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EP2043382B1
EP2043382B1 EP20080016414 EP08016414A EP2043382B1 EP 2043382 B1 EP2043382 B1 EP 2043382B1 EP 20080016414 EP20080016414 EP 20080016414 EP 08016414 A EP08016414 A EP 08016414A EP 2043382 B1 EP2043382 B1 EP 2043382B1
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Alfred Svobodnik
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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
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/20—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics
    • H04R1/22—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired frequency characteristic only 
    • H04R1/28—Transducer mountings or enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means
    • H04R1/2807—Enclosures comprising vibrating or resonating arrangements
    • H04R1/2853—Enclosures comprising vibrating or resonating arrangements using an acoustic labyrinth or a transmission line
    • H04R1/2857—Enclosures comprising vibrating or resonating arrangements using an acoustic labyrinth or a transmission line for loudspeaker transducers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/20—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics
    • H04R1/22—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired frequency characteristic only 
    • H04R1/28—Transducer mountings or enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means
    • H04R1/2807—Enclosures comprising vibrating or resonating arrangements
    • H04R1/2815—Enclosures comprising vibrating or resonating arrangements of the bass reflex type
    • H04R1/2819—Enclosures comprising vibrating or resonating arrangements of the bass reflex type for loudspeaker transducers
    • 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
    • H04R2499/13—Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles

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  • the invention relates to a sound system having a low-frequency loudspeaker, and in particular to a sound system for a vehicle.
  • Documents DE 10 2004 002 957 A1 and DE 103 53 578 A1 disclose a loudspeaker system wherein a loudspeaker cabinet is coupled to a second enclosed volume via a duct or a base reflexed tube.
  • a novel sound system comprises a tube-like cavity with an opening, the tube-like cavity is hermetically sealed and divided into tube-like sub-cavities by a wall having a hole.
  • the sound system further comprises a low-frequency loudspeaker and a hermetically sealed enclosure with two openings, through one of which the loudspeaker is acoustically coupled to the enclosure and through the other the enclosure is acoustically coupled to the opening of the tube-like cavity; where the hole in the wall has a size and a position such that a resonance of the sound system deteriorating its sound quality is reduced.
  • a novel sound system comprises a low-frequency loudspeaker 2 (e.g., woofer, sub-woofer) mounted to a hermetically sealed (or vented) enclosure 1 (e.g., box, cabinet) as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the loudspeaker 2 may be of any suitable design but is in the present example a shallow loudspeaker that requires minimum height so that it provides maximum design freedom.
  • the loudspeaker 2 may be supplied with electrical power via an electrical connector 3.
  • the enclosure 1 encloses a first air volume 10 and has two openings 4 (see FIG. 2 ) and 5 (see FIG. 3 which is an acoustic model of the arrangement shown in FIG. 2 ).
  • the enclosure 1 is acoustically coupled to the loudspeaker 2 and through the other opening 5 to a cavity 7, 17 having a corresponding opening.
  • the opening 5 may be arranged as a flange having a certain length and diameter and, thus, increasing the first air volume of the enclosure 1.
  • the enclosure 1 carrying the loudspeaker 2 is arranged in a vehicle, for example, under a seat 15 of the vehicle.
  • the vehicle body comprises a stiffener 6 which forms together with other body parts, e.g. sill 16, a cavity 7, 17.
  • the cavity 7, 17 encloses a second volume 11 and comprises two sub-cavities 7 and 17 separated by a wall-like element which is in the present case the stiffener 6.
  • the stiffener 6 has holes 8 that acoustically connect the two sub-cavities 7, 17.
  • the sill 16 and the stiffener 6 form a kind of tube-in-tube structure. However, a parallel or any other arrangement of the tube-like sub-cavities 7, 17 is applicable as well.
  • Enclosure 1 and cavity 7, 17 form a resonator system that has a resonant volume including the first air volume 10 and second air volume 11.
  • the holes 8 have sizes and positions such that at least one unwanted resonance of the resonator system, i.e., a resonance that deteriorates the sound quality of the sound system resonance, is reduced.
  • the resonator system may be, e.g., of a Helmholtz resonator type or a transmission line resonator type.
  • Helmholtz resonance is the phenomenon of air resonance in a cavity.
  • a so-called Helmholtz resonator comprises a cavity enclosing an air volume and a, e.g. tube-like, port (neck) venting the cavity.
  • a well known example of Helmholtz resonance is the sound created when one blows across the top of an empty bottle.
  • the air in the port is the mass. Since it is in motion, it possess some momentum. A longer port would make for a larger mass, and vice-versa.
  • the diameter of the port is related to the mass of air and the volume of the cavity. A port that is too small in area for the cavity volume will "choke" the flow while one that is too large in area for the cavity volume tends to reduce the momentum of the air in the port.
  • ⁇ H ⁇ ⁇ A 2 m ⁇ P 0 V 0 rad / s
  • ⁇ the adiabatic index
  • A the cross-sectional area of the port
  • m the mass in the cavity
  • P 0 the static pressure in the cavity
  • V 0 the static volume of the cavity.
  • the length of the port appears in the denominator because the inertia of the air in the port is proportional to the length.
  • the volume of the cavity appears in the denominator because the spring constant of the air in the cavity is inversely proportional to its volume.
  • the area of the port matters for two reasons. Increasing the area of the port increases the inertia of the air proportionately, but also decreases the velocity at which the air rushes in and out.
  • An acoustic transmission line is the acoustic analog of the electrical transmission line, typically thought of as a rigid-walled tube that is long and thin relative to the wavelength of sound present in it. Pipe organs, woodwinds, and the like can be modeled as transmission lines.
  • the rear wave of the loudspeaker needs to be completely absorbed without damping the loudspeaker's motion or modulating it from internal reflections and resonance.
  • the rear wave needs to be terminated correctly within the enclosure so that no reflections are set up over the operating bandwidth of the loudspeaker. If a rear wave resonantes the enclosure it would cause interference, which a correctly terminated line would not. If the line were sufficiently long but evenly stuffed with wadding, then the exiting wave would be relatively inaudible.
  • the difference between a Transmission Line loudspeaker and a Reflex or Labyrinth is that the rear wave is audibly absorbed and not used for reinforcement. Also the resonance of the enclosure is virtually gone. Transmission line loudspeakers have virtually no sound emanating from the enclosure except the loudspeaker, an excellent transient response and uncompressed dynamics, and a high efficiency.
  • a duct containing some medium, such as air, that supports sound propagation for sound propagation behaves like a transmission line. Its length is normally of a similar order to the wavelengths of the sound it will be used with, but the dimensions of its cross-section are normally smaller than one quarter of a wavelength. Sound is introduced, e.g., at one end of the tube by forcing the pressure across the whole cross-section to vary with time. A plane wave will travel down the line at the speed of sound. When the wave reaches the end of the transmission line, behaviour depends on what is present at the end of the line. There are three possible scenarios:
  • a transmission line behaves like a four terminal model, one cannot really define or measure the impedance of a transmission line component.
  • a transmission line of finite length is mismatched at both ends, there is the potential for a wave to bounce back and forth many times until it is absorbed. This phenomenon is a kind of resonance and will tend to attenuate any signal fed into the line.
  • Transmission lines may be also used to channel sound away from the back of the loudspeaker such that at the other, end of the transmission line, low frequencies are in phase with the front of the loudspeaker, which improves irradiation of bass frequencies.
  • the disadvantage of this design, that the transmission line causes certain frequencies to be suppressed, can be alleviated by judiciously tuned Helmholtz resonators.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view from the opposite side of the model shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the model comprises enclosure 1, stiffener 6 with holes 8, closed tube ends 9, and a symmetrical coupling to the tube-like cavity which is achieved by positioning the opening 5 of the enclosure (and a corresponding opening in the body part 6) in the middle of the tube-like body parts 6 such that the distances from the opening 5 (see FIG. 3 ) to each one of the tube ends 9 are the same.
  • the model shown in FIG. 5 is similar to the model shown in FIG. 4 but comprises an asymmetrical coupling to the tube-like cavity, i.e., the lengths of the branches extending from the opening 5 to each one of the tube ends 9 are different.
  • the holes 8 are only arranged in one branch but may be arranged in both branches as well.
  • the model shown in FIG. 6 is similar to the one of FIG. 3 except that the enclosure 1 is not coupled to sub-cavity 7 (as in FIG. 3 ) but is coupled to sub-cavity 17.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view of an arrangement comprising a sill 16 and a B-pillar 12.
  • the sill 6 is divided in two sub-volumes 7, 17 by a stiffener 6 as shown in FIG. 2 , and both sub-volumes 7, 17 are acoustically connected with each other by holes 8.
  • the B-pillar 12 also encloses a sub-volume 13 that is connected to the other sub-volumes through an opening 14 forming together the second volume.

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  1. Tonsystem, umfassend:
    einen hermetisch verschlossenen röhrenartigen Hohlraum mit einer Öffnung;
    einen Niederfrequenzlautsprecher (2); und
    ein Gehäuse (1) mit zwei Öffnungen (4, 5), von denen eine den Lautsprecher akustisch an das Gehäuse koppelt und der andere das Gehäuse akustisch an die Öffnung des röhrenartigen Hohlraums koppelt; dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    der röhrenartige Hohlraum durch eine Wand (6) mit wenigstens einem Loch (8) in röhrenartige Unterhohlräume unterteilt ist, wobei
    das Loch in der Wand eine Größe und eine Position aufweist, derart, dass eine Resonanz des Tonsystems, die seine Tonqualität verschlechtert, reduziert wird.
  2. Tonsystem nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Wand wenigstens ein weiteres Loch umfasst; wobei jedes Loch eine Größe und eine Position aufweist, derart, dass Resonanzen des Tonsystems, die seine Tonqualität verschlechtern, reduziert werden.
  3. Tonsystem nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei wenigstens einige der Löcher unterschiedliche Größen aufweisen.
  4. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei die röhrenartigen Unterhohlräume parallel zueinander angeordnet sind.
  5. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei der röhrenartige Hohlraum eine B-Säule eines Fahrzeugs ist.
  6. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei der röhrenartige Hohlraum ein Schweller eines Fahrzeugs ist.
  7. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei der röhrenartige Hohlraum sowohl durch eine B-Säule als auch ein Schweller ausgebildet ist.
  8. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, wobei das Gehäuse einen Flansch umfasst, der das Gehäuse an den Hohlraum koppelt.
  9. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, wobei der Hohlraum einen Resonator des Helmholtz-Typs bildet.
  10. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, wobei der Hohlraum einen Resonator des Übertragungsleitungstyps bildet.
  11. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, wobei das Gehäuse symmetrisch an den röhrenartigen Hohlraum gekoppelt ist.
  12. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, wobei das Gehäuse asymmetrisch an den röhrenartigen Hohlraum gekoppelt ist.
  13. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 12, wobei die Löcher in der Wand entlang dem röhrenartigen Hohlraum in einer Linie liegen.
  14. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 13, wobei das Gehäuse akustisch an einen der Unterhohlräume gekoppelt ist.
  15. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 14, wobei die röhrenartigen Unterhohlräume als eine Röhre-in-Röhre-Struktur angeordnet sind.
  16. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 15, wobei das Gehäuse unter einem der Sitze eines Fahrzeugs angeordnet ist.
  17. Tonsystem nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 16, wobei das Gehäuse hermetisch verschlossen ist.
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