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Granted Patent B2
US 8,577,076 · App. 13/169,312 · Granted Nov 5, 2013

Speaker device

Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi (Kanagawa, JP); Nobukazu Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,577,076
App. No.
13/169,312
Granted
Nov 5, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A speaker device includes: an acoustic diaphragm having a given shape and made of a material having physical anisotropy; and an excitation means attached to the acoustic diaphragm for exciting vibration components in consideration of a direction corresponding to the physical anisotropy.

Claims (14)

1. A speaker device comprising:

an acoustic diaphragm having a given shape and made of a material having physical anisotropy; and an excitation means attached to the acoustic diaphragm for exciting vibration components in consideration of a direction corresponding to the physical anisotropy wherein the acoustic diaphragm has a conical trapezoid shape, and

wherein the acoustic diaphragm has a through hole at a center of the conical trapezoid shape such that the through hole extends from a top of the acoustic diaphragm to a bottom thereof so as to pierce through the center of the conical trapezoid shape, where in the through hole functions as a bass reflex port through a duct provided at the side wall of the acoustic diaphragm with respect to the internal space.

2. The speaker device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the acoustic diaphragm uses wood as the material, and

the excitation means is attached so as to be along a straight grain direction of the wood as the direction corresponding to the physical anisotropy.

3. The speaker device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the excitation means is attached to a side wall of the acoustic diaphragm having the conical trapezoid shape in a concealed manner.

4. The speaker device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the acoustic diaphragm is attached so that a diaphragm of a speaker unit is exposed from a plate provided at a bottom surface of the conical trapezoid shape as well as a body of the speaker unit is housed in an internal space formed by the acoustic diaphragm and the plate.

5. The speaker device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the acoustic diaphragm is attached in a state in which a light emitting device is exposed from the plate.

6. The speaker device according to claim 1 , in which the acoustic diaphragm has a conical trapezoid shape and is made of wood; and in which a grain direction of the wood of the acoustic diaphragm is in a circumferential direction.

7. The speaker device according to claim 6 , in which the through hole extends in a vertical direction of the conical trapezoid shaped acoustic diaphragm and in which the circumferential direction is not the vertical direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 27, 2011
From: OHASHI, YOSHIO; SUZUKI, NOBUKAZU
To: SONY CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP P2010-155121 · Jul 7, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120008818A1 · Jan 12, 2012