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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165333 | Modular speaker system A modular speaker system includes a base assembly having a longitudinally extending, central support member and a support leg extending therefrom in a manner supporting the central support member in a generally upright configuration. The central support member inclu... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8073176 | Speakerbar The present invention introduces a speakerbar which mounts above or below a flat screen TV and reproduces the surround sound experience normally associated with speakers placed in five to seven separate locations around the room. This particular invention eff... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7983436 | Baffle vibration reducing An apparatus for reducing baffle vibration includes a baffle that is subject to vibration. A first transducer that is seated in the baffle includes a first diaphragm that is acoustically coupled to a listening area in a vehicle and also acoustically coupled to a cav... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970158 | Sound system A long and narrow loudspeaker on an entire wall gives off a cylindrical wave, which covers the entire room. Extra loudspeakers fixed at an angle against the wall will be heard in another direction, producing angle stereo independent of where one is in the room. Elec... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7936891 | Line array electroacoustical transducing A line array loudspeaker, including a first plurality of acoustic drivers each acoustic driver comprising an axis, the first plurality of acoustic drivers arranged so that the axes of first plurality of acoustic drivers are coplanar in a first plane and so that a st... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7848534 | Sound system, method for controlling the sound system, and sound equipment In each sound unit, when connection with another sound unit is detected, an input control signal is supplied to a control section and then supplied to the adjoining sound unit. Input clock signal is supplied to a PLL section, and an output clock signal from the PLL ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7835536 | Electro-acoustic transducer with multi-faced diaphragm assembly One mode of the present invention provides an electroacoustic transducer composed of a multifaced diaphragm assembly and a multifaced speaker housing assembly that is housed inside the multifaced diaphragm assembly. The multifaced speaker housing is configured by co... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7764806 | Speaker set with acoustically vented enclosures A speaker set (10) includes an enclosure (11) extending two spaced supporting portions (118) from a bottom side thereof for contacting with a supporting member (20); a woofer (12), two mid-frequency speakers (13), and two tw... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7706558 | Automated system for adjusting line array speakers The invention relates to an automated system for adjusting line array speakers. The automated system includes a system for moving two or more speakers with a moving device. Additionally, moving two linear actuators essentially simultaneously; a bracket to attach to ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7606383 | Curved line array loudspeaker A loudspeaker system consisting of a plurality of direct-radiating electro-acoustical drivers arrayed along a curved line. While in one embodiment the curved line array may be a spiral array, in another embodiment it may be any curved line array (such as an arcuate ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606384 | Spiral line array loudspeaker A loudspeaker system consisting of a plurality of direct-radiating electro-acoustical drivers arrayed along a spiral line. The acoustical drivers may be directly coupled to an acoustical waveguide without use of adapters or a throat section. The waveguide and the ac... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7496207 | Cabinet for audio devices The present invention is related to a cabinet for consumer electronic devices equipped with loudspeakers. Examples for such devices are audio equipment like CD players, tape recorders, radios, and television receivers. In particular, the invention is related to devi... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7480389 | Sound direction system This invention provides a sound source system capable of producing a desired coverage pattern with high SPL that may be steered towards a desired listening area. The sound source system may provide an array of sound sources where the coverage pattern and SPL may dep... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7454029 | Loudspeaker array A loudspeaker array comprising line sources, each of which comprises a curved one dimensional array of loudspeakers. The loudspeakers have horizontal dispersion angles of less than 60°. Adjacent pairs of loudspeakers of each line source are time-aligned in a direct... | 11/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7415124 | Low frequency surface array A low-frequency loudspeaker system based on a dipole principle. In some implementations, the system includes an open frame rigging system and multiple subwoofers mounted in a dipole surface array configuration in the open frame rigging system to produce controlled s... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409071 | Large-diameter arcuate speaker In an arcuate array of speakers (100) the wind component of air motion near each speaker is converted into sound because the wind is trapped within the arc, and therefore the bass response is improved. The array acts like a single large speaker, of diameter e... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7367423 | Speaker assembly with aiming device A speaker assembly aimable relative to a remote target. The speaker assembly comprising a sound generating device configured to project sound in a sound pattern about a sound axis. A speaker aiming device is coupled to the sound generating device for use in visually... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360626 | Audio speaker with wobble free voice coil movement A speaker that is designed to substantially eliminate wobble of the voice coil during operation, and thus remove that source of distortion and early failure of the speaker. This is accomplished with the creation of triangular ring that extends upward from the top ed... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353907 | Speaker enclosure for a wall mounted speaker system A process and kit is provided for retro-installing a speaker enclosure for a wall mounted speaker. The process includes mounting a selected speaker surround member in a building wall between the front and back wall surfaces and between the wall studs and around the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346315 | Handheld device loudspeaker system Loudspeaker systems for handheld devices (2400, 2500) such as cellular telephones (100, 1400, 1600, 1900) are provided. The loudspeaker systems include at least one omnidirectional monopole loudspeaker (404, 1504, 1802, 1918, 1920) and at least ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343018 | System of sound transducers with controllable directional properties The invention relates to loudspeaker systems or loudspeaker columns as used in public address systems and at (pop) concerts. Such systems heretofore possess a frequency-dependent coverage angle and strong second and third order side lobes. The invention describes fo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7329933 | Silicon microphone with softly constrained diaphragm A microphone sensing element and a method for making the same are disclosed. The sensing element has a diaphragm and an attached electrical lead-out arm preferably made of polysilicon that are separated by an air gap from an underlying backplate region created on a ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7319767 | Line array electroacoustical transducing A line array electroacoustical transducing system includes at least first and second line arrays detachably secured in electrical and mechanical coupling relationships. The assembly may be detachably secured to a base having an amplifier in electrical and mechanical... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319766 | In-wall loudspeaker An improved in-wall speaker assembly providing better performance and less intrusion than prior art speakers. The speaker assembly is oriented such that the driver fires vertically, parallel to the wall studs, rather than horizontally and perpendicular to the wall s... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7298860 | Rigging system for line array speakers The invention provides a system for enabling the assembly and suspension of a plurality of loudspeakers in a line array where the splay angle between the adjacent speakers can be adjusted and rigidly maintained. The line array system utilizes rigging frames that all... | 11/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7284256 | Method and system to maintain relative statistics for creating automatically a list of favorites A method and system are disclosed in which a tuning event is detected. Relative statistics are maintained on one or more items related to the tuning event. A list of favorites is created automatically based on the maintained relative statistics. By using relative st... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275621 | Skew horn for a loudspeaker A horn including a substantially flat coupling flange defining a coupling flange plane, a substantially planar mouth defining a mouth plane, an elongated throat extending between the coupling flange and the mouth, a transducer for generating a sonic output operation... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270215 | Loudspeaker enclosure with damping material laminated within internal shearing brace A loudspeaker cabinet with a laminated internal brace which has a first rigid layer coupled to a first exterior panel of the cabinet, a second rigid layer coupled to an a second exterior panel of the cabinet, and a damping layer affixed between the rigid layers wher... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269452 | Directional wireless communication systems A wireless communication system based on a directional speaker is disclosed. The system can include an interface unit and a base unit. The audio signals from the speaker can be generated by transforming ultrasonic signals in air. This allows the production of direct... | 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 |
| 7260235 | Line electroacoustical transducing A line array loudspeaker system including a large number of small, regularly and closely spaced acoustical drivers. Each of the acoustical drivers receives essentially the same audio signal. In another embodiment, a line array includes a plurality of portable line a... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254248 | One-magnet rectangular transducer An electroacoustic transducer comprising a magnetic circuit of a magnetically conductive material with a pair of opposed surfaces defining a gap there between, the magnetic circuit comprising one magnet. The magnet can either be positioned in the center of the magne... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237648 | Surround sound positioning tower system and method A surround sound system and method involving a surround sound tower (10) having planar speakers (11b); a base plate (20); and a structure for positioning (30) the surround sound tower on the base plate (20), the surround sou... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225895 | Audio speaker with wobble free voice coil movement A speaker that is designed to substantially eliminate wobble of the voice coil during operation, and thus remove that source of distortion and early failure of the speaker. This is accomplished with the creation of triangular ring that extends upward from the top ed... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218746 | Retractable spa speaker system A spa speaker system is disclosed having a housing with a speaker mounted within it. The housing is movably mounted to a track with the housing extendible and retractable from the top of the track. A spring is arranged to urge the housing to extend from the top of t... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215788 | Digital loudspeaker A digital pulse-width-modulation (PWM) generator comprising: an n bit digital magnitude comparator having first and second n bit inputs and an output indicative of the relative values of the signals applied at the first and second inputs; a first n bit digital up/do... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212644 | Resonant frequency adjustment using tunable damping rods A mechanical device is tuned using a tunable damping rod. The tunable damping rod can have its tension increased between its respective engines, to in order to increase the resonant frequency of the mechanical device. Different aspects may also be included; the mech... | 05/01/2007 |
