JP2010047942A - Sound absorption structure, sound absorption structure group, and acoustic room - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sound absorption structure for effectively making use of a closed-celled porous material as a sound absorption material which has elasticity, which does not have permeability, and which is originally low in sound absorption property. <P>SOLUTION: A in the figure indicates the property by an open-celled vibrator, and B in the figure indicates the property by a closed-celled vibrator. The open-celled porous material A indicates a property that a sound absorption rate increases when a tone-range becomes higher and that it decreases when the tone-range becomes lower. On the other hand, the frequency of the closed-celled porous material B, which becomes a peak of sound absorption, is at a relatively low frequency, and it turns out that the sound absorption rate of the closed-celled porous material B is high. That is to say, even a sound absorption structure 10 formed of the vibrator 30 of the closed-celled porous material exerts a sound absorption action. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a sound absorbing structure that absorbs sound, a sound absorbing structure group, and an acoustic chamber.

In general, among sound absorbing structures that absorb sound, those using an open-cell porous material (for example, glass wool) as the sound absorbing material generate sound absorbing force in proportion to the particle velocity of the sound wave. Although the sound absorbing power is high in the high sound range, the sound absorbing power is low in the low sound range. Therefore, if a high sound absorption force is to be generated even in the low sound range, a thickness of about λ / 4 (for example, 34 cm at 250 Hz) is required, and installation in a small space is difficult.
On the other hand, in a sound absorbing structure that absorbs sound by a plate-like or film-like vibrating body and an air layer behind the vibrating body, when a high sound absorbing force is generated in a low sound range, the thickness is about 4 mm, for example. If a plywood is arranged with a back air layer of 45 mm and glass wool is filled inside the air layer, the sound absorption coefficient peak appears in the low frequency range of about 250 Hz, but this sound absorption coefficient peak remains at about 0.6.

Patent Document 1 discloses a sound-absorbing material using an open-cell porous material (foam), and it is a well-known technique to use open-cell when using a porous material. It is.
On the other hand, the sound-absorbing material disclosed in Patent Document 2 is made of an open-cell porous material and a closed-cell porous material, and discloses an example in which the air flow rate is 0.1 dm ³ / s or more. If this air flow rate is large, there will be no difference in sound pressure between the front and back of the porous material, so it will not be possible to excite plate vibration, or the sound absorption effect based on the sound absorption mechanism of plate vibration will be reduced. It becomes.

JP 2003-316364 A JP 2006-11412 A

  Therefore, the present invention has been made under the background described above, and effectively uses an independently foamed porous material that has elasticity and does not have air permeability, and originally has low sound absorption characteristics, as a sound absorption material. The purpose is to do. In particular, the object is to exhibit a sound absorbing effect in a low sound range even with a thin sound absorbing structure having a total thickness of the sound absorbing structure (total thickness of the porous material and the back air layer) of about 50 mm.

  The structure of the sound absorbing structure employed by the present invention to solve the above-described problems includes a vibrating body formed of a closed-cell porous material, and an air layer defined behind the vibrating body. It is characterized by doing.

  Another structure of the sound absorbing structure employed by the present invention is a vibrating body formed by superposing a closed-cell porous material and an open-cell porous material, and a closed-cell porous material of the vibrating body. And an air layer defined behind.

  The other structure of the sound absorbing structure employed by the present invention includes a vibrating body formed by superposing a closed-cell porous material and a gas-permeable member, and a backside of the closed-cell porous material of the vibrating body. And an air layer formed.

The said structure WHEREIN: As for the said porous material of a closed cell, it is desirable for the air flow rate to be less than 0.1 dm < ³ > / s.

  The structure of the sound absorbing structure group employed by the present invention to solve the above-described problems is characterized by combining a plurality of the above sound absorbing structures.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the structure of the acoustic chamber employed by the present invention is characterized by having the above-described sound absorbing structure or the above-described sound absorbing structure group.

  According to the present invention, in a sound absorbing structure (plate / membrane vibration type), sound absorption characteristics are maintained by using a closed cell porous material that has elasticity and blocks air for the diaphragm that covers the air layer. However, the deterioration of the vibrating body can be prevented, and as a result, the reliability of the sound absorbing structure can be improved.

<Configuration of sound absorbing structure>
1 is a perspective view of a sound absorbing structure 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the sound absorbing structure 10, and FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view as seen from the direction of arrows III-III in FIG. is there. In the drawings, the actual dimensions of the sound absorbing structure 10 are different from each other for easy understanding of the configuration of the present embodiment.
As shown in the figure, the sound absorbing structure 10 includes a housing 20 that forms the base of the sound absorbing structure 10, a vibrating body 30 that covers the opening 23 of the housing 20, and the vibration of the housing 20. And an air layer 40 defined in the housing 20 by the body 30.

  The casing 20 is formed of a synthetic resin (for example, ABS resin) in a rectangular and shallow bottomed cylindrical shape, and includes a bottom plate 21, a side wall 22, and an opening 23. The bottom plate 21 is disposed on a surface facing the opening 23, and the side wall 22 is disposed around the opening 23. The vibrating body 30 is formed in a square plate shape from an elastic polymer compound (for example, foamed silicone, foamed urethane, foamed polyethylene, foamed ethylene propylene rubber, etc.), and the periphery is fixedly bonded to the opening 23 of the housing 20. Is done. Inside the sound absorbing structure 10 (behind the vibrating body 30), the vibrating body 30 is fixed to the opening 23 of the housing 20, whereby a sealed air layer 40 is defined.

  In the present embodiment, the shape of the vibrating body 30 may be a film shape instead of a plate shape. In short, the vibrating body 30 is deformed when a force is applied and generates a restoring force by elasticity. Any shape or member that vibrates may be used.

  Here, the plate shape is a shape having a relatively thin thickness and a two-dimensional extension with respect to a rectangular parallelepiped (solid), and the film shape (film shape, sheet shape) is more than the plate shape. It is relatively thin and generates a restoring force by tension.

Further, the vibrating body 30 has relatively low rigidity with respect to the casing 20 other than the vibrating body 30 (low Young's modulus, thin thickness, small cross-sectional second moment), or mechanical impedance (8 × (bending rigidity × surface density) ^1/2 ) is formed with a relatively low shape / member. In other words, the vibrating body 30 is configured to exhibit the sound absorbing action of the sound absorbing structure 10 by the vibrating body 30 by making the vibrating body 30 easily cause elastic vibration.

The above is the basic configuration of the sound absorbing structure 10, but the sound absorbing structure 10 according to the present embodiment is characterized in that the vibrating body 30 is formed of a closed-cell porous material 50 as shown in FIG. It is to have done. The porous material 50 has an air flow rate of less than 0.1 dm ³ / s and blocks the passage of air. As the closed cell porous material, for example, foamed silicone, foamed polyethylene, foamed ethylene propylene rubber (EPDM) or the like is used.

For comparison, FIG. 4 schematically shows a cross section of a closed-cell porous material and an open-cell porous material.
As shown in FIG. 4A, the closed-cell porous material 50 is independent of the bubbles 51 formed in the member without communicating with each other. For this reason, the closed-cell porous material has a certain elasticity and can vibrate integrally as a diaphragm. That is, the closed-cell porous material is a material that has elasticity and does not have air permeability.
In FIG. 4A, the air bubbles 51 are schematically illustrated as being aligned. However, the air bubbles may be randomly arranged, and in short, the air flows between the front and back surfaces of the material without overlapping the air bubbles 51. Any structure can be used.

  On the other hand, in the open-cell porous material 60, as shown in FIG. 4B, the respective bubbles 61 formed in the member are adjacent to each other and are almost overlapped to communicate with each other. For this reason, the open-cell porous material has a sponge-like texture, depending on the material and the size of the bubbles 61. In FIG. 4B, the air bubbles 61 are schematically illustrated as being aligned. However, the air bubbles 61 may be arranged at random. In short, each of the air bubbles 61 communicates with at least the adjacent air bubbles 61, and the front and back surfaces of the material. Any structure that allows air to flow between them may be used.

<Operation of sound absorbing structure>
In general, in this type of sound absorbing structure, a spring mass system is formed by a mass component of a vibrating body and a spring component of an air layer.
Here, the density of air is ρ ₀ [kg / m ³ ], the speed of sound is c ₀ [m / s], the density of the vibrating body is ρ [kg / m ³ ], the thickness of the vibrating body is t [m], Assuming that the thickness of the air layer is L [m], the resonance frequency f [Hz] of the spring mass system is expressed by Equation 1.

In addition, when the vibration body has elasticity in the sound absorbing structure, the bending property of the elastic vibration is added.
The shape of the vibrator is rectangular, the length of one side is a [m], the length of the other side is b [m], the Young's modulus of the vibrator is E [N / m ² ], and the Poisson's ratio of the vibrator is σ [ −], P and q are positive integers, the resonance frequency of the plate / membrane vibration type sound absorbing structure is obtained as shown in the following formula 2. In the field of architectural acoustics, the obtained resonance frequency is used for acoustic design.

上記数式２において、共振周波数ｆは、バネマス系に係る項（ρ₀ｃ₀ ²／ρｔＬ）と屈曲系に係る項（バネマス系の項の後に直列に加えられている項）とを加算した値となっている。この数式２に示すように、吸音構造体においては、振動体のバネマス系と、弾性振動による屈曲系とが、吸音条件を決める重要な要素となっている。

In Equation 2, the resonance frequency f is a value obtained by adding a term related to the spring mass system (ρ ₀ c ₀ ² / ρtL) and a term related to the bending system (term added in series after the term of the spring mass system). It has become. As shown in Formula 2, in the sound absorbing structure, the spring mass system of the vibrating body and the bending system due to elastic vibration are important factors that determine the sound absorbing conditions.

  Here, in the sound absorbing structure 10 according to the present embodiment, the vibrating body 30 is based on the difference between the sound pressure applied from the outside of the vibrating body 30 and the sound pressure on the air layer 40 side (that is, the sound pressure difference before and after the vibrating body 30). Vibrates elastically. Thereby, the energy of the sound wave reaching the sound absorbing structure 10 is consumed by the vibration of the vibrating body 30 and the sound is absorbed. At this time, the vibrating body 30 absorbs a sound having a frequency centered on the resonance frequency f set as shown in Formula 2.

<Effect of sound absorbing structure in embodiment>
The effect of the sound absorbing structure in the present embodiment will be described based on the sound absorbing characteristics shown in FIGS. This characteristic diagram is a graph of actual experimental results, and records the absorption rate as the normal incident absorption rate when a sound with a variable frequency is applied to the sound absorption structure to be tested. It is what I did.
FIG. 5 to FIG. 7 show the results of an experiment using a sound absorbing structure using open-cell urethane 10 mm thick as the vibrating body and a sound-absorbing structure using closed-cell foamed silicone 10 mm thick as the vibrating body.
FIG. 5 shows the experimental results when the thickness of the air layer formed behind the vibrating body is 10 mm, and FIG. 6 shows the experimental results when the thickness of the air layer is 20 mm. 7 is an experimental result when the thickness of the air layer is 30 mm. A in the figure shows the characteristics of the open-cell vibrating body, and B in the figure shows the characteristics of the closed-cell vibrating body.

5A to 7B, the open-cell porous material (A) shows a characteristic that the sound absorption coefficient increases as the high sound range, whereas the sound absorption coefficient in the low sound range is small. In the closed-cell porous material (B), it can be seen that the frequency at which the sound absorption peak is at a relatively low frequency, and the sound absorption coefficient also shows a large value. That is, even the sound absorbing structure 10 in which the vibrating body 30 is formed of a closed-cell porous material exhibits a sound absorbing action. The density of closed cells is 250 kg / m ³ and the density of open cells is 35 kg / m ³ .

Further, FIGS. 8 to 10 show the experimental results of a sound absorbing structure using an open cell 10 mm thick urethane as the vibrating body and a sound absorbing structure using a closed cell EPDM (ethylene propylene rubber) 10 mm thick as the vibrating body. ing. FIG. 8 shows the experimental results when the air layer thickness is 10 mm, FIG. 9 shows the air layer thickness of 20 mm, and FIG. 10 shows the air layer thickness of 30 mm. Further, A in the figure indicates the characteristics of the open-cell vibrating body, and B in the figure indicates the characteristics of the closed-cell vibrating body.
Even in the sound absorbing structure using the closed-cell EPDM as the vibrating body, the frequency at which the sound absorption peak is at a relatively low frequency, as in the characteristics shown in FIGS. It can be seen that the value is shown.

As described above, when the closed-cell porous material 50 is used for the vibrating body 30, even a thin sound absorbing structure having a total thickness of the vibrating body 30 and the air layer 40 of 50 mm or less is relatively low. It is possible to absorb the sound range.
Moreover, since the closed-cell porous material 50 blocks the passage of air, even when the sound absorbing structure 10 is installed in a sound field with a relatively large amount of dust, the vibrating body 30 is not exposed to the air layer 40. This will prevent the inflow of air. As a result, it is possible to prevent the air layer 40 from being contaminated by dust.
In addition, the closed-cell porous material 50 can prevent the intrusion of air or moisture into the material due to its structure, so that the durability of the vibrating body 30 is improved, and as a result, the reliability of the sound absorbing structure 10 is improved. Can be increased.

  On the other hand, since the closed-cell porous material 50 is lower in manufacturing cost than the open-cell porous material 60, the cost of the sound absorbing structure 10 can be reduced at a low cost. In addition, the closed-cell porous material 50 is easier to process, such as cutting, than the open-cell porous material 60, and thus has various effects such as increased productivity.

<Modification>
As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above, It can implement with another various form. For example, the present invention may be implemented by modifying the above-described embodiment as follows.
<Modification 1>
In the embodiment, the case where the closed cell porous material 50 is used for the vibrating body 30 is illustrated, but the present invention is not limited to this, and various configurations using the closed cell porous material 50 for the vibrating body are possible. Is possible.

FIG. 3B shows a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a sound absorbing structure using a vibrating body 31 in which an open-cell porous material 60 is laminated on the front side (acoustic wave incident side) of the closed-cell porous material 50. . And this vibrating body 31 is fixed to the housing | casing 20 so that the air layer 40 may come to the back surface of the porous material 50 of a closed cell.
FIG. 3C shows a sound absorbing structure using a vibrating body 32 in which a fibrous air-permeable member 70 such as mesh, cloth, flocking, etc. is laminated on the front side (acoustic wave incident side) of the porous material 50 of closed cells. A longitudinal sectional view is shown. And this vibrating body 32 is fixed to the housing | casing 20 so that the air layer 40 may come to the back surface of the porous material 50 of a closed cell.
With the sound absorbing structure configured as described above, the sound absorbing effect of the embodiment can be obtained. In addition, since the open-cell porous material 60 or the air-permeable member 70 is disposed on the front side of the vibrating body 30, it is also possible to add an action in which sound is absorbed by this member.

  Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to the above example, and the vibrating body may be one in which the open-cell porous material 50 is laminated with three or more layers of the open-cell porous material 60, and the air-permeable member 70, the open-cell The porous material 60 and the closed-cell porous material 50 may be laminated in this order. In short, the closed-cell porous material 50 is used to block air between the outside and the air layer 40. What is necessary is just to become a structure to do.

<Modification 2>
In the sound absorbing structure configured as described above, the relationship between the resonance frequency of the spring mass system and the resonance frequency of the bending system due to the elastic vibration due to the elasticity of the plate is uniquely determined by Equation 2, but actually In fact, the structure of a sound-absorbing structure that exhibits high sound-absorbing power in the low sound range has not been established.

Therefore, the inventors conducted intensive experiments, and as a result, when the value of the fundamental vibration frequency of the bending system is fa and the value of the resonance frequency of the spring mass system is fb, the above parameters are satisfied so as to satisfy the relationship of Equation 3 below. Set. As a result, the fundamental vibration of the bending system is coupled with the spring component of the air layer behind, and a vibration having a large amplitude is excited in the band between the resonance frequency of the spring mass system and the fundamental frequency of the bending system (the bending system). The fact that the resonance frequency fa <the sound absorption peak frequency f <the spring mass system fundamental frequency fb) and the sound absorption rate is high was verified.

このように、上記した数式３，４の条件を満足するように各種パラメータを設定することにより、吸音のピークとなる周波数を低くした吸音構造体が構成できる。 Furthermore, when the following Expression 4 is set, the frequency of the sound absorption peak is sufficiently smaller than the resonance frequency of the spring mass system. In this case, it was also verified that the fundamental frequency of the bending system is sufficiently smaller than the resonance frequency of the spring mass system due to the mode of low-order elastic vibration, and is suitable as a sound absorbing structure that absorbs sound having a frequency of 300 [Hz] or less.

As described above, by setting various parameters so as to satisfy the conditions of the above-described Expressions 3 and 4, it is possible to configure a sound absorbing structure in which the frequency at which the sound absorption is peaked is lowered.

<Modification 3>
Furthermore, the configuration of the sound absorbing structure 10 includes a rectangular casing 20, a vibrating body 30 that closes the opening 23 of the casing 20, and an air layer 40 defined in the casing 20. However, even if the shape of the housing according to the present invention is rectangular, circular, or polygonal, a concentrated mass for changing the vibration conditions for the vibrating body 30 is provided at the center of the vibrating body 30. You may do it.

  As described above, the sound absorbing structure 10 has a sound absorbing mechanism formed of a spring mass system and a bending system. Here, the inventors conducted an experiment of the sound absorption coefficient at the resonance frequency when the surface density of the vibrating body 30 was changed.

  FIG. 11 shows that the vibrating body 30 (size: 100 mm × 100 mm, thickness: 0.85 mm) is fixed to the casing 20 having a vertical and horizontal size of 100 mm × 100 mm and a thickness of 10 mm. It is the figure which showed the simulation result of the normal incidence sound absorption coefficient of the sound-absorbing structure 10 at the time of changing the surface density of a part (a magnitude | size is 20 mm x 20 mm, thickness 0.85mm). In addition, the simulation method is based on JIS A 1405-2 (measurement of sound absorption coefficient and impedance by an acoustic tube—Part 2: transfer function method), and the sound field of the acoustic room in which the sound absorbing structure 10 is arranged is determined by a finite element method. The sound absorption characteristics were calculated from the transfer function.

Specifically, the surface density of the central part is (1) 399.5 [g / m ² ], (2) 799 [g / m ² ], (3) 1199 [g / m ² ], (4) 1598 [g / m ² ], (5) 2297 [g / m ² ], the surface density of the peripheral member is 799 [g / m ² ], and the average density of the vibrating body 30 is (1) 783 [g / m ² ]. m ² ], (2) 799 [g / m ² ], (3) 815 [g / m ² ], (4) 831 [g / m ² ], (5) 863 [g / m ² ] This is a simulation result.
Looking at the simulation results, the sound absorption rate is high between 300 and 500 [Hz] and in the vicinity of 700 [Hz].

  The reason why the sound absorption coefficient is high in the vicinity of 700 [Hz] is due to resonance of the spring mass system formed by the mass component of the vibrating body 30 and the spring component of the air layer 40. In the sound absorbing structure 10, the sound is absorbed with the sound absorption coefficient at the resonance frequency of the spring mass system as a peak, and even if the surface density of the central portion is increased, the mass of the entire vibrating body 30 does not change greatly. It can be seen that the resonance frequency does not change significantly.

  Further, the sound absorption coefficient between 300 and 500 [Hz] is high due to the resonance of the bending system formed by the bending vibration of the vibrating body 30. In the sound absorbing structure 10, the sound absorption rate at the resonance frequency of the bending system appears as a peak on the low frequency range side, and only the resonance frequency of the bending system decreases as the surface density at the center increases. I understand.

  In general, the resonance frequency of the bending system is determined by an equation of motion governing the elastic vibration of the vibrating body 30 and is inversely proportional to the density (surface density) of the vibrating body 30. The resonance frequency is greatly influenced by the density of the antinodes of natural vibration (when the amplitude is a maximum value). For this reason, in the simulation described above, the region that becomes the antinode of the 1 × 1 eigenmode is formed at different surface densities in the central portion, so that the resonance frequency of the bending system is changed.

  Thus, the simulation results show that when the surface density of the central part is made larger than the surface density of the peripheral part, the peak of the sound absorption coefficient on the low frequency side of the frequency that becomes the peak of sound absorption moves further to the low frequency side. Represents. Therefore, it is shown that by changing the surface density of the central portion, a part of the frequency at which the sound absorption is peaked can be moved (shifted) further to the low sound region side or the high sound region side.

  In the sound absorbing structure 10 described above, since the frequency of the peak of the sound to be absorbed can be changed (shifted) simply by changing the surface density of the central portion, the vibration body 30 is made of the same material as the entire sound absorbing structure 10. Compared with the case where the sound absorption sound is changed by increasing the mass of the entire sound absorbing structure 10 and changing the sound absorbing sound, the sound to be absorbed can be lowered without greatly changing the mass of the entire sound absorbing structure 10.

  Furthermore, even if the sound absorption coefficient peak value is increased by filling the air layer 40 of the sound absorbing structure 10 with a porous sound absorbing material (for example, foamed resin, felt, cotton wool such as polyester wool). Good.

<Modification 4>
Further, in the present invention, when the sound absorbing structure group is formed, not only the sound absorbing structure group is formed by combining a plurality of sound absorbing structures of any one of the above-described embodiments or modifications, but for example, a sound absorbing characteristic Sound absorbing structures having different sound absorbing characteristics may be combined to form a sound absorbing structure group, such as combining sound absorbing structures having different sound absorption characteristics, or combining sound absorbing structures having three or more different sound absorbing characteristics.

  Further, the sound absorbing structure according to the present invention and the sound absorbing structure group obtained by combining the sound absorbing structures can be disposed in various acoustic chambers that control acoustic characteristics. Here, the various acoustic rooms include soundproof rooms, halls, theaters, listening rooms for audio equipment, living rooms such as conference rooms, spaces for various transport equipment such as vehicles, and housings for speakers and musical instruments.

It is a perspective view of the sound absorption structure by an embodiment. It is a disassembled perspective view of the sound absorption structure by embodiment. It is the longitudinal cross-sectional view seen from the arrow III-III direction of FIG. It is sectional drawing which shows typically the porous material of a closed cell, and the porous material of an open cell. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by embodiment. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by embodiment. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by embodiment. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by embodiment. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by embodiment. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by embodiment. It is a characteristic diagram which shows the characteristic by a modification (3).

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Sound absorption structure, 20 ... Housing, 21 ... Bottom plate, 22 ... Side wall, 23 ... Opening, 30, 31, 32 ... Vibrating body, 40 ... Air Layer, 50 ... closed-cell porous material, 51, 61 ... bubble, 60 ... open-cell porous material, 70 ... breathable member.

Claims (6)

A vibrator formed of a closed-cell porous material;
An air layer defined behind the vibrating body. A vibrator formed by superposing a closed-cell porous material and an open-cell porous material;
An air layer defined behind a closed-cell porous material of the vibrating body. A vibrator formed by stacking a closed-cell porous material and a breathable member;
An air layer defined behind a closed-cell porous material of the vibrating body. The sound absorbing structure according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The sound absorbing structure, wherein the closed cell porous material has an air flow rate of less than 0.1 dm ³ / s. A sound absorbing structure group comprising a plurality of the sound absorbing structures according to any one of claims 1 to 4. An acoustic chamber comprising the sound absorbing structure according to any one of claims 1 to 4 or the sound absorbing structure group according to claim 5.

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