Abstract: A bass reflex type speaker system has a duct for transmitting sound waves. The duct is formed with a plurality of sound paths, and each of the sound paths has a unique length such that respective differences in the lengths of the sound paths cause destructive interference at particular frequencies. The interference occurs at a wavelength or wavelengths corresponding to the particular frequency or frequencies at which a local relative peak in sound level occurs due to leaking sound.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system which comprises a loudspeaker unit for radiating a first sound, a horn unit having a throat coupled to the back of the loudspeaker for radiating a second sound, and an acoustic filter provided in the horn for causing an acoustic impedance of the horn unit to be discontinuous. When the minimum frequency of cyclic dales of the sound pressure observed in the characteristic curves of a sound pressure of a composite of the first and second sounds as a result of a phase delay brought about by the length of the horn unit is expressed by fd, a primary harmonic resonance can be produced between the loudspeaker unit and the acoustic filter which is similar to that produced by a straight acoustic tube having its opposite ends closed, thereby to render the frequency of the primary resonance to be generally equal to the frequency fd.

Abstract: A mobile speaker system for mounting on a rear parcel tray attachment portion of a vehicle, the speaker system includes: a bottom casing elongated along a vehicle's width; an upper casing mounted over the elongated bottom casing so as to form a speaker cabinet, the bottom casing having a plurality of first ribs projecting in a first direction, and a plurality of second ribs projecting in a second direction which is substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and fixing metal fittings attached to at least one of the ribs so as to prevent transformation of the bottom casing. In one embodiment, the upper casing includes a recess portion at a central portion thereof, an opening portion formed in the recess portion for mounting a woofer unit, and two ducts for a bass-reflex type cabinet are formed at opposite sides of the opening portion.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a ported reflex speaker enclosure for use in the automotive audio systems industry. The ported reflex speaker enclosure is a design that factors the audio and thermal design considerations as found in the automotive operating environment as well as factoring the audio and mechanical mounting considerations as found in the automobile audio systems. The ported reflex speaker enclosure is primarily intended for six (6) by nine (9) inch standard speaker chassis used in automotive audio systems that typically are found as non-enclosed suspended speakers in the trunk compartment of automobiles.

Abstract: A speaker system mounted on a rear portion of a vehicle compartment. The speaker system has an elongated cabinet extending in horizontal direction, and an elongated buffle plate coupled to a front open end of the cabinet for providing a cabinet chamber. Within the chamber, a woofer speaker is provided. A vibration surface of the woofer speaker extends in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the cabinet, and a speaker frame of the woofer speaker is interposedly supported between the cabinet and the buffle plate.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system is provided for installation in a space between a front panel and an enclosed area behind the front panel of a partition such as a wall, ceiling or floor fronting a listening area. Electroacoustical transducers are provided which have a two sided vibratory diaphragm driven by an electrical signal. An enclosure mounts the electroacoustical transducers such that one side of the vibratory diaphragm is in contact with air outside the enclosure, with the enclosure being configured to substantially enclose and define a specific volume of air within the enclosure having a predefined acoustic compliance and which is in contact with the other side of the vibratory diaphragm of the electroacoustical transducers.

Abstract: A sound reproducing apparatus for use in a vehicle having a speaker system constituted by at least one acoustic duct and a speaker unit disposed at a throat of the acoustic duct, an opening formed at the other end of the acoustic duct facing the passenger compartment of a vehicle. The apparatus is arranged such that, F0 and Fs are substantially equal to each other. Where Fs is the lowest frequency in a frequency range within which the imaginary part of the acoustic impedance at the sound radiating surface of the speaker system in the direction of the space within the passsenger compartment is zero and F0 is the low-range resonance frequency of the speaker system itself in the free space.

Abstract: An enclosure for a bass loudspeaker for housing in a larger multiple loudspeaker enclosure having a pair of concentric cylindrical shells filled with dense particulate matter.

Abstract: A loudspeaker with a pair of speaker units and a manifold chamber between the speaker units for combining the sound from both speaker units. The manifold chamber is formed by walls having an exit opening and a pair of rectangular apertures, the apertures confronting each other on opposite sides of the chamber and the exit opening being disposed normal to a plane centrally between the apertures, and the apertures and exit opening having parallel axes of elongation. One of the speaker units is coupled to each of the apertures to direct sound into the manifold chamber, and the manifold chamber is provided with a wedge confronting the apertures to direct sound parallel to the central plane between the apertures toward the exit opening. In one construction, a horn is coupled to the exit opening to conduct sound from the manifold chamber.

Abstract: A reflector disperses the audio waves from a loudspeaker acoustic source in a substantially 180 degree pattern. The reflector, coupled with a speaker, forms a loudspeaker system producing a wide dispersion of audio waves in a listening area. The reflector can be adjusted to alter the direction of the dispersal pattern in the listening area.

Abstract: An improved loud speaker mounting frame having a continuous conic shape in cross section, so that by means of the conic and apertures along the apex on one side of the conic cross section shape the interference of negative sound waves within the cabinet is reduced and resonance problems of the cabinet are eliminated. Efficiency of the loud speaker system is thereby improved. The concept of conic formation includes an improved V-shaped filtering wave modulation plate utilized in small speaker cabinets.

Abstract: A speaker enclosure assembly is disclosed, which comprises an enclosure provided with a baffle plate, to which a speaker unit is attached, characterized in that the enclosure is provided with a bellows-like sound pressure buffer member.

Abstract: A loudspeaker having means for acoustically impeding excursion of the transducer diaphragm and means for acoustically attenuating the output of acoustic vibrations of frequencies above a preselected frequency. The loudspeaker includes first and second subchambers separated by a dividing wall in which the transducer is mounted. A first port acoustically couples the first subchamber with the second subchamber and a second port acoustically couples the second subchamber with the outside environment surrounding the loudspeaker.

Abstract: A speaker system especially designed to improve the characteristics of low sound bands. The speaker system desirably includes a partition dividing the interior of a cabinet into a speaker chamber and a resonance chamber, and two radiation ports. One radiation port is formed on the partition and the other one on the walls of the resonance chamber which do not face each other.

Abstract: Electroacoustic apparatus for reproducing lowest to medium frequencies being provided with a housing wherein a folded exponential horn combined with a loudspeaker is defined having five horn element walls lengthening the horn with good exponential form toward its throat and bent horn element walls provided in the area ending in the horn mouth and at foldings above the mouth and forming the horn with high approximation to an exponential function. The horn element walls are arranged so that undesired reflections are substantially avoided and no sharp break points exist in the course of the horn which is advantageously prolongated toward its throat, and a high characteristic acoustic impedance as well as a linear frequency reproduction characteristic over a wide range are achieved.

Abstract: One or more up-firing woofer loudspeakers (12 or 22) are mounted atop a truncated pyramidal enclosure (1 or 21). A down-firing tweeter (5 or 25) is aligned above the woofer. A sound-reflecting sphere (4 or 24) is disposed between the woofer and the tweeter. When the sphere is aligned there-between omni-directional sound is radiated in both horizontal and vertical planes. When the sphere is positioned to the rear, a medium to high frequency forward hemispherical pattern is obtained. This pattern is desirable when the loudspeaker structure is positioned against a wall. Duct ports (3) or a folded horn (20) within the enclosure enhance very low frequency sound.

Abstract: An enclosure for a transduction element incorporates a geometrically shaped acoustically reflective shell. This acoustically reflective shell is shaped so that the inner surface thereof is at a least a section of that shape generated when a parabolic structure is rotated around a line which, lies in the plane of the parabolic structure, is perpendicular to the major axis of the parabolic structure. Such geomtrically generated shapes will have one distinct focal curve. A transduction element placed about this focal curve will, in operation, cause acoustic radiation to be produced which will be characterized by a plane wavefront of coherent radiation. Said device may alternately act as a transducer which produces a 360 degree beam width by placement of a plane wavefront producing transduction means at a position above the acoustically reflective shell and parallel to the plane of the distinct focal curve.

Abstract: A sound radiating loudspeaker and tubular enclosure combination wherein the tubular enclosure is either formed in a helical configuration or two or more straight tubular sections which interest each other at an angle. In either form the tube is capable of free standing on a supporting surface with a loudspeaker closing the upper end of the tube and angled generally toward a listening area. Also in either form, additional speakers enclosed in shorter tubes may be joined to the main tube with all speakers either in a common plane or in planes at a slight angle to one another.

Abstract: A speaker enclosure characterized by a curved back wall and top and bottom planar surface members which together define a front opening. A speaker member, a horn member and a tweeter member are adapted to be mounted within the front opening. At least the curved back wall is made from wood of a specified range of thicknesses and of a particular range of radii of curvature to achieve increased power output for the speaker and enhanced quality of sound.

Abstract: The invention concerns a loudspeaker housing (1), particularly for rendition of the deep and middle tone ranges, having a loudspeaker (27) and a folded flare (14; 20, 21, 15, 16; 6). The front side of this loudspeaker housing (1) has an upper area, in which the loudspeaker (27) is located, as well as a lower area, which represents the end of the folded flare. The tones with higher frequency are thus radiated directly from the loudspeaker (9, 27) forwards, while the low frequency tones are radiated via the folded flare, whereby this flare guides the sound waves generated by the loudspeaker (9, 27) towards the rear wall of the loudspeaker housing (1). Hereby, the flare is formed by an opening (18) in an intermediate wall (17), an arch (14), two guide spacers (20, 21), two arches (15, 16) above the guide spacers (20, 21), and one exponentially curved wall (6) (FIG. 2).

Abstract: A planar loudspeaker system having an elongated and substantially planar enclosure, configured to house tweeter, midrange, and a pair of upper and lower woofer diaphragms in its median, longitudinal section. A pair of woofer labyrinths, acting as quarter-wave transmission lines, extends throughout the remainder of the enclosure's volume. The labyrinths vent the substantially in-phase backwaves forwardly, toward the listener, through a pair of shared ports in the mid-frontal region of the enclosure. An electro-magnetic drive unit, employing bar magnets, pole pieces and thin encapsulated moving coils, all of elongated and symmetrical configuration, is also disclosed. Three versions of the drive unit are shown, each being adapted to provide a distributive driving force to the planar diaphragms of the loudspeaker.

Abstract: A vehicular speaker system in which a resonance of the vehicle's interior is compensated by a resonance of a chamber enclosing the rear of the speaker unit. The chamber includes rearwardly facing ports.

Abstract: A vented louspeaker has a speaker and a vent tube within the loudspeaker enclosure, the vent tube being arranged obliquely to the wall on which it is mounted and being longer than the distance between that wall and the opposite wall.

Abstract: A loudspeaker is disclosed having an enhanced response at bass frequencies. The loudspeaker includes a tubular enclosure having a pair of outwardly directed, opposing loudspeaker drivers mounted over each end. A port is provided through the enclosure midway between the drivers and is coupled to the exterior of the loudspeaker by a perpendicularly projecting duct. The length and cross-sectional area of the duct, as well as the enclosure, are selected to describe an acoustic cavity having a predetermined mechanical resonance. The opposing nature of the drivers, spaced apart by the continuous curved walls of the enclosure, reduces spurious resonances within the enclosure. In addition, the resultant T-shaped configuration of the loudspeaker maintains the loudspeaker substantially stationary in a moving vehicle without the need for auxiliary fastening devices.

Abstract: A speaker enclosure is configured internally so as to minimize the generation of unwanted audio waves inside the enclosure, as well as to promote dissipation of those waves which are generated inside the enclosure. There is provided at the forward portion of the enclosure an isolation structure which converges in a rearward and inward direction and is located about the speaker diaphragm. There is further provided at a rear portion of the enclosure a structure for deflecting audio waves which are generated rearward from the speaker. The deflection structure reflects the audio waves against the sidewalls of the speaker, with the internal walls of the speaker being nonparallel so as to cause increased reflections of these audio waves and their eventual dissipation.

Abstract: A singular configuration for a high fidelity sound speaker enclosure is disclosed. This acoustical structure is formed in two joined sections: the upper section which generally forms a four sided truncated pyramid and the lower section which generally forms an inverted four sided truncated pyramid. The complete structure, when viewed toward its frontal aspect, exhibits a generally hexagonal shape. The enclosure may house one or more speaker drivers and one of several methods of interior acoustic control may be utilized. The non-parallel walls and slanted front panel contribute to improved audio dynamics for electronic sound reproduction systems, and the overall design enhances contemporary decor aspects.

Abstract: The invention presents a method for improving overall efficiency and quality in sound reproduction systems by providing a system which establishes positive phase control over the many and varied resonant characteristics encountered in the reproduction and presentation of audio energy. The apparatus embodying the present method primarily consists of speaker structures within which drivers such as conventional cone drivers are acoustically coupled to both air and to the materials from which the enclosure of the speaker structure is formed by optimizing existing atmospheric pressure differentials and induced audio vibration readily available within these structures. The coupling is obtained through the use of acoustical resonator structure placed within a speaker enclosure and through particular distribution of mass in the enclosure and in the materials.

Abstract: A speaker or baffle system for speakers which is installed in a well of a vehicle to form an enclosure for the volume of air in said well. At least one loudspeaker extends through an opening formed in the baffle in communication with said well. The baffle can form the upper portion of a full enclosure that fits into said well or can be supported by a pair of side panels extending from the floor of the well.

Abstract: A speaker system comprises a plurality of serially connected, angularly disposed hollow tubes having a total mean axial length of one-quarter wavelength of the desired lowest frequency response of the speaker system, the speaker system providing, with a single small speaker, the entire frequency range normally provided from a woofer, a midrange and a tweeter while eliminating the phase distortion and the phase problems resulting from dividing networks.

Abstract: A cabinet for a loudspeaker is disclosed, which has a duct communicating the inside and outside of the cabinet. The duct includes a first duct section open to the inside of the cabinet and having a substantially constant sectional area and a second duct section extending from the first duct section toward the outside of the cabinet, the sectional area of the second duct section being gradually increased from the first duct section toward the outside of the cabinet.

Abstract: A headrest hollow casing has a central vented chamber connecting end chambers in which stereophonic loudspeakers are mounted and such central chamber is loosely filled with batting or other sound-damping material. The casing is supported by mounting rods or mounting bar angularly adjustable relative to the casing.

Abstract: A speaker cabinet of the type used in stereo systems. A horizontal wall partitions the interior of the cabinet into an upper portion within which is positioned a full range speaker member, and a lower portion within which is positioned a low range speaker member. A pair of laterally spaced ports are formed in the partition wall to allow sound emanating from the low range speaker to enter into the upper portion of the cabinet. A horn associated with the full range speaker is spaced apart therefrom, in non-attached relation thereto to define a space between the full range speaker and the horn. Sound from the low range speaker and from the full range speaker enters into the space between the full range speaker and the horn and mixes so that the sound emanating from the horn is a full-bodied sound characterized by minimal distortion and substantial absence of unpleasing sounds of the type associated with speakers of the prior art.

Abstract: An enclosure for a transduction element incorporates a geometrically shaped acoustically reflective shell. This acoustically reflective shell is shaped so that the inner surface thereof is at a least a section of that shape generated when an ellipse is rotated around a line which, lies in the plane of the ellipse, is oriented at any angle to the major axis of the ellipse, and contains one focus of the ellipse, or that shape generated when a continuum of ellipses having identical major axes are placed about a line which, lies in the plane of all the ellipses, is oriented at any angle with respect to the major axes of the ellipses, and contains a focal point common to all the ellipses. Such geometrically generated shapes will have one common focus and one distinct focal line.

Abstract: In an acoustical speaker having a movable diaphragm responsive over a range of frequencies, an air duct having a cross-sectional area less than that of the diaphragm substantially surrounding the diaphragm and in communication with one side thereof for acoustically isolating the diaphragm, dampening low-frequency ringing and acoustically loading the diaphragm for extending the frequency range to lower frequencies to enhance the performance of the speaker with small speaker enclosures. One embodiment provides for similar ducting for passive radiator diaphragms.

Abstract: A speaker system includes an enclosure having a port from which a duct extends into the interior of the enclosure. A board having a smaller area than the cross-sectional area of at least the exit of the duct is mounted to block the port except a slight slit defined by the entire circumferential edge of the board and the opposed inner wall of the duct, so that the slight slit serves as a pressure duct whereas the remainder of the duct serves as a guide duct.

Abstract: A portable speaker for vehicles which includes a shaped, box-like structure having front and rear sound chambers having top segments disposed in different planes and port holes communicating with the sound chambers, respectively, with front and rear speaker units provided in the respective sound chambers. In a preferred embodiment, the portable speaker is shaped to serve as an arm rest between bucket seats in a vehicle and can be positioned in several different configurations in order to provide sound of desired intensity and quality.

Abstract: A loudspeaker installation for the rear shelf of a motor vehicle. A lightweight, ribbed loudspeaker enclosure is fastened to the underside of the rear shelf so as to be suspended into the trunk of the vehicle and disposed about a conventional loudspeaker flush-mounted to the rear shelf. The enclosure acoustically isolates the vehicle passenger compartment from the trunk, and a duct disposed within the enclosure communicates with the passenger compartment to enhance the low frequency audio response of the installation.

Abstract: A high mass speaker enclosure having a speaker mounted to a front escutcheon plate and below which a multi-gated balanced acoustical transmission yoke is mounted and whereby a portion of the enclosure's interior air pressure is relieved so as to augment the speaker sound, especially at frequencies below 60 hertz. Enclosure resonance is minimized via the use of a high mass enclosure and the filing thereof with a fiberglass material around the speaker and a Dacron filler around the transmission yoke, while front mounted polyester mats preload the speaker and transmission yoke. Speaker resonance, lost sounds and/or extraneous speaker induced sounds are thereby avoided.

Abstract: A limited space, small enclosure bass speaker module is shown, for providing an enhanced perception and sound level of bass frequencies. An acoustic transducer is mounted on an end of a closed elongated, cylindrical member of rigid construction. The cylinder provides acoustic loading of the transducer, and can be either an acoustic suspension or a bass reflex form; the bass reflex form has the bass reflex port located coplanar to the transducer. The resulting structure is a an oriented point source. The module is then acoustically coupled to its surroundings by being mounted so that the transducer face is in a corner. The result is to convert the surrounding environment into one element of a horn loaded speaker, producing an enhanced bass effect.

Abstract: An acoustic device including a frame bordering an area open to the front and rear of the frame, a speaker corresponding in size to the area bordered by the frame located with the area bordered by the frame, a cover positioned over only the front of the acoustic device functioning as a direct wave attenuator so that the front side of the speaker is covered but its rear side is uncovered so that unattenuated sound waves are emitted from the rear of the speaker.

Abstract: A speaker unit utilizing the sound radiation from the front and rear faces of a diaphragm can be constructed by placing the diaphragm in an acoustic baffle to isolate the back side and front side radiation and propogating the backside radiation through a tube to an acoustic resonator. This arrangement acoustically backloads the speaker and extends the frequency range over which piston-like motion of the diaphragm occurs without speaker breakup. A loudspeaker system producing good stereo image perception and suited for stereo sound reproduction for home or studio sound monitoring use can be constructed with a linear array of loudspeaker units. The sound radiation from the linear array is kept in phase over the audible range and through a wide angle about the axis of the array.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system has an enclosure of rectangular cross section with a baffle dividing the interior into first and second subchambers. Each subchamber has a port tube coupling the subchamber to the region outside the enclosure. The dividing baffle carries a woofer.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system has an elliptical stepped mid-range horn above and coplanar with a flared mid-bass horn having disposed therein a pair of tweeters on sidewalls thereof and a woofer in a backwall thereof. The back of the woofer communicates with a folded low frequency bass horn such that low frequency response is loaded from the rear of the diaphram for the woofer driver, thereby eliminating the necessity for further amplification and drivers to obtain fidelity in low frequency response. The low frequency bass section defines a convoluted path for the sound which comes from the interior structure of a folded horn thus creating an acoustical boost for low frequency sound.

Abstract: A ported speaker enclosure is disclosed for extending the low-frequency range of the enclosure and increasing the intensity of the low-frequency range of reproduced sound wherein the size of the enclosure, the locations of the speakers, and the size and locations of the ducted ports are determined by relatively simple relationships based solely on speaker cone dimensions. In one form, a ducted port speaker enclosure is comprised of two bass-range speakers, or woofers, wherein one woofer is located in a predetermined position above the other on the enclosure. An open sector of a plurality of open sectors of the frame at the back of the topmost speaker faces towards the top and an opposite open sector faces towards the bottom of the enclosure of the two woofer system. A sound damping material is added to cover the top and bottom facing sectors of the topmost speaker. Insulation material of predetermined dimensions is affixed to the inside walls of the right and left sides of the enclosure.

Abstract: A high fidelity loudspeaker system having at least one additional smaller speaker mounted above the largest speaker. The loudspeaker is of the type having a permanent magnet and a moving coil, and the smaller speaker or speakers are mounted on a support member which passes through the moving coil of the largest speaker. The mounted base for the smaller speaker or speakers is held to a support pedestal by a set of male and female interlocking members.

Abstract: Headrest speaker device, in which the upper ends of pipes supporting a headrest on the upper part of a seat are in communication with speaker cabinets disposed at each side of the headrest and the lower ends of the pipes open toward the outside at the sides of the seat.

Abstract: A loudspeaker enclosure with precisely dimensioned chambers to control and develop loudspeaker back wave energies almost exclusively as acoustical tensions. Focusing of these acoustical tensions is accomplished within each chamber so as to localize the several points of acoustical energy concentration optimally at the aperture positions between chambers. The second and also a third chamber operate to maintain proper load levels throughout the complex acoustical air column until eventual release into the listening space, the third, as well, creating essential reverberation and depth.

Abstract: In a bass-reflex enclosure or cabinet of the kind in which a loudspeaker unit is mounted in an opening (11) of a front plate (10) and at the end of two coaxially mounted and into the interior of the cabinet extending tubular members (13, 14), so that an annular slot (28) around the speaker unit (16) is provided and in a known manner utilized as a bass-reflex port arranged coaxially with the speaker unit (16), said speaker unit is fixedly mounted on the one end of the inner tube (14) whereas the other outer tube (13) is fixedly mounted to the front plate (10) or forms an integral part therewith. The assembly comprising the inner tube (13) having the speaker unit (16) mounted thereto is suspended to the front plate (10) by means of a number of vibration absorbing rubber blocks (22) which are evenly distributed along the periphery of the speaker. Thereby an acoustically dead front plate (10) is achieved.

Abstract: A speaker enclosure having a rear bass-reflex chamber and a forward mid-range chamber formed within a substantially rectangular housing. A tunnel-bass port is formed in the bottom section of the front wall of the enclosure, the bottom section being angularly disposed and arranged to communicate with the rear bass-reflex chamber. The upper section of the front wall is provided with a mid-range port that communicates with a mid-range chamber. A bass speaker is mounted to a central partition which divides and separates the bass and mid-range chambers. A sealed, self-contained, mid-range speaker is also mounted to the central partition and arranged to disperse mid-range tones by way of the mid-range chamber, so as to exit the mid-range port in unison with the high-frequency tones produced by a tweeter mounted to the upper front wall section. Thus, each speaker disperses its own frequency range in a clear and distinct manner.

Abstract: A multiple driver loudspeaker system comprises two angularly spaced rear rectangular baffles each nearly filled with four closely spaced full-range small loudspeakers with a port tube passing through the center of each rear baffle and the junction therebetween. A front baffle carries a small centrally located loudspeaker. The front loudspeaker is backed by a cavity that is vented through the port tube at the intersection between the rear baffles. Each of the remaining loudspeakers is backed by a cavity with the four cavities associated with each rear baffle being vented through the associated port tube through channels located at the front of each cavity. Two bullets are cantilevered from the front baffle rearward and essentially concentric within the respective centrally located ports. The volume of each of the nine cavities is substantially the same.