Specified Diaphragm Shape Or Structure Patents (Class 381/423)
  • Patent number: 11895464
    Abstract: A MEMS speaker includes a substrate, a vibration sounding portion and a baffle plate with a through hole. The baffle plate, the substrate and the vibration sounding portion form a sounding inner cavity, and a volume of the sounding inner cavity can adjust a resonant frequency of the sounding inner cavity, so that the resonance frequency of the sounding inner cavity resonate with a preset frequency of the MEMS speaker. A speaker assembly structure further provided includes a speaker, a fixing portion, and a baffle plate, the speaker and the baffle plate together enclose and form a sounding inner cavity, the fixing portion and the speaker are fixedly connected together and form a sealing structure. A sound pressure level of the MEMS speaker and the speaker assembly structure is high and harmonic distortion of the MEMS speaker and the speaker assembly structure is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Shen, Shiyang Cheng, Yiwei Zhou, Qiang Dan, Yang Li
  • Patent number: 11789489
    Abstract: A vibration system includes a vibration plate and an edge portion disposed around the vibration plate. The vibration plate has a first region and a second region that have shapes asymmetrical with each other. The vibration plate is configured such that a weight difference between the first region and the second region is equal to or smaller than a threshold value and besides stiffness at the edge portion is substantially uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka Sakai, Takahisa Tagami, Emiko Ikeda, Naoya Kunikata
  • Patent number: 11671746
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to microphones and electronic devices having the same. A microphone may include a housing for receiving vibration signals; a converting component inside the housing for converting the vibration signals into electrical signals, and a processing circuit for processing the electrical signals. The converting component may include a transducer and at least one damping film attached to the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbing Zhou, Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao, Yongshuai Yuan
  • Patent number: 11632629
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reinforcing part for a speaker diaphragm, a diaphragm and a speaker. The reinforcing part is an overlapped three-layer structure and comprises a support layer as well as a first heat dissipation layer and a second heat dissipation layer that are fixed and bonded on surfaces of two sides of the support layer respectively, the support layer comprises through holes penetrating surfaces of two sides thereof, and the reinforcing part further comprises fillers located within the through holes and configured for heat conduction, the fillers having thermal conductivity higher than that of the support layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Li, Cuili Zhang
  • Patent number: 11451909
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide vented audio transducers such as vented speakers. A speaker assembly may define a first volume under a dome of the speaker and a second volume under a surround of the speaker. The first volume and the second volume may be separated by a speaker structure such as a voice coil. By venting the first volume to the second volume, the disclosed vented speakers can provide a flatter response at high frequencies and lower distortion relative to conventional speakers, by equalizing the pressure under the diaphragm during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Claudio Notarangelo, Onur Ilkorur, Matthew A. Donarski, Christopher Wilk
  • Patent number: 11451891
    Abstract: A microphone transducer is provided, the microphone transducer comprising a housing and a transducer assembly supported within the housing and defining an internal acoustic space. The transducer assembly includes a magnet assembly, a diaphragm disposed adjacent the magnet assembly and having a front surface and a rear surface, and a coil attached to the rear surface of the diaphragm and capable of moving relative to the magnet assembly in response to acoustic waves impinging on the front surface. The transducer assembly further includes a primary port establishing acoustic communication between the internal acoustic space and an external cavity at least partially within the housing, and a secondary port located at the front surface of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Stephen Grinnip, III
  • Patent number: 11418869
    Abstract: A diaphragm has a configuration including a diaphragm main body, a cone part on an outer periphery of the diaphragm main body, a ring member joined to the cone part, and an edge having an inner periphery joined to an outer periphery of the ring member or an outer periphery of the cone part. This configuration improves the rigidity without changing the shape of the diaphragm main body, that is, without giving rise to a mass increase in the diaphragm main body, and keeps the sound pressure from decreasing in a high frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Foster Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamaki, Takashi Matsumura, Minoru Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11297416
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to microphones and electronic devices having the same. A microphone may include a housing for receiving vibration signals; a converting component inside the housing for converting the vibration signals into electrical signals, and a processing circuit for processing the electrical signals. The converting component may include a transducer and at least one damping film attached to the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbing Zhou, Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao, Yongshuai Yuan
  • Patent number: 11284196
    Abstract: Diaphragms (4, 5, 6, 7) each include laminated layers including a piezoelectric layer. The diaphragms (4, 5, 6, 7) are each warped to oscillate due to expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric layer or due to an oscillatory force from the outside. The diaphragms have mutually different resonance frequencies. A casing (2) has an internal space (2C) for accommodating the diaphragms (4, 5, 6, 7) and a fixing part (2D) for fixing a portion of each of the diaphragms (4, 5, 6, 7). The casing (2) transmits oscillations between the diaphragms (4, 5, 6, 7) and the outside via the fixing part (2D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Ogata, Shogo Kurogi, Keita Matsuoka, Yoshiyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11172307
    Abstract: One or more holes are formed in a first diaphragm. A second diaphragm is arranged on a sound emitting side of the first diaphragm. A driver includes a magnetic circuit and a voice coil, and vibrates the first and second diaphragms. The second diaphragm includes a rigidity-reinforcing portion in which a rigidity of the second diaphragm is reinforced at a position facing at least one hole of the one or more holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubota, Yasunari Takabatake, Yuji Negishi, Kazuyuki Inagaki
  • Patent number: 10979841
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a speaker, including: a vibration system; a magnetic circuit system; a frame fixing the vibration system and the magnetic circuit system, and a front cover covering the frame. The frame includes a number of hot-melt posts and a number of step parts arranged abutting against the hot-melt posts. The front cover includes a number of positioning holes matching the hot-melt posts and a number of positioning grooves matching the step parts and hollowed at a side of the front cover adjacent to the frame. The positioning holes are received in the positioning grooves; the step parts are accommodated in the positioning grooves; and the hot-melt posts pass through the positioning holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaojiang Gu
  • Patent number: 10848860
    Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Niidera, Satoshi Hachiya
  • Patent number: 10638231
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a diaphragm structure of a loudspeaker, including a surround and an annular body. The surround is annular and has an inner rim and an outer rim relative to the inner rim. The annular body disposed on the inner rim of the surround is integrally formed by a plurality of rigid reinforcing units arranged in a circle. Each rigid reinforcing unit includes a first side edge, a second side edge, and two third side edges connected to the first side edge and the second side edge. The two third side edges are formed by a plurality of first reference points at different height positions, and heights of the first reference points asymmetrically and gradually decrease from the middle towards the first side edge and the second side edge to form a substantially upward curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TYMPHANY ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY (HUIZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng Min Wang, Zhi Chen
  • Patent number: 10587959
    Abstract: To improve acoustic characteristics without increasing the manufacturing cost or increasing the size. Provided are a drive unit and a vibration plate unit. The drive unit includes a yoke formed by a magnetic material, magnets attached to the yoke, a coil to which a drive current is supplied, and an armature provided with a vibration portion that vibrates when the drive current is supplied to the coil. The vibration plate unit includes a holding frame including an opening, a film covering the opening and pasted on the holding frame, a vibration plate pasted on the film and held inside of the holding frame, and a transmission beam that transmits vibration of the vibration portion to the vibration plate. An entire circumference of an outer circumference of the vibration plate is isolated from an entire circumference of an inner circumference of the holding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10343901
    Abstract: The application describes MEMS transducer having a flexible membrane and which seeks to alleviate and/or redistribute stresses within the membrane layer. A membrane having a first/active region and a second/inactive region is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Lyall Cargill, Colin Robert Jenkins, Euan James Boyd, Richard Ian Laming
  • Patent number: 10284946
    Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Niidera, Satoshi Hachiya
  • Patent number: 10284958
    Abstract: A silica gel diaphragm, a speaker module, and a method for reprocessing a silica gel diaphragm. Two symmetrical wire grooves are etched on a surface of the silica gel diaphragm by laser etching technique, an electrically conductive metal layer is deposited in each of the grooves, and either end of each of the metal layers includes a first and second soldering portions. Each of the first soldering portions is deposited on a planar portion of the silica gel diaphragm, and is used for soldering a winding tap of a voice coil on an inner side of the voice coil. Each of the second soldering portions is deposited on a fixing portion of the silica gel diaphragm, and is used for soldering a bonding pad on a housing. Middle portions connecting the first soldering portions and the second soldering portions are deposited in the diaphragm to form an electrically conductive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Chunfa Liu, Xiaodong Guo
  • Patent number: 10250992
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a speaker. The speaker includes a fixing unit and a vibration unit; the fixing unit includes a frame, a lower clamping plate, a main magnet, an auxiliary magnet and an upper clamping plate, the lower clamping plate and the frame are assembled to define accommodating space to accommodate the main magnet, a magnetic gap is defined between the main magnet and the auxiliary magnet, and the upper clamping plate fixes the auxiliary magnet in the accommodating space; the upper clamping plate includes body portion and bendings, the body portion matches the auxiliary magnet in shape, the auxiliary magnet is clamped between the body portion and the lower clamping plate, the auxiliary magnet is recessed with respect to each of the bendings to define avoiding portions at an outer side of the auxiliary magnet, and each of the bendings passes through one of the avoiding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ronglin Linghu, Bo Xiao
  • Patent number: 10200793
    Abstract: A diaphragm assembly and a loudspeaker having the diaphragm assembly. The diaphragm assembly comprises a silica gel diaphragm, the diaphragm comprises an annular bending portion, and a diaphragm center portion and a diaphragm edge portion arranged on inner and outer sides of the bending portion respectively; an annular support member (40) is joined to the diaphragm edge portion through injection modeling; a dome (30) is joined to the diaphragm center portion; the support member (40) is a metallic member; and the diaphragm edge is at least joined to two surfaces of the support member (40) through injection modeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Xiuli Chang, Jianbin Yang
  • Patent number: 10182295
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vibration diaphragm. The vibration diaphragm includes a dome part; a suspension surrounding the dome part; a number of reinforced ribs disposed on the dome part. The reinforced ribs includes n pieces of longitudinal rib parts parallel to each other; a first transverse rib part and a second transverse rib part connecting two ends of adjacent n?1 pieces of the longitudinal ribs respectively; and a third transverse rib part connecting the n pieces of longitudinal rib parts and located between the first transverse rib part and the second transverse rib part, in which, n is an integer more than or equal to 3. The configuration of the reinforced ribs increases the surface area of the dome, and increases the width of the vibration frequency band of the vibration diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojiang Gu, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 10057685
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker, including a vibrating system and a magnetic circuit system driving the vibrating system to vibrate and sound, the magnetic circuit system includes a main magnet assembly, the main magnet assembly includes a first main magnet, a magnetic conductive piece and a second magnet which are arranged by stacking, poles of the first main magnet and the second main magnet having a same polarity are opposite to each other, the magnetic conductive piece includes a body portion clamped between the first main magnet and the second main magnet, and a clamping portion bending and extending from the body portion, the clamping portion includes a first clamping portion for fixing the first main magnet and a second clamping portion for fixing the second main magnet. The speaker provided by the present disclosure improves acoustic performance through providing the clamping portion on the magnetic conductive piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Shun Guo
  • Patent number: 9860648
    Abstract: Improvement to a sound system for an elevator system and method for implementing the sound system for an elevator. The elevator sound system is improved by replacing at least one loudspeaker to be used in the sound system with a plate-like electrostatic actuator producing a directed sound field. The patent application also contains an independent claim for a method for implementing a sound system for an elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventors: Kari Pahkala, Matti Kujala
  • Patent number: 9788124
    Abstract: Measures are provided for increasing the resistance to compression of a component having a micromechanical microphone pattern. In particular, the robustness of the microphone pattern to highly dynamic pressure fluctuations is to be increased, without the microphone sensitivity, i.e. the microphone performance, being impaired. The microphone pattern of such a component is implemented in a layer construction on a semiconductor substrate and includes at least one acoustically active diaphragm, which spans a sound hole on the substrate backside, and a stationary acoustically penetrable counterelement having through hole openings, which is situated above/below the diaphragm in the layer construction. At least one outflow channel is developed which makes possible a rapid pressure equalization between the two sides of the diaphragm. In addition, at least one controllable closing element is provided, with which the at least one outflow channel is optionally able to be opened or closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Schelling, Stefan Singer, Jochen Zoellin
  • Patent number: 9756426
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a diaphragm body having a dome shape protruding upwardly, a magnetic circuit disposed below the diaphragm body, a voice coil coupled to the diaphragm body, an edge coupled to an outer circumference of the diaphragm body, and a frame coupled to the edge. The edge includes a first coupling portion provided at an outer circumference of the edge, a second coupling portion provided at an inner circumference of the edge and coupled to an outer circumference of the diaphragm body, and a roll portion disposed between the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion. The edge has a surface facing downward. The frame has a connecting surface disposed below the second coupling portion and coupled to the surface of the edge at the first coupling portion of the edge. This loudspeaker can decrease distortion of sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Tsutsumi, Koichi Nakayama, Satoshi Koura, Kazuhiro Oshika, Mitsukazu Kuze, Tomonori Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9743190
    Abstract: An acoustic diaphragm made at least in part from an expanded material. The expanded material includes one or more of cellulose, synthetic fibers and glass fibers. The expanded material has more than about 55% by volume voids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Agota F. Fehervari, George Nichols
  • Patent number: 9095880
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a piezoelectric vibrator (10), a vibrating member (20) which is larger than the piezoelectric vibrator (10) when seen in a plan view and restrains one surface of the piezoelectric vibrator (10), a vibrating member (25) which is larger than the piezoelectric vibrator (10) when seen in a plan view and restrains the other surface of the piezoelectric vibrator (10), an elastic member (30) which supports an edge of the surface of the vibrating member (20), which restrains the piezoelectric vibrator (10), and supports an edge of the surface of the vibrating member (25), which restrains the piezoelectric vibrator (10), and a supporting member (35) which is located around the elastic member (30) and supports the elastic member (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Onishi, Jun Kuroda, Motoyoshi Komoda, Yuichiro Kishinami, Yukio Murata, Shigeo Satou, Tatsuya Uchikawa
  • Publication number: 20150146914
    Abstract: An apparatus including a diaphragm, where the diaphragm includes a membrane having electrically conductive material; a drive configured to move the diaphragm; and a connector configured to connect the membrane to a ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Guo, Antero Tossavainen, Veijo Kajanus, Jingyu Huang
  • Patent number: 8983098
    Abstract: A parametric speaker comprises a generally planate radiating element, suitable for radiating ultrasonic vibrations into a fluid medium, and an emitter, having an ultrasonic output and/or resonant frequency, the emitter being intimately coupled to the radiating element. The radiating element is physically configured to have a mechanical resonance that substantially matches the output and/or resonant frequency of the emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Turtle Beach Corporation
    Inventor: Elwood G. Norris
  • Patent number: 8983106
    Abstract: A narrow directional microphone including a film for suppressing wind noise capable of being displaced by a wind pressure, a unidirectional microphone unit having a front acoustic terminal, a cylindrical acoustic tube having a prescribed axial length, and an acoustic resistor disposed at a position which is on an outward side of the film and at which the resistor does not come into contact with the film even when the film is displaced by the wind pressure. A rear end of the acoustic tube is coupled to a side of the front acoustic terminal of the unidirectional microphone unit, and a front end opening of the acoustic tube is covered with the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventor: Hiroshi Akino
  • Publication number: 20150071483
    Abstract: An energy converter includes a permanent magnet and a diaphragm. The permanent magnet is fixed to a predetermined area. The diaphragm is disposed on the permanent magnet and has a coil formed of a conductor pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki SHINOTSUKA, Tsutomu KAWASE
  • Patent number: 8965035
    Abstract: A thin speaker structure comprises: a long support frame; a magnetic circuit member; a voice coil; a membrane; wherein the magnetic circuit member and voice coil are rounded and the membrane includes an elliptic surrounding and an elliptic body with a center portion and a peripheral portion; the peripheral portion is fixed to a bottom edge of an inner surface of the surrounding and the center portion corresponding to the peripheral portion defines a rigid strengthened region in a longer elliptic shape; the center portion has a length of a long side longer than a diameter of the voice coil at a predetermined distance; whereby the elliptic body is combined with the circular voice coil to form a vibrating structure in order to increase the rigidity of the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Fortune Grand Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Ping-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 8942408
    Abstract: A single-ended planar transducer device for generating a sound signal based on an electrical signal comprising at least two primary rows of primary magnets, at least one return row of at least one return structure, a diaphragm, a conductive trace formed on the diaphragm, and a frame. The frame supports two primary rows to define at least one core set comprising no more than two primary rows. A primary magnetic field is established between the primary rows in the at least one core set. The frame supports at least one return row adjacent to the at least one core set. A return magnetic field is established between each return row and any primary row adjacent thereto. A first portion of the trace is arranged at least partly within each primary magnetic field and a second portion of the trace is arranged at least partly within each return magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Inventor: James Joseph Croft, III
  • Patent number: 8917875
    Abstract: A circuit for operating loudspeakers includes a first, second, third and fourth loudspeaker circuit, having one input each for injecting a signal and one output each for connecting a loudspeaker input. The loudspeaker circuits are designed to amplify the injected signal and to provide the amplified signal at the outputs thereof. The loudspeaker circuits can, for example, be used for a 2.1 sound system. The three channels for a 2.1 sound system can be implemented by an amplifier circuit with four loudspeaker circuits, one loudspeaker circuit each being required for the two stereo channels left and right. A subwoofer channel can be driven differentially by two loudspeaker circuits. The stereo channels are, by contrast, only still connected to one loudspeaker circuit each, and so the stereo channels require at least one further common ground cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christoph Braun, Thomas Duda, Torsten Hinz
  • Publication number: 20140369548
    Abstract: An acoustic apparatus includes a top assembly and a bottom assembly. The bottom assembly is coupled to the top assembly to form an overall assembly. A diaphragm assembly is disposed in the overall assembly so as to separate the overall assembly into a front volume and a back volume. The diaphragm assembly includes a frame and the frame has a first end, a second end, and a middle portion that is disposed between the first end and the second end. The first end and the second end are not in the same plane as the middle portion. The first end is coupled to the bottom assembly and the second end is coupled to the top assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew Manley, Alex Grossman
  • Patent number: 8897472
    Abstract: An acoustic transducer comprises one or more electromagnetic motors that drive one or more sets of multiple diaphragms to provide acoustically efficient loudspeaker systems having dimensions that allow use in applications that would be difficult or impossible with traditional transducers. The diaphragms may be driven directly, inertially or fluidically. If diaphragms are driven by rods that pass through holes in the diaphragms, noise may be generated by air that leaks through the pass-through holes. This noise may be reduced or eliminated by measures that reduce or eliminate the air leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Tymphany HK Limited
    Inventors: Andrew David Unruh, Robert J. True, Edward T. Norcott, Jr., Jens-Peter Axelsson, Alireza Jabbari, David J. Prince, Kenneth L. Kantor, Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, Shaolin Wei
  • Patent number: 8891810
    Abstract: The invention relates to a loudspeaker system in which the diaphragm of the speaker has a defined material thickness particularly in the edge region thereof and comprises a suspension which is axially symmetrical about the mechanical rest position of said diaphragm and is formed by one, preferably two identical mirrored components, characterized in that the sound emission towards the rear is performed to at least 50 percent by the inner space of a magnetic system. The invention further relates to the use of the loudspeaker system as loudspeaker boxes or in radios, television screens, radio receivers, hand-held radio devices, measurement receivers, mobile telephones and headphones or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Lautsprecher Teufel GmbH
    Inventor: Sascha Reckert
  • Patent number: 8885869
    Abstract: A transducer for the creation of acoustic energy omni directionally in a horizontal plane. The transducer includes a base plate, the base plate supporting a centrally located voice coil motor assembly and a hemi-toroidal diaphragm having a proximal edge and a distal edge. The proximal edge is appended to the centrally located voice coil motor assembly and the distal edge is appended to the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Inventors: J. Craig Oxford, D. Michael Shields
  • Patent number: 8879777
    Abstract: There is provided a dynamic electroacoustic transducer comprising a diaphragm and an oscillator coil which is fixed to the diaphragm in an oscillator coil portion. The diaphragm has a first portion within the oscillator coil portion and a second portion between the oscillator coil portion and an edge of the diaphragm. The diaphragm has at least one stiffening portion in the region of the second portion, which is of a different stiffness from the second portion of the diaphragm. The stiffening portion is of a such a configuration that a wobble movement of the diaphragm is substantially compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz Epping
  • Patent number: 8879776
    Abstract: A speaker (200) includes a cylindrical diaphragm (201) which has closed ends, an edge (202) which supports the diaphragm (201) in a manner which allows the diaphragm to vibrate, a voice coil bobbin (203) around which a voice coil (204) is wound and which is connected to the diaphragm (201), and a magnetic circuit for driving the voice coil (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takewa, Shinya Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20140314268
    Abstract: The present invention provides a low-frequency sound reproduction apparatus that includes a membrane assembly, a piston configured to drive the membrane and an adhesive layer positioned between the membrane and piston. The adhesive layer bonds the membrane to the piston, the membrane has a modulus of elasticity less than 3 GPa, and the piston has a modulus of elasticity greater than 15 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventor: Ricardo Lazzari
  • Patent number: 8861777
    Abstract: A vibrating element includes a diaphragm and a voice coil. The diaphragm has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, in which the first surface includes a first conductive region and a second conductive region separated from the first conductive region. The voice coil is disposed at the first surface of the diaphragm, in which two ends of the voice coil are respectively electrically connected to the first conductive region and the second conductive region, and the two ends of the voice coil are located within a region circled by the voice coil on the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Cotron Corporation
    Inventor: Bill Yang
  • Patent number: 8842873
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a chassis, a diaphragm, a motor system, a first suspension and a second suspension. The chassis has an inner periphery and an outer periphery. The diaphragm has an inner periphery and an outer periphery. The motor system has a magnet assembly connected to the inner periphery of the chassis, and a voice coil assembly connected to the diaphragm. The first suspension has an inner periphery connected to the outer periphery of the diaphragm, and an outer periphery connected to the outer periphery of the chassis. The second suspension has an inner periphery connected to at least one of the magnet assembly and the inner periphery of the chassis, and an outer periphery connected to the diaphragm between the inner and outer periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventor: George Bullimore
  • Patent number: 8824722
    Abstract: A diaphragm includes a diaphragm and a voice coil bobbin. The diaphragm includes a membrane and a first reinforcing structure reinforcing the membrane. The voice coil bobbin includes a base and a second reinforcing structure reinforcing the base. The first reinforcing structure and the second reinforcing structure are a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure is disposed on the membrane and the base, or in the membrane and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Ping Wang, Liang Liu
  • Patent number: 8824707
    Abstract: A micromachined microphone or speaker embedded within, or positioned on top of, a substrate suitable for carrying microelectronic chips and components. The acoustic element converts sound energy into electrical energy which is then amplified by electronic components positioned on the surface of the substrate. Alternatively, the acoustic element may be driven by electronics to produce sound. The substrate can be used in standard microelectronic packaging applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Mark Bachman, Guann-Pyng Li Li
  • Patent number: 8818009
    Abstract: A dual diaphragm dynamic type microphone transducer that, among other things, provides control of source/receiver proximity effects without sacrificing professional level dynamic microphone performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark W. Gilbert, Charles S. Argento, Roger Stephen Grinnip, III
  • Patent number: 8811651
    Abstract: A speaker enclosure has an enclosure having an open front section. A partition is formed in the enclosure. A cone is coupled to the partition, wherein an outer perimeter of the cone is unattached from the enclosure forming a gap between the outer perimeter of the cone and the enclosure. A coil assembly is coupled to the cone. A magnet unit is coupled to the cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Inventor: Rigoberto Alvarez Ibarra
  • Patent number: 8811653
    Abstract: A speaker unit includes a frame that secures a diaphragm of a speaker at an outer circumference of the diaphragm, a magnetic circuit, a first leg that extends from a portion of an inner wall of the frame in a vicinity of a front of the speaker to the magnetic circuit, and that secures the magnetic circuit to the frame, and a second leg that extends from a portion of the inner wall of the frame in a vicinity of a rear of the speaker to the magnetic circuit, and that secures the magnetic circuit to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 8804995
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a co-axial speaker system for generating quality hi-fidelity sound with reduced distortion of wave propagation using a generally flat diaphragm and generally flat suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: GGEC America, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald J. North
  • Patent number: 8798291
    Abstract: A structure of a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) electroacoustic transducer includes a substrate, a diaphragm, a silicon material layer, and a conductive pattern. The substrate includes an MEMS device region. The diaphragm has openings, and is disposed in the MEMS device region. A first cavity is formed between the diaphragm and the substrate. The silicon material layer is disposed on the diaphragm and seals the diaphragm. The conductive pattern is disposed beneath the diaphragm in the MEMS device region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Bang-Chiang Lan, Ming-I Wang, Li-Hsun Ho, Hui-Min Wu, Min Chen, Chien-Hsin Huang
  • Patent number: 8798310
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a diaphragm that may be used with a mechanical-to-acoustical transducer. The diaphragm may include a layer of optically clear film, a damping layer and another layer of optically clear film. The damping layer may be an adhesive. The diaphragm may also comprise two optically clear films, optionally including a damping layer, wherein the films indicate a desired coefficient of linear thermal expansion in one or both of the machine and transverse directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Emo Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Davis Booth, Stefan Bokaemper, Robert H. White, Jr.