JPH11127492A - Microphone for hood and microphone with hood - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hood for a microphone for allowing a user to user a domestic karaoke performing device with a loud singing voice regardless of the time and place by mounting the hood for the microphone on the microphone of the karaoke performing device. SOLUTION: A hood 1 for a microphone is constituted of a hood part 2, and a mounting part 3 connected with the bottom opening of the hood part 2 for mounting the hood part 2 on a microphone 4 to be used for a domestic karaoke performing device. The whole of the hood part 2 is constituted of a conical trapezoid shaped vessel and when the hood part 2 is mounted on the microphone 4, a voice converting part 41 for converting the acoustic wave of the microphone 4 into an electric signal can be housed at the bottom side of the hood part 2, and an opening 21 is opened at the open side of the hood part 2. The opening 21 is used so as to be butted to the face of a user using the microphone 4 so that the opening 21 can cover the parts of the mouth and nose of the user.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a microphone hood used by attaching to a microphone used in a home karaoke performance device, and a hooded microphone suitable as a microphone of a karaoke performance device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A home-use karaoke performance apparatus reproduces a tape or the like on which accompaniment / accompaniment sound is recorded, instead of an orchestra. You can enjoy the pleasure of directing and singing with reverberation. Singing is fun, regardless of age or gender, and home karaoke apparatuses are widely used at home.

[0003]

By the way, when enjoying karaoke with a karaoke performance device, the user listens to his / her own singing voice using headphones so as not to disturb nearby people due to the loud noise from the speakers. There are cases. However, even in such a case, it is necessary to sing using a microphone, and this singing voice may leak to the outside and cause noise. Particularly in urban areas where houses are densely populated, the adverse effects of the noise are great. For this reason, in a densely populated residential area such as an urban area, it is difficult to sing a loud voice using a home karaoke apparatus. In particular, it is said that singing in a loud voice is good for the health of elderly people who are more likely to be confined to their homes, and it is desirable to be able to sing without worrying about the place or time.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a microphone hood that can be used by attaching it to a microphone of a home-use karaoke performance device and that can use the karaoke performance device with a loud singing voice regardless of time and place. . Another object of the present invention is to provide a microphone with a hood that can be used as a microphone of a home karaoke performance device and that can use the karaoke performance device with a loud voice regardless of time and place.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a microphone hood according to the present invention is constituted by a sound insulating material, has a container shape, and has an opening at one end side; And a mounting unit for mounting the unit to the microphone. When the hood unit is mounted on the microphone by the mounting unit, the microphone audio conversion unit can be stored in the hood unit, and the opening unit is used when the microphone is used. Was formed so as to cover at least the mouth part of the user.

It is preferable that the above-mentioned hood portion is composed of an outer portion, an inner portion, and a gap formed between the outer portion and the inner portion in the thickness direction. It is preferable that the gap be in a vacuum or reduced pressure state in order to improve the sound insulation effect. Moreover, the above-mentioned sound insulation material is plastic,
Made of rubber, metal, or paper.

Further, a hooded microphone according to the present invention has a microphone provided with a voice conversion unit for converting a sound wave into an electric signal, and is mounted on the microphone to house the voice conversion unit and to have an opening at one end. And a hood made of a sound insulating material, and the opening of the hood is formed so as to cover at least the mouth portion of the user when the microphone is used.

The above hood has an outer portion in a thickness direction,
It is preferable to comprise an inner part and a gap formed between the outer part and the inner part. It is preferable that the gap be in a vacuum or reduced pressure state in order to improve the sound insulation effect. In addition, the above-mentioned sound insulation material is made of plastic, rubber,
Made of metal or paper.

As described above, the microphone hood according to the present invention is provided with a hood portion made of a sound insulating material, and this hood portion can accommodate a voice converter for converting sound waves of the microphone into an electric signal, and can be used when the microphone is used. The opening can cover at least the mouth portion of the user. Therefore, if the karaoke apparatus is used by attaching it to the microphone of a home karaoke apparatus, the karaoke apparatus can be used with a loud voice regardless of time and place.

Further, the hooded microphone of the present invention includes a hood formed of a sound insulating material, and the hood houses a voice conversion unit for converting sound waves of the microphone into an electric signal, and the hood is opened when the microphone is used. The part can cover at least the mouth part of the user. Therefore, when used as a microphone of a home karaoke performance device, the karaoke performance device can be used with a loud singing voice regardless of time and place.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a microphone hood according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the first embodiment.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the microphone hood 1 according to the first embodiment has a
Is connected to the bottom opening of the hood 2
Microphone 4 used for home karaoke performance device
And a mounting portion 3 mounted on the device. Food part 2
Has a truncated cone-shaped container as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and can store a sound conversion unit 41 for converting sound waves of the microphone 4 into an electric signal at the bottom side when the microphone 4 is attached to the microphone 4. The opening 21 is opened on the opening side. The opening 21 is used by placing the microphone 4 on the face when the microphone 4 is used.
Are formed so as to cover the mouth and nose of the user. The opening 21 preferably has a shape that conforms to the shape of the user's face, rather than a circular opening.

The hood section 2 is made of a sound insulating material for preventing the sound from leaking to the outside when singing using the microphone 4, and the sound insulating material is made of plastic,
Metals such as rubber, paper, and aluminum are used. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the mounting portion 3 has a cylindrical portion 31 as a whole.
The cylindrical portion 31 is configured to fit on the voice converting portion 41 side of the tapered cylindrical grip portion 42 of the microphone 4. Note that the mounting portion 3 may be integrally formed of the same material as the hood portion 2 as shown in FIG. However, when the hood portion 2 is made of plastic, the mounting portion 3 is formed of an elastic body such as rubber, and the mounting portion 3 made of rubber is connected to the hood portion 2 made of plastic by bonding or fitting. You may do it. When the mounting portion 3 is made of rubber as described above, it is easy to fit the mounting portion 3 into the grip portion 42 of the microphone 4, and it is easy to adhere to the grip portion 42 after fitting.

The type of the microphone 4 to which the microphone hood 1 is attached is not limited. Therefore, the microphone 4 may be any of a dynamic type, a condenser type, a carbon type, or a ceramic type.

Next, an example of use of the microphone hood 1 configured as described above will be described. The microphone hood 1 is used by being attached to a microphone 4 used in a home karaoke apparatus. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1, the cylindrical portion 31 of the mounting portion 3 is fitted to the grip portion 42 of the microphone 4, and the hood portion 2 is attached to the microphone 4. Next, a plug (not shown) of the microphone 4 is used by inserting it into a jack of a karaoke playing device (not shown). The karaoke performance device is set to be used with headphones.

Thereafter, when the accompaniment starts, the user sings using the microphone 4 in time with the accompaniment. At this time, the user of the microphone 4 puts the opening 21 of the hood 2 on the face and uses the microphone 4 with the mouth and nose covered by the hood 2. Then, only when breathing, the opening 21 of the hood 2 is separated from the face. Therefore, even if a loud voice is sung along with the accompaniment, the voice is converted to an electric signal by the voice converter 41 without leaking from the hood 2 to the outside, and the converted electric signal is input to the karaoke performance device. The singing voice can be heard through headphones.

Next, a microphone hood according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The microphone hood 5 of the second embodiment includes a
Hood 2 of Microphone Hood 1 of Embodiment
Is replaced with the hood portion 6 as shown in FIG. 3 to improve the sound insulation effect.

The hood section 6 of the microphone hood 5
Is composed entirely of a sound insulating member such as plastic, rubber, paper or the like, and has an outer portion 61 and an inner portion 62
And a gap 63 formed between the outer part 61 and the inner part 62. It is preferable that the gap 63 be in a vacuum or reduced pressure state. In the case where the gap 63 cannot be evacuated or decompressed by the constituent material of the hood 6, the gap 63 is filled with a sound insulating material having a greater sound insulating effect than the constituent material of the hood 6. Is also good. Since the configuration of other parts of the microphone hood 5 is the same as that of the microphone hood 1 of FIG. 1, the same members are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof will be omitted.

As described above, in the microphone hood 5 according to the second embodiment, the hood portion 6 is constituted by three layers.
Since the cavity 63 is provided at the center, the sound insulation effect is improved as compared with the hood 2 shown in FIG.

Next, a third embodiment of the microphone hood according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the microphone hood 1 shown in FIG.
When the thickness of the grip portion 42 is thin as shown in FIG.
There is a disadvantage that the microphone hood 1 cannot be attached to the microphone 4. Therefore, in the third embodiment, in order to deal with this inconvenience, as shown in FIG.
The microphone mounting hood 1 is mounted on the grip 42 of the microphone 4 via the mounting aid 7 by fitting a cylindrical mounting aid 7 corresponding to the thickness of the grip 42 of the microphone 4 to the grip 42. It was made. It is preferable that the attachment aid 7 be formed of an elastic body such as rubber, because the microphone 4 can be easily attached to the grip 42.

As described above, in the third embodiment, the microphone hood 1 is mounted on the microphone 4 by using the mounting aid 7, so that a large number of mounting aids 7 having different diameters are prepared. Regardless of the size of the grip portion, the microphone hood 1 can be conveniently attached to the microphone.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the microphone hood according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The microphone hood 8 of the fourth embodiment is similar to that of FIG.
Is replaced with a hood 9 as shown in FIG. That is, the entire hood 9 is shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, the mounting portion 3 consisting of a cylindrical portion 31 is connected to the bottom opening of the truncated quadrangular pyramid-shaped container.
1 is a square. Further, the shape of the opening surface of the opening 81 is preferably a curved square that matches the shape of the user's face. In addition, although the whole food part 9 was made into a truncated pyramid shape container, the whole may be made into a bowl-like shape instead.

Next, an embodiment of a hooded microphone according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, a microphone 11 with a hood according to this embodiment includes a microphone 12 and a hood 13 attached to the microphone 12. The microphone 12 includes a sound conversion unit 121 that converts sound waves into electric signals.
And a grip portion 122 for the user to hold when using the microphone 12. The bottom of the hood 13 is opened, and a cylindrical mounting portion 14 is connected to the opening. The hood 13 is attached to the microphone 12 by fitting the attachment section 14 to the grip section 122 of the microphone 12.

As shown in FIG. 6, the hood 13 is formed entirely of a truncated cone-shaped container. The conversion part 121 of the microphone 12 is housed on the bottom side, and an opening 131 is opened on the opening side. . The opening 13 of the hood 13
1 is applied to the face when the microphone 12 is used,
At this time, the opening 131 can cover the mouth and nose of the user. This opening 131
It is preferable that the opening surface of the opening 131 is not circular but has a shape conforming to the shape of the user's face. The hood 13 is made of a sound insulating material for preventing the sound from leaking to the outside when singing using the microphone 12, and a metal such as plastic, rubber, paper, or aluminum is used as the sound insulating material.

The type of the microphone 12 is not limited. Therefore, the microphone 12 may be any of a dynamic type, a condenser type, a carbon type, or a ceramic type.

Next, an example of using the hooded microphone 11 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. The hooded microphone 11 is used as a microphone used in a home karaoke apparatus. Here, as shown in FIG. 7, it is preferable to use a sound absorbing material 15 such as tissue paper (dust paper) packed in the bottom side of the hood 13 in order to achieve a sound absorbing effect.

In use, a plug (not shown) of the hooded microphone 11 is inserted into a jack of a karaoke playing device (not shown). The karaoke performance device is set to be used with headphones. afterwards,
When the accompaniment starts, the microphone 12
Sing using. At this time, the user of the microphone 12 puts the opening 131 of the hood 13 on the face, and uses the microphone 12 with the mouth and nose covered with the hood 13. Then, only when breathing, the opening 131 of the hood 13 is separated from the face.

For this reason, even if a loud voice is sung along with the accompaniment, the voice is not leaked from the hood 13 to the outside and is converted into an electric signal by the sound converting section 121, and the converted electric signal is converted into a karaoke apparatus. The singing voice can be heard through headphones.

In the embodiment of the hooded microphone described above, the hood 13 is the microphone hood 1 shown in FIG. However, as the hood 13, the microphone hood 5 shown in FIG. 3 or the microphone hood 8 shown in FIG. 5 may be applied.

Accordingly, the hood 13 is formed between the outer portion, the inner portion, and the outer and inner portions in the thickness direction, like the hood portion 6 of the microphone hood 5 shown in FIG. It may be constituted by the formed gap. Further, it is preferable that the gap be in a vacuum or reduced pressure state. Further, in the case where a vacuum or reduced pressure state cannot be realized by the constituent material of the hood 13, the gap may be filled with a sound insulating material having a greater sound insulating effect than the constituent material of the hood 13.

[0031]

As described above, the microphone hood according to the present invention has a hood portion made of a sound insulating material, and this hood portion can accommodate a sound conversion portion for converting sound waves of the microphone into electric signals. When the microphone is used, the opening can cover at least the mouth portion of the user. Therefore, if the karaoke apparatus is used by attaching it to the microphone of a home karaoke apparatus, the karaoke apparatus can be used with a loud voice regardless of time and place.

The microphone with a hood according to the present invention includes a hood made of a sound insulating material. The hood houses a sound conversion unit for converting sound waves of the microphone into electric signals, and the hood is opened when the microphone is used. The part can cover at least the mouth part of the user. Therefore, when used as a microphone of a home karaoke performance device, the karaoke performance device can be used with a loud singing voice regardless of time and place.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a microphone hood according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a microphone hood according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a microphone hood according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a microphone hood according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of an embodiment of a hooded microphone according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing a usage example of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 5, 8 Microphone hood 2, 6 Hood part 3 Mounting part 4, 12 Microphone 7 Mounting aid 11 Microphone with hood 13 Hood 21, 131 Opening 41, 121 Sound conversion part 61 Outside part 62 Inner part 63 Void

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A hood part made of a sound insulating material, having a container shape and having an opening at one end side, and a mounting part for mounting the hood part to a microphone, wherein the hood part is mounted by the mounting part. When the microphone is attached to the microphone, the sound conversion unit of the microphone can be stored in the hood unit, and when the microphone is used, the opening may cover at least a part of a mouth of a user. A microphone hood formed so as to be capable of being formed. 2. The hood portion includes an outer portion, an inner portion, and a gap formed between the outer portion and the inner portion in a thickness direction. Item 1
The hood for a microphone as described. 3. The hood for a microphone according to claim 2, wherein the gap is evacuated or decompressed. 4. The microphone hood according to claim 1, wherein the sound insulating material is made of plastic, rubber, metal, or paper. 5. A microphone comprising a sound converter for converting a sound wave into an electric signal, and a sound insulating material mounted on the microphone, accommodating the sound converter and opening an opening on one end side. When using the microphone, the opening of the hood,
A microphone with a hood formed so as to cover at least a mouth portion of a user. 6. The hood has an outer portion in a thickness direction,
6. The microphone with a hood according to claim 5, comprising: an inner portion; and a gap formed between the outer portion and the inner portion. 7. The hooded microphone according to claim 6, wherein the gap is set in a vacuum or reduced pressure state. 8. The hooded microphone according to claim 5, wherein the sound insulating material is made of plastic, rubber, metal, or paper.