IP Library Granted Patent US 11,929,054
Granted Patent B2
US 11,929,054 · App. 17/260,191 · Granted Mar 12, 2024

Soundproof material

Inventors: Norikazu Matsumoto (Kyoto, JP); Shoko Sakai (Kyoto, JP); Kenji Ohtani (Kyoto, JP); Teruhisa Miyata (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
G10K11/168B32B5/022B32B2307/102B32B2307/732
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Patent No.
US 11,929,054
App. No.
17/260,191
Granted
Mar 12, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a soundproof material having a practically useful high-level sound absorption coefficient that while maintaining thinness, and further having an expanded sound-absorbable frequency region. A means for solving the problem is a soundproof material comprising: a surface cover layer composed of a fiber material; a back-surface layer laminated onto the surface cover layer, and composed of a porous material with voids interconnected with each other; and a joining layer laminated between the surface cover layer and the back-surface layer, and composed of a joining material, wherein the fiber material has an average fiber diameter of 1 to 10 μm and an air-permeation volume of 5 to 200 cm 3 /cm 2 ·sec, and wherein the joining layer has a joint area percentage of 50 to 95% with respect to the entire surface where the surface cover layer and the back-surface layer face each other.

Claims (20)

1. A soundproof material comprising:

a surface cover layer composed of a fiber material;

a back-surface layer laminated onto the surface cover layer, and composed of a porous material with voids interconnected with each other; and

a joining layer laminated between the surface cover layer and the back-surface layer, and composed of a joining material,

wherein:

the fiber material has an average fiber diameter of 1 to 10 μm and an air-permeation volume of 5 to 200 cm 3 /cm 2 ·sec,

the joining layer has a joint area percentage of 50 to 95% with respect to an entire surface where the surface cover layer and the back-surface layer face each other, and

the surface cover layer has a basis weight from 5 to 300 g/m 2 .

2. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the joining layer has a joint area percentage of 60 to 95% with respect to the entire surface where the surface cover layer and the back-surface layer face each other.

3. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the joining material is a coated pressure-sensitive adhesive or double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape.

4. The soundproof material according to claim 3 , wherein the coated pressure-sensitive adhesive or double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive has a shear storage elastic modulus in the range of 1.0×10 4 to 1.0×10 6 Pa at 25° C.

5. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the joining layer has a plurality of bar-like shaped layers.

6. The soundproof material according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of bar-like shaped layers forms a stripe pattern.

7. The soundproof material according to claim 6 , wherein the distance between adjacent bar-like shaped layers is 1 mm or more.

8. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the surface cover layer has an air-permeation volume of 10 to 100 cm 3 /cm 2 ·sec.

9. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the back-surface layer is a fiber material, and the fiber material has a basis weight of 100 to 300 g/m 2 .

10. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the soundproof material has a total thickness of 5 to 15 mm.

11. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the soundproof material has a normal incidence sound absorption coefficient of 55% or more at all ⅓ octave band center frequencies 2000, 2500, 3150 and 4000 Hz as measured according to JIS A1405-2.

12. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the soundproof material has a normal incidence sound absorption coefficient of 55% or more at all ⅓ octave band center frequencies 1600, 2000, 2500, 3150 and 4000 Hz as measured according to JIS A1405-2.

13. The soundproof material according to claim 1 , wherein the soundproof material has a normal incidence sound absorption coefficient of 55% or more at all ⅓ octave band center frequencies 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500, 3150 and 4000 Hz as measured according to JIS A1405-2.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058301/0318 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 18, 2021
From: MATSUMOTO, NORIKAZU; SAKAI, SHOKO; OHTANI, KENJI; MIYATA, TERUHISA
To: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054944/0234 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-146130 · Aug 2, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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