Bass reflex port and bass reflex type speaker

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10750273-B2
Application number	US-201816234700-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2018
Priority date	Mar 23, 2018
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

A bass reflex port including: a tubular body portion; and a surface forming portion which is board-like, and continuous to an inner wall of the tubular body portion and which has a surface extending radially outwardly from an opening end of the tubular body portion disposed in a housing of a speaker, wherein the surface forming portion extends linearly in a direction away from a tube axis of the tubular body portion in a cross section parallel to the tube axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bass reflex type speaker comprising a bass reflex port including:
a housing of the speaker;
a tubular body portion; and
a surface forming portion which is continuous to an inner wall of the tubular body portion and which has a surface extending radially outwardly from an opening end of the tubular body portion disposed in the housing of the speaker,
wherein the surface forming portion extends linearly in a direction away from a tube axis of the tubular body portion in a cross section parallel to the tube axis,
wherein the surface forming portion is an inside housing first surface forming portion and has an inside housing first surface disposed in the housing,
wherein the bass reflex port type speaker further comprises an inside housing second surface forming portion disposed in the housing at a first position remote from a wall surface of the housing or at a second position remote from a bottom surface of the housing and having an inside housing second surface, and
wherein the inside housing first surface and the inside housing second surface are parallel to each other.

2. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 ,
wherein a cross-sectional area of an air-flow passage via the bass reflex port continuously increases radially outwardly from the opening end in the bass reflex port.

3. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in an instance where a cross section of an air-flow passage at the opening end of the tubular body portion in the housing in a direction perpendicular to the tube axis of the tubular body portion has a circular shape with a radius r0, a distance between the inside housing first surface and the inside housing second surface is r0/2.

4. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 ,
wherein the tubular body portion has a straight portion whose perpendicular cross-sectional area is constant in a direction of the tube axis and a flare portion whose perpendicular cross-sectional area increases from a boundary at the straight portion toward the opening end, the perpendicular cross-sectional area being an area of a cross section of an air-flow passage in a direction perpendicular to the tube axis, and
wherein a cross-sectional area of the air-flow passage between the inside housing first surface and the inside housing second surface at the opening end of the flare portion is greater than or equal to about one time the perpendicular cross-sectional area of the straight portion and smaller than or equal to about 2.5 times the perpendicular cross-sectional area of the opening end of the flare portion.

5. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inside housing first surface of the surface forming portion is disposed at an angle that is greater than 180 degrees and smaller than 270 degrees with respect to the inner wall of the bass reflex port, and
wherein the inside housing second surface protrudes such that a region thereof opposed to the opening end in the bass reflex port becomes an apex.

6. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inside housing second surface is a surface of a wall or a surface of a bottom that constitutes an outline of the housing.

7. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inside housing second surface is a surface except respective surfaces of a wall and a bottom that constitute an outline of the housing.

8. The bass reflex type speaker according to claim 1 , comprising an outside housing surface forming portion having a surface opposed to an opening end of the bass reflex port that is closer to an outside of the housing.

Assignees

• Yamaha Corp

Inventors

• Uchida Katsuya
• Miki Akira
• Onitsuka Hirofumi

Classifications

• H04R1/2815 Primary

  of the bass reflex type · CPC title

• H04R1/345

  for loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R1/02

  Casings; Cabinets {; Supports therefor;} Mountings therein (H04R1/28 takes precedence {; attachments for microphones H04R1/08; mounting of transducers in earpieces H04R1/1075}) · CPC title

• H04R1/2826 Primary

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/025

  Arrangements for fixing loudspeaker transducers, e.g. in a box, furniture · CPC title