Patents by Inventor Yen-Chen Chan

Yen-Chen Chan 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).

  • Patent number: 8208677
    Abstract: An elastically deformable suspension member for use in a speaker to establish a sufficient support to a cone is disclosed. The suspension member has an inner diameter portion for mounting the cone, an outer diameter portion spaced around the inner diameter portion for fastening to a basket, a first annular convex surface portion concentrically arranged between the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion and constituting a summit, and a number of second annular convex surface portions symmetrically arranged at two opposite lateral sides of the first annular convex surface portion between the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion and respectively constituting summit ridges having a height below the summit and above the elevations of the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Chen Chan, Chun-Yi Lin, Jason Theodore Kemmerer
  • Publication number: 20090180661
    Abstract: An elastically deformable suspension member use in a speaker to give a sufficient support to the cone is disclosed having an inner diameter portion for the mounting of a cone, an outer diameter portion spaced around the inner diameter portion for fastening to a basket, and a number of annular convex surface portions concentrically arranged between the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion. The annular convex surface portions include a first annular convex surface portion that constitutes a summit, and a number of second annular convex surface portions symmetrically arranged at two opposite lateral sides of the first annular convex surface portion between the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion and respectively constituting a respective summit ridge having a height below the summit and above the elevations of the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: YEN-CHEN CHAN, Chun-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 7561704
    Abstract: A speaker, which includes a basket holding an exciter, a holding down ring fastened to the basket to hold down a diaphragm, which has an annular suspension and a cone fastened to the inner diameter of the annular suspension and coupled to the exciter, and a locating plate capped on an annular positioning portion of the exciter and pressed on the center area of the cone with a beveled outer bearing surface to hold down the center area of the cone against vibration in transverse direction to prevent a distortion of sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 7382892
    Abstract: An evenly elastically deformable damper for speaker is disclosed to include a damper body of a plain weave fabric having elastic warp wires and weft wires intercrossed in X and Y directions and a center through hole cut through the top and bottom surfaces and bonded to a voice coil, a plurality of reinforcing patches stitched to the damper body in a crossed manner around the center through hole of the damper body to secure lead wires to the damper body and formed of a plain weave fabric having elastic warp wires and weft wires intercrossed in direction A and direction B at about 45° relative to X and Y directions to keep the damper body in balance and to prevent damage of the lead wires when vibrated with the voice coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 7274796
    Abstract: A reinforced speaker damper includes a ring-shaped damper body made of woven fabric in the form of a mesh and press-molded to form a wavy cross-section having alternating ridges and troughs. A plurality of reinforces is attached to the damper body. Each reinforce includes a woven fabric in the form of a mesh with rectangular openings extending in a direction different from that of the damper body and having a wavy cross-section for closely fitting over the wavy configuration of the damper body. Each reinforce is fixed to the damper body by for example sewing and extends between inner and outer circumferences of the ring of the damper body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20070189576
    Abstract: An evenly elastically deformable damper for speaker is disclosed to include a damper body of a plain weave fabric having elastic warp wires and weft wires intercrossed in X and Y directions and a center through hole cut through the top and bottom surfaces and bonded to a voice coil, a plurality of reinforcing patches stitched to the damper body in a crossed manner around the center through hole of the damper body to secure lead wires to the damper body and formed of a plain weave fabric having elastic warp wires and weft wires intercrossed in direction A and direction B at about 45° relative to X and Y directions to keep the damper body in balance and to prevent damage of the lead wires when vibrated with the voice coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20070127765
    Abstract: A speaker, which includes a basket holding an exciter, a holding down ring fastened to the basket to hold down a diaphragm, which has an annular suspension and a cone fastened to the inner diameter of the annular suspension and coupled to the exciter, and a locating plate capped on an annular positioning portion of the exciter and pressed on the center area of the cone with a beveled outer bearing surface to hold down the center area of the cone against vibration in transverse direction to prevent a distortion of sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 7184568
    Abstract: A speaker having a locating ring mounted in an accommodating open chamber inside a basket to hold down a damper is disclosed. The basket has an annular bottom rib protruded from the bottom side of the accommodating open chamber around the center of the basket, and a plurality of radial reinforcing ribs formed integral with the annular bottom rib and radially extending over the annular bottom rib to the topmost edge of the basket and equiangularly spaced around the accommodating open chamber, each radial reinforcing rib having a groove extending along the length thereof inside the accommodating open chamber and a plurality of slots formed in the groove and cut through the annular bottom rib for guiding heat and noises out of the accommodating open chamber during operation of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20060291689
    Abstract: An elastically deformable surround for speaker is disclosed to have two elastic surround elements and a cloth lining fixedly mounted in between the elastic surround elements, each elastic surround element having an inner diameter portion for the mounting of a cone, an outer diameter portion for fastening to a basket, and an annular surface portion smoothly arched in transverse direction and extending around the inner diameter portion and connected between the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20060251285
    Abstract: A surge-proof damper for use in a speaker is disclosed to include a damper body made of an elastic material by cross-weaving, a plurality of reinforcing pads made of an elastic material by cross-weaving and fastened to the damper body by stitches or a bonding agent to affix lead wires to the damper body and to have the woven pattern extending at an angle relative to the extending direction of the woven pattern of the damper body to reinforce the structural strength of the damper body against horizontal and vertical stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20060171557
    Abstract: A speaker having a locating ring mounted in an accommodating open chamber inside a basket to hold down a damper is disclosed. The basket has an annular bottom rib protruded from the bottom side of the accommodating open chamber around the center of the basket, and a plurality of radial reinforcing ribs formed integral with the annular bottom rib and radially extending over the annular bottom rib to the topmost edge of the basket and equiangularly spaced around the accommodating open chamber, each radial reinforcing rib having a groove extending along the length thereof inside the accommodating open chamber and a plurality of slots formed in the groove and cut through the annular bottom rib for guiding heat and noises out of the accommodating open chamber during operation of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventor: YEN-CHEN CHAN
  • Publication number: 20060029247
    Abstract: An elastically deformable suspension member for speaker is disclosed to have an inner diameter portion for mounting of a cone, an outer diameter portion spaced around the inner diameter portion at a predetermined pitch for fastening to a basket, and three or more arched surface portions formed in the predetermined pitch and extending one within another around the inner diameter portion and connected between the inner diameter portion and the outer diameter portion for enabling the suspension member to give a sufficient support to the connected cone to prevent distortion during working of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20060018501
    Abstract: A reinforced speaker damper includes a ring-shaped damper body made of wove fabric in the form of a mesh and press-molded to form a wavy cross-section having alternating ridges and troughs. A plurality of reinforces is attached to the damper body. Each reinforce includes a woven fabric in the form of a mesh extending in a direction different from that of the damper body and having a wavy cross-section for closely fitting over the wavy configuration of the damper body. Each reinforce is fixed to the damper body by for example sewing and extends between inner and outer circumferences of the ring of the damper body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2004
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 6810988
    Abstract: A speaker's damper is comprised of a main body and lead wires, in which the damper's main body is essentially a piece of woven cloth pressed in the form of an annular disk with a corrugated cutaway section while the lead wire is a metallic wire in texture properly interwoven in the damper's main body so that the jumping-rope phenomenon of the lead wire can be avoided when the damper's main body is in vibration. The lead wire is securely attached to the main body on the woven cloth and beneath a plurality of lifted-up cloth segments. Also, by means of a guide sleeve, two lead wires can be prevented from being short-circuited during vibration of the dampers main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 6757402
    Abstract: A knockdown speaker. The speaker includes a magnetic circuit base, a casing, and a vibration unit. The magnetic circuit base is substantially a hollow body having a central projecting cylinder and fixing holes in its top rim. The vibration unit is composed of a funnel-shaped cone socket and a damper set, which are formed by combining a bottom end and a top end of the vibration unit respectively with a sound ring set or a piece of drum paper. The magnetic circuit base is mounted on the bottom rim of the casing. The vibration unit is jointed with the magnetic circuit base via the sound ring set arranged at the bottom end of the vibration unit to form a consolidated knockdown speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20040104070
    Abstract: A speaker's damper is comprised of a main body and lead wires, in which the damper's main body is essentially a piece of woven cloth pressed in form of an annular disk with a corrugated cutaway section while the lead wire is a metallic wire in texture properly interwoven in the damper's main body, such that the jumping-rope phenomenon of the lead wire can be avoided when the damper's main body is in vibration. Also, by means of a guide sleeve, two lead wires can be prevented from being short-circuited during vibration of the damper's main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Publication number: 20040101155
    Abstract: In a fixing disk for connecting voice coil with drum paper and retaining them in a speaker, a circular fixed lid for jointing with an upper edge of a voice coil is laid in center of the fixing disk, and the circumferential edge of the fixed lid is connected with a plurality of connection ribs. The other end of each connection rib is then connected with an annular fixed piece, which is inclined in a same oblique angle with the drum paper such that it can be thoroughly fitted on the drum paper when the fixed lid covers the voice coil. By so doing, the fixing disk of this invention can fasten the voice coil and the drum paper together to raise the tone quality of the synchronous vertical vibration of the drum paper and the voice coil when the voice coil is outputting the audio power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 6732832
    Abstract: A speaker damper comprises a damper casing and a metallic whisker, wherein the damper casing is substantially a woven pad formed as a circular wafer with corrugated sections, while the metallic whisker is substantially a conductive wire intermittently penetrated and buried in the damper casing. A fastening string is provided to tie the metallic whisker intermittently and hold it steadily to the damper casing without incurring the so-called repetitious jump-rope phenomenon during vibration of the later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 6724907
    Abstract: A tweeter support rack structure includes a tweeter body, a fixing base, and a support rack body. The tweeter body is fixed on the fixing base by a fixing screw. The fixing base has a top combined with the tweeter body, and a bottom combined with the support rack body. The bottom of the fixing base is provided with at least one locking ratchet. The support rack body has a top combined with the fixing base which may be rotated on the top of the support rack body. The top of the support rack body is provided with multiple locking teeth meshing with the locking ratchet of the fixing base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 6674871
    Abstract: A positioning device for a diaphragm of speakers includes an inner ring and an outer ring with a plurality of connection plates connected between the inner ring and the outer ring. The positioning device is attached to a side of the diaphragm and has a wave-shaped cross section which is complimentary to a shape of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is retained by the positioning device and will not shifts during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan