Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R9/00—Transducers of moving-coil, moving-strip, or moving-wire type
  • H04R9/06—Loudspeakers
  • H04R9/063—Loudspeakers using a plurality of acoustic drivers
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R2499/00—Aspects covered by H04R or H04S not otherwise provided for in their subgroups
  • H04R2499/10—General applications
  • H04R2499/11—Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R31/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of transducers or diaphragms therefor
  • H04R31/006—Interconnection of transducer parts
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R9/00—Transducers of moving-coil, moving-strip, or moving-wire type
  • H04R9/02—Details
  • H04R9/025—Magnetic circuit
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
  • H04R9/00—Transducers of moving-coil, moving-strip, or moving-wire type
  • H04R9/02—Details
  • H04R9/04—Construction, mounting, or centering of coil
  • H04R9/046—Construction

Definitions

• the present invention relates to electro-acoustic transducers, and in particular to electro-dynamic transducers with two diaphragms each carrying a coil of electrically conducting wire movable in a magnetic field.
• Electro-acoustic transducers and in particular electro-dynamic transducers, are widely used in e.g. telecommunication equipment such as wired, mobile or cellular telephones, and hearing aids where small size is a requirement.
• Both transducers used as microphones and loudspeakers (speakers) are used for transforming acoustical signals into electrical signals and vice versa.
• the transducer is tolerant with respect to vibrations in order to avoid unintended noise or feedback problems.
• a feedback loop may occur due to vibrations created by the speaker.
• the vibrations from the speaker are transmitted via the housing to the microphone which, to a certain degree, will convert the vibration to an electrical signal being amplified and again converted to sound and vibrations via the speaker, thus creating an unintended feedback loop.
• Such loops may lead to reduced sound quality.
• the mentioned feedback loops may even lead to disturbing howling sounds, and thus being a limiting factor in the maximum possible gain of the hearing aid.
• a rubber boot construction or a box-in-a-box construction has been used to establish vibration isolation.
• the receiver was mounted in a very compliant gasket to obtain the necessary vibration isolation.
• the extra housing can also be used as magnetically shielding when a hearing aid including a tele-coil is used.
• Another way of providing vibration isolation is to apply two identical receivers (dual receiver) coupled back-to-back and thereby reduce vibrations from the overall system.
• a disadvantage of the rubber boot construction is that it does not provide enough vibration isolation and it is very difficult to design and control the design parameters.
• the box-in-a-box construction easily gets very large and bulky.
• the dual receiver construction does not completely cancel out vibrations because such a receiver always generate rotational components when using balanced armature receivers, such as used within hearing aids.
• a dual receiver or a speaker with two traditional radial electro-dynamic transducers When using a dual receiver or a speaker with two traditional radial electro-dynamic transducers, a larger degree of vibration isolation can be obtained.
• a transducer may be used as vibration generator, for generating a silent alarm signal, thus, saving weight and space for a separate vibration generator.
• JP 11 308691 A (abstract in English) describes a speaker system comprising two diaphragms and one common magnetic circuit. As the two diaphragms move in opposite directions, the vibration force provided to the magnetic circuit is minimised, and the electroacoustic efficiency is increased compared to one diaphragm speakers.
• the speaker system described in JP 11 308691 A has a disadvantage since its magnetic circuit and the diaphragms are circular with the entire coil positioned in the circular magnetic gap. Therefore, in order for such a speaker to provide low distortion the design is critical with respect to production tolerances, such as centering of the voice coil.
• the magnetic circuit is bulky and is thus not suited for applica- tions with very limited space available, especially with respect to the height of the speaker system.
• the speaker system of JP 11 308691 A requires a large number of single components, and therefore it is not suited for low cost mass production.
• JP 07 131893 A (abstract in English) describes a two diaphragm speaker with one common magnetic circuit.
• the speaker described in JP 07 131893 A aims at radiating highly bidirectional sound without phase deviation. This is obtained by integrating two oscillating systems into one body.
• the diaphragms and magnetic circuit are circular, and the entire circular voice coil is positioned in the magnetic gap.
• the design has a number of disadvantages.
• the design is bulky by nature, since it relates to the art of superior bidirectional speakers where parameters such as size and weight is not important.
• the speaker of JP 07 1131893 A is therefore not suited for miniature design.
• the above mentioned problem concerning distortion caused by non perfect symmetry in the magnetic circuit is not solved.
• an electro-acoustic transducer with two diaphragms being substantially vibration insensitive, in case it is used as a microphone, and substantially vibration free in case it is used as a speaker.
• the transducer must be suited for miniature applications such as telecommunication equipment and hearing aids.
• vibration cancelling mode or vibration generating mode
• an electro-acoustic transducer comprising
• a magnetic circuit having a first and a second gap, each of the first and second gaps having an upper and a lower portion, the magnetic circuit further comprising magnetic means so to establish a magnetic field in the first and second gaps,
• first coil of electrically conducting wire fastened to the first diaphragm the first coil having first and second gap portions of its wire situated in respective ones of the upper portions of the first and second gaps, the first coil further having bridging portions of wire interconnecting the first and second gap portions of wire, the first coil being fastened to the first diaphragm at least at the bridging portions of the wire, and
• the second coil having first and second gap portions of its wire situated in respective ones of the lower portions of the first and second gaps, the second coil further having bridging portions of wire interconnecting the first and second gap portions of wire, the second coil being fastened to the second diaphragm at least at the bridging portions of the wire.
• the first coil may be fastened to the first diaphragm along at least part of one of its gap portions as well.
• the second coil may be fastened to the second dia- phragm along at least part of one of its gap portions.
• Each of the first and second gaps may be defined by a pair of opposed surfaces being substantially plane and substantially parallel to each other.
• the magnetic means may comprise a first and a second permanent magnet, the first magnet establishing a magnetic field in the first gap, whereas the second magnet es- tablishing a magnetic field in the second gap.
• the magnetic circuit may comprise a body of magnetically soft material, said body having a first and a second opening.
• the first magnet is situated within the first opening of the body, whereas the second magnet is situated within the second opening of the body.
• the diaphragms may comprise electrically conductive portions, said electrically con- ductive portions being connected to wires ends of the coils, the electrically conductive portions being externally accessible portions for electrically terminating the transducer.
• a spatial overlap may exist between the upper and lower portions of the respective ones of the first and second gaps. This spatial overlap is in- troduced so as to reduce the dimensions of the transducer. For other applications it may be desirable that the upper and lower portions of respective ones of the first and second gaps are spatially separated.
• the present invention relates to a coil of electrically conducting wire for use in a transducer according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the coil comprises
• - bridging portions defining a bridging plane with a substantially flat face for fastening to one of the diaphragms
• each gap portion including a plurality of segments of wire outside the bridging plane.
• the segments of wire in the gap portions are substantially linear.
• the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a coil from an electrically conducting wire, the method comprising
• the present invention relates to a magnetic circuit for use in a transducer according to the first aspect, the magnetic circuit comprising
• a magnetically conductive material formed so as to define a pair of opposed surfaces defining a gap therebetween, said gap being adapted to receive portions of a first and a second coil of electrically conducting wire, and
• each pair of opposed surfaces has substantially plane surfaces being par- allel to each other.
• the magnetic means may comprise permanent magnets, each of said permanent magnets having a substantially plane surface constituting one of the substantially plane surfaces of a gap.
• the magnetic circuit may comprise a body of magnetically soft material formed so as to define two openings within the body, each opening having a pair of opposed surfaces defining respective ones of the first and second gaps.
• the magnetic means is situated within the openings in the magnetic circuit.
• the present invention relates to a method of operating the transducer according to the first aspect, wherein the first and second diaphragms deflect in the same direction upon providing, simultaneously, the same electrical signal to the first and second coils.
• the present invention relates to another method of operating the transducer according to the first aspect, wherein the first and second diaphragms deflect in opposite directions upon providing, simultaneously, the same electrical signal to the first and second coils.
• figure 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the invention suitable for telecom applications with its essential parts exploded seen from above,
• figure 2 shows the same parts (as in figure 1) partly assembled
• figure 3 shows the same parts even more assembled
• figure 4 shows the coils to be applied in the transducer according to the present invention
• figure 5 shows a cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the invention suitable for hearing aids applications
• figure 6 shows an acoustic tunnel for providing an acoustical connection between the volume between the diaphragms and the area outside the transducer
• figure 7 shows a completely assembled transducer suspended in two flexible mem- bers
• figure 8 shows a transducer suitable for use with hearing aids
• figure 9 shows the same parts (as in figure 8) partly assembled.
• Figures 1-3 show an electro-dynamic transducer with its main components: a mag- netic circuit 10, a first coil 2, a second coil 12, a first diaphragm 1, a second diaphragm 13, and four terminals 6-9.
• the electro-dynamic transducer comprises two diaphragms 1,13 and two coils 2,12 which have a common magnetic circuit.
• the two diaphragms may be driven in two modes of operation - ei- ther with the same polarity or in opposite polarity.
• the transducer is driven in a so-called vibration mode. Vibration mode leads to maximum vibration but no sound output.
• the transducer is vibration-free. Terminals 6 and 8 provide electrical contact to coil 2, whereas terminals 7 and 9 provide electrical contact to coil 12.
• the contact between the terminal and the coils may be provided via conducting portions of the diaphragms 25,26.
• the present invention is especially suit- able for applications where the space available for the speaker is very limited. By using the construction according to the present invention a much better ratio between efficiency versus, volume and maximum output versus volume may be achieved.
• a two-part plastic housing 3,11 is used to keep the magnetic system in position.
• the magnetic system comprises a magnetic circuit 10 having two long legs 27,28 and two short legs 30,30' connected at their ends to form a ring of generally rectangular shape.
• a middle leg 29 interconnects the two short legs 30,30' dividing the internal of the rectangular ring into two rectangular openings.
• the two long legs 27,28, the two short legs 30,30' and the middle leg 29 of the magnet circuit are of a magnetically soft material preferably having a high magnetic saturation value.
• the surfaces of the two long legs 27,28 and of the middle leg 29 facing towards the openings 24 are generally plane and define a gap therebetween.
• the middle part of the long legs are removed to accommodate part of the plastic housing 3,11 with holding rim 21,22 for the magnets 4,5 which are then positioned in openings 24. It is a goal to obtain a simple assembly procedure based on a simple stacking operation.
• Each magnet has a magnetic pole facing the long leg and an opposite magnetic pole facing the middle leg 29.
• the magnetic gaps may be defined between free magnetic pole surfaces and the surfaces of the middle leg, or between free magnetic pole surfaces and the surfaces of the long leg.
• Each magnet 4,5 creates a magnetic field in the corresponding gap, and the magnetic return paths are defined through the middle leg 29, the short legs 30,30' and the long legs 27,28.
• the magnetic return paths thus completely encircle the magnet gaps with the magnets each having a magnetic pole face defining a gap.
• An acoustic path is provided to the outside to be able the use the volume in e.g. a mobile terminal. This acoustic path should penetrate the plastic housing and the poles shoes whereby an acoustic tunnel is created connecting the outside world to the back volume of the speaker.
• Acoustic damping may be achieved by adding a cloth, mesh, or in general acoustic damping material across opening 15,18.
• This acoustic damping material may be inductive, resistive or any combination thereof.
• the provided acoustic tunnel may also be used for bass reflex loading to obtain extended low frequency response as it is known from other applications.
• the acoustic tunnel between back volume and the outside of the transducer is also illustrated in figure 6, where parts of the magnetic circuit 61,62 has been removed in order to make the acoustic tunnel. As seen, the acoustic tunnel has been implemented as a long and narrow abound the edge of the magnetic circuit.
• such narrow tunnel will act as an acoustical low-pass filter with a cut-off frequency in the sub 1 Hz range.
• two tunnels run half a turn around the magnetic circuit but in principle the tunnel may be implemented having several turns and occupying more or less layers for the laminated structure forming the magnetic circuit.
• the volume of the back volume may be increased by removing part of the middle leg 29 which has almost no adverse effect on the magnetic circuit since the flux density is almost zero.
• Coils 2,12 are wound of electrically conducting thin wire such as copper and comprises a plurality of turns electrically insulated from each other, e.g. by means of a surface layer of lacquer.
• the wire and the coils are heated during winding, whereby the lacquer becomes adhesive and adheres the windings to each other and thereby stabilises the coils mechanically.
• Each of the two coils - e.g. coil 2 - has two wire ends for con- necting that coil electrically to terminal 6 and 8 via electrically conducting paths on the inner side of diaphragm 1.
• Coils 2,12 are wound on a mandrel of generally rectangular cross section, whereby the coils are given the shape shown in figure 4 with a generally rectangular opening 32 and a generally rectangular outer contour with rounded corners.
• the coil is relatively flat and has a thickness, which is less than its radial width between its inner and outer contours - typically 10-30 % of the radial width or according to the subsequent operations to be performed on the coils.
• the coils After the coils has been wound with the desired number of turns of wire and to the desired shape and thickness it is removed from the mandrel. While the coils are still warm, and the lacquer is still soft due to the elevated temperature, the coils are bent along two parallel bending axes 33 in the plane of the flat coil using a (not shown) bending instrument.
• the coils are hereby given the shape shown in figures 1 and 2, where the two long sections 34 of the coils have been bent approximately 90 degrees relative to the two short sections 35, and the two long sections 34 are now parallel to each other. After the bending the coils are allowed to cool so that the lacquer is no longer flexible, and the coils stabilises. The bent and stabilised coils are then secured to diaphragms 1,13.
• the diaphragms are fabricated from a thin and flexible sheet - e.g. of a flexible circuit board material.
• diaphragms 1,13 On its inner side, which is the side perceptible in the lower part of figure 2, diaphragms 1,13 have electrically conductive portions 25,26 of e.g. copper.
• the two short sections 35 of the coils are secured to the inner side of the diaphragms, e.g. by means of an adhesive, with the two wire ends 31 electrically connected to respective ones of the electrically conductive portions 25,26 e.g. by soldering or welding.
• the conducting portions may also be used for stiffening and stabilising the middle part of diaphragms 1,13 and for establishing the electrical contact from the coils to the terminals 6-9 as already mentioned. This also improves the reliability of the speaker since thin wires from the moving coils to the stationary terminals 6-9 are completely avoided.
• the wire ends may alternatively be electrically connected to terminals on the casing, e.g. by soldering.
• the coil may be formed by a thin and flexible sheet, such as a flexible printed circuit board, i.e. a flexprint.
• a thin and flexible sheet will comprise a predefined electrically conductive path thereon so as to form a coil-like electrical path.
• the diaphragm will also, in its preferred embodi- ment, comprise electrically conductive portions. Therefore, the coil and diaphragm can be made from a single sheet of flexprint with appropriate conductive paths, and this sheet will be shaped in such a way that the two long sections of the coil will emerge and have an angle of 90 degrees with respect to the rest of the integrated diaphragm/coil structure.
• the diaphragms 1,13 are rectangular in shape, and tongues 24' extend from the long and bend sides of the diaphragms with the electrically conductive portions 25,26 extending to the tongues, so that the electrically conductive portions 25,26 on the tongues are electrically connected to respective ones of the coil wire ends 31.
• Diaphragms 1,13 with coils 2,12 fastened thereto are then mounted on the magnetic system with the two long sections of coil 2 in upper portions of respective ones of the gaps.
• the two long sections of coil 12 are positioned in lower portions of re- spective ones of the gaps.
• the long sections 34 are therefore also referred to as gap portions of the coil.
• the short sections 35 of the coils will be situated over the middle leg 29 and will bridge the gap portions of the coil.
• the sections 35 will preferably be used to fasten the coil to the diaphragm, such as by adhesives.
• the coil may further be fastened to the diaphragm along at least part of one of the gap portions 34.
• the best mechanical coupling between the coil and the diaphragm is obtained by fastening the coil to the diaphragm along the entire length of both gap portions 34, such as using adhesives. This will improve the stiffness of the diaphragm and thus provide a more piston-like movement of the diaphragm.
• the diaphragm will be secured to the magnetic system along its edges as shown in figure 3.
• the short edges of the diaphragm can also be secured to the magnetic system or to the casing, or, alternatively, the slot can be closed with a flexible substance so as to allow the short edges to move.
• the flexible substrate prevents air from going from one side of the diaphragm to the other.
• the edges of the diaphragm may be secured to the magnet system by means of an adhesive.
• the diaphragms are rectangular, but other shapes can be used.
• the compliance of the surround of the diaphragms may be increased by means of la- ser perforation with holes. Even further, the general behaviour of the two diaphragms may be balanced by introducing holes in one or both diaphragms so as to obtain compliance between the two diaphragms.
• the magnetic circuit shown in figure 1 is laminated from several layers.
• the magnetic circuit may also be made as one solid block or as an outer ring with the middle leg in- serted therein.
• Figures 1-3 also show that, on its sides, the two-part plastic housing 3,11 has a total of four grooves or channels extending in the long direction of the housing. These grooves are adapted to support terminal 6-9 as seen in figure 2.
• the channels have a height corresponding to the width of each of terminals 6-9.
• Diaphragm 1 is connected to terminals 6 and 8
• diaphragm 13 is connected to terminals 7 and 9.
• the connections between diaphragms and terminals may be established by providing the thin layer of e.g. tin on those parts of the diaphragms which upon assembling the transducer will obtain contact to the terminals. As seen in figure 1-3 a small hole has been provided in the diaphragm at each of these locations.
• These holes are adapted to allow a laser beam to heat, by heating the terminals, the diaphragm around these holes and thereby melt any e.g. tin provided to these areas. Applying this procedure to all four area to be connected to the terminals, the diaphragms are soldered to the terminal.
• a housing around the speaker is required.
• Such housing is arranged in such a way that the outlets from the back volume is separated from the output from the front of the diaphragms.
• Both front and back output end in different acoustical outlets as shown in figure 7.
• the attach- ment to the surroundings may be established via a compliant rubber material 74,75 in such a way that a resonance around 100-150 Hz is achieved.
• Maximum generated output is achieved when the transducer is operated in vibration mode, which typically occurs in 100-150 Hz frequency area.
• An expected acceleration of around 1G can be achieved on a mass of 100 grams representing the mass of e.g. a mobile phone.
• Variations on the rubber attachment could be springs, plastic, silicone, or anything with the right compliance to get the resonance in the desired frequency range - i.e. within the range 100-150 Hz.
• the transducer is equally suitable as a speaker transducer and as a microphone.
• electrical signals at audio frequencies are supplied to the terminals, and the resulting current in the gap portions of the coils wire will interact with the magnetic field in the gaps and cause the coils and the diaphragms to move and generate sound at the audio frequencies.
• sound at audio frequencies acting on the diaphragms will cause it to move, and when the gap portions of the coils wire move in the magnetic field electrical sig ⁇ nals will be generated and output on the terminals of the transducer.
• the transducer according to the present invention may also be used as a ringer by tuning the transducer in its application to have a resonance peak at around 1.5 kHz - alternatively between 800 and 3 kHz.
• the double diaphragm transducer can generally be operated in two modes - the two diaphragm-coil systems being electrically coupled in phase (the diaphragms move in opposite directions) or out of phase (the diaphragms move in the same direction).
• the transducer can be used as an efficient loudspeaker with spherical directivity pattern when coupled in phase. When coupled out of phase the transducer is a substantially silent vibration source.
• the transducer when used as microphone, can either have a spherical or a lemniscatical (figure-of-eight) directivity pattern.
• the double diaphragm transducer is very attractive since it can serve as a loudspeaker by normal operation mode as well as vibration source for providing a silent alarm signal.
• the double source transducer saves space, weight and reduces the total number of single components.
• the directivity pattern of the double diaphragm transducer can be controlled in more detail by applying appropriate signal processing.
• the frequency range where this is possible depends, among other features, on the size of the diaphragm.
• Feedback means that vibrations generated by the receiver (speaker) is mechanically coupled/transferred to the hearing aid housing, and is thereafter converted in to sound again, which enters the microphone resulting in feedback. Even sometimes, direct coupling between speaker and microphone in a hearing aid is also an issue.
• the present invention provides a complete cancellation of vibrations because the movements of the diaphragms introduce no rotational component. This is especially determined by the fact, that the diaphragm is driven by the reasonably stiff coil and the drive points are spaced far apart and everything else is very symmetrical. The only difference can be the compliance differences of the diaphragms.
• the acoustic low-pass filter can be made with a cut-off frequency so low (say sub 1 Hz) that the sound level from higher frequencies would not be sufficient to cause feedback.
• a common acoustic chamber that combines the output from the diaphragms and the output of a canal may be established so that where the canal terminates, the output from the diaphragms and the output from the canal has the same phase for a certain frequency range - similar to a bass reflex loudspeaker.
• the magnetic circuit in the present transducer is designed in such a way that AC flux of the two coils driven with opposite polarity will cancel out. This will drastically reduce the need for shielding for magnetic feedback to a tele-coil. A consequence of this would be that in low gain hearing aids one could use a plastic housing (cost reduction) and in high gain hearing aids the requirements for shielding are much lower.
• the pole shoe stack in itself is a complete self-enclosed magnetic circuit, which has good shielding properties anyway.
• the pole shoe which preferably is built as a laminated structure, is very stiff.
• a housing in direct contact with laminated structure will be able to move and displace.
• This very stiff construction will be a big improvement because such a stiff housing will also radiate less sound compared to a hearing aid receiver of today, which has a more compliant housing.
• Electronic means may be mounted on at least one of the diaphragms, such electronic means being able to serve different purposes.
• the electronic means may be contained in a single chip to be mounted by means of adhesives.
• the electronic means may comprise an impedance converter.
• such a chip may be mounted on the coil side of the diaphragm.
• the filling will decrease significantly by increasing the number of windings since conducting material has to be removed in order to create more windings.
• Using the impedance converter enables a compensation for the lower impedance by reducing the number of windings, thus improving the efficiency of the transducer.
• the electronic means may comprise means for detecting movements of the diaphragm for example in combination with feedback systems.
• the electronic means may also comprise switching means such as means for switching between sound and vibration mode, in case the transducer is used as a loudspeaker.
• the electronic means may also comprise an attenuator for adjusting volume.
• the magnet circuit is rectangular, and there are two gaps receiving the gap portions of the coils, where the gaps are defined between opposed plane surfaces.
• the magnet circuit could have four gaps arranged like the sides of a square, and the coils would then correspondingly have four gap portions likewise arranged like the sides of a square. The bridging portions of the coils would then be at the corners of the square and be secured to the diaphragms at four locations.
• the outer contour of the magnet circuit can have any desired shape including circular shape. Also, the gaps and the gap portions of the coils can be curved as arcs of a circle.

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