IP Library Granted Patent US 10,412,502
Granted Patent B2
US 10,412,502 · App. 15/641,860 · Granted Sep 10, 2019

Electroacoustic transducer with dual vibration plate

Inventors: Shigeo Ishii (Takasaki, JP); Takashi Tomita (Takasaki, JP); Hiroshi Hamada (Takasaki, JP); Yutaka Doshida (Takasaki, JP)
Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
H04R17/00H04R1/2857H04R7/04H04R7/18
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Patent No.
US 10,412,502
App. No.
15/641,860
Granted
Sep 10, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electroacoustic transducer that can improve acoustic characteristics has a housing and a piezoelectric speaker. The piezoelectric speaker has a first vibration plate with a periphery part supported directly or indirectly on the housing, as well as a piezoelectric element placed at least on one side of the first vibration plate, and is constituted in such a way that its rigidity is asymmetric with respect to the center axis of the first vibration plate.

Claims (19)

1. An electroacoustic transducer, comprising:

a housing; and

a piezoelectric speaker which has a first vibration plate having a periphery part supported directly or indirectly on the housing, as well as a piezoelectric element placed at least on one side of the first vibration plate, and which is constituted in a manner that the piezoelectric speaker has structural rigidity formed by the first vibration plate and the piezoelectric element, which rigidity is rotationally asymmetric with respect to a center axis of the first vibration plate as viewed in a thickness direction of the first vibration plate,

wherein the rotationally asymmetric rigidity is formed by a structure wherein the piezoelectric speaker has a passage that penetrates through the first vibration plate in the thickness direction, wherein the passage includes at least one opening part each defined by a closed periphery provided in-plane in the first vibration plate, wherein open area formed by the at least one opening part is distributed in a manner rotationally asymmetric with respect to the center axis of the first vibration plate as viewed in the thickness direction, wherein the rotational asymmetry is adjusted based on desired high-frequency characteristics of sound and sound pressure characteristics,

wherein the electroacoustic transducer further comprises a dynamic speaker that includes a second vibration plate; and

the housing has:

a first space part where the dynamic speaker is placed; and

a second space part which connects to the first space part via the passage, and which has a sound-guiding path that guides sound waves generated by the piezoelectric speaker and the dynamic speaker, to an outside,

wherein when a distance between the first vibration plate and second vibration plate is given by h and a diameter of the second vibration plate is given by d, a relationship “0.152≤(h/d)≤0.212” is satisfied.

2. An electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric element is placed at an eccentric position with respect to the first vibration plate.

3. An electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the passage further includes at least one cutout part provided in the periphery part.

4. An electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein:

the passage includes multiple passages; and

the sound-guiding path is positioned at a position facing a passage having a largest opening area, among the multiple passages.

5. An electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein:

a planar shape of the first vibration plate is a circle; and

a planar shape of the piezoelectric element is a rectangle.

6. An electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric speaker further has an annular member which is fixed to the housing and which supports the periphery part of the first vibration plate.

7. An electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the first vibration plate is placed at an eccentric position with respect to the second vibration plate.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2017
From: ISHII, SHIGEO; TOMITA, TAKASHI; HAMADA, HIROSHI; DOSHIDA, YUTAKA
To: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 043036/0311 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-138646 · Jul 13, 2016 · national
JP 2016-166589 · Aug 29, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180020293A1 · Jan 18, 2018
Cited By (1)
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