WO2001054450A2 - Transducer in particularly for use in acoustic devices - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to transducers, actuators or exciters, in particularly but not exclusively transducers for use in acoustic devices, e.g. loudspeakers and microphones .
- a number of transducer, exciter or actuator mechanisms have been developed to apply a force to a structure, e.g. an acoustic 'radiator of a loudspeaker.
- piezoelectric transducer mechanisms for example moving coil, moving magnet, piezoelectric or magnetostrictive types.
- electrodynamic. speakers using coil and magnet type transducers lose 99% of their input energy to heat whereas a piezoelectric transducer may lose as little as 1%.
- piezoelectric transducers are popular because of their high efficiency.
- piezoelectric transducers There are several problems with piezoelectric transducers, for example, they are inherently very stiff, for example comparable to brass foil, and are thus difficult to match to an acoustic radiator, especially to the air. Raising the stiffness of the transducer moves the fundamental resonant mode to a higher frequency. Thus such piezoelectric transducers may be considered to have two operating ranges.
- the first operating range is below the fundamental resonance of the transducer. This is the "stiffness controlled" range where velocity rises with frequency and the output response usually needs equalisation. This leads to a loss in available efficiency.
- the second range is the resonance range beyond the stiffness range, which is generally avoided because the resonances are rather fierce.
- piezoelectric transducers are generally used only used in the frequency range below or at the f ndamental resonance of the transducers . Where piezoelectric transducers are used above the fundamental resonance frequency it is necessary to apply damping to suppress resonance peaks .
- the problems associated with piezoelectric transducers similarly apply to transducers comprising other "smart" materials, i.e. magnetostrictive, electrostrictive, and electret type materials. It is known from EP 0993 231A of Shinsei Corporation to provide a sound generating device in which a driving device of an acoustic vibration plate is arranged between a speaker frame and the acoustic vibration plate.
- the driving device is comprised of a pair of piezoelectric vibration plates arranged facing each other across a certain distance.
- the outer peripheries of the piezoelectric vibration plates are connected to each other by an annular spacer.
- a drive signal is applied to the piezoelectric vibration plates, the piezoelectric vibration plates repeatedly undergo flexing motion wherein their centres flex alternately in opposite directions. At this time, the flexing directions of the piezoelectric vibration plates are always reverse to each other.
- EP 0881 856A of Shinsei Corporation to provide an acoustic piezoelectric vibrator and loudspeaker using the same, wherein an oscillation controlling piece of elastomer is attached to the periphery of a piezoelectric oscillation plate.
- the oscillation controlling piece is shaped so that a distance between an axis passing by a centre of the piezoelectric oscillation plate, which is perpendicular to a straight line connecting a centre of the piezoelectric oscillation plate to the centre of gravity of the oscillation controlling piece, and a mass centre line of the oscillation controlling piece varies along the axis, or so that a mass of each of sections of the oscillation controlling piece divided by a plurality of straight lines parallel to a straight line connecting a centre of the piezoelectric oscillation plate to the centre of gravity of the oscillation controlling piece varies along an axis which is perpendicular to the straight line and passes through the centre of the piezoelectric oscillation plate.
- a piezoelectric speaker comprising a piezoelectric vibrator for vibrating in a bending mode, which is supported at its longitudinal intermediate position by a support member, whereby first and second portions of the piezoelectric vibrator on both sides of the support member are respectively supported in a cantilever manner.
- the piezoelectric vibrator is connected at portions close to both ends thereof with a diaphragm by coupling members formed by wires, whereby bending vibration of the piezoelectric vibrator is transferred to the diaphragm thereby to drive the diaphragm.
- the position of the support member with respect to the piezoelectric vibrator is so selected that the resonance frequency of the first portion is smaller than the corresponding resonance frequency of the second portion, and the primary resonance frequency (fl) of the second portion is so selected as to be substantially at the centre value of the first resonance frequency (Fl) - and the second resonance frequency (F2) of the first portion on logarithmic coordinates.
- US 4,401,857 of Sanyo Electric Co Limited discloses a piezoelectric cone-type speaker having a multiple structure in which a plurality of piezoelectric elements and speaker diaphragms individually coupled to them are coaxially or multi-axially arranged.
- a cushioning member is interposed between one diaphragm and another so that each element is isolated from the vibrations of another element .
- US 4,481,663 of Altec Corporation discloses a network for matching an electrical source of audio signals to a piezoceramic driver for a high frequency loudspeaker.
- the network consists of all of the elements of a bandpass filter network, but with the parallel combination of an inductor and a capacitor in the output stage of the filter replaced by an autotransformer or autoinductor which transforms the input impedance of the piezoceramic transducer into an equivalent parallel capacitance and resistance which, together with the inductance of the autotransformer, supply the load resistance for the filter and replace the capacitor and inductor omitted from the output stage of the bandpass network.
- An additional shunt resistor may be placed across the output of the autotransformer to obtain the desired effective load resistance at the input of the autotransformer.
- UK patent application GB2,166,022A of Sawafuj i discloses a piezoelectric speaker including a plurality of piezoelectric vibrating elements, each including a piezoelectric vibrating plate and a weight connected to near the point of centre of gravity thereof through a viscoelastic layer, and having the vibramotive force designed to be taken out of the outer edge thereof, which are connected at their peripheral ends to each other through connectors, one of said elements being connected at its peripheral edge directly to a cone type acoustic radiator to give thereto a vibramotive force mainly in a high-frequency portion, and the remaining elements adjacent thereto producing a vibramotive force adapted to share middle- and low- frequency portions for energization of said cone type acoustic radiator. It is an object of the present invention to produce an improved transducer.
- an electromechanical force transducer e.g. for applying a force which excites an acoustic radiator to produce an acoustic output, the transducer having an intended operative frequency range, comprising a resonant element having a frequency distribution of modes in the operative frequency range, and coupling means on the resonant element for mounting the transducer to a site to which force is to be applied.
- the transducer may thus be considered to be an intendedly modal transducer.
- the coupling means may be attached to the resonant element at a position which is beneficial for coupling modal activity of the resonant element to the site.
- the resonant element may be passive and may be coupled by connecting means to an active transducer element which may be a moving coil, a moving magnet, a piezoelectric, a magnetostrictive or an electret device.
- the connecting means may be attached to the resonant element at a position which is beneficial for enhancing modal activity in the resonant element.
- the passive resonant element may act as a near low loss, resistive mechanical load to the active element and may improve power transfer and mechanical matching of the active element to a diaphragm to which force is to be applied.
- the passive resonant element may act as a short term resonant store.
- the passive resonant element may have low natural resonant frequencies so that its modal behaviour is satisfactorily dense in the range where it performs its loading and matching action for the active element.
- One effect of the designed close coupling of an active element to such a resonant member is to blend the force produced by the transducer more evenly over the frequency range. This is achieved by cross coupling and control of extreme Q values and the result is a smoother frequency response, potentially better than simple piezo devices.
- the resonant ' element may be active and may be a piezoelectric, a magnetostrictive or an electret device.
- the piezoelectric active element may be pre-stressed, for example as described in US patent 5632841 or may be electrically prestressed or biased.
- the active element may be a bi-morph, a bi-morph with a central vane or substrate or a uni-morph.
- the active element may be fixed to a backing plate or shim which may be a thin metal sheet and may have a similar stiffness to that of the active element.
- the backing sheet is preferably larger than the active element.
- the backing sheet may have a diameter or width which is two, three or four times greater than a diameter or width of the active element.
- the parameters of the backing plate may be adjusted to enhance the modal density of the transducer.
- the parameters of the backing plate and the parameters of the active -e-lement may be cooperatively adjusted to enhance modal density.
- the resonant member may be perforate so as not to radiate undesired sound.
- the resonant member may have an acoustic aperture which is small to moderate acoustic radiation therefrom.
- the resonant member may be thus acoustically substantially inactive.
- the resonant member may contribute to the action of the assembly.
- the size of the coupling means may be small, i.e. may be comparable with the wavelength of waves in the operative frequency range. This may improve the acoustic coupling therefrom. This may also reduce the higher frequency aperture effect; the possible decrease in high frequency coupling or bending waves resulting from the are of the coupling.
- the area of the resonant member may be chosen to selectively limit the higher frequency coupling, for example to provide a filtering function.
- the parameters, e.g. aspect ratio, isotropy of bending stiffness, isotropy of thickness and geometry, of the resonant element may be selected to enhance the distribution of modes in the resonant element in the operative frequency range. Analysis, e.g. computer simulation using FEA or modelling, may be used to select the parameters .
- the distribution may be enhanced by ensuring a first mode of the active element is near to the lowest operating frequency of interest.
- the distribution may also be enhanced by ensuring a satisfactory, e.g. high, density of modes in the operative frequency range.
- the density of modes is preferably sufficient for the active element to provide an effective mean average force which is substantially constant with frequency. Good energy transfer may provide beneficial smoothing of modal resonances .
- the distribution of modes may be enhanced by distributing the resonant bending wave modes substantially evenly in frequency, i.e. to smooth peaks in the frequency response caused by "bunching" or clustering of the modes.
- a transducer may thus be known as a distributed mode transducer or DMT.
- the transducer may comprise a plurality of resonant elements each having a distribution of modes, the modes of the resonant elements being arranged to interleave in the operative frequency range and thus enhance the distribution of modes in the transducer as a whole device.
- the resonant elements preferably have different fundamental frequencies.
- the parameters, e.g. loading, geometry or bending stiffness of the resonant elements may be different.
- the resonant elements may be coupled together by connecting means in any convenient way, e.g. on generally stiff stubs, between the elements.
- the resonant elements are preferably coupled at coupling points which enhance the modality of the transducer and/or enhance the coupling at the site to which the force is to be applied.
- Parameters of the connecting means may be selected to enhance the modal distribution in the resonant element.
- the resonant elements may be arranged in a stack.
- the coupling points may be axially aligned.
- the resonant devices may be passive or active or combinations of passive and active devices to form a hybrid transducer.
- the resonant element may be plate-like or may be curved out of planar.
- a plate-like resonant element may be formed with slots or discontinuities to form a multi- resonant system.
- the resonant element may be in the shape of a beam, trapezoidal, hyperelliptical or may be generally disc shaped.
- the resonant element may be rectangular and may be curved out of the plane of the rectangle about an axis along the short axis of symmetry.
- Such a transducer of plain strip geometry is taught in US patent 5,632,841.
- the resonant element may be modal along two substantially normal axes, each axis having an associated fundamental frequency.
- the ratio of the two fundamental frequencies may be adjusted for best modal distribution, e.g. 9:7 (-1.286:1) .
- the arrangement of such modal transducer may be any of: a flat piezoelectric disc; a combination of at least two or preferably at least three flat piezoelectric discs; two coincident piezoelectric beams; a combination of multiple coincident piezoelectric beams; a curved piezoelectric plate; a combination of multiple curved piezoelectric plates or two coincident curved piezoelectric beams .
- the interleaving of the distribution of the modes in each resonant element may be enhanced by optimising the frequency ratio of the resonant elements, namely the ratio of the frequencies of each fundamental resonance of each resonant element.
- the parameter of each resonant element relative to one another may be altered to enhance the overall modal distribution of the transducer.
- the two beams may have a frequency ratio (i.e. ratio of fundamental frequency) of 1.27:1.
- the frequency ratio may be 1.315:1.147:1.
- the frequency ratio may be 1.1 +/- 0.02 to 1 to optimise high order modal density or may be 3.2 to 1 to optimise low order modal density.
- the frequency ratio may be 3.03:1.63:1 or may be 8.19:3.20:1.
- the transducer may be an inertial electromechanical force transducer.
- the transducer may be coupled to an acoustic radiator to excite the acoustic radiator to produce an acoustic output .
- a loudspeaker comprising an acoustic radiator and a modal transducer as defined above, the transducer being coupled via coupling means to the acoustic radiator to excite the acoustic radiator to produce an acoustic output.
- the parameters of the coupling means may be selected to enhance the distribution of modes in the resonant element in the operative frequency range.
- the coupling means may be vestigial, e.g. a controlled layer of adhesive.
- the coupling means may be positioned asymmetrically with respect to the acoustic radiator so that the transducer is coupled asymmetrically to the acoustic radiator.
- the asymmetry may be achieved in several ways, for example by adjusting the position or orientation of the transducer on the acoustic radiator with respect to axes of symmetry in the acoustic radiator or the transducer.
- the coupling means may form a line of attachment. Alternatively, the coupling means may form a point or small local area of attachment where the area of attachment is small in relation to the size of the resonant element .
- the coupling means may be in the form of a stub and have a small- diameter, e.g. 3 to 4 mm.
- the coupling means may be low mass.
- the coupling means may comprise more than one coupling point between the resonant element and the acoustic radiator.
- the coupling means may comprise a combination of points and/or lines of attachment. For example, two points or small local areas of attachment may be used, one positioned near centre and one positioned at the edge of the active element . This may be useful for plate-like transducers which are generally stiff and have high natural resonance frequencies.
- a single coupling point may be provided. This may provide the benefit, in the case of a multi-resonant element array, that the output of all the resonant elements is summed through the single coupling means so that it is not necessary for the output to be summed by the load, e.g. a loudspeaker radiator. Whereas such summing might be possible in a resonant panel radiator, this may not be true for a pistonic diaphragm.
- the coupling means may be chosen to be located at an anti-node on the resonant element and may be chosen to deliver a constant average force with frequency.
- the coupling means may be positioned away from the centre of the resonant element .
- the position and/or the orientation of the line of attachment may be chosen to optimise the modal density of the resonant element.
- the line of attachment is preferably not coincident with a line of symmetry of the resonant element.
- the line of attachment may be offset from the short axis of symmetry (or centre line) of the resonant element.
- the line of attachment may have an orientation which is not parallel to a symmetry axis of the acoustic radiator.
- the shape of the resonant element may be selected to provide an off-centre line of attachment which is generally at the centre of mass of the resonant element.
- One advantage of this embodiment is that the transducer is attached at its centre of mass and thus there is no inertial imbalance. This may be achieved by an asymmetric shaped resonant element which may be in the shape of a trapezium or trapezoid.
- the line of attachment may extend across the width of the resonant element.
- the area of the resonant element may be small relative to that of the acoustic radiator.
- the transducer may be used to drive any structure.
- the loudspeaker may be intendedly pistonic over at least part of its operating frequency range or may be a bending wave loudspeaker.
- the parameters of the acoustic radiator may be selected to enhance the distribution of modes in the resonant element in the operative frequency range .
- the loudspeaker may be a resonant bending wave mode loudspeaker having an acoustic radiator and a transducer fixed to the acoustic radiator for exciting resonant bending wave modes.
- Such a loudspeaker is described in International Patent Application WO97/09842 and other patent applications and publications, and may be referred to as a distributed mode loudspeaker.
- the acoustic radiator may be in the form of a panel .
- the panel may be flat and may be lightweight.
- the material of the acoustic radiator may be anisotropic or isotropic.
- the properties of the acoustic radiator may be chosen to distribute the resonant bending wave modes substantially evenly in frequency, i.e. to smooth peaks in the frequency response caused by "bunching" or clustering of the modes.
- the properties of the acoustic radiator may be chosen to distribute the lower frequency resonant bending wave modes substantially evenly in frequency.
- the lower frequency resonant bending wave modes are preferably the ten to twenty lowest frequency resonant bending wave modes of the acoustic radiator.
- the transducer location may be chosen to couple substantially evenly to the resonant bending wave modes in the acoustic radiator, in particular to lower frequency resonant bending wave modes.
- the transducer may be mounted at a location where the number of vibrationally active resonance anti-nodes in the acoustic radiator is relatively high and conversely the number of resonance nodes is relatively low. Any such location may be used, but the most convenient locations are the near-central locations between 38% to 62% along each of the length and width axes of the acoustic radiator, but off-centre. Specific or preferential locations are at 3/7,4/9 or 5/13 of the distance along the axes; a different ratio for the length axis and the width axis is preferred. Preferred is 4/9 length, 3/7 width of an isotropic panel having an aspect ratio of 1:1.13 or 1:1.41.
- the operative frequency range may be over a relatively broad frequency range and may be in the audio range and/or ultrasonic range.
- operation over a range greater than the range defined by a single dominant, natural resonance of the transducer may be achieved.
- the lowest frequency in the operative frequency range is preferably above a predetermined lower limit which is about the fundamental resonance of the transducer.
- the force may be taken from the centre of the beam, and may be matched to the mode shape in the acoustic radiator to which it is attached. In this way, the action and reaction may co-operate to give a constant output with frequency.
- the resonant element By connecting the resonant element to the acoustic radiator at an anti-node of the resonant element, the first resonance of the resonant element may appear to be a low impedance. In this way, the acoustic radiator should not amplify the resonance of the resonant element .
- a microphone comprising a member capable of supporting audio input and a modal transducer as defined above coupled to the member to provide an electrical output in response to incident acoustic energy.
- a bone conduction hearing aid comprising a modal actuator as defined above.
- a method of making a loudspeaker comprising a resonant acoustic radiator and a modal transducer as defined above, comprises the steps of analysing the mechanical impedances of the resonant elements and the acoustic radiator, selecting and/or adjusting the parameters of the radiator and/or the element to achieve the required modality of the resonant element and/or the radiator and to achieve a required power transfer between the element and the radiator .
- a method of making a loudspeaker comprising a resonant acoustic radiator and a transducer as defined above, comprises the steps of analysing and/or comparing the variation of velocity and force for a given modally actuated acoustic system, and selecting a combination of values of velocity and force to achieve a chosen power transfer.
- Figure 1 shows a schematic view of a panel-form loudspeaker embodying the present invention
- Figure la is a section perpendicular to line A-A of Figure 1 ;
- Figure 2 is a schematic plan view of the parameterised model of a transducer according to the present invention
- Figure 2a is a section perpendicular to the line of attachment of the transducer of Figure 2 ,-
- Figure 3 is a graph of cost against suspension length (%L) for the transducer of Figure 2 ;
- Figure 4 is a graph of cost against aspect ratio for the transducer of Figure 2 mounted at 44% along its length;
- Figure 5 is a graph of the FEA simulation of the frequency response for a panel-form loudspeaker of Figure 1 with a transducer mounted at 44% and 50% along its length;
- Figures 6a and 6b are schematic plan views of a transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- Figure 7 is a plot of the., cost function against" AR and TR for the transducer of Figures 6a and 6b;
- Figure 8 is a frequency response for a single piezoelectric beam transducer;
- Figure 9 shows a side view of a double beam transducer according to an embodiment of the invention
- Figure 10 is a graph showing the frequency response of the transducers of Figure 8 and Figure 9 ;
- Figure lid is a graph of cost against ratio of radii for a triple disc transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- Figure 12a is a side view of a multiple element transducer according to another aspect of the invention
- Figure 12b is a plan view of the transducer of Figure 12a;
- Figure 13 is a graph of cost function against aspect ratio for a transducer comprising two plates
- Figure 14 is a frequency response (sound pressure (dB) against frequency (Hz) ) for three transducers of different thickness mounted on a panel;
- Figure 15 is a frequency response (sound pressure (dB) against frequency (Hz) ) for a transducer according to the present invention mounted on three different panels;
- Figure 16 is a graph of force, velocity and power against varying load;
- Figure 17 is a frequency response for a transducer according to the present invention mounted on panel with/without added damping masses;
- Figure 18 is a side view of a transducer according to Figure 17;
- Figure 19 is a side view of a transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- Figure 20 is a plan view of the transducer of Figure 19;
- Figures 21a and 21b are respective side and plan views of a transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- Figure 22 is a side view of a transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- Figure 23 is a side view of an encapsulated transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- Figure 24 is a side view of a transducer according to the invention mounted on the cone of a pistonic loudspeaker, and
- Figures 25a and 25b are respective side and plan views of a transducer according to another aspect of the invention.
- BEST MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Figure 1 shows a panel -form loudspeaker (10) comprising an acoustic radiator in the form of a resonant panel (12) and a transducer (14) mounted on the panel (12) to excite bending-wave vibration in the panel (12) , e.g. as taught in WO97/09842.
- Resonant bending wave panel speakers as taught in WO97/09842 are known as DM or DML speakers.
- the transducer (14) is mounted off-centre on the panel on coupling means (16) at a position which is at 4/9 ths of the panel length and 3/7 ths of the panel width. This is an optimum position for applying a force to the panel as taught by WO 97/09842.
- the transducer (14) is a pre-stressed piezoelectric actuator of the type disclosed in US patent 5632841 (International patent application WO 96/31333) and produced by PAR Technologies Inc under the trade name NASDRIV. Thus the transducer (14) is an active resonant element .
- the transducer (14) is rectangular with out-of-plane curvature.
- the curvature of the transducer (14) means that the coupling means (16) is in the form of a line of attachment.
- the transducer (14) is attached to the panel (12) only along line A-A.
- the transducer is centrally mounted i.e. the line of attachment is half way along the length of the transducer along the short axis of symmetry of the transducer.
- the line of attachment is orientated
- the line of attachment is not parallel to the axes of symmetry of the panel .
- the panel size is set at 524.0mm by 462.0mm and to simplify the model, the panel material is chosen to be optimum for the panel size.
- the results of the modelling show that, for a centrally mounted
- FIG. 1 A parameterised model of a transducer in the form of an active resonant element is shown in Figure 2.
- the active resonant element is rectangular, of length 76 mm.
- Figure 2a illustrates the modelled transducer (14) mounted on a panel (12) along a non-central line of attachment.
- Figure 3 shows that optimum suspension point has the line of attachment at 43% to 44% along the length of the resonant element: the cost function (or measure of "badness") is minimised at this value; this corresponds to an estimate for the attachment point at 4/9 ths of the length. Furthermore, computer modelling showed this attachment point to be valid for a range of transducer widths. A second suspension point at 33% to 34% along the length of the resonant element also appears suitable.
- the optimum aspect ratio is 1.06 +/- 0.01 to 1 since the cost function is minimised at this value.
- panel (12) may be determined for an optimised transducer, namely one with aspect ratio 1.06:1 and attachment point
- Figures 6a and 6b show a second example, namely an asymmetrically shaped transducer (18) in the form of a resonant element having a trapezium shaped cross-section.
- the shape of a trapezium is controlled by two parameters, AR (aspect ratio) and TR (taper ratio) .
- AR and TR determine a third parameter, ⁇ , such that some constraint is satisfied - for example, equal mass either side of the line.
- a cost function (measure of "badness") was plotted for the results of 40 FEA runs with AR ranging from 0.9 to 1.25, and TR ranging from 0.1 to 0.5, with ⁇ constrained for equal mass. The transducer is thus mounted at the centre of mass. The results are tabulated below and are plotted in Figure 7 which shows the cost function against AR and TR.
- the optimised trapezoidal transducer was applied to the same panel model as in above, in order to find the best orientation.
- the panel size is set at 524.0mm by 462.0mm and the panel material is chosen to be optimum for the panel size.
- An alternative way of optimising the modality of a transducer is to use a transducer comprising two active elements e.g. two coincident piezoelectric beams.
- a beam has a set of modes, starting from a fundamental mode, which are defined by the geometry and the material properties of the beam. The modes are quite widely spaced and limit the fidelity of a loudspeaker using the transducer above resonance.
- a second beam with a distribution of modes which interleaved in frequency with the modal distribution of the first beam is selected.
- the overall output of the transducer may be optimised.
- the criterion for optimality is chosen to be appropriate to the task in hand. For example, if the pass-band for the two beam transducer is only up to the 2 nd order modes, it is not sensible to optimise the interleaving of the first ten modes, as this may prejudice the optimality of the first 3 or 4 modes .
- the first transducer was mounted on a small panel and the frequency response is plotted in Figure 8. There are strong outputs (38) at 830 Hz and 3880 Hz, with dips (40) at 1.6 kHz and 7.15 kHz. The frequencies of the resonances are lower than predicted, probably because of the difficulty in accurately predicting the mechanical properties of the piezoelectric material.
- the response has too many broad dips to be useable since there is a need to boost the output in the regions around the dips (40) .
- a beam with a complementary set of frequencies, namely a set which produce a frequency response with peaks where there are dips for the first transducer would be ideal .
- the two beams may be combined to form a double beam transducer (42) as shown in Figure 9.
- the transducer (42) comprises a first piezoelectric beam (43) on the back of which is mounted a second piezoelectric beam (51) by connecting means in the form of a stub (48) located at the centre of both beams.
- Each beam is a bi-morph.
- the first beam (43) comprises two layers (44,46) of different piezoelectric material and the second beam (51) comprises two layers (50,52).
- the poling directions of each layer of piezoelectric material are shown by arrows (49) .
- Each layer (44, 50) has an opposite poling direction to the other layer (46, 52) in the bi-morph.
- the first piezoelectric beam (44,46) is mounted on a structure (54), e.g. a bending-wave loudspeaker panel, by coupling means in the form of a stub (56) located at the centre of the first beam.
- the beams could be used on either side of a DML panel, possibly in different locations .
- the frequency in Figure 10 shows the difference between a transducer comprising a single beam (60) , and one comprising two beams used together (62) .
- the two beams are designed so that their individual modal distributions are interleaved to enhance the overall modality of the transducer.
- the two beams add together to produce a useable output over a frequency range of interest. Local narrow dips occur because of the interaction between the piezoelectric beams at their individual even order modes .
- the second beam may be chosen by using the ratio of the fundamental resonance of the two beams. If the materials and thicknesses are identical, then the ratio of frequencies is just the square of the ratio of lengths. If the higher fO (fundamental frequency) is simply placed half way between fO and fl of the other, larger beam, f3 of the smaller beam and f4 of the lower beam coincide.
- Figure 11a shows a graph of a cost function against ratio of frequency for two beams which shows that the ideal ratio is 1.27:1, namely where the cost function is minimised at point (58) .
- This ratio is equivalent to the "golden” aspect ratio (ratio of f02:f20) described in WO97/09482.
- the method of improving the modality of a transducer may be extended by using three piezoelectric beams in the transducer.
- Figure lib shows a section of a graph of a cost function against ratio of frequency for three beams. The ideal ratio is 1.315:1.147:1.
- the method of combining active elements may be extended to using piezoelectric discs.
- the ratio of sizes of the two discs depends upon how many modes are taken into consideration. For high order modal density, a ratio of fundamental frequencies of about 1.1 +/- 0.02 to 1 may give good results. For low order modal density (i.e. the first few or first five modes), a ratio of fundamental frequencies of about 3.2:1 is good. The first gap comes between the second and third modes of the larger disc.
- the parameter pairs ( ⁇ , ⁇ ) are (1.63, 3.03) and (3.20,
- Figure lid shows the results of FEA analysis plotting three different cost functions against ratio of radii.
- the three discs are coupled together although it is noted that analysing the three discs in isolation produces similar results.
- RSCD ratio of sum of central differences
- SRCD sum of the ratio of central differences
- SCR sum of central ratios
- FIG. 12a and 12b shows a multiple disc transducer (70) comprising two active piezoelectric elements (72) stacked with two passive resonant elements (74), e.g. thin metal plates so that the modes of the active and passive elements are interleaved.
- the elements are connected by connecting means in the form of stubs (78) located at the centre of each active and passive element.
- the elements are arranged concentrically. Each element has different dimensions with the smallest and largest discs located at the top and bottom of the stack, respectively.
- the transducer (70) is mounted on a load device (76), e.g. a panel, by coupling means in the form of a stub (78) located at the centre of the first passive device which is the largest disc.
- the method of improving the modality of a transducer may be extended to a transducer comprising two active elements in the form of piezoelectric plates. Two plates
- Figure 13 shows a graph of cost function against aspect ratio ( ⁇ ) and the optimal value (75) for ⁇ is
- the parameters of the object, e.g. panel, on which the transducer is mounted may be altered to match the modality of the transducer.
- Figures 14 and 15 show how the frequency response differs with thickness of the transducer and thickness of panel respectively.
- the active element is in the form of a piezoelectric beam.
- Figure 14 has three frequency responses (84) , (86) , (88) for a 177 micron, a 200 micron and a 150 micron beam respectively.
- Figure 15 has three frequency responses (90), (92), (94) for a 1.1mm, a -0.8mm and a 1.5mm thick panel respectively.
- Figures 14 and 15 show that the frequency response for a 1.1mm panel matches the frequency response for a 177 micron thick beam. Hence, the modality of a 1.1mm panel matches that of a 177 micron beam.
- a mean force and velocity may be estimated for any load or panel impedance.
- the maximum mechanical power is available when the product of the force and the velocity, is. at a maximum.
- the transducer may be used to drive any load and the optimal load value may be found by plotting the velocity (170) , the force (172) and the mechanical power (174) against load resistance as shown in Figure 16.
- the maximum power (176) occurs when the load resistance is approximately 12Ns/m; for a t lower load resistance, the velocity will increase and the force decrease, and for higher load resistance, the velocity will decrease and the force increase .
- Figure 17 shows the results of adding small masses
- a beam with two 2g masses is ideally matched since the frequency response (110) has less variation in the mid range (1kHz to 5kHz) than the frequency responses (108, 112) for no masses or 0.67g masses.
- the transducer (114) is an inertial electrodynamic moving coil exciter, e.g. as described in WO97/09842 having a voice coil forming an active element (115) and a passive resonant element in the form of a modal plate (118) .
- the active element (115) is mounted on the modal plate (118) and off-centre of the modal plate.
- the modal plate (118) is mounted on the panel (116) by a coupler (120) .
- the coupler is aligned with the axis (Z) of the active element but not with the axis (119) normal to the plane of the panel (116) .
- the active element is connected to an electrical signal input via electrical wires (122) .
- the modal plate (118) is perforate to reduce the acoustic radiation therefrom.
- the active element is located off-centre of the modal plate (118), for example, at the optimum mounting position, i.e. (3/7, 4/9).
- the transducer (114) is mounted off-centre on the panel (116) , also for example, at the optimum mounting position, i.e. (3/7, 4/9). The transducer (114) is thus not coincident with either of the two normal axes (X,Y) which are in the plane of the panel (116) .
- Figures 21a and 21b show a transducer (124) comprising an active piezoelectric resonant element which is mounted by coupling means (126) in the form of a stub to a panel (128) .
- Both the transducer (124) and the panel (128) have ratios of width to length of 1:1.13.
- the coupling means (126) is not aligned with any axes (130, X,Y,Z) of the transducer or the panel.
- the placement of the coupling means is located at the optimum position with off-centre with respect to both the transducer (124) and the panel (128) .
- FIG 22 shows a transducer (132) in the form of active piezoelectric resonant element in the form of a beam.
- the transducer (132) is coupled to a panel (134) by two coupling means (136) in the form of stubs. One stub is located towards an end (138) of the beam and the other stub is located towards the centre of the beam.
- Figure 23 shows a transducer (140) comprising two active resonant elements (142,143) coupled by connecting means (144) and an enclosure (148) which surrounds the connecting means (144) and the resonant elements (142) .
- the transducer is thus made shock and impact resistant .
- the enclosure is made of a low mechanical impedance rubber or comparable polymer so as not to impede the transducer operation. If the polymer is water resistant, the transducer (140) may be made waterproof.
- the upper resonant element (142) is larger than the lower resonant element (143) which is coupled to a panel (145) via a coupling means in the form of a stub.
- the stub is located at the centre of the lower resonant element (143) .
- the power couplings (150) for each active element extend from the enclosure to allow good audio attachment to a load device (not shown) .
- Figure 24 shows a transducer (152) according to the invention applying a force to a diaphragm for a pistonic loudspeaker.
- the diaphragm is in the shape of a cone
- the cone (154) having an apex to which the transducer is mounted.
- the cone (154) is supported in a baffle (156) by a resilient termination (158) .
- FIG. 25a and 25b shows a transducer (160) in the form of an plate-like active resonant element.
- the resonant element is formed with slots (162) which define fingers (164) and thus form a multi -resonant system.
- resonant element is mounted on a panel (168) by a coupling means in the form of a stub (166) .
- the present invention may be seen as the reciprocal of a distributed mode panel, e.g. as described in WO97/09842, in that the transducer is designed to be a distributed mode object. Moreover, the force from the
- transducer is taken from a point that would normally be used as the distributed mode drive point (e.g. optimum location (3/7,4/9) .
- the invention thus provides a transducer having an improved performance and a loudspeaker or microphone which uses the device.
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