Critically Defined Material Or Lamination Patents (Class 381/426)
  • Patent number: 11257737
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device with forced coolant flow is provided which includes a base, coolant conduits, and a driving module. The conduit includes an inlet port, an extension segment, and an outlet port. The extension segment is connected to the base. The driving module includes a housing, a separating member, and two magnetic driving members. The separating member, being a thin magnetic plate, is positioned in the housing and defines a first chamber and a second chamber for coolant. The first chamber and the second chamber are connected to the inlet port and the outlet port and a flow of coolant can be initiated by alternating an electrical current feed to the two magnetic driving members on each side of the separating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NANNING FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dai-Ge Xiao
  • Patent number: 11190880
    Abstract: A diaphragm assembly for a miniature acoustical transducer having a sufficiently light paddle to allow good audio performance and a sufficiently stiff frame to allow handling. The paddle may be made of a thin sheet of aluminium and the frame of thicker aluminium or a bent sheet of aluminium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.
    Inventors: Michele Colloca, Gert-Jan van der Beek
  • Patent number: 10856086
    Abstract: A piezoelectric sounding element includes a diaphragm made of metal and a piezoelectric element provided on at least one surface of the diaphragm. A non-fixed portion of the diaphragm includes the pair of long sides facing each other, a pair of short sides, shorter than the long sides, that face each other, and a pair of recesses, provided in the pair of long sides, that protrude so as to approach each other. The piezoelectric element is provided in a region between the pair of recesses of the diaphragm and the contour shapes of the non-fixed portion of the diaphragm and the piezoelectric element are defined so as to be symmetric with respect to a first imaginary line that bisects the pair of short sides and symmetric with respect to a second imaginary line that bisects the pair of long sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: HOKURIKU ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD., DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide Tamura, Tadao Sunahara, Koji Hamada, Ryuta Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10645510
    Abstract: The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a speaker vibrating diaphragm by controlling a ratio of fiber materials, the method comprising the steps of: (A) fabric provision: providing a fabric interwoven by a plurality of warps and a plurality of wefts; (B) impregnation: impregnating the fabric in a resin solution; (C) drying: drying the fabric impregnated with resin solution; (D) formation: pressing the dried resin-impregnating fabric to form a predetermined shape; and (E) cutting: cutting the formed speaker vibrating diaphragm from the fabric. Each of the plurality of warps and each of the plurality of wefts of the fabric has an individual yarn count and material composition. By controlling a combination of the yarn counts of the plurality of warps and the plurality of wefts, a total number of threads and a material composition ratio of the warps and wefts required for the vibrating diaphragm are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 9438997
    Abstract: A diaphragm includes a paper layer and a skin layer. The paper layer includes natural fibers and synthetic fibers formed of thermoplastic resin. The paper layer is formed by mixing the natural fibers and the synthetic fibers in water, and thinly spreading a resultant mixture on a mesh. The skin layer is formed on one surface of the paper layer. Note here that the skin layer is formed of the same resin as that of the synthetic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Jin, Yoshimichi Kajihara
  • Patent number: 9002041
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a speaker cover comprises loading the speaker cover into a plasma chamber, introducing a fluoro monomer into the plasma chamber, pulsing plasma for processing, removing any excess monomer gas from the plasma chamber, and removing the speaker cover from the plasma chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Steve McGarry, Joy E. Lyons, Jeff Anderson, Timothy Valentine
  • Patent number: 8925675
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound membrane and an acoustic device including such a compound membrane. The compound membrane includes a polyetherimide film, and a thermoplastic polyurethance elastomer attached to one surface of the polyetherimide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., American Audio Components (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing-Zhi Huang, Jing He
  • 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: 8873793
    Abstract: A loudspeaker resin molding component includes resin and bamboo fibers refined to have a microfibril status and carbonized. By this configuration, such a loudspeaker resin molding component can achieve both of a high elastic modulus and a large internal loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Jin, Yoshimich Kajihara, Toru Fujii
  • 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: 8851228
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm structure includes a speaker diaphragm and a coating formed on the speaker diaphragm and is composed of at least one dense layer and relatively porous layer alternately arranged with respect to the at least one dense layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Feng Chia University
    Inventors: Ju-Liang He, Po-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8855357
    Abstract: A diaphragm is formed of paper manufactured from a first fiber material and a second fiber material. The first fiber material is beaten to have a given freeness, and the second fiber material is made by carbonizing bamboo fiber that has been fibrillated into a microfibril state. This structure allows the second fiber material to increase a rigidity of the diaphragm and also increase an internal loss, so that sound quality of the speaker that employs this diaphragm can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Yohei Jin, Toru Fujii
  • 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.
  • Patent number: 8774449
    Abstract: Each of a speaker diaphragm, a dust cap, and a frame includes a resin and a plant opal that is extracted from a bamboo leaf, and is formed by injection molding or sheet molding. The configuration can enhance stiffness of each of the diaphragm, the dust cap, and the frame and implement high performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Yohei Jin, Toru Fujii
  • Patent number: 8755557
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a diaphragm portion; and an edge portion, which is molded integrally with the diaphragm portion and made of a material different from a material for the diaphragm portion, wherein: the diaphragm portion includes, at an outer peripheral end thereof, an outer wall portion provided upright in a direction substantially parallel to a vibrating direction of the diaphragm portion; an inner peripheral surface of the edge portion is bonded onto an outer peripheral surface of the outer wall portion; and the outer wall portion has a height larger than a thickness of the diaphragm portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujitani, Yushi Ono, Ryoichi Takahashi, Ryosuke Sano
  • Patent number: 8718317
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a housing, a planar coil disposed inside the housing, and a magnetic diaphragm disposed inside the housing, wherein the plane of the planar coil is substantially in parallel with the plane of the magnetic diaphragm, wherein the planar coil is separated from the magnetic diaphragm, and wherein the magnetic diaphragm is moveable in the presence of an exterior pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: Zonghan Wu
  • Patent number: 8705790
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a body vibrating to generate a sound, an edge fusion-bonded to an outer circumference portion of the body, a projection provided on an upper surface of the edge, and a gasket provided on a lower surface of the edge. The edge is made of material different from that of the body. The projection is made of material identical to that of the edge. The gasket is made of material identical to that of the body. A speaker including the diaphragm has waterproof property by itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsukazu Kuze
  • Patent number: 8646570
    Abstract: In a diaphragm of an electric sound converter which converts vibration such as sound into an electrical signal, a center dome is reinforced while suppressing variations in the sensitivity and frequency response to the minimum, whereby reduction in a high-pass reproduction limit is suppressed, and occurrence of anomalous resonance is prevented. In a diaphragm 1 of an electric sound converter having a center dome 2, a reinforcing film 7 made of the same material as that of the center dome and formed into the same shape as that of the center dome is applied to the center dome with a hot-melt adhesive 6 of the same nature as that of the center dome, a groove 7a formed in a polygonal reticulate pattern is provided on one surface of the reinforcing film adhered with the adhesive, and a convex rib 8 corresponding to the groove is formed on the other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventor: Hiroshi Akino
  • Patent number: 8630440
    Abstract: A loudspeaker 2 comprises a dome 16 whose edge is stiffened by a carbon fiber ring 20. The dome 16 is shaped as a catenary or parabola.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Blast Loudspeakers Ltd.
    Inventor: Laurence Dickie
  • Patent number: 8526664
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitor microphone unit including a diaphragm, a fixed electrode that is arranged opposite to the diaphragm with a space provided between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode so that a capacitor is formed between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode, an insulating base that is disposed on a rear side of the fixed electrode and supports the fixed electrode, and a ring-shaped acoustic resistance material that is disposed on a front side of the insulating base, all of which are incorporated in a unit casing. A skin layer is formed on at least one of a front side and a rear side of the acoustic resistance material, and the skin layer has a higher density than that inside the acoustic resistance material, whereby acoustic resistance can be readily controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
    Inventor: Hiroshi Akino
  • Patent number: 8494187
    Abstract: A speaker includes an sound wave generator, at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode, an amplifier circuit, and a connector. The at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode are electrically connected to the sound wave generator. The amplifier is electrically connected to the at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode. The connector is electrically connected to the amplifier circuit. The sound wave generator includes a carbon nanotube structure and insulative reinforcement structure compounded with the carbon nanotube structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Liang Liu, Chen Feng, Li Qian, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 8462978
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm made by preparing a fabric from a hybrid yarn, wherein the hybrid yarn includes a matrix component and a reinforcement component. The matrix component may include a first material selected from a group consisting of a polyamide, a polyphenylene sulfide, and a polyetheretherketone, and the reinforcement component may include a second material selected from a group consisting of carbon and a para-aramid. The fabric may be introduced into a mold and molded to form a loudspeaker diaphragm. The fabric may then be heated to a temperature higher than the melting temperature of the polyamide or polyphenylene sulfide or polyetheretherketone, so that the polyamide or polyphenylene sulfide or polyetheretherketone melts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Gilles Milot, Claudia Gradia
  • Patent number: 8442261
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dome-shaped diaphragm fabricated based on a film base of polyethylene terephthalate resin film. The diaphragm includes a first vibrating part of a dome shape or a flat shape, and a second vibrating part of an annular shape. The second vibrating part includes a peripheral portion of the film base provided around a central portion of the film base. The first vibrating part includes the central portion of the film base, a thermosensitive adhesive resin film, provided on the central portion, and a fiber sheet made of a woven fabric using carbon fiber or an embossed nonwoven fabric. The fiber sheet is layered over the central portion with the thermosensitive adhesive resin film interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kamimura, Hideo Yuasa, Masahito Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8385585
    Abstract: A speaker includes a speaker body; a cone paper movably supported by the speaker body; and a magnetic driving unit disposed on the speaker body to vibrate the cone paper, wherein the cone paper includes at least two layers made of different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-won Kang, Hag-do Kim
  • Patent number: 8340341
    Abstract: A rigid three-dimensional component such as a speaker dome is formed of diamond, preferably fabricated to net shape by CVD diamond synthesis, and includes a coating on one or more major surfaces thereof. The coating is designed to enhance the performance and/or to alter the appearance of the component. In particular, the coating is designed to act as a damping medium and/or provide aesthetic qualities to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Element Six Limited
    Inventors: Neil Perkins, Charles Simon James Pickles, Christopher John Howard Wort, Geoffrey Alan Scarsbrook
  • Patent number: 8320604
    Abstract: Composite loudspeaker cones that include an interstitial layer of material having a core density below 600 kg/m3 and a Young's modulus greater than 0.2 GPa, such as balsa wood, interposed between a first carbon fiber layer and a second carbon fiber layer and method of making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Vandersteen, Michael P. Latvis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8315420
    Abstract: A spider for high-power, compact electro-acoustic transducers comprises a non-woven fiber blend encased in a thermoplastic elastomer. The spider is capable of supporting the longer stroke distances of the high-power, compact electro-acoustic transducers and exhibits improved fatigue and ageing resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Adams Schneider, Donald Baker
  • Patent number: 8290201
    Abstract: The invention provides a speaker in which a damper is effectively added without impairing the thinness of the speaker, and which, although the speaker is thin and small, exhibits high withstand input and high output power performances. A damper (14) is disposed between the lower end of a voice coil bobbin (12) and a magnet (3) of a magnetic circuit (5), and supports a vibration system (13) in a manner that the system is vibratable with respect to the magnet (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kamimura, Hideo Yuasa
  • Patent number: 8290183
    Abstract: An illuminating device includes a holding element, a light source, and an acoustic member. The acoustic member includes a carbon nanotube structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Chen Feng, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Liang Liu, Shou-Shan Fan, Qun-Qing Li, Li Qian
  • Patent number: 8284964
    Abstract: A compound membrane (100) for an acoustic device (200), the compound membrane (100) comprising a first layer (101) and a second layer (102), wherein a value of Young's modulus of the second layer (102) does not vary more than essentially 30% in a temperature range between essentially ?20° C. and essentially +85° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics Asia PTE. Ltd.
    Inventors: Susanne Windischberger, Josef Lutz, Ewald Frasl
  • Patent number: 8259987
    Abstract: A slender-type diaphragm longer in a longitudinal direction and shorter in a transversal direction in relation to the longitudinal direction, has a base member and a slant member. The base member has a pair of extending members provided in parallel in the longitudinal direction as facing each other, and a curved section that protrudes toward a first side of the diaphragm in a vibration direction of the diaphragm from a first plane that includes the extending members, the vibration direction being perpendicular to the longitudinal and transversal directions. The slant member has a slant surface in relation to the first plane and connected to the base member in a manner that the slant member surrounds the base member in a second plane parallel to the first plane, the slant member having a curved surface in a cross section thereof in relation to a cross section of the base member in the transversal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventor: Manabu Omoda
  • Patent number: 8243979
    Abstract: A sound device includes a full-gamut single-body sound membrane, a voice coil, a dust cover, and an assembly structure. Materials of different kinds of beating degrees are applied at different positions of the sound membrane. A structural intensity of materials is changed radiantly, radially and gradually, from an innermost rim of the sound membrane toward an outermost rim of the sound membrane, such that the structural intensity gradually decreases from the innermost rim toward the outermost rim, to satisfy requirements of sounding for the full-gamut of audible frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Yon Shing Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng-Hsiung Yu
  • Patent number: 8229142
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate and a transducer attached to the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a surface to which the transducer is attached and at least one edge member extending along at least a portion of the outside edge of the surface. The surface can be a generally planar surface. The edge member is stiffer than the surface. In several embodiments, the transducer is adapted to vibrate. The transducer can, for example, be selected from the group consisting of a piezoelectric transducer, an electrostrictive transducer and a magnetostrictive transducer. Preferably, the transducer is attached to the surface of the substrate by a metallic bonding agent and, more particularly, by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mine Safety Appliances Company
    Inventors: Vincent M. Colaizzi, James A. Hendrickson, David Pickrell, Jeremy Frank, Jacob Loverich
  • Patent number: 8215445
    Abstract: Provided is an electroacoustic transducer having a diaphragm (10). The diaphragm (10) has a first and a second region (20, 30), wherein the hardness, stiffness or compliance of the first region (20) differs from the second region (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Wildhagen, Jan Peter Kuhtz, Axel Grell
  • Patent number: 8199964
    Abstract: A loudspeaker of high sound quality is achieved by improving rigidity of a material used for a diaphragm, a dust cap and a sub-cone. The diaphragm, the dust cap and the sub-cone of the loudspeaker are made of a paper beaten with the material containing bamboo fibers obtained from a bamboo tree aged one year or older, of which the fibers are finely beaten to an extent of micro-fibrillated form. The diaphragm and the dust cap are also made with a beaten paper containing at least 2 wt % of “A fibers” having stems of no greater than 30 ?m in diameter, and surfaces of the stems are fibrillated into shaggy branches having diameters of 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Mimura, Shinya Mizone, Kenichi Ajiki, Masahide Sumiyama, Toru Fujii, Yoshiyuku Takahashi, Nobuo Nakamura, Toshihiro Shimizu, Hitoshi Satou
  • Patent number: 8189851
    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 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: EMO Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Davis Booth, Stefan Bokaemper, Robert H. White, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8189850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a convex type of ultrasonic probe in which a plurality of piezoelectric elements are arrayed on a backing material in an arc shape in a long axis thereof, an acoustic adjustment layer is provided on top of the piezoelectric element and resin is molded on two side surfaces along the long-axis direction, and an acoustic lens is attached over the acoustic adjustment layer with a chemical-resistant film therebetween, wherein the acoustic lens is attached after the chemical-resistant film has been affixed to cover the surface of the acoustic adjustment layer and at least two edge surfaces of the acoustic adjustment layer, the piezoelectric elements, and the backing material that are exposed in the long-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiko Ono
  • Patent number: 8139795
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system for an aircraft cabin for passengers has a support structure, which includes multiple flexible flat elements, forming the internal walls of the cabin, and fastening devices for fastening flat elements to the support structure, so that the flat elements may oscillate. At least one acoustic driver is connected to one or more flat elements, to induce a bending movement in the one or more flat elements. The particular flat element may oscillate as an acoustic diaphragm. The acoustic driver has a film-shaped piezoelectric exciter, which is bonded flatly to the flat element. The flat element bonded to an exciter has a first cover layer, a second cover layer, and a core layer between them. The core layer is subdivided in a plane parallel to the first and second cover layers by a horizontal incision in at least one predefined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Scheel, Frank Cordes, Benjamin Grenzing
  • Patent number: 8135164
    Abstract: A speaker of the present invention includes the following: a diaphragm that includes an inner periphery coupled to a voice coil, and a corrugation provided at the intermediate position between the inner periphery and an outer periphery; a speaker edge for supporting the outer periphery of the diaphragm; and a damping member attached to an outer peripheral part of the diaphragm outside the vicinity of an outer periphery of the corrugation. The effective vibration area of an inner peripheral part of the diaphragm inside an inner periphery of the corrugation is substantially half or less of the total effective vibration area. The damping member is configured as a damping portion by extending an overlap portion of the speaker edge overlapping with the diaphragm to the vicinity of the outer periphery of the corrugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji Tanaka, Hiroko Tsutsumi, Takafumi Yuasa
  • Patent number: 8077903
    Abstract: A method for reducing the radiation amplitude of material vibration modes (division vibrations) from a loudspeaker transducer diaphragm mechanically vibrated for the purpose of transforming an electrical signal into an acoustic signal. The diaphragm material may consist of formed paper or plastic sheet materials or molded paper pulp. The amplitude reduction of material vibration modes and pressure waves within the diaphragm material is accomplished by impressing small, shaped structures within the diaphragm material at critical locations determined by measurement with laser vibration analysis or position sensitive transient analysis of a loudspeaker transducer. The method is applied to the diaphragm material after it has been formed into the shape of a loudspeaker transducer diaphragm, either before or after the diaphragm has been assembled into a loudspeaker transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Mark Douglas McKenzie
  • Patent number: 8073164
    Abstract: A sound wave generator includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure includes one or more drawn carbon nanotube films. The one or more drawn carbon nanotube films produce sound by means of the thermoacoustic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignees: Beijing FUNATE Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Chen Feng, Shou-Shan Fan, Yuan-Chao Yang
  • Patent number: 8068624
    Abstract: A sound wave generator that includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure produces sound by means of the thermoacoustic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignees: Beijing FUNATE Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Chen Feng, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 8068635
    Abstract: A multifunctional transducer diaphragm may be configured as audio speaker system for displays wherein the multifunctional transducer diaphragm is capable of polarizing light transmitted therethrough and can convert mechanical motion into acoustical energy. In a related embodiment, a display panel system may comprise a multifunctional display screen comprising a single multifunctional transducer diaphragm capable of polarizing light which converts mechanical motion into acoustical energy, simultaneously providing both display screen and audio speaker functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Emo Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason L. Carlson, Stefan Bokaemper
  • Patent number: 8068625
    Abstract: A sound wave generator includes a carbon nanotube structure. At least part of the carbon nanotube structure is supported by a supporting element. The sound wave generator produces sound by means of the thermoacoustic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignees: Beijing FUNATE Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Chen Feng, Shou-Shan Fan, Yuan-Chao Yang
  • Patent number: 8059841
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an electromagnetic signal device, a medium, and a sound wave generator. The sound wave generator includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure includes one or more drawn carbon nanotube films. The electromagnetic signal device transmits an electromagnetic signal to the carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure converts the electromagnetic signal into heat. The heat transfers to the medium and causes a thermoacoustic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignees: Beijing FUNATE Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Shou-Shan Fan, Chen Feng, Yuan-Chao Yang
  • Patent number: 8050431
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an electromagnetic signal device, a medium, and a sound wave generator. The sound wave generator includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure includes one or more carbon nanotube films. Each carbon nanotube film includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes entangled with each other. The electromagnetic signal device transmits an electromagnetic signal to the carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure converts the electromagnetic signal into heat. The heat transfers to the medium and causes a thermoacoustic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Beijing FUNATE Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Shou-Shan Fan, Chen Feng, Yuan-Chao Yang
  • Patent number: 8050430
    Abstract: A sound wave generator includes one or more carbon nanotube films. The carbon nanotube film includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes substantially parallel to each other and joined side by side via van der Waals attractive force therebetween. At least part of the sound wave generator is supported by a supporting element. The one or more carbon nanotube films produce sound by means of the thermoacoustic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Beijing FUNATE Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Li Jiang, Lin Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Chen Feng, Shou-Shan Fan, Yuan-Chao Yang
  • Patent number: 8002079
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm which includes a woven cloth which contains a thermosetting resin of thermo-cured state, and a paper board bonded and integrated with the woven cloth at the back surface. The woven cloth has its weave texture exposed on the front surface. The diaphragm has a high strength because it is made with a woven cloth; furthermore, its hardness is high because the thermosetting resin impregnated in woven cloth is in thermo-cured state. Thus the diaphragm helps implementing a speaker which demonstrates superior vibration characteristics in the high frequency sound region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Funahashi
  • Patent number: 7980355
    Abstract: There is provided an acoustic diaphragm used for a loudspeaker, having an injection-molded edge molded using a thermoplastic elastomer, in which the edge is formed using a workable polyolefinic elastomer, as a material, containing a soft segment having rubber particles of 1 ?m to 10 ?m in diameter uniformly dispersed therein, and a hard segment composed of an olefinic resin, and the edge is formed into a shape allowing the resin to be aligned as being not causative of anisotropy in the physical characteristics of the edge, as a result of thin-wall molding by the injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Tokura, Masaru Uryu, Toru Takebe
  • Publication number: 20110164764
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm containing resin and carbonized bamboo material with a large degree of flexibility in setting physical properties, moisture-proof reliability and strength secured, superior appearance, and productivity and dimensional stability increased, which allows making characteristics and sound highly accurately, and designing with great originality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Jin, Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone, Kazuaki Nishimura