EP1734787A2 - Inertial-Lautsprecher ohne Membran - Google Patents

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EP1734787A2
EP1734787A2 EP06290744A EP06290744A EP1734787A2 EP 1734787 A2 EP1734787 A2 EP 1734787A2 EP 06290744 A EP06290744 A EP 06290744A EP 06290744 A EP06290744 A EP 06290744A EP 1734787 A2 EP1734787 A2 EP 1734787A2
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    • 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
    • H04R9/066—Loudspeakers using the principle of inertia
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2201/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones covered by H04R1/00 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2201/02—Details casings, cabinets or mounting therein for transducers covered by H04R1/02 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2201/021—Transducers or their casings adapted for mounting in or to a wall or ceiling
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R7/00—Diaphragms for electromechanical transducers; Cones
    • H04R7/02—Diaphragms for electromechanical transducers; Cones characterised by the construction
    • H04R7/04—Plane diaphragms
    • H04R7/045—Plane diaphragms using the distributed mode principle, i.e. whereby the acoustic radiation is emanated from uniformly distributed free bending wave vibration induced in a stiff panel and not from pistonic motion

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  • the invention relates to the field of loudspeakers and loudspeakers used as sound transducer elements.
  • the invention relates in particular to the loudspeakers equipping home entertainment chains or theaters of theaters. But we could consider applying it to the radio channels equipping for example motor vehicles.
  • loudspeakers must, to reproduce the sound environment over a wide band of frequencies with sufficient fidelity and power, take into account the conditions of their fixation and their installation.
  • a loudspeaker typically includes a motor and a motor-driven diaphragm to vibrate to reproduce sounds in a certain band within the audible range between 30 and 16000 Hertz.
  • the assembly is held together and protected by a housing.
  • the membrane is generally circular. Being fixed by its periphery to the housing and controlled at its center by the motor coil, it vibrates preferably at a frequency F corresponding to a vibration having a belly in the center and a node on its periphery, the belly and the distant node being at less than a quarter wavelength ⁇ of the vibration.
  • a non-resonant material such as paper
  • the membrane is conformed so that it has at its periphery a ripple to isolate the best of the pavilion of the case and to blur the position of the nodes.
  • loudspeakers of different diameters D1, D2,... Corresponding to central frequencies F1, F2, ....
  • loudspeakers called tweeters (D ⁇ 8 cm), mediums (8 cm ⁇ D ⁇ 16 cm), low (16 cm ⁇ D ⁇ 25 cm), subwoofers (D> 25 cm), ....
  • tweeters D ⁇ 8 cm
  • mediums 8 cm ⁇ D ⁇ 16 cm
  • low 16 cm ⁇ D ⁇ 25 cm
  • subwoofers D> 25 cm
  • they can be arranged coaxially.
  • This loudspeaker included an electromagnetic motor with a cylindrical magnetic core and an induction coil surrounding the core and secured to a set of two plates: a flexible suspension and centering plate, ensuring the radial positioning of the coil, around of the core while allowing the axial vibration of the coil and a rigid plate intended to be fixed for example to a partition of the auditorium. This last plate once fixed, it is the partition which replaces the membrane. But the performance of the engine and the acoustic quality of the speaker were far too inadequate. For a 35-watt motor, the sound was of poor quality and very low level, about 60 dB.
  • the invention relates first of all to a speaker without a membrane, comprising a housing, a motor comprising a magnetic core and, around said core, an induction coil secured to a first rigid plate for transmitting vibrations to a support, the first plate being secured to the housing by means of flexible suspension means, the suspension means being arranged to ensure an elastic suspension of the first rigid plate to the housing, speaker characterized in that the means of flexible suspension comprise a second suspension plate and radial positioning of the coil.
  • a material is elastic as long as the force applied on the material and the displacements due to the deformations of this material, which result, remain proportional. This linearity property particularly promotes the acoustic resonance of the material at a vibrational stress.
  • the device of the prior art therefore already had a second flexible Bakelite plate, but which is a material which, like the paper used for the membranes, does not exhibit any acoustic quality or resonance and which, moreover, does not is not elastic.
  • its mission is to center the coil while allowing the vibrations to spread, why would it have this quality, if not at the risk of introducing a parasitic resonance in passing?
  • the vibrations generated by the coil propagate more freely between the motor and the plate or, more exactly here, between the plate and the motor.
  • the elastic suspension means comprise elastic pads between the two plates.
  • the second radial positioning plate of the coil is of elastic material.
  • the second plate is made of composite material, for example epoxy resin reinforced with fiberglass or reinforced carbon or any other material capable of acoustic resonance.
  • the second plate comprising a central portion and a peripheral portion, is perforated gills delimiting said central and peripheral portions and which are limited by bridges "hinges" giving them the ability to vibrate with respect to the other.
  • the core of the coil has an axial symmetry
  • the two vibration and suspension transmission plates are substantially perpendicular to the axis of the core
  • the elasticity of the suspension means acting according to this axis
  • the suspension plate is rigid in the direction perpendicular to this axis.
  • the speaker of the invention once fixed for example on a partition, with a motor of 35 watts, provides an excellent noise level of 90 dB and high quality.
  • the invention also relates to an auditorium enclosure partition on which are fixed a plurality of loudspeakers according to the invention defined to transmit their vibrations in respectively different frequency bands.
  • the invention also relates to a body vibration therapy device comprising a loudspeaker according to the invention.
  • the loudspeaker 100 comprises a cylindrical housing 110 of axis 1 protecting a motor 111.
  • the motor 111 comprises a cylindrical magnetic core 112 of axis 1 integral with the housing 110 at its upper base.
  • the upper base of the housing and the core are pierced with a coaxial cylindrical bore 1101 to pass an electrical connection cable 118.
  • the cable 118 is secured to the housing by means of an elastic seal 119 cable pass thus closing the bore 1101 .
  • the lower base 1103 of the housing 110 is pierced with a circular opening 1102 centered on the axis 1 so as to pass an induction coil 113 freely sliding without contact along the axis 1 along the core 112 and receiving signals representative electric sound thanks to connection 118.
  • the coil 113 is free in its upper part and is integral with a first rigid plate 114 substantially square and perpendicular to the axis 1.
  • This plate 114 comprises fixing means on a support, not shown in this figure, but will be described later.
  • the plate 114 is a vibration transmission plate.
  • the plate 114 is also secured to the housing 110 by means of flexible and resilient suspension means that keep the induction coil 113 in place relative to the core 112, while allowing it to vibrate under the action of the induction forces created by the electrical signals mentioned above.
  • suspension means comprise a second plate 115 substantially parallel to the first plate 114, plate 115 which is a plate for suspending and positioning the coil radially, pads 116 for elastic fixing of the first plate 114 to the second plate 115, and fixing means 117 (120 in Figure 2), the second plate 115 to the housing 110.
  • These means may be rubber pads 117, as the pads 116 for fixing the two plates together.
  • a composite material card was used, here made of epoxy resin reinforced with fiberglass, but it would have been possible to choose the reinforced carbon, or any other material allowing a plane rigidity and a perfectly elastic axial behavior favoring the acoustic resonance.
  • This card is arranged to vibrate along the axis 1 and yet remain rigid perpendicular to this axis, as will be explained later.
  • FIG. 2 corresponds to a second embodiment differing from this first form (the homologous elements bear the same references) as from the choice of a here ring PVC 120 instead of pads 117 and the addition of a ring of foam 121 between the two plates to isolate the motor 111 of the external environment and limit the intrusion of dust between the core 112 and the coil 113.
  • the second suspension plate 115 substantially of the same shape as the first plate 114, is perforated according to four louvers a, b, c, d circular along a quadrant of a common circle of axis 1 but which remain separated by bridges, or connecting zones, e acting as hinges increasing the elasticity of the plate 115.
  • the gills a, b, c, d divide the plate 115 into a central portion I1 and a peripheral portion P1 which are capable thanks to hinges to vibrate relative to each other along axis 1, but not in their plane.
  • the pads 116 for fixing the two plates 114 and 115 to each other are cylindrical with an axis parallel to the axis 1, rubber, are glued and arranged at their four corners so as to be as far away as possible from the hinges e to disrupt their elasticity as little as possible.
  • the elastic shoes 117 are bonded to the central portion 11 in areas 1154 regularly spaced ( Figure 3) and facing the bottom base of the housing 110, here removable from this housing . They can also be rubber.
  • the PVC ring 120 is glued on the periphery of this central portion II (FIG. 4) and on the housing 110.
  • the coil 113 is crimped by tabs (not shown) in notches 1143 of the central portion 12 of the transmission plate 114. These notches allow proper centering of the coil.
  • notches 1142 distributed symmetrically according to an axial symmetry at the periphery of the rigid transmission plate 114 to increase the bandwidth of the sound vibrations.
  • the fixing pads 116 are distributed at the periphery P1, P2 of the second and first plates 115, 114 in an axial symmetry arrangement of axis 1, and that the pads 117 or the ring 120 are located between the central portion I1 of the second plate 115 and the housing 110 so that only the hinges mechanically connect the housing 110 to the first plate 114.
  • a loudspeaker of this type with a 35 watt motor, provides a high-quality 90 dB sound level.
  • the first transmission plate 114 can be attached to the wall 300, in particular by using two different fixing means.
  • the first means consists of a fastening for directly fixing the plate 114 on the surface of the partition 300. It is then provided a set of screws 202 ( Figure 3) passing through the pads 116 and the two plates 114 and 115 along axes A1 , A2, A3, A4.
  • the pads 116 are each pierced with a hole 1163 along their axis and the plates 114 and 115 of four holes 1141 and 1151 along the axes A1, A2, A3, A4, to let each pass a screw 202, here to hexagonal head.
  • the heads of the screws 202 clamp the plate 115 by means of a washer 203 and an elastic O-ring 204, as shown in FIG.
  • the pads 116 further comprise shoulders 1161 and 1162 to the diameters of the holes 1151 and 1141 of the plates 115 and 114 both lower than their outer diameter which keeps the two plates 114 and 115 parallel and at a predetermined distance.
  • the pads 116 also serve as spacers.
  • the lower base 1104 of the housing 110 which remains fixed to the elastic suspension plate 115, is removed by means of an ordinary assembly device, not shown.
  • the screw 202 corresponding to each of the axes A1, A2, A3, A4 is screwed into the partition 300, and the housing 110 is raised to its lower base 1104 by the same device. assembly mentioned above.
  • the second means also illustrated in the same Figure 5, consists of a flange 200 screwed, by screws 201, in the wall 300 and plating the housing 110 against the wall 300. When screwed, it comes to bear from elastically on the cable pass 119 and maintains the housing 110 sufficiently flexible not to prevent it from vibrating relative to the partition 300.
  • the invention not only makes it possible to eliminate the volume otherwise necessary for the placement of loudspeaker speakers in an auditorium, but also to obtain a perfect ambience effect since the sound is diffused by the same partitions of this auditorium , forming themselves pregnant. Moreover, several speakers of respectively different frequency bands can be attached to the partitions to further improve this ambience effect. In general, the invention makes it easy to transform a room into an auditorium.

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