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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111869 | Speaker device A speaker device includes a damper allowing high linearity. The speaker device includes a vibration body including a damper and a voice coil bobbin (bobbin), and a magnetic circuit having a plate. The damper has a first member arranged opposite the plate, and a seco... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8094866 | Loudspeaker without extraneous cone forces due to air trapped behind the dust cover A loudspeaker in which the cone contains holes which allows the air behind the dust cover to flow freely in and out from behind the dust cover as the cone moves. There may also be a hole or holes in the lower suspension to allow air to escape from behind the lower s... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085970 | Speaker damper and speaker using the same Speaker damper (12) used in a speaker including frame (5), magnetic circuit (1) coupled to frame (5), voice coil unit (2) inserted into magnetic gap (8) provided in magnetic circuit (1), and diaphragm (3) coupl... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081791 | Loudspeaker A loudspeaker includes a frame, a magnetic circuit supported by the frame, voice coil body provided movably in relation to a magnetic gap provided at the magnetic circuit, a diaphragm having an outer rim being joined via a first edge to the frame and an inner rim be... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077902 | Planar flexible voice coil suspension A voice coil suspension system comprising a spider formed of flexible dielectric material defining a flexure portion configured to suspend a voice coil for axial displacement and an elongate connector portion for carrying flat electrical conductors for electrically ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7856115 | Optimized moving-coil loudspeaker An optimized moving-coil loudspeaker is described herein. The loudspeaker includes an acoustic-radiating diaphragm that is non-cylindrical shape. The diaphragm is a substantially-planar substrate having uniform density. A moving-coil assembly is coupled to the acous... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7840025 | Loudspeaker damper and method of mounting loudspeaker damper A loudspeaker damper including: an outer damper; and an inner damper; wherein the outer damper and the inner damper configured to damp a vibrating portion relative to a fixed portion of a loudspeaker, wherein the outer damper supports the outer periphery of a voice ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7760901 | Speaker device and manufacturing method thereof A speaker device includes a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system. The vibration system has a voice coil bobbin, a voice coil wound therearound, a damper, an annular member, a diaphragm and one additional annular member fixed to the voice coil via an adhesi... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7724913 | Composite damper for speaker A composite damper for a speaker comprises an inner ring surface material, an outer ring surface material, and a plurality of ribs connected between the inner ring surface material and the outer ring surface material. The inner ring surface material and the outer ri... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7505603 | Dynamic micro speaker with dual suspension The invention relates to a micro-speaker with a second suspension made of highly resilient material installed inside of the speaker. The speaker is able to provide high level acoustic output with low distortion rate in a wide frequency range with a very small and sl... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7438155 | Tangential stress reduction system in a loudspeaker suspension A speaker system is provided, including a suspension element having an outer edge and an inner edge. The suspension element, such as a spider or surround, varies in shape along at least a portion of the suspension element to help relieve both the radial and tangenti... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433485 | Shallow speaker A novel shallow speaker has a novel spidercone coaxial with and optionally having a radially inner spidercone flange suspended in a circumferential adhesive well affixed to the former. An inner rearward flange of the flat annular diaphragm is suspended in the circum... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7394913 | Speakers A voice coil bobbin coupled to a damper is allowed to vibrate in its axis direction within a magnetic circuit including a magnet and a plate supported by a yoke. A range extending between a neutral position of an end of the voice coil bobbin and a portion of the yok... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386144 | Inertial voice type coil actuator The present invention provides an intertial-type voice actuator that includes a magnetic flux conductive material core with a continuous channel. The channel has antifringing groove. The actuator employs a radially polarized cylindrical magnet spaced in the channel ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382892 | Evenly elastically deformable damper for speaker An evenly elastically deformable damper for speaker is disclosed to include a damper body of a plain weave fabric having elastic warp wires and weft wires intercrossed in X and Y directions and a center through hole cut through the top and bottom surfaces and bonded... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379558 | Loudspeaker with integrated spider standoff ring A loudspeaker is provided in which the outer diameter or foot of the spider is over molded with a standoff formed of a plastic material in an injection molding tool so that the spider and standoff form an integral unit. The standoff, in turn, is glued or otherwise a... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366318 | Suspension for the voice coil of a loudspeaker drive unit A suspension, for the voice coil of a loudspeaker drive unit, includes an inner ring to be connected to the voice coil of the loudspeaker drive unit; an outer ring to be connected to the chassis of the loudspeaker drive unit; and a plurality of radial spoke-like mem... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7346183 | Spider with lead wires sandwiched An annular spider with lead wires sandwiched is provided. The improved structure of the spider allows the lead wires to be sandwiched in between two surface linings. The annular spider that serves to have the voice coil held in concentric position is formed by a neg... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7324659 | Speaker and method of manufacturing the same A frame is provided with an opening allowing insertion of a jig for setting an inner rim of a suspension holder to a proper position. The jig ensures positive alignment of the suspension holder when making connection to the frame. The jig also ensures reliable bondi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7316289 | Electro-acoustic transducer and method of manufacturing transducer An electro-acoustic transducer includes a tone generator, a vibrator, and a case. The tone generator includes a diaphragm, and a voice coil joined to the diaphragm. The vibrator includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap at which the voice coil is positioned,... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305750 | Method of assembling a loudspeaker A loudspeaker and method of assembly according to this invention provides for precise alignment between the frame and motor structure before they are connected to one another, and employs a fixture to form the moving assembly of the speaker, i.e. the voice coil, upp... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302076 | Low profile speaker and system A speaker has a magnet structure mounted ahead of the speaker diaphragm to produce a shallow compact unit. The magnet structure defines a flux gap, and a voice coil residing in the flux gap is connected to a main diaphragm such that drive current applied to the voic... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292707 | Loudspeaker A loudspeaker has a diaphragm with an edge area and a central area. A voice coil carrier may be fastened to the diaphragm in the central area, a voice coil being wound around the voice coil carrier. A magnet system may be included into which the voice coil carrier a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289642 | Audio speaker An audio speaker has a T-yoke, a solenoid, a voice coil, a cone paper, a magnet, a gasket, a basket, a terminal, a damper and a wire. The T-yoke has a bottom disk and a pole formed on the bottom disk. The solenoid and the voice coil are mounted on the pole. The cone... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275620 | Square speaker A square speaker is disclosed having a novel surround with a novel rounded corner design and with a magnet assembly and former sized, shaped, and arranged to exploit the increased excursions enabled by the novel surround. The arcuate portion of the rounded corner fe... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274796 | Reinforced speaker damper A reinforced speaker damper includes a ring-shaped damper body made of woven fabric in the form of a mesh and press-molded to form a wavy cross-section having alternating ridges and troughs. A plurality of reinforces is attached to the damper body. Each reinforce in... | 09/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7269270 | Standing wave reducing The frequency at which standing waves occur in a loudspeaker enclosure may be reduced by the addition of an internal barrier to the enclosure in order to lengthen the effective length of an internal dimension of the enclosure. Additionally, the internal barrier may ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7242787 | Electromagnetic driving unit for a loudspeaker assembly An electromagnetic driving unit includes a magnet part and a coil part that is translatable along a translation axis with respect to the magnet part. A diaphragm extends from the coil part in a substantially radial direction with respect to the translation axis of t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233681 | Electromagnetic transducer with eccentrically mounted voice coil former An electromagnetic transducer such as an audio speaker which includes an asymmetric diaphragm to deliver smooth frequency response with reduced distortion by reduction of common modes in the diaphragm. Other benefits such as asymmetric directivity patterns can be re... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209570 | Speaker A high efficiency loudspeaker without a damper is provided. The loudspeaker includes magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap and a voice coil member, which has movable coil, disposed in the magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit. The loudspeaker also includes a diaphra... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201252 | Loudspeaker systems A loudspeaker system includes a loudspeaker drive unit (1) and a rear sound absorption system (20) having a multiplicity of tubes connected to the rear of the loudspeaker drive unit. In one example, the rear sound absorption system (20) comprise... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200240 | Loudspeaker spider with enhanced structure A spider with an enhanced structure is disclosed. The spider has a plurality of concentric corrugations each of which has a plurality of inflections so that the concentric corrugations have polygonal shapes. With this enhanced structure, a spider can have an improve... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197154 | Method and audio speaker with minimization of wobble of the voice coil Speaker design/method positively centering speaker components one with the other with a unique design of the surround and radiator. Surround has a main body extending radially through more than 180°, extending from the body there is a flat outer ring and a flat inn... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184567 | Thin speaker and method of manufacturing the speaker A thin speaker having a magnetic circuit (2) disposed at the front of a cone-like diaphragm, wherein an internal magnetic type magnetic circuit (2) and a vibration system are supported by a sufficiently strong frame formed of two pieces having an outli... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177440 | Electromagnetic transducer with asymmetric diaphragm An electromagnetic transducer such as an audio speaker which includes an asymmetric diaphragm to deliver smooth frequency response with reduced distortion by reduction of common modes in the diaphragm. Other benefits such as asymmetric directivity patterns can be re... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171015 | Speaker apparatus A speaker apparatus has a frame to which a convex paper is attached. A bobbin with a voice coil is attached to the paper cone. A magnetic circuit is formed inside the frame. A damper suspending the bobbin is composed of a corrugation portion, which is positioned ort... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167573 | Full range loudspeaker An edge-driven diaphragm loudspeaker driver is configured such that the suspension system of the driver is connected to the voice coil rather than to the diaphragm. Thus, the diaphragm in the loudspeaker is free of suspension systems connected to or extending from t... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7106881 | Speaker A speaker 300 is formed using a plate such as a mobile phone display window 310 as a vibrating element. At least two dynamic actuators 950 are positioned behind the edges of the window 310 to actuate the window 310 through its boun... | 09/12/2006 |
