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US 7,936,896 · App. 11/594,768 · Granted May 3, 2011

Speaker apparatus

Assignees: Pioneer Corporation; Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,936,896
App. No.
11/594,768
Granted
May 3, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a speaker apparatus including: a magnetic circuit; a vibrating plate vibrated by the magnetic circuit; a speaker frame holding the magnetic circuit and the vibrating plate, and a connecting portion connecting a portion of holding the vibrating plate and a portion of holding the magnetic circuit, an inclined face of the connecting portion being inclined relative to a direction of tangential line of circumference of the speaker frame, the connecting portion configured to flow air due to a vibration of the vibrating plate along the inclined face thereof.

Claims (20)

1. A speaker apparatus comprising:

a driving member and a vibrating plate which are coaxially disposed along a direction of driving a magnetic circuit;

a frame including: a bottom plate portion holding the magnetic circuit; and a peripheral wall portion holding the vibrating plate and the driving member, wherein:

the vibrating plate and the driving member are fixed to the peripheral wall portion of the frame at an outer peripheral portion thereof;

an inner peripheral portion of the vibrating plate is bonded to the driving member, and an inner peripheral portion of the driving member is fixed to a voice coil bobbin;

a space surrounded by the vibrating plate and the drive member and the frame is hermetically closed;

a vibrating system is supported through the voice coil bobbin by a spring performance of a gas inside of the space;

the bottom plate portion and the peripheral wall portion are connected by a plurality of connecting portions, each of which has a plate shape, arranged spirally; and

the plurality of connecting portions are disposed so that interspaces between each of the plurality of connecting portions define openings

the plurality of connecting portions are configured to flow air due to a vibration of the vibrating plate along the inclined face thereof.

2. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the bottom plate portion is vertically-disposed to a sound-radiation direction of the speaker apparatus;

the peripheral wall portion is disposed in parallel with the sound-radiation direction of the speaker apparatus; and

ends of the plurality of connecting portions connecting with the peripheral wall portion are disposed at a front side of the sound-radiation direction compared to ends of the plurality of connecting portions connecting with the bottom plate portion.

3. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

a width of each of the plurality of connecting portions is gradually narrowed; and

a bottom face of each of the plurality of connecting portions is a convex toward the sound-radiation direction.

4. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in a cross sectional face of each of the plurality of connecting portions, the connecting portion has such a substantially wedge-like shape that the connecting portion is thin-walled at a side proximate to the peripheral wall portion.

5. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in a cross sectional face of each of the plurality of connecting portions, the connecting portion has such a substantially stream shape that a center portion of the connecting portion is thick-walled and both end sides of the connecting portion are thin-walled.

6. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a width of each of the openings is gradually broadened in a direction from the peripheral wall portion to the bottom plate portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 23, 2007
From: HORIGOME, MINORU; KAIYA, TERUAKI; TAKAHASHI, YUICHI
To: PIONEER CORPORATION; TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP P2005-326983 · Nov 11, 2005 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20070116322A1 · May 24, 2007