US3821492A - Electret transducer having two diaphragms - Google Patents

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US3821492A
US3821492A US00373816A US37381673A US3821492A US 3821492 A US3821492 A US 3821492A US 00373816 A US00373816 A US 00373816A US 37381673 A US37381673 A US 37381673A US 3821492 A US3821492 A US 3821492A
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M Tamura
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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
    • H04R19/00—Electrostatic transducers
    • H04R19/01—Electrostatic transducers characterised by the use of electrets
    • H04R19/013—Electrostatic transducers characterised by the use of electrets for loudspeakers
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    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R19/00—Electrostatic transducers
    • H04R19/02—Loudspeakers
    • 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

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  • the dynamic speaker has a construction wherein a subdiaphragm light in weight and small in size is mounted within a main diaphragm, and both diaphragms are driven by a single voice coil.
  • the low frequency range is reproduced by the main diaphragm
  • the frequency range higher than the reproducible frequency of the main diaphragm is reproduced by the sub-diaphragm.
  • Such speakers for example as disclosed in Japanese Pat. No. 236,903, are called mechanical two way speakers, and they are easy to use as they do not need dividers, but they are restricted in a dynamic type and cannot be realized in an electrostatic type.
  • the main object of this invention to provide an electrostatic electroacoustic transducer wherein excellent frequency characteristics are obtained by dividing a vibrating film into two portions, one of a high frequency range and the other for a low frequency range.
  • .It is a further object of this invention to provide an electrostatic electroacoustic transducer which is excellent for mass production and is inexpensive to manufacture.
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line 11-11 of FIG. 11, wherein the parts shown in FIG. 11 are joined together.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the embodiment of the present invention wherein the back electrode and vibrating film shown in FIG. 2 are connected to an alternating signal source.
  • a back electrode 111 is a plate made of aluminum, electroconductive plastics or the like and having many holes for passing acoustic radiation.
  • a gasket 12 is made of an elastic material, for example, polyethylene, polyurethane or the like, which has many independent foams therein.
  • An electret 13 comprises a mixture of parts by weight of a polyvinylidenfluoride resin and 30 parts by weight of a polymethyl metacrylate resin, and has many holes for passing acoustic radiation which holes correspond respectively with the holes of the back electrode 111.
  • a vibrating film 1141 of about from 5 to 15 microns in thickness is spread comparatively loosely onto the upper face of an outer portion of a frame M.
  • a vibrating film 1151 of about from 1 to 10 microns in thickness is spread comparatively tightly onto the lower face of an inner portion of a frame 15.
  • the vibrating film 1141 responds mainly to signals in a low frequency range and is composed of, for example, copolymer of vinylidenchloride and vinyl-chloride (bearing the trademark of Klewrap) or polyethylene-terephthalate (bearing the trademark of Mylar), and one face or both faces of the film are made electroconductive.
  • the vibrating film 151 responds mainly to signals in a higher frequency range and is composed of, for example, polyethylene-terephthalate (bearing the trademark of Mylar), polypropylene, metallic foil of aluminum, titanium or the like, and one face or both faces of the film are made electroconductive like the film Ml.
  • An electret 116, a gasket 17 and a back electrode 18 correspond to the electret 13, the gasket 12 and the back electrode 111, respectively, in construction, and corresponding parts are composed of the same material.
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the diametric line II-II of FIG. 1 and shows all the parts joined together.
  • the space between the vibrating film 1141 and both electrets 13 and 16 is about two or three hundred microns.
  • the thickness of both vibrating films 1411 and E511 is very small compared to these spaces; therefore, both vibrating films may be regarded as existing in one plane surface at the center of both electrets l3 and 116, as shown in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 3 there is shown one embodiment of the manner in which the alternating signal is applied to the speaker.
  • the electrets 13 and 116 are charged before hand to the polarities shown in FIG. 3; therefore, the vibrating films M11 and 1511 are charged, in the absence of an input signal, to the polarities also as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the vibrating films MI and 1151 are electrically connected to each other.
  • the back electrodes 11 and 18 are connected to one terminal of the secondary winding of a step-up transformer 19, and the vibrating films 141i and 151 are connected to the other terminal of the secondary winding of the step-up transformer 19.
  • the back electrodes Ill and 18 are simultaneously charged with the same charge, thereby decreasing the surface charge of one electret, which was previously charged, and increasing the surface charge of the other electret. This process is alternately repeated, whereby the films 141 and 151 are vibrated.
  • the vibrating film 141 is comparatively thick and is spread slightly loosely; therefore, this film vibrates well in the low frequency range but not well in the high frequency range.
  • the vibrating film 1151 is comparatively thin and is spread slightly tightly, therefore, this film vibrates well in the high frequency range but not well in the low frequency range.
  • the present invention provides many improvements over prior art devices. That is, first, a vibrating film is divided into two portions, one for the low frequency range and the other is for the high frequency range; therefore, good frequency characteristics can be obtained easily in each frequency range, and frequency characteristics are excellent in all frequency ranges. Second, in case this transducer is used as a speaker, it is not necessary to provide a dividing network to divide an input signal into high and low frequency ranges, and the transformer may be simple in construction, light in weight and inexpensive to produce. Third, the frames 14 and 15 may be identical to each other, and only the vibrating films are spread differently, one loosely and one tightly; therefore, a two way transducer may be easily obtained with increasing the number of parts.
  • the vibrating films 141 and 151 can be spread in the same plane surface, whereby a two way transducer can be constructed with almost the same thickness as a one way transducer.
  • the structure of this invention may be applied in a general electrostatic electroacoustic transducer which does not use any electrets. Further, the structure of this invention may be applied not only in a push-pull type but also in a single type transducer.
  • An electrostatic electroacoustic transducer comprising in a sandwich the following elements in a vertical stack:
  • both of the films have a circular shape, said first film having a smaller diameter than said second film, said second film being in the form of an annulus having a central circular aperture with a diameter at least as great as the diameter of said first film, the first film being in the form of a disc and vertically aligned with the central aperture in the second film, whereby said films are non-overlapping.

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US3980838A (en) * 1974-02-20 1976-09-14 Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. Plural electret electroacoustic transducer
US4207442A (en) * 1978-05-15 1980-06-10 Freeman Miller L Driver circuit for electrostatic transducers
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US3894243A (en) * 1974-06-06 1975-07-08 Us Navy Polymeric transducer array
US3970862A (en) * 1974-06-25 1976-07-20 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy Polymeric sensor of vibration and dynamic pressure
US4246448A (en) * 1975-07-08 1981-01-20 Uniroyal Ltd. Electromechanical transducer
US4379951A (en) * 1977-04-20 1983-04-12 Gabr Saad Z M Electro-acoustic transducer means
US4286122A (en) * 1978-03-13 1981-08-25 U.S. Philips Corporation Acoustic electrical conversion device with at least one capacitor electret element connected to an electronic circuit
US4207442A (en) * 1978-05-15 1980-06-10 Freeman Miller L Driver circuit for electrostatic transducers
US4504703A (en) * 1981-06-01 1985-03-12 Asulab S.A. Electro-acoustic transducer
US4872148A (en) * 1984-03-08 1989-10-03 Polaroid Corporation Ultrasonic transducer for use in a corrosive/abrasive environment
US5054081A (en) * 1985-04-02 1991-10-01 West Roger A Electrostatic transducer with improved bass response utilizing disturbed bass resonance energy
US4924504A (en) * 1987-06-18 1990-05-08 Highwood Audio Inc. Audio speaker
US20060082158A1 (en) * 2004-10-15 2006-04-20 Schrader Jeffrey L Method and device for supplying power from acoustic energy
US20090279729A1 (en) * 2008-05-08 2009-11-12 Jetvox Acoustic Corp. Dual-frequency coaxial earphones
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