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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157048 | Splash proof acoustically resistive color assembly An acoustically resistive protective cover assembly for an opening in a casing is provided, the casing separates an enclosed space from the ambient space and has an exposed face oriented toward the ambient space and an internal face oriented toward the internal spac... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8136626 | Mobile soundproof enclosure with changeable room geometry and optional ventilation noise cancelling device Mobile soundproof enclosure with changeable internal room shape and optional ventillation noise cancelling device consisting of a frame that can be assembled and disassembled by a single person without using tools and that in disassembled state is small enough to fi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8083023 | Drum booth and kit for its construction A booth for confining and acoustically isolating musical drum instruments and musicians therefor has a rear wall, front wall assembly having a number of plastic windows interconnected in a polygonal path, and a ceiling member. The windows are supported by pedestal b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8069946 | Portable sound recording device A portable sound recording device and method comprises a first enclosure having symmetrical halves and a second enclosure having symmetrical halves. The second enclosure is fitted inside the first enclosure such that neither enclosure has direct contact with each ot... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8028793 | Noise attenuating inserts for electronic equipment cabinets A noise attenuating method, and a system thereof, for controlling acoustical noise in an electronic equipment enclosure is disclosed. The noise attenuating system includes one or more noise attenuating inserts configured to be removably attached to the electronic eq... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8006800 | Storage box for electronic apparatus A box-shaped enclosure of a storage box includes a deadening wall or walls defining a storage space between first and second planes. The storage space is open at the first and second planes. A deadening wall member extends along the first plane. An auxiliary box-sha... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7958965 | Storage box for electronic apparatus A box-shaped enclosure of a storage box includes a deadening wall or walls defining a storage space between first and second planes. The storage space is open at the first and second planes. A deadening wall member extends along the first plane. An auxiliary box-sha... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7921960 | Acoustic cabinet The present invention is an acoustic cabinet for the storage of musical instruments. Acoustic cabinet can have a storage portion having a plurality of individual storage units contained therein. One or more grill doors can cover the open end of acoustic cabinet. The... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7905318 | Storage box for electronic apparatus A box-shaped enclosure of a storage box includes a deadening wall or walls defining a storage space between first and second planes. The storage space is open at the first and second planes. A deadening wall member extends along the first plane. An auxiliary box-sha... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7784584 | Device for reducing noise and heat emissions A device (10) for reducing noise and heat emissions from a laboratory instrument in a laboratory, comprising a casing (20) with sound-absorbing walls (240), wherein the casing (20) forms an interior space (210, 220) for accommodati... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7743880 | Sound absorbing structure A sound absorbing structure includes a housing having a front face, and a side face which is provided perpendicularly around at least a part of an edge portion of the front face; a gas adsorption material for physically adsorbing gas in an interior space delimited b... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7445082 | Noise suppressing device and installation structure of same A noise suppressing device attachable to a wall within a liquid container can lessen and absorb noise generated by a liquid as it moves within the container. The device has a main plate body with an upper plate surface and a lower plate surface, through holes extend... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441630 | Multi-driver speaker system A speaker unit includes first and second drivers carried by first and second enclosures. A first linkage supports the second driver enclosure relative to the first driver enclosure and provides at least two positional degrees of freedom of movement of the second dri... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7422088 | Blocking devices for hollow structures A blocking device for mounting within a space defined within a hollow structure includes a holder and an expandable member. The holder is adapted to be mounted within the space. The expandable member is supported on the holder and is expandable by heat to form a foa... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408842 | Sonar dome The Invention is a reinforced plastic sonar dome having a low acoustical insertion loss combined with sufficient mechanical strength. Acoustical and structural fibers are stochastically mixed and formed into a blended yarn. The blended yarn is woven into a blended f... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7379299 | Noiseproofed and ventilated enclosure for electronics equipment A system and method are disclosed for enclosing electronic equipment in a noiseproofed and ventilated enclosure. This includes supplying air to an enclosure and removing air from the enclosure through acoustic chambers attached to the enclosure. The acoustic chamber... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379298 | Noise proofed ventilated air intake chamber for electronics equipment enclosure A system and method are disclosed for enclosing electronic equipment in a noiseproofed and ventilated enclosure. This includes supplying air to an enclosure and removing air from the enclosure through acoustic chambers attached to the enclosure. The acoustic chamber... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7353909 | Acoustic fluid machine A piston is reciprocated axially at high speed at very small amplitude by an actuator in the larger-diameter base of an acoustic resonator. According to pressure fluctuation in the acoustic resonator involved by reciprocal motion of the piston, fluid is sucked into ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7328769 | Rigging system for loudspeaker arrays A rigging system for angularly adjusting the output portions of a plurality of loudspeaker cabinets wherein each of the cabinets includes a pair of rotatably adjustable rigging disks which protrude outwardly thereof which are selectively receivable within an adjacen... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325656 | Elevator installation with device for noise reduction An elevator installation includes an elevator car that moves in an elevator shaft with shaft doors and which car has at least one car apron arranged parallel to a plane of a shaft wall at a shaft door side. A device for reducing noises generated by the air flow aris... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320520 | Portable multimedia projection system A portable multimedia projection system includes a portable housing, a DVD player, a channel tuner, an image projection device, a controller and a remote control receiver. The image projection device externally projects images. The controller is electrically coupled... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7296653 | Sound control apparatus A sound controlling apparatus adapted for combination with a speaker unit, comprising a stand configured to support the speaker unit, a reflecting panel or panels associated with the stand to reflect sound waves transmitted by the speaker unit, a side panel or panel... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7267196 | Method and apparatus for reducing acoustic noise A squeeze film damper reduces acoustic wave transmission by the damping and spring forces produced by squeezing a very thin layer of air trapped between two vibrating plates. The damping effect is most pronounced when the gap between vibrating plates is very small, ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7261180 | Rigging system for speaker cabinets A rigging system includes a lever arm permitting all speakers supported by the speaker whose rigging is adjusted to be angularly reoriented to focus the system, even out the coverage and fine tune the coverage. Multiple pivot attachment points for the moment arm are... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255196 | Windshield and sound-barrier for seismic sensors A system and method for reducing acoustic, wind or other background noise that may interfere with sensing of a seismic signal is provided. More specifically, a shield is provided to enclose a geophone and thereby protect it from harmful noise. The shield may compris... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252175 | Speaker apparatus and manufacturing method of speaker apparatus A speaker apparatus is a bass-reflex type woofer used in a speaker system, and includes a body portion for housing a speaker unit and a bass-reflex port mounted and fixed in the body portion. Further, in the speaker apparatus, a protrusion for temporarily fastening ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237620 | Electric garden tiller An electric garden tiller is disclosed. The tiller is light weight, compact and easy to use. The tiller includes a two stage speed reduction transmission and an aluminum transmission housing. Connected to the transmission housing are a main housing and electric moto... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7161801 | Commutate silencer of computer system A commutate silencer of a computer system is described. The commutate silencer of the computer system is installed at the back end of the computer system, and comprises a shield device, a commutate device and at least one partition. The shield device comprises a fir... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159691 | Casing for leaf blower Conventional leaf blowers have a supporting frame to where the different components are attached. In order to reduce the noise from the tool and protect some of the components are they provided with covers. This makes the tool heavy and complicated for the operator ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7121380 | Soundproofing laminated window for vehicles A method of acoustically attenuating noises of structure-borne origin in an article of manufacture by installing a laminated window having a glass sheet and an intermediate film, where the film has a loss factor tan δ greater than 0.6 and a shear modulus G′ small... | 10/17/2006 |
| RE39330 | Speaker system and a method for improving sound quality thereof A speaker system suppresses standing waves generated in the system and reproduces clear and dynamic bass sound. The system includes a cabinet formed of acoustic insulation walls, and at least one partition wall situated inside the cabinet to form a space by surround... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7039210 | Briefcase or carrying case with integrated loudspeaker system Briefcase respectively carrying case for electronic devices or documents having a housing comprising a storage compartment arranged in the housing for storing at least one paper document, electronic device or object, at least one loudspeaker for reproduction of audi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033137 | Vortex blower having helmholtz resonators and a baffle assembly A blower includes a blower housing having a chamber, an impeller rotatably received in the chamber, the impeller having a plurality of blades; and at least one resonator ring associated with one of the blower housing and the impeller. The resonator ring provides a p... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7004726 | Fan for cooling a computer A fan assembly includes a fan mounted within a housing that features an inward concave arrangement for an inner face of its housing to reduce the distance between the housing and a center shaft of the fan blades. In this way, fan vibration and noise can be reduced. | 02/28/2006 |
| 6971474 | Air guiding element, especially an air guiding channel for a motor vehicle An air conduction element (1), particularly an air conduction channel for a motor vehicle, having a reverberant channel body (2) manufactured from plastic, which has at least one wall region replaced by a sound-absorbing component (10, 11), the ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6964318 | Portable information terminal device A portable information terminal device has a plurality of casings providing a front surface and a rear surface, respectively. The casings have walls defining spaces in which speakers are housed and thicker than walls thereof that define a space in which a component ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6957715 | Garden speaker A sound producing rock having a matching body and a cap such that the cap is supported above the body in a spaced relationship to give the illusion that the cap and body are a monolithic structure. The cap and body are produced by sawing the cap from the body. A cav... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6942060 | Portable information terminal device A portable information terminal device has a plurality of casings providing a front surface and a rear surface, respectively. The casings have walls defining spaces in which speakers are housed and thicker than walls thereof that define a space in which a component ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6932190 | Sound jacket for noise reduction in refrigeration apparatus An insulating jacket for refrigeration system component comprising a closed cell insulation layer comprising an inner and outer surface, an open cell foam layer comprising an inner and outer surface, the inner surface in contact with the outer surface of the closed ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6896095 | Fan shroud with built in noise reduction The present invention is a system and method to significantly reduce noise associated with air-moving devices such as an axial flow fan using a fan shroud and barrel combination with built in silencers such as Helmholtz resonators. The invention can be applied to a ... | 05/24/2005 |
