Acoustics – Diaphragm and enclosure – With sound-absorbing means
Patent
1983-08-05
1986-06-24
Fuller, Benjamin R.
Acoustics
Diaphragm and enclosure
With sound-absorbing means
181199, H05K 500
Patent
active
045963053
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
When designing loudspeaker boxes the predominant design principle consists in the box being built as a rectangular parallelepiped with five plane walls and a front panel for mounting the loudspeaker element. This method of construction enables the use of standard materials such as plywood panels, chipboards etc. With this design every plane surface has a natural frequency and the vibration of the surface is mechanically linked to the vibrations of the other surfaces via the joints at the edges of the box, thus resulting in a complicated pattern of natural vibrations which are felt as noise vibrations if the natural vibrations become excessive. In order to reduce this problem it is possible to fit within the loudspeaker box a lattice system directly linking the surface vibrations to one another, and the natural vibration problem can be reduced by joining in this way surfaces with different natural frequencies. It is, however, difficult, by such means to prevent natural vibrations entirely without a loudspeaker box constructed in accordance with the above principle having the characteristic that certain sound frequencies are amplified more than others thus resulting in not entirely natural sound reproduction.
The invention is based on the idea that another method of avoiding undesirable natural vibrations consists in designing the peripheral surfaces of the box as far as possible as twin-curved surfaces with each surface having a continuously varied radius of curvature. A surface designed in this manner does not possess a natural frequency in its proper sense, at any rate within the range audible to a human being. A further improvement is achieved, if the inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the loudspeaker box are not at a constant distance from one another and are mechanically linked.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
FIG. 1 is a perspective plan view of one embodiment of the loudspeaker box of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a horizontal cross-sectional view of the loudspeaker box of FIG. 1 taken generally along the lines 2--2 of FIG. 1.
So as to achieve in addition to good accoustic characteristics low weight and high strength it is advantageous to design the loudspeaker box 2 as a shell construction, the space between the outer shell 4 and the inner shell 5, being filled with a light material such as foam plastic 6 which adheres well to the shell walls. As is depicted in FIG. 2, each shell has a continuously variable radius of curvature, so that the distance between the inner and outer shells is not constant. A loudspeaker box such as described above with the shells consisting of reinforced plastic, for instance glass or carbon fibre reinforced polyester or epoxy resin, where the space between the shells ensures good acoustic characteristics with resonance-free reproduction within the entire audible range while at the same time bringing about considerably higher strength and lower weight than with the conventional construction methods where use is made of plane solid walls. The foam plastic between the shells may be produced from different materials in accordance with substantially three different principles:
1. The material consists of a condensation polymerisate, with the secondary product produced in the course of condensation consisting of a gas which causes the material to foam. Example: Polyol-isocyanate compounds giving off carbon dioxide.
2. The material consists of an addition polymerisate to which a fermenting agent is added. Example: Polyester or epoxy resin containing fermenting agent.
3. The material consists of a so-called syntactic foam i.e. a polymerisate of addition type mixed with low-density micro-spheres. Example: Polyester or epoxy resin mixed with micro-balloons of glass.
4. The material consists of a combination of two or more of the above principles. Example: Polyurethane foam containing glass micro-balloons.
1. A loudspeaker box comprising an inner plastic shell and an outer plastic shell, said shells being twin-curved, said shells being maintained
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