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Acoustic apparatus

Patent 5191616 Issued on March 2, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject December 27, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 634606 filed on 12/27/1990

US Classes:

381/98, INCLUDING FREQUENCY CONTROL381/96, LOUDSPEAKER FEEDBACK381/121Feedback

Examiners

Primary: Dwyer, James L.
Assistant: Chiang, Jack

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0181608 EP. 11/12/1985
  • 47-1010 JP. 01/12/1972
  • 58-29295 JP. 02/12/1983
  • 233E204 JP. 10/12/1983
  • 0130007 JP 06/12/1987
  • 8610639 NL 01/12/1988
  • 2072993 GB. 03/12/1980
  • 2181916 GB 04/12/1987

International Classes

H03G 005/00
H04R 003/00
H03F 021/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1989-12-29 JP

Abstract

An acoustic apparatus comprises a cabinet, and a loudspeaker unit having a pair of input terminal, a first and a second driving systems disposed in the cabinet. The acoustic apparatus is driven by an external power amplifier which normally constant-voltage-drives a conventional loudspeaker. The first driving system supplies the entire of a input driving signal to one input terminal of a loudspeaker unit and the second driving system supplies component signals of the input driving signal other than ones in the specific frequency band. As a result, driving systems drive the loudspeaker unit with the component signals of the input driving signal in the specific frequency band in cooperation with the external amplifier.

Other References

  • Electronics World+Wireless World, vol. 95, No. 1644, Oct. 1989, p. 1020, right-hand column, lines 1-37; "Constant-voltage loudspeaker crossover", Lidgey, John
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