is urged from an extended position to enable the object to pass through the opening. Subsequently, the tab portion returns to its extended position such that the object can be temporarily supported by the tab within the ceiling opening. The bracket is configured so that during a removal process, a portion of the bracket urges the tab portion inward from the extended position to enable the object to be removed from the ceiling opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Peter C. Santoro, Dennis E. Meyer, Jr., Robert Warden, Gregor Mittersinker, Seung Hyuk Noh, Christopher O'Connell
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Patent number: D832239Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Robert A. Warden, Peter C. Santoro