Electroacoustic conversion chain with selectively powered coil

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10142753-B2
Application number	US-201414897263-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 2, 2014
Priority date	Jun 10, 2013
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

This electroacoustic conversion chain comprising at least one loudspeaker, this loudspeaker comprising means for generating a magnetic field in a magnetic circuit having an air gap and a membrane secured to turns of a conducting material which may move in this air gap, is characterized in that it comprises at least one control module comprising at least one input for conveying a signal to be broadcast and at least one output connected to a turn, the control module being able to apply to said or each output an excitation signal depending on the position of at least one turn relatively to the air gap.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electroacoustic conversion chain comprising
at least one loudspeaker, this loudspeaker comprising at least one magnet for generating a magnetic field in a magnetic circuit having an air gap and a membrane secured to turns of conducting material which may be moved in this air gap;
at least one control module comprising at least one input conveying a signal to be broadcast and at least one output connected to at least a turn, the control module being able to:
apply to the at least one output an excitation signal based on the position of at least one turn relative to the air gap of the at least one turn connected to the output; and
apply on each turn, a weaker amplitude of the excitation signal when this turn is moved away from the air gap,

wherein the chain comprises turns positioned in succession and electrically connected so as to form at least two coils positioned successively, and
wherein each output of the control module being connected to a single coil.

2. The chain according to claim 1 , wherein the control module is able to apply a zero signal to all or part of any turns outside the air gap.

3. The chain according to claim 1 , wherein the control module comprises at least one input for conveying a position signal of at least one turn relative to the air gap.

4. The chain according to claim 1 , the chain comprising turns positioned in succession along a shared axis and electrically connected so as to form at least two disconnected coils positioned in succession.

5. The chain according to claim 4 , wherein each output of the control module is connected to a single coil.

6. The chain according to claim 1 , wherein the chain comprises modules on the loudspeaker for measuring the position relatively to the air gap of at least one turn.

7. The chain according to claim 1 , wherein the control module is able to control the potential of at least one of its outputs.

8. The chain according to claim 7 , wherein the control module is able to apply to at least one of its outputs a potential such that the voltage at the terminals of the corresponding coil is zero.

9. The chain according to claim 1 , wherein the magnetic circuit comprises at least two disconnected magnets, the magnets delimiting between them grommet spaces in which pass power supply wires for the coils.

10. The chain according to claim 1 , wherein the magnetic circuit comprises a central core comprising longitudinal grooves, each groove partly receiving a power supply wire of a coil.

Assignees

• Devialet

Inventors

• Petroff Antoine
• Calmel Pierre-Emmanuel
• Afresne Jean-Loup Nat

Classifications

• H04R2209/021

  Reduction of eddy currents in the magnetic circuit of electrodynamic loudspeaker transducer · CPC title

• H04R9/046 Primary

  Construction · CPC title

• H04R2209/041

  Voice coil arrangements comprising more than one voice coil unit on the same bobbin · CPC title

• H04R3/007

  Protection circuits for transducers · CPC title

• H04R9/025

  Magnetic circuit · CPC title