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US 7,706,560 · App. 11/258,055 · Granted Apr 27, 2010

Speaker apparatus

Assignees: Pioneer Corporation; Tohoku Pioneer Electronic Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,706,560
App. No.
11/258,055
Granted
Apr 27, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A cross-sectionally substantially-semicircular portion of an edge portion adapted to connect an outer periphery of a diaphragm to a speaker frame is configured to have an uneven-thickness structure in which the thickness of the portion gradually decreases toward a sticking portion of an outer peripheral portion of the speaker frame from a sticking portion of the outer periphery of the diaphragm. Thus, the propagation characteristic of vibrations generated on the edge portion is improved. Disturbance is prevented from occurring in an mid-range frequency characteristic due to inverse resonance caused by the edge portion.

Claims (8)

1. A speaker apparatus, comprising:

a corrugation damper having a ridge portion and a groove portion which are alternately and coaxially arranged along a radial direction thereof, respectively;

a speaker frame having an outer peripheral edge portion; and

a diaphragm having:

an outer peripheral edge portion being supported by the outer peripheral edge portion of the speaker frame through a cross-sectionally substantially semicircular edge portion; and

an inner periphery being supported by the speaker frame through the corrugation damper, wherein the outer peripheral edge portion has a cross-sectionally substantially-semicircular portion of which a thickness gradually decreases toward a sticking portion of the outer peripheral portion of the speaker frame from a sticking portion of the outer periphery of the diaphragm.

2. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the corrugation damper is adapted so that a bending radius R y of a top portion of the ridge portion and a bending radius R t of a bottom portion of the groove portion are set so that R y <R t .

3. The speaker apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the corrugation damper is adapted so that a corrugation height H y of the ridge portion and a corrugation depth H t of the groove portion are set so that H y <H t .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2005
From: TAKAYAMA, KOJI; KOBAYASHI, HIROYUKI; HAYASAKA, SHINICHI; YUZE, KAZUKI
To: PIONEER CORPORATION; TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (2)
JP P2004-312726 · Oct 27, 2004 · national
JP P2004-312727 · Oct 27, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20060088182A1 · Apr 27, 2006