IP Library Granted Patent US 8,055,010
Granted Patent B2
US 8,055,010 · App. 12/300,883 · Granted Nov 8, 2011

Magnetic structure for an ironless electrodynamic-loudspeaker motor, motors and loudspeakers

Assignees: Orkidia Audio; Universite du Maine
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Patent No.
US 8,055,010
App. No.
12/300,883
Granted
Nov 8, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnetic structure generating a magnetic field for an ironless motor of an electrodynamic loudspeaker having a mobile coil, wherein the magnetic structure generates a magnetic field in a gap in which the coil is arranged. The magnetic structure includes of a stack of three magnets corresponding to one intermediate magnet and two top and bottom covering magnets, the magnets forming a straight gap border and being located side by side, the intermediate magnet having a radial magnetic polarization, the covering magnets having identical magnetic polarizations and remanent magnetizations. The covering magnets have a radial or axial magnetic polarization. When magnetic polarization of the covering magnets is radial, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet is higher than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet, and when magnetic polarization of the covering magnets is axial, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet is lower than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet. Motors are provided.

Claims (20)

1. Magnetic structure ( 5 , 5 ′, 5 ″, 10 ) generating a magnetic field for an ironless motor of an electrodynamic loudspeaker ( 1 ) having a mobile coil ( 2 ), wherein the magnetic structure generates a magnetic field in a gap in which the coil is arranged, said magnetic structure consisting of a stack of three magnets corresponding to one intermediate magnet ( 8 , 8 ′, 8 ″) and two top and bottom covering magnets ( 7 , 9 ) ( 7 ′, 9 ′) ( 7 ″, 9 ″) ( 11 , 12 ), the gap-circumscribing edges of said magnets being aligned and forming a straight gap border, said magnets being further located side by side, the intermediate magnet having a radial magnetic polarization, the covering magnets having the same magnetic polarization and substantially identical remanent magnetizations,

characterized in that the covering magnets have a radial ( 7 , 9 ) ( 7 ′, 9 ′) ( 7 ″, 9 ″) or axial ( 11 , 12 ) magnetic polarization and in that, when magnetic polarization of the covering magnets is radial, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet is higher than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet, and in that when magnetic polarization of the covering magnets is axial, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet is lower than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet.

2. The magnetic structure according to claim 1 , characterized in that remanent magnetization of each covering magnet is higher or lower, according to the case, by 1% of remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet, and preferably by 5%.

3. The magnetic structure according to claim 1 , characterized in that remanent magnetization of each covering magnet is higher or lower, according to the case, by 10% of remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet.

4. The magnetic structure according to claim 1 , characterized in that, in a magnetic structure, the width of each covering magnet is larger than the width of the intermediate magnet.

5. The magnetic structure according to claim 1 , characterized in that, in a magnetic structure, the width of each covering magnet is smaller than or equal to the width of the intermediate magnet.

6. The magnetic structure according to claim 1 , characterized in that the three magnets have the same magnetic polarization, the polarization being radial, the same-sign pole faces of the three magnets lining the gap, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet being higher than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet.

7. The magnetic structure according to claim 1 , characterized in that the intermediate magnet has a radial magnetic polarization and the two covering magnets have a magnetic polarization that is coaxial to the axis of symmetry of the loudspeaker, signs of the covering magnet pole faces in contact with the intermediate magnet being mutually identical and the same as the sign of the gap-lining pole face of the intermediate magnet, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet being lower than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet.

8. Motor for an electrodynamic loudspeaker, characterized in that it comprises a single magnetic structure ( 5 , 5 ′, 5 ″, 10 ) according to claim 1 , wherein said magnetic structure can be internal or external relative to the coil.

9. Motor for an electrodynamic loudspeaker comprising, opposite to each other and at the same level, two magnetic structures internal and external relative to the coil, characterized in that each of the structures is according to claim 1 , magnetic polarizations of similar magnets being identical in both magnetic structures.

10. Loudspeaker comprising a motor according to claim 8 .

11. The magnetic structure according to claim 2 characterized in that, in a magnetic structure, the width of each covering magnet is larger than the width of the intermediate magnet.

12. The magnetic structure according to claim 3 characterized in that, in a magnetic structure, the width of each covering magnet is larger than the width of the intermediate magnet.

13. The magnetic structure according to claim 2 , characterized in that, in a magnetic structure, the width of each covering magnet is smaller than or equal to the width of the intermediate magnet.

14. The magnetic structure according to claim 3 , characterized in that, in a magnetic structure, the width of each covering magnet is smaller than or equal to the width of the intermediate magnet.

15. The magnetic structure according to claim 2 , characterized in that the three magnets have the same magnetic polarization, the polarization being radial, the same-sign pole faces of the three magnets lining the gap, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet being higher than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet.

16. The magnetic structure according to claim 2 , characterized in that the intermediate magnet has a radial magnetic polarization and the two covering magnets have a magnetic polarization that is coaxial to the axis of symmetry of the loudspeaker, signs of the covering magnet pole faces in contact with the intermediate magnet being mutually identical and the same as the sign of the gap-lining pole face of the intermediate magnet, remanent magnetization of each covering magnet being lower than remanent magnetization of the intermediate magnet.

17. Motor for an electrodynamic loudspeaker, characterized in that it comprises a single magnetic structure ( 5 , 5 ′, 5 ″, 10 ) according to claim 2 , wherein said magnetic structure can be internal or external relative to the coil.

18. Motor for an electrodynamic loudspeaker comprising, opposite to each other and at the same level, two magnetic structures internal and external relative to the coil, characterized in that each of the structures is according to claim 2 , magnetic polarizations of similar magnets being identical in both magnetic structures.

19. Loudspeaker comprising a motor according to claim 9 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2019
From: ORKIDIA AUDIO
To: LABORDE, JEAN-MARIE, MR.
Reel/Frame 049968/0287 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2009
From: LEMARQUAND, GUY; MERIT, BENOIT
To: ORKIDIA AUDIO; UNIVERSITE DU MAINE
Reel/Frame 022682/0248 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 07 57657 · Sep 18, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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