IP Library Granted Patent US 11,218,812
Granted Patent B2
US 11,218,812 · App. 16/825,547 · Granted Jan 4, 2022

Speaker device

Inventors: Shinya Kagawa (Osaka, JP); Mitsukazu Kuze (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
H04R9/063H04R9/025
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Patent No.
US 11,218,812
App. No.
16/825,547
Granted
Jan 4, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A speaker device that includes: two magnetic circuits arranged side by side and each including a magnetic gap; two voice coil bodies each corresponding to a shape of the magnetic gap and arranged in the magnetic gap in an inserted state; a diaphragm to which the two voice coil bodies are coupled, the diaphragm having a width shorter than a length in a direction in which the two magnetic circuits are arranged; and a frame to which the diaphragm and the two magnetic circuits are attached. In the speaker device, the two voice coil bodies include two coils connected in series, the two coils being connected to a pair of input terminals for receiving an input of an electric signal, the pair of input terminals being disposed between the two voice coil bodies.

Claims (38)

1. A speaker device, comprising:

two magnetic circuits arranged side by side and each including a magnetic gap;

two voice coil bodies each corresponding to a shape of the magnetic gap and arranged in the magnetic gap in an inserted state;

a diaphragm to which the two voice coil bodies are coupled, the diaphragm having a width shorter than a length in a direction in which the two magnetic circuits are arranged; and

a frame to which the diaphragm and the two magnetic circuits are attached, wherein

the two voice coil bodies respectively include extension portions from which signal wires extend,

the two voice coil bodies are arranged with the extension portions facing each other, and

the two voice coil bodies include two coils connected in series, the two coils being connected to a pair of input terminals for receiving an input of an electric signal, the pair of input terminals being disposed between the two voice coil bodies.

2. The speaker device according to claim 1 , wherein

the diaphragm has an elongated plate-like shape, and

a distance from a center to an edge of the diaphragm in a longitudinal direction is in a range of from 2.27 times or more to 2.74 times or less a length from the center of the diaphragm to a winding axis of one of the two voice coil bodies.

3. The speaker device according to claim 1 , wherein

a cross-sectional shape of each of the two coils perpendicular to a winding axis direction is one of an ellipse, an oval, and a rectangle with rounded corners.

4. The speaker device according to claim 1 , wherein

winding directions of the two coils are same.

5. The speaker device according to claim 1 , wherein

magnetization directions of the two magnetic circuits are same.

6. The speaker device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a damper that has an annular shape and includes dividing portions, the dividing portions dividing the damper in a circumferential direction and being arranged such that the signal wires pass through the dividing portions.

7. A speaker device, comprising:

two magnetic circuits arranged side by side and each including a magnetic gap;

two voice coil bodies each corresponding to a shape of the magnetic gap and arranged in the magnetic gap in an inserted state;

a diaphragm to which the two voice coil bodies are coupled, the diaphragm having a width shorter than a length in a direction in which the two magnetic circuits are arranged; and

a frame to which the diaphragm and the two magnetic circuits are attached, wherein

the two voice coil bodies each include tongue pieces that are end portions of a bobbin, and are attached to the diaphragm by being bent outwardly in a radial direction, and

the two voice coil bodies include two coils connected in series, the two coils being connected to a pair of input terminals for receiving an input of an electric signal, the pair of input terminals being disposed between the two voice coil bodies.

8. The speaker device according to claim 7 , wherein

the diaphragm has an elongated plate-like shape, and

among the tongue pieces: a tongue piece that protrudes in a width direction of the diaphragm is shorter than a tongue piece that protrudes in a longitudinal direction of the diaphragm; or no tongue piece that protrudes in the width direction is included.

9. The speaker device according to claim 7 , wherein

the diaphragm has an elongated plate-like shape, and

a distance from a center to an edge of the diaphragm in a longitudinal direction is in a range of from 2.27 times or more to 2.74 times or less a length from the center of the diaphragm to a winding axis of one of the two voice coil bodies.

10. The speaker device according to claim 7 , wherein

a cross-sectional shape of each of the two coils perpendicular to a winding axis direction is one of an ellipse, an oval, and a rectangle with rounded corners.

11. The speaker device according to claim 7 , wherein

winding directions of the two coils are same.

12. The speaker device according to claim 7 , wherein

magnetization directions of the two magnetic circuits are same.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2024
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066703/0216 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 28, 2020
From: KAGAWA, SHINYA; KUZE, MITSUKAZU
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 052769/0399 →