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US3768589A
US3768589A US00240726A US3768589DA US3768589A US 3768589 A US3768589 A US 3768589A US 00240726 A US00240726 A US 00240726A US 3768589D A US3768589D A US 3768589DA US 3768589 A US3768589 A US 3768589A
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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
    • H04R1/2869—Reduction of undesired resonances, i.e. standing waves within enclosure, or of undesired vibrations, i.e. of the enclosure itself
    • H04R1/2876—Reduction of undesired resonances, i.e. standing waves within enclosure, or of undesired vibrations, i.e. of the enclosure itself by means of damping material, e.g. as cladding
    • H04R1/288—Reduction of undesired resonances, i.e. standing waves within enclosure, or of undesired vibrations, i.e. of the enclosure itself by means of damping material, e.g. as cladding 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 
    • H04R1/24—Structural combinations of separate transducers or of two parts of the same transducer and responsive respectively to two or more frequency ranges
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R3/00—Circuits for transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R3/12—Circuits for transducers, loudspeakers or microphones for distributing signals to two or more loudspeakers

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  • This invention relates to a loudspeaker having a cabinet which contains at least one loudspeaker element, damping material and possibly a dividing filter.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a loudspeaker of very high sound reproduction quality though of relatively compact size compared with prior art loudspeakers, and also at relatively low costs.
  • the cabinet of the loudspeaker of the type outlined in the foregoing is in the form of a bent tube which has one end closed bymeans of a plate while the loudspeaker element is positioned at the other end of the tube.
  • FIG. 1 is a section of a loudspeaker according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a side view of the loudspeaker in FIG. 1, certain parts having been removed for greater clarity;
  • FIG. 3 is a wiring diagram of connecting elements and a dividing filter comprised in the loudspeaker shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 shows a frequency response recorded with the loudspeaker shown in FIG. 1
  • the loudspeaker illustrated in FIG. 1 has a cabinet 1 which consists of awtube of circular cross section.
  • the tube is'bent at an angle of 90, as is shown by means of the crossing axes a and b.
  • the axis b is approximately half as long'as the axis 0.
  • One end 'of the tube is closed by means of a plate 2 of lead or other soft, dense metal which is secured in the tube in some suitable conventional manner.
  • a lead weight 9 can be positioned, as shown.
  • a loudspeaker element 3 is mounted in a baffle plate 4.
  • the loudspeaker element 3 preferably is of the bass type and the baffle plate 4 is fastened in the tube in some suitable manner.
  • Ahead of the loudspeaker element 3 is mounted a further loudspeakerelement 5 which is of the treble type and held in position by means of some suitable fastening mem ber 6.
  • Some suitable material such as loudspeaker cloth or a metal grid 7 of-some suitable kind, is applied over the loudspeaker end of the tube 1.
  • a damping material 8 is disposed in the interior of the cabinet rearwardly of the loudspeaker element 3. This damping material is a synthetic long-filament sound absorbing material which is previously known in the loudspeaker technique and has proved to prevent partial vibrations.
  • the two loudspeaker elements 3 and 5 are connected in the manner illustrated in FIG. 3, the bass loudspeaker element 3 being connected over two input terminals 10 and 11; the input terminal 10 is connected to i earth at 14.
  • the treble loudspeaker element 5 is connected in series with a resistor 12 and a capacitor 13. This series circuit is connected over the input terminals 10 and 11 and thus lies in parallel with the loudspeaker element 6.
  • This dividing filter shown at 15 in FIG. 1 thus is an RC-filter.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a frequency response which has been recorded with a loudspeaker having the following data frequency response: 55-20,000 Hz power: 15 W sin (1 kHz 10 min) impedance: 8 ohm, 1 kHz self-resonance (fO about Hz loudspeaker elements: one 5-inch bass loudspeaker with rubber-mounted cone one l-inch treble loudspeaker with large distributing angle sensitivity: 5 W (1 m, 1 kHz, 0 96 dB) volume: about 4 litres weight: about 7 kg dividing frequency: 5125 Hz
  • the great advantage of the loudspeaker according to the present invention is that as large a part as possible of the rearwardly directed sound wave is led down into the base (floor, furniture or the like) without any greater losses.
  • the round cross sectional area of the loudspeaker cabinet and the gently rounded bend or curvature of the tube whereby the rearwardly directed sound wave is uniformly damped so that all critical frequencies are uniformly damped.
  • the distance between the loudspeaker element 3 and the wall of the tube 1 is such that the rearwardly directed sound wave is not influenced in its critical point in which the energy of the sound wave is at its maximum.
  • the length of the tube is adapted to the selfresonance of the bass loudspeaker in the system or H] 6 fO converted into meters 330/ 16 fO in order that the cabinet shall be as small as possible (fO 80 Hz).
  • the treble loudspeaker element 5 is placed as far in front as possible at one end of the tube in order to obtain a maximum distribution of the treble and the bass loudspeaker element 3 is placed as close as possible to the treble loudspeaker element 5 in order that the distribution of the intermediate register and the inner volume in the tube 1 shall be as large as possible and arising interference as small as possible.
  • the dividing filter is of the RC type and this filter gives a well defined dividing frequency, a small intermodulation distorsion and insignificant influence on the damping factor of the amplifier.
  • the tube is preferably made from synthetic plastics in some suitable manner.
  • a loudspeaker system comprising a cabinet in the form ofa rigid tube bent at an angle so as to form a first tube section and a second tube section, the cross section of said tube being in the form of a closed curve, the end of said tube at said first tube section being closed by a plate means including a soft, dense metal and a loudspeaker means being positioned at the end of said second tube section at the other end of said tube; and damping means covering substantially all of the inner walls of said cabinet.
  • said loudspeaker means comprises two loudspeaker elements and said system further includes a dividing filter connecting said two loudspeaker elements together.

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US4501934A (en) * 1983-07-18 1985-02-26 W2 Vehicle Design And Development Loudspeaker system
USD319446S (en) 1989-03-18 1991-08-27 Yamaha Corporation Loudspeaker
US5286928A (en) * 1993-04-12 1994-02-15 Borland Nathan J Tunable speaker tube
US6385324B1 (en) * 1997-03-17 2002-05-07 Sorus Audio Ag Broadband loudspeaker
US6771787B1 (en) * 1998-09-03 2004-08-03 Bose Corporation Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
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US20090274329A1 (en) * 2008-05-02 2009-11-05 Ickler Christopher B Passive Directional Acoustical Radiating
US20110037906A1 (en) * 2008-02-21 2011-02-17 Gawronski Brian J Low frequency enclosure for video display devices
US20110216924A1 (en) * 2010-03-03 2011-09-08 William Berardi Multi-element directional acoustic arrays
US8553894B2 (en) 2010-08-12 2013-10-08 Bose Corporation Active and passive directional acoustic radiating
US9451355B1 (en) 2015-03-31 2016-09-20 Bose Corporation Directional acoustic device
US10057701B2 (en) 2015-03-31 2018-08-21 Bose Corporation Method of manufacturing a loudspeaker
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US2775309A (en) * 1954-03-15 1956-12-25 Acoustic Res Inc Sound translating devices
DE1084764B (de) * 1956-03-08 1960-07-07 Betr Slaboratorium Fuer Rundfu Lautsprecheranordnung mit Hoch- und Tieftonstrahler
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US2775309A (en) * 1954-03-15 1956-12-25 Acoustic Res Inc Sound translating devices
DE1084764B (de) * 1956-03-08 1960-07-07 Betr Slaboratorium Fuer Rundfu Lautsprecheranordnung mit Hoch- und Tieftonstrahler
US3393766A (en) * 1966-05-18 1968-07-23 American District Telegraph Co Speaker system

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US3882962A (en) * 1973-10-03 1975-05-13 Warren Ripple Loudspeaker equipment
US4501934A (en) * 1983-07-18 1985-02-26 W2 Vehicle Design And Development Loudspeaker system
USD319446S (en) 1989-03-18 1991-08-27 Yamaha Corporation Loudspeaker
US5286928A (en) * 1993-04-12 1994-02-15 Borland Nathan J Tunable speaker tube
US6385324B1 (en) * 1997-03-17 2002-05-07 Sorus Audio Ag Broadband loudspeaker
US20100092019A1 (en) * 1998-09-03 2010-04-15 Jeffrey Hoefler Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
US7623670B2 (en) 1998-09-03 2009-11-24 Jeffrey Hoefler Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
US20050036642A1 (en) * 1998-09-03 2005-02-17 Bose Corporation Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
US6771787B1 (en) * 1998-09-03 2004-08-03 Bose Corporation Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
US8351629B2 (en) 2008-02-21 2013-01-08 Robert Preston Parker Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
US20110037906A1 (en) * 2008-02-21 2011-02-17 Gawronski Brian J Low frequency enclosure for video display devices
US8295526B2 (en) 2008-02-21 2012-10-23 Bose Corporation Low frequency enclosure for video display devices
US20090214066A1 (en) * 2008-02-21 2009-08-27 Bose Corporation Waveguide electroacoustical transducing
US20090274329A1 (en) * 2008-05-02 2009-11-05 Ickler Christopher B Passive Directional Acoustical Radiating
US8351630B2 (en) 2008-05-02 2013-01-08 Bose Corporation Passive directional acoustical radiating
US20110216924A1 (en) * 2010-03-03 2011-09-08 William Berardi Multi-element directional acoustic arrays
US8265310B2 (en) 2010-03-03 2012-09-11 Bose Corporation Multi-element directional acoustic arrays
US8553894B2 (en) 2010-08-12 2013-10-08 Bose Corporation Active and passive directional acoustic radiating
US9451355B1 (en) 2015-03-31 2016-09-20 Bose Corporation Directional acoustic device
US10057701B2 (en) 2015-03-31 2018-08-21 Bose Corporation Method of manufacturing a loudspeaker
US11128941B1 (en) * 2018-11-20 2021-09-21 Edward G. Blemel Method for passive dissipation of deconstructive harmonics during audio amplification and reproduction

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