Fibrous Patents (Class 381/428)
  • Patent number: 9008349
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm of the present invention is formed by mixing polylactic acid as a plant-derived resin, bamboo fibers and a natural binder. It is thereby possible to realize a speaker diaphragm capable of obtaining sufficient sound velocity, while having low environmental load and high sound quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Jin, Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone
  • 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: 8942384
    Abstract: A headset comprises a body, an audio transducer, an arm, a detector and processor. The detector can indicate whether the arm is in a first or second position. The headset operates in a headset mode or speakerphone mode responsive to the arm's position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilmer Lau, Leon Wu
  • 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: 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: 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: 8496086
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition of a speaker membrane, consisting at minimum of the following layering sequence: a first cover layer (3) made of a plastic, a first adhesive layer (2), and a first layer (4) manufactured from a non-woven material (fleece) made of fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Inventor: Norman Gerkinsmeyer
  • 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: 8406452
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm contains polylactic acid, and bamboo charcoal mixed in the polylactic acid. The diaphragm does not affect environment and provides a loudspeaker with high sound quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Kazuaki Nishimura, Hiroshi Shinkoda
  • Patent number: 8340342
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Jin, Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone, Kazuaki Nishimura
  • 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: 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: 8284967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrostatic speaker including a fixed electrode and a diaphragm that is arranged with a predetermined gap from the fixed electrode and has a plurality of ventilation holes. The ventilative diaphragm reduces air resistance caused by the ground effect between the fixed electrode and the diaphragm, and increases the sound pressure output from the speaker. As a result, the ventilative diaphragm makes it possible to obtain a uniform frequency reproduction characteristic over the entire frequency range. In particular, when the diaphragm is made from Korean paper, it is possible to effectively reduce the ground effect occurring between the fixed electrode and the diaphragm due to the air permeable characteristic of the Korean paper and the air resistance due to a surge input signal, while satisfying physical characteristics of the existing diaphragm. In addition, since the Korean paper has high formability, it is possible to easily form the diaphragm in a hemispherical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventors: Kilseob Yang, Hye-won Yang, Sung-min Yang
  • Patent number: 8235168
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm is configured by a compound mixed with resin and bamboo fiber. The diaphragm satisfying the advantage of the bamboo fiber of high sound quality and a large degree of freedom in the setting of the characteristic value of the diaphragm and the advantage of the diaphragm made of a resin with improved humidity resistance reliability and strength, excellent external appearance, and enhanced productivity and dimension stability is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone, Kazuyoshi Mimura, Takashi Sabato, Kazuaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8230966
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm is configured by a compound mixed with resin and bamboo fiber. The diaphragm satisfying the advantage of the bamboo fiber of high sound quality and a large degree of freedom in the setting of the characteristic value of the diaphragm and the advantage of the diaphragm made of a resin with improved humidity resistance reliability and strength, excellent external appearance, and enhanced productivity and dimension stability is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone, Kazuyoshi Mimura, Takashi Sabato, Kazuaki Nishimura
  • 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: 8177021
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm is configured by a compound mixed with resin and bamboo fiber. The diaphragm satisfying the advantage of the bamboo fiber of high sound quality and a large degree of freedom in the setting of the characteristic value of the diaphragm and the advantage of the diaphragm made of a resin with improved humidity resistance reliability and strength, excellent external appearance, and enhanced productivity and dimension stability is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone, Kazuyoshi Mimura, Takashi Sabato, Kazuaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8122996
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm is configured by a compound mixed with resin and bamboo fiber. The diaphragm satisfying the advantage of the bamboo fiber of high sound quality and a large degree of freedom in the setting of the characteristic value of the diaphragm and the advantage of the diaphragm made of a resin with improved humidity resistance reliability and strength, excellent external appearance, and enhanced productivity and dimension stability is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Shinya Mizone, Kazuyoshi Mimura, Takashi Sabato, Kazuaki Nishimura
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20110188699
    Abstract: A speaker having a diaphragm made of a woven/knitted fabric containing a conductive fiber and a non-conductive fiber, where the fabric has a woven structure or a knitted structure of the non-conductive fiber, and a continuous wiring forming a coil of the conductive fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: KB SEIREN, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIBAOKA, Sunao TAKAHIRA, Tatsuhiko NINOMIYA, Emiko SHIBATA
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7849958
    Abstract: A Vibration system part for a speaker device includes a woven fabric or a non-woven fabric made of basalt fiber produced by twist yarn or roving yarn being a continuous long-fiber. The vibration system part for the speaker device may be a diaphragm, a center cap, an edge or a damper, for example. In a preferred example, the woven fabric or the non-woven fabric is impregnated with thermosetting resin or thermoplastic resin. Additionally, a lamination member, such as paper, foam material, resin or a film, is preferably laminated (coated) on the woven fabric or the non-woven fabric. Thus, the vibration system parts for the speaker device, having excellent acoustic property and reliability, can be obtained at a low price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sato, Satoshi Hachiya, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Koji Takayama
  • Patent number: 7708111
    Abstract: There is provided an acoustic diaphragm which includes a diaphragm base material composed of a paper article comprised of fine mica flakes, pulp fibers, and polyvinyl alcohol fibers and formed to be a multi-cellular structure; and a sheet material combined with the paper article or the diaphragm base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Uryu, Kunihiko Tokura, Takahisa Tagami, Emiko Ikeda
  • Patent number: 7686128
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a substrate and a surface material. The surface material is arranged on one side of the substrate, and includes a woven fabric of a polyethylene naphthalate fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventor: Yushi Ono
  • Patent number: 7677356
    Abstract: An acoustic material includes at least a kind of synthetic staple fiber and a kind of low melting point fiber having a melting point lower than that of the at least one kind of synthetic staple fiber. Method for making the acoustic material includes the following steps: a) blending the synthetic staple fiber with the low melting point fiber together; b) cross lapping the mixed fibers to a predetermined thickness; c) drying the fibers to bond the fibers together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Lung Yang
  • Patent number: 7631723
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm having light weight and an excellent balance between a rigidity and an internal loss, and a simple and inexpensive method for manufacturing such a diaphragm are provided. The loudspeaker diaphragm includes a base layer having a woven fabric of a polyethylene naphthalate fiber impregnated with a thermosetting resin, and optionally a thermoplastic resin layer and/or a thermoplastic elastomer layer. The polyethylene naphthalate fiber is preferably an untwisted fiber. A fiber/resin weight ratio in the base layer is preferably in the range of 60/40 to 80/20. Preferably, the thermoplastic resin layer has a finely foamed structure and an average diameter of a cell in the finely foamed structure is 10 to 60 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Yushi Ono, Toshihide Inoue
  • Patent number: 7606387
    Abstract: A loudspeaker cone including a plated fabric is provided. The material of the loudspeaker cone is produced by laminating an interweaved plated fabric, and a light-weight and tough cloth together, and then a loudspeaker cone is produced by molding the material of the loudspeaker cone under high temperature and high pressure. The produced loudspeaker cone is light-weight, tough, pressure-resistant, not easily deformed, and can be used for a long term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 7527124
    Abstract: Wholly aromatic polyamide fibers cut to a length of 0.5 to 5 mm are dispersedly contained in an injection-moldable thermoplastic resin, and the resin is molded by ultrahigh-speed thin-wall injection molding so as to produce a loudspeaker diaphragm in which the wholly aromatic polyamide fibers are dispersed in a direction perpendicular to the resin flow direction, whereby the loudspeaker diaphragm is improved in internal loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Tokura, Toru Takebe, Masaru Uryu, Takahisa Tagami
  • Publication number: 20090080687
    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: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Mimura, Shinya Mizone, Kenichi Ajiki, Masahide Sumiyama, Toru Fujii, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Nobuo Nakamura, Toshihiro Shimizu, Hitoshi Satou
  • Patent number: 7467686
    Abstract: On one surface of a piece of wooden sheet, a cloth or paper is adhered to make an adhered sheet. An approximately V-shaped notch is provided on the adhered sheet, the adhered sheet is wetted to be softened, and a lubricant which acts to keep water is impregnated thereinto. Edge portions of the notch are overlapped, and the adhered sheet is tentatively molded in an approximately horn shape by a first hot press molding. The adhered sheet is then dried, impregnated with thermosetting resin, and half-dried. The adhered sheet is subject to a second hot press molding. A moisture-proof agent is applied on the adhered sheet, a center hole for a voice coil and periphery are removed to make a speaker diaphragm having a predetermined dimension and shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Imamura, Takeshi Hirano, Tomoaki Ogata, Toshikatsu Kuwahata
  • Patent number: 7466839
    Abstract: There is provided a speaker that uses a waterproof vibration plate that is obtained by forming a water repellent layer containing wax on a surface of paper pulp by the use of a wax-based emulsion in a suspension of the paper pulp, then forming a binder layer containing rosin or alkyl ketene dimmer on a surface of the water repellent layer by the use of a rosin sizing agent or an alkyl ketene dimmer sizing agent in the suspension, then forming an oil repellent layer containing a fluorinated resin on a surface of the binder layer by the use of a fluorine-based resin emulsion in the suspension, then forming the paper pulp into paper, and then heating and drying the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: OG Corporation
    Inventors: Kichiro Yasugahira, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7344001
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a base material impregnated with a thermosetting resin composition. The base material includes a first surface material, a core material, and a second surface material in the stated order; the first surface material and the second surface material are each formed of a woven fabric or a non-woven fabric; and the core material is formed of a woven fabric or a non-woven fabric each including hollow fine particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Inoue, Hiroyasu Kumo
  • Patent number: 7311174
    Abstract: In a diaphragm for a loud-speaker of the present invention, an increase in tensile strength is averagely attained as a whole, and the over all diaphragm is uniformly colored without showing any lattice pattern. The diaphragm includes a woven fabric comprising yarns made from a blend of a plurality of fibers wherein at least one of the plurality of fibers is PBO (poly(p-phenylene benzobisoxazole)) fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Junichi Hayakawa, Takaharu Ichiryu
  • Patent number: 7280668
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of manufacturing speaker diaphragm for a loudspeaker that has a composite material formed of two layers of ceramic material separated by a light metal substrate and where the core is formed by stamping a sheet of standard gauge aluminum to form a speaker core and then deep anodizing the core to obtain a ceramic layer of alumina on each surface (Al2O3) that is at least about 1 mil. thick. The invention further provides for a loudspeaker diaphragm, where the diaphragm is a composite material formed of at least two layers of ceramic material having a metal substrate therebetween and where the thickness of the metal substrate is no more than 86% of the thickness of the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Allan O. Devantier, An D. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7274796
    Abstract: A reinforced speaker damper includes a ring-shaped damper body made of woven fabric in the form of a mesh and press-molded to form a wavy cross-section having alternating ridges and troughs. A plurality of reinforces is attached to the damper body. Each reinforce includes a woven fabric in the form of a mesh with rectangular openings extending in a direction different from that of the damper body and having a wavy cross-section for closely fitting over the wavy configuration of the damper body. Each reinforce is fixed to the damper body by for example sewing and extends between inner and outer circumferences of the ring of the damper body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Inventor: Yen-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 7010143
    Abstract: A structure of a rectangular panel-form loudspeaker is provided. The structure includes a radiating panel, a transducer, a frame and a suspending unit. The radiating panel includes a rectangular laminated composite plate with length b and width a, and the laminated composite plate includes an intermediate core layer sandwiched between two fiber-reinforced polymeric layers. The transducer is used for exciting the radiating panel to produce flexural vibration. The transducer includes a voice coil assembly and a magnet assembly, wherein the voice coil assembly is coupled to a first side of the laminated composite plate at a first specified location. The frame is used for positioning the laminated composite plate and the magnet assembly. The suspending unit is made of a soft material and disposed between peripheral edges of the laminated composite plate and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Inventor: Tai-Yan Kam
  • Patent number: 6845169
    Abstract: A speaker edge is molded of a rubber material with 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % short fibers added to the rubber material which ranges from 1.0 mm to 10 mm in length and are resistant to softening by heat, in which the short fibers are oriented to the radial direction of the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 6740202
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm is formed from a material combining a fiber-type material and a ceramic-type-coating agent including metal alkoxide, metal hydroxide, and a colloidal or fine-particulate inorganic substance. The combining process for the ceramic-type-coating agent is performed before or after the fiber-type material is formed into a shape of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, Nippan Kenkyujo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ishigaki, Hideo Sekikawa, Koji Maekawa, Tomoyuki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20030223613
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm which has a high rigidity and can improve sound transmission speed for better sound quality is provided. The speaker diaphragm contains fibers of 3 to 50 mm length mixed in matrix resin. The fibers are oriented radially from center to periphery in surface layers of the diaphragm, while they are oriented in different directions in a middle layer. After setting the resin, these fibers are fixed in the matrix resin with certain tension applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Hachiya
  • Patent number: 6644182
    Abstract: A method of producing cone diaphragm having color patterns includes steps of using a fiber-made thin sheet as a base material; printing the base material with a high molecular ink; soaking the printed base material in a high molecular resin material; or alternatively, first soaking the base material in the high molecular resin material and drying the base material, and then printing the base material wish the high molecular ink; so that the base material is coated with a layer of the high molecular resin to maintain a desired brilliance of the color patterns; drying the base material and positioning it in a high-temperature mold, so that the base material is molded into a cone having a predetermined shape; painting outer surfaces of the molded cone with a paint; and trimming the molded and painted cone to produce a finished cone diaphragm having color patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventor: Chui-Che Chen
  • Patent number: 6554962
    Abstract: A loudspeaker in which the input resistance is improved and the effect of humidity on the playback frequency response is suppressed, and a method for the preparation of the loudspeaker. A sheet-like product, containing glass particles with a particle size of 8 nm to 300 nm and polyamide resin, and prepared by application of a paper-making technique, is used as the diaphragm. The content of the glass particles in the compound material is 5 weight % to 70 weight %. In preparing the diaphragm, a phase of an aqueous solution containing diamine and water glass is contacted with a phase of an organic solution containing a dicarboxylic acid halide to generate a compound material containing glass particles and the polyamide resin. The compound material so prepared is formed into a sheet by a paper-making technique. In the process of the preparation by the paper-making technique, the compound material mixed with other fibrous material may also be used as a starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Dai Nippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Uryu, Kunihiko Tokura, Yoshio Ohashi, Satoshi Idemura, Michiya Nakashima, Katsuji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6378649
    Abstract: The speaker member of the present invention comprises (a) a vibrating plate part comprising a base material, a part of the base material being impregnated with a thermosetting resin; and (b) an edge part containing the same base material as that of the vibrating plate. Such a speaker member is obtained by a method comprising the steps of: forming a base material; impregnating a portion of the base material with a thermosetting resin wherein the portion is to be a vibrating plate part; and curing said impregnated thermosetting resin so as to form the vibrating plate part, and simultaneously forming an edge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Inoue, Yushi Ono, Takashi Onogi, Kazumasa Takemura, Hiroyasu Kumo
  • Patent number: 6097829
    Abstract: A composite loudspeaker diaphragm is disclosed having first and second substantially flat carbon fiber skins, and a honeycomb core sandwiched between the first and second carbon skins. In a preferred form, each carbon fiber skin comprises a sheet formed of primarily unidirectional carbon filaments bound together by an epoxy resin. In the preferred embodiment, the honeycomb core is formed of nomex, and is glued with epoxy to the first and second carbon skins, and then heated. The sandwich diaphragm is manufactured so that the direction of the carbon fibers of the cross plies of each outer skin are out of phase relative to each other, preferably in the range of approximately ninety degrees. The improved diaphragm is used in an flat-panel loudspeaker system having improved performance at higher frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Precision Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward W. Guenther, Stephen Leigh
  • Patent number: 5903658
    Abstract: Water-proofed natural pulp or organic synthetic fibers are with polyester-type fibers having a low melting point, and subjected to a paper fabrication process. The fabricated product is dried with hot air at a temperature higher than the melting point of the polyester-type fibers, thereby melt-bonding only intersections of the fibers without completely fusing the polyester-type fibers. The pressure of the hot air contributes to the formation of a predetermined shape. Thus, a water-proof diaphragm for a loudspeaker, having a large thickness, a low density, a high internal loss and a high stiffness, is obtained. By incorporating the thus formed diaphragm, a high-performance loudspeaker having a low distortion and a broad reproducing range is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Okazaki, Shinya Mizone, Toshihiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5878150
    Abstract: A damper for a loud speaker is produced by molding a substrate into a desired shape in which a fabric or knitted cloth composed of core-sheath type conjugate fibers composed of filaments having a core-sheath type structure is used as the substrate. A resin used for forming a core material in the core-sheath type structure functions as a matrix of the substrate. A sheath material having a lower melting point than that of the core material functions as an excipient, and is fused by a heat treatment and then solidified during the molding process, so as to bond together the intersections of fibers constituting the substrate and to cover the surface of the fibers. Thus, only a simple substrate production process is required and a damper for a loud speaker having excellent moldability, water-proofness, and durability is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kanebo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Okazaki, Shinya Mizone, Toshihiro Shimizu, Toshihide Tomikawa, Toyohiro Tanaka