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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6981570 | Loudspeaker system with common low and high frequency horn mounting The invention relates generally to the field of audio loudspeaker enclosures, and more particularly to a method of mounting the internal components in the loudspeaker so as to control the loudspeaker output. Specifically a mounting structure and method for mounting ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6966617 | Attachable frame for flat display panels An attachable frame for flat display panels includes a flat display panel, a main structure, a bracing structure, a front frame and a rear frame. The main structure and the bracing structure provide bracing and steady support for the entire body. The front frame and... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6955241 | Speaker unit for low frequency reproduction The invention provides a speaker unit for low frequency reproduction wherein distortion is reduced and the orientation of a sound image of the lower side frequency region is augmented. To that end, the phase characteristic in an actually used frequency band is made ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952874 | Two-stage phasing plug system in a compression driver This invention provides a two-stage phasing plug located within a compression driver. The two-stage phasing plug housed within the compression driver may be coupled to a horn. The two-stage phasing plug includes first and second phasing plugs. The advantages of havi... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6771787 | Waveguide electroacoustical transducing A waveguide system for radiating sound waves. The system includes a low loss waveguide for transmitting sound waves, having walls are tapered so that said crosssectional area of the exit end is less than the cross-sectional area of the inlet end. In a second aspect ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6750758 | Remotely controlled beeper and method A collar-mounted animal training device includes a piezoelectric transducer device (6) attached to a mylar cone acoustic element mounted in a transducer housing (5) configured as a resonant sound port. The piezoelectric transducer is driven by circuitr... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6712177 | Cross-fired multiple horn loudspeaker system The invention relates to a horn loudspeaker system. The horn loudspeaker system includes a pair of vertically displaced horns with cross-fired aiming angles. A common throat section couples the horns to a driver. A substantially asymmetrical baffling is incorporated... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6650760 | Loudspeaker An upper base/low mid loudspeaker comprises a conical driver and a channel defined by a housing and a central member. The central member has a portion extending into the cone to form a first generally ring-shaped region whose cross-sectional area increase... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6647122 | Loudspeaker drive unit The present invention relates to a compound loudspeaker. In the loudspeaker, the L.F. drive unit has a curved flexible diaphragm whose shape is determined such that it optimally controls the directivity of the compound loudspeaker to produce matched direc... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6628796 | Axially propagating mid and high frequency loudspeaker systems A loudspeaker system of improved clarity, coherence and uniformity of energy distribution containing mid frequency sound chambers with an annular input and approximately rectangular output for use in multi-way co-axial horn loaded line array systems. The ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6621909 | Horn loudspeaker and loudspeaker systems A horn loudspeaker comprises: a horn (22) having a throat (26) and a mouth (30); a primary electro-acoustic driver (24) mounted at or adjacent the throat of the horn and directed generally along the horn; and at least one secondary electro-acoustic driver... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6581719 | Wave shaping sound chamber A loudspeaker system containing wave-shaping sound chambers with approximately rectangular inlets and outlets of substantially the same size that are used to flatten or control the curvature of the acoustic wavefronts contained within system waveguides. C... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6574344 | Directional horn speaker system A directional speaker system includes an enclosure having an inner surface, an outer surface, an open end, and a closed end, a speaker driver directed toward the open end and mounted near the closed end of the enclosure, an in-line phase plug mounted in f... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6557664 | Loudspeaker A loudspeaker is disclosed in which a cone driver operates into one end of an acoustic channel having acoustically closed sides and an acoustically open front. A longitudinally extended member is mounted directly in front of, and in alignment with, the dr... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6519348 | Speaker apparatus and television set A first feature of the present invention is that the opening of a sound output port 3b is smaller in area than the opening of a sound input port 3a in a horn 3. A second feature is that the sound output port 3b of the horn 3 is located so as not to be in ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6513622 | Full-range loudspeaker system for cinema screen A full-frequency-range cinema loudspeaker system intended or deployment in limited space behind a perforated cinema screen is configured as three modules: (1) a high-frequency module having a compression driver working into a horn-shaped waveguide that is... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6502662 | Speaker having a hemispherical vibrator A speaker includes a disk-shaped base. A substantially hemispherical surface vibrator is fitted into a substantially circular groove provided in the base and bonded therein. Terminals are attached to electrodes provided on both surfaces of the vibrator. T... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6466680 | High-frequency loudspeaker module for cinema screen A high-frequency cinema loudspeaker module for deployment behind a perforated cinema screen is configured with a waveguide to compensate for the beam-spreading effects of the perforated screen at the high end of the frequency range and to facilitate and c... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6411718 | Sound reproduction employing unity summation aperture loudspeakers The present invention relates to systems and methods for sound reproduction employing a unity summation aperture loudspeaker horn taking advantage of the frequency response of horn flare characteristics for positioning of audio drivers along the outer wal... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6394223 | Loudspeaker with differential energy distribution in vertical and horizontal planes A loudspeaker horn, loudspeaker and a loudspeaker system wherein at least one loudspeaker includes a horn composed of a waveguide, a plurality of throats acoustically coupled to a single waveguide at their mouths and to respective drivers of a plurality o... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6349792 | Sound enhancing speaking cabinet for a removable speaker assembly A sound enhancer for use with a speaker assembly having front and rear sides, comprising an enclosure forming first and second hollow portions, the enclosure defining a cradling zone to receive the speaker assembly in an angularly cradled position; the fi... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6343133 | Axially propagating mid and high frequency loudspeaker systems A loudspeaker system of improved clarity, coherence and uniformity of energy distribution containing mid frequency sound chambers with an annular input and approximately rectangular output for use in multi-way co-axial horn loaded line array systems. The ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6334505 | Optimum edges for speakers and musical instruments The invention presents a design of optimum edges for antennas of loudspeakers, microphones, hydro-speakers, hydro-phones, brass and wind instruments, and ultrasonic transducers. These edges have a serrated-roll shape, and enhance the acoustical field stre... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6125964 | Electric horn structure with the trumpet body and the resonator in one piece An electric horn structure with the trumpet body and resonator in one piece. The body is seamless and comprises a pipe section as the resonator and trumpet section, wherein the trumpet section further comprises an outward hook-shaped reinforced rim at the... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6116373 | Acoustic horns for loudspeakers An improved acoustic horn for loudspeakers is provided. The acoustic horn of the referred embodiment of the present invention includes a one piece body that incorporates damping material within the body. Preferably, the one piece body is slotted and vibra... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6118883 | System for controlling low frequency acoustical directivity patterns and minimizing directivity discontinuities during frequency transitions An improved loudspeaker system which increases low frequency directivity and minimizes directivity discontinuities during frequency transitions includes a first low frequency transducer, a second low frequency transducer, a middle frequency transducer ass... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6112847 | Loudspeaker with differentiated energy distribution in vertical and horizontal planes A loudspeaker horn, loudspeaker and a loudspeaker system wherein at least one loudspeaker includes a horn composed of a wave guide, a plurality of throats acoustically coupled to a single wave guide at their mouths and to respective drivers of a plurality... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6095279 | Loudspeaker system A loudspeaker system including at least one enclosure incorporating a wave guide having a curved input slot through which sound waves generated from an acoustic transducer are introduced by way of an acoustic chamber and wherein the curvature of the slot ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6094495 | Horn-type loudspeaker system An improved horn-type loudspeaker system for reproducing an acoustical signal from a corresponding electrical signal includes transducer assembly, an acoustical transformer and an output horn assembly. The transducer assembly includes an inner driver cone... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6079514 | Acoustic horn transducer with a conic type diffuser having and exponential profile in wood An acoustic horn transducer with a conic type diffuser has an exponential profile. The diffuser is formed from wood and has an axial length less than its maximum outer diameter.... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6069844 | Acoustic annunciator for audio tracking collars An acoustic annunciator which includes resonating cavity, a piezoelectric element, and a folded horn which are each selected to have a different resonance frequency so as to expand the frequency range of the output of the annunciator. The folded horn incl... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6062338 | Loud speaker enclosure A speaker enclosure for controlling an air pressure differential across a front and rear portion of a speaker cone comprising an enclosed rear chamber in communication with a primary channel having a constant cross-section, the primary channel in open com... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6064745 | Compression driver phase plug A phase plug for a horn loaded speaker has a frustro-conical body with a spherical entrance end and a planer outlet end. The plug is formed with radial channels. The entrance of the phase plug and the speaker diaphragm are conformal and the channels have ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6059069 | Loudspeaker waveguide design A loudspeaker horn has straight wall section and a curved wall section. The straight wall section has diverging walls defining a coverage angle and the curved wall portion is connected to the straight wall portion at a point tangent thereto, and has a pro... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6055320 | Directional horn speaker system A directional speaker system includes an enclosure having an inner surface, an outer surface, an open end, and a closed end, a speaker driver directed toward the open end and mounted near the closed end of the enclosure, an in-line phase plug mounted in f... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6038326 | Loudspeaker and horn with an additional transducer A loudspeaker includes a compresion chamber, a first electroacoustic transducer and a horn. The first electroacoustic transducer is disposed inside the compression chamber. The horn is mechanically and acoustically coupled to the first electroacoustic tra... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6035051 | Sound apparatus A sound apparatus capable of obtaining a clear sound (audio image) irrespective of a position of a speaker portion to be provided in the sound apparatus. The sound apparatus includes a speaker portion and a plurality of sound guides each of which has one ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6028947 | Lightweight molded waveguide device with support infrastructure The present invention is a waveguide device having a body of molded, foam plastic with a speaker end and an open end and an even number of segments with a flat surface in a plane parallel to the speaker end. The segments have inside wall surfaces which fl... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6026928 | Apparatus and method for reduced distortion loudspeakers Method and apparatus applied to loudspeakers of the type having an electrically driven diaphragm in an acoustic housing to reduce distortion from two sources. 1. Loss of high frequencies when sound from different regions of the diaphragm travel paths of d... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6016353 | Large scale sound reproduction system having cross-cabinet horizontal array of horn elements A loudspeaker system having a cross-cabinet horizontal array of loudspeakers for collectively generating a common acoustical wavefront when respective drivers associated with each of the loudspeakers of the array are similarly driven. The loudspeakers are... | 01/18/2000 |
