IP Library Granted Patent US 9,036,857
Granted Patent B2
US 9,036,857 · App. 13/433,728 · Granted May 19, 2015

Garnish double ring for speaker seal

Inventors: Kerry Scott Zellner, Jr. (Saline, MI); Benjamin Warren Penner (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
H04R1/025Y10T29/49002H04R2499/13B60R11/0217B60R2011/0005B60R2013/0287
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Patent No.
US 9,036,857
App. No.
13/433,728
Granted
May 19, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An adaptive speaker panel is provided. The speaker panel can have a speaker opening and a pair of concentric sealing ribs proximate to the speaker opening, the pair of sealing ribs having a first sealing rib and a second sealing rib towards a center of the speaker opening from the first sealing rib. The first sealing rib is first sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a first speaker basket and the second sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a second speaker basket that is smaller than the first speaker basket. Also, the first sealing rib and the second sealing rib are operatively arranged such that without modification to the speaker panel the first speaker basket or the second speaker basket can be attached to and sealed against the panel.

Claims (20)

1. An adaptive speaker panel for a motor vehicle comprising:

a panel with a speaker opening and a pair of concentric sealing ribs proximate said speaker opening, said pair of concentric sealing ribs having a first sealing rib and a second sealing rib spaced inwardly towards a center of said speaker opening from said first sealing rib, said first sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a first speaker basket and said second sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a second speaker basket that is smaller than the first speaker basket;

said first sealing rib and said second sealing rib operatively arranged such that without modification to said panel the first speaker basket or the second speaker basket can be attached to and sealed against said panel such that there is contact along a periphery of said first sealing rib and the first speaker basket and said second sealing rib and the second speaker basket.

2. The adaptive speaker panel of claim 1 , wherein said pair of concentric sealing ribs extend from an exterior side of said speaker panel.

3. The adaptive speaker panel of claim 2 , wherein said first sealing rib extends from said exterior side a first height and said second sealing rib extends from said exterior side a second height.

4. The adaptive speaker panel of claim 3 , wherein said first height is less than said second height.

5. The adaptive speaker panel of claim 4 , wherein said speaker panel has a grill extending across said speaker opening.

6. The adaptive speaker panel of claim 1 , wherein said pair of concentric sealing ribs is a pair of cylindrically shaped concentric sealing ribs.

7. A speaker panel for mounting a speaker within a motor vehicle, the speaker panel comprising:

a panel having a speaker opening;

a first sealing rib extending from said panel proximate said speaker opening and dimensioned to seal against a first speaker basket; and

a second sealing rib extending from said panel proximate said speaker opening and nested within said first sealing rib towards a center of said speaker opening, said second sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a second speaker basket that is smaller than the first speaker basket;

said first sealing rib and said second sealing rib operatively arranged such that the first speaker basket or the second speaker basket can be attached to and sealed against said panel such that there is contact along a periphery of said first sealing rib and the first speaker basket and said second sealing rib and the second speaker basket without modifying said panel.

8. The speaker panel of claim 7 , wherein said first sealing rib and said second sealing rib are a pair of concentric sealing ribs.

9. The speaker panel of claim 8 , wherein said pair of concentric sealing ribs is a pair of cylindrically shaped concentric sealing ribs.

10. The speaker panel of claim 8 , wherein said panel is a generally planar panel having an exterior side and an interior side, said first sealing rib and said second sealing rib extending from said exterior side of said panel.

11. The speaker panel of claim 10 , wherein said second sealing rib bounds said speaker opening.

12. The speaker panel of claim 11 , wherein said first sealing rib extends from said panel a first height and said second sealing rib extends from said panel a second height.

13. The speaker panel of claim 12 , wherein said first height is less than said second height.

14. The speaker panel of claim 13 , wherein said panel has a grill extending across said speaker opening.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2015
From: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 035614/0053 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2012
From: ZELLNER, KERRY SCOTT, JR.; PENNER, BENJAMIN WARREN
To: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Reel/Frame 027954/0103 →
Continuity (1)
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