Foam material sound absorption

Details Foam material sound absorption Foam material sound absorption

1984-09-13

1986-04-22

Van Balen, William J.

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Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond

181288, 181294, 428159, 428170, 428174, 4283044, 4283099, 4283166, 4283171, 4283186, G10K 116, E04B 182, B60R 1308, B32B 518

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045842329

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BRIEF SUMMARY
The construction and automobile industries are known to use insulation board from foam material for noise abatement. The sound-absorbing effect results from the thickness of the panel, its mass, increased preferably through embedded heavyweight layers. This way of sound absorption using foam material is thereby very expensive in terms of material , requires much volume, involves increased weight, and remains nevertheless relatively ineffective.
The problem underlying the invention is to show a way toward optimizing the ratio between material expense and sound absorption utilizing plastic foam materials. The invention does not choose the avenue of sound insulation, but that of sound absorption utilizing the not self-suggestive insight that such is possible with plastic foam materials.
This is accomplished through the teaching set forth in the main claim. The subclaims represent favorable advancements of the panel so used.
Using certain foam material panels for the first time according to the principle of the flow-optimized absorber, instead of sound insulation, the solution achieves a greater and even optimal sound absorption in the area of audible frequencies at minimum material expense and thus also minimum weight loading of the object being insulated. The sound absorption panel may have a uniform thickness between 1 and 10 mm. But areas of varying thickness, within this range, may occur also on one and the same foam material sound absorption panel. The same applies with regard to the homogeneity regarding a flow resistance value on one and the same panel and/or various panel areas. The corresponding bending strength value is optimal for the self-supporting property and the absorption behavior. It can be accomplished favorably in terms of manufacture, through an embedded grid which codetermines the flow resistance of the entire panel: This applies especially when using foam materials with a low inherent hardness, for manufacturing reasons. As the case may be, such a grid insert, may also be integrated in the hot-compacting of a heavier foam material panel, where the hot-compacting makes for the adjustment of the flow resistance value from 20 to 120 rayls. The adjustment of the flow resistance value can also be accomplished by skin formation on one broadside of the panel. Such skinning may be effected by customary calendering of one foam material broadside under pore reduction to the extent giving the respective flow resistance. But the resistance may also be obtained by applying on one panel broadside a cover foil which through its own porosity produces the respective flow resistance (together with the foam material and/or a grid insert). In the spacing arrangement of a so fabricated foam material sound insulation panel relative to the reflecting wall, the broadside with the skin will then be on the far side of the foam material sound insulation panel, from the sound-reflecting wall. An appropriate bearing edge of the entire panel guarantees a fool-proof, correct spacing relative to the sound-reflecting wall.
The object of the invention will be more fully explained hereafter with the aid of a pictorally illustrated embodiment.
FIG. 1 shows a bottom view of the inventional sound absorption panel as a shaped component adapted to an automotive engine hood;
FIG. 2, a side elevation of it;
FIG. 3, a section along lines III--III in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4, an enlargement of a cup type section, and at that, at approximately actual scale;
FIG. 5, a section along line V--V in FIG. 4.
The sound absorption panel S designed as a shaped component is composed of three layers. These are a bottom layer from compacted plastic foam-material, that is, the layer 1 facing the source of noise, and a corresponding layer 2 on the wall or hood side, i.e., facing the sound reflecting surface. Embedded between these two layers is a sound-transparent nonelastically bendable grid 3 as a third layer. This layer may be wire mesh or a grid from other materials. In the embodiment it is a fiberglass fabric with a thermally responding resin coating

REFERENCES:
patent: 3072582 (1963-01-01), Frost
patent: 4347276 (1982-08-01), Weber et al.

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