Acoustics – Sound-modifying means – Sound absorbing panels
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-15
2010-02-02
Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2832)
Acoustics
Sound-modifying means
Sound absorbing panels
Reexamination Certificate
active
07654364
ABSTRACT:
A sound absorbing structure having excellent in sound absorbing performance, which is capable of achieving 0.4 or higher in the sound absorbing coefficient even in the case where a perforated panel is a thin plate such as aluminum foil within a range where a reduction in the weight of a vehicle body is not impaired and through holes have a large hole diameter in order to make the processing of providing a large number of through holes in the perforated panel. The sound absorbing structure1is the sound absorbing structure1for suppressing noise generated on a sound source side, which is equipped with: a perforated panel2having a large number of through holes3and a fiber material4, which are provided so as to face the sound source side and provided so as to overlap with each other; and an air layer5provided behind the perforated panel2, in which the density and the thickness of the fiber material4and the hole diameter and the aperture rate of the through holes3of the perforated panel2severally have a specific relationship.
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Tanaka Toshimitsu
Tsubota Kensuke
Ueda Hiroki
Yamagiwa Ichiro
Yamaguchi Zenzo
A. Marquez, Esq. Juan Carlos
Donels Jeffrey
Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
Phillips Forrest M
Stites & Harbison PLLC
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