Silencing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11493232-B2
Application number	US-201916718819-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2019
Priority date	Jul 5, 2017
Publication date	Nov 8, 2022
Grant date	Nov 8, 2022

Abstract

An object is to provide a silencing system that can achieve both high ventilation performance and high soundproof performance, can silence a plurality of pieces of resonant sound, and has high general-purpose properties since the silencing system does not need to be designed according to a tubular member. In a silencing system where silencers are disposed on a tubular member, the silencers silence sound having a frequency of first resonance of the tubular member, each silencer includes a cavity portion and an opening portion, the opening portions are connected to a sound field space of the first resonance of the tubular member, a conversion mechanism for converting sound energy into thermal energy is disposed in each cavity portion or at a position where the conversion mechanism covers the opening portion, a ratio S 1 /S d of the area S 1 to the area S d satisfies “0<S 1 /S d <40%” in a case where the area of the opening portion of the silencer is denoted by S 1 and the surface area of an inner wall of the cavity portion is denoted by S d , and the depth L d of the cavity portion in the traveling direction of an acoustic wave in the silencer satisfies “0.011×λ<L d <0.25×λ,” in a case where the wavelength of an acoustic wave at the resonant frequency of the first resonance is denoted by λ.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A silencing system comprising:
one or more silencers that are disposed on a tubular member provided to penetrate a wall separating two spaces,
wherein the silencer silences sound having a frequency that includes a frequency of first resonance occurring in the tubular member,
the silencer includes a cavity portion and an opening portion that allows the cavity portion and the outside to communicate with each other,
at least one of the opening portions of the silencers is connected to a sound field space of the first resonance of the tubular member in the silencing system,
a conversion mechanism for converting sound energy into thermal energy is disposed in at least a part of the cavity portion of the silencer or at a position where the conversion mechanism covers at least a part of the opening portion of the silencer,
a depth L d of the cavity portion in a traveling direction of an acoustic wave in the silencer is larger than a width L o of the opening portion in an axial direction of the tubular member,
in a case where a wavelength of an acoustic wave at a resonant frequency of the first resonance is denoted by λ, the depth L d of the cavity portion in the traveling direction of an acoustic wave in the silencer satisfies “0.011×λ<L d <0.25×λ”, and
the silencer does not resonate with sound having the frequency of the first resonance occurring in the tubular member, and silences the sound having the frequency of the first resonance by the conversion mechanism without silencing the sound with resonance of the silencer.

2. A silencing system comprising:
one or more silencers that are disposed on a tubular member provided to penetrate a wall separating two spaces,
wherein the silencer silences sound having a frequency that includes a frequency of first resonance occurring in the tubular member,
the silencer includes a cavity portion and an opening portion that allows the cavity portion and the outside to communicate with each other,
at least one of the opening portions of the silencers is connected to a sound field space of the first resonance of the tubular member in the silencing system,
a conversion mechanism for converting sound energy into thermal energy is disposed in at least a part of the cavity portion of the silencer or at a position where the conversion mechanism covers at least a part of the opening portion of the silencer,
in a case where an area of the opening portion of the silencer is denoted by S 1 and a surface area of an inner wall of the cavity portion is denoted by S d , a ratio S 1 /S d of the area S to the area S d satisfies “0<S 1 /S d <40%”,
in a case where a wavelength of an acoustic wave at a resonant frequency of the first resonance is denoted by λ, a depth L d of the cavity portion in a traveling direction of an acoustic wave in the silencer satisfies “0.011×λ<L d <0.25×λ”, and
the silencer does not resonate with sound having the frequency of the first resonance occurring in the tubular member, and silences the sound having the frequency of the first resonance by the conversion mechanism without silencing the sound with resonance of the silencer.

3. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein “1.15×F 0 <F 1 ” is satisfied in a case where the frequency of the first resonance occurring in the tubular member is denoted by F 0 and the resonant frequency of the silencer is denoted by F 1 .

4. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein a width L w of the cavity portion in a direction orthogonal to a depth direction of the cavity portion in a cross section parallel to the axial direction of the tubular member satisfies “0.001×λ<L w <0.061×λ”.

5. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the conversion mechanism is a sound-absorbing material, and
flow resistance σ 1 of the sound-absorbing material satisfies “(1.25−log(0.1×L d ))/0.24<log(σ 1 )<5.6”.

6. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a cross section parallel to the axial direction of the tubular member, the silencer includes the cavity portion that extends in the axial direction of the tubular member and the opening portion that is positioned on one surface of the cavity portion parallel to the axial direction of the tubular member at one end portion of the cavity portion in the axial direction of the tubular member, and
a length of the cavity portion in the axial direction of the tubular member is the depth L d of the cavity portion.

7. The silencing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein an area S 1 of the opening portion on a circumferential surface, which has an axis on a central axis of the tubular member, is smaller than an area S 0 of the cavity portion.

8. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein two or more silencers are provided, and
the opening portions of the respective silencers are disposed so as to be rotationally symmetric with respect to a central axis of the tubular member.

9. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least some of the silencers are disposed on an outer periphery of the tubular member.

10. The silencing system according to claim 9 ,
wherein, in a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the tubular member, an effective outer diameter D 0 of the tubular member and an effective outer diameter D 1 of the silencer satisfy “D 1 <D 0 +2×(0.045×λ+5 mm)”.

11. The silencing system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the opening portions of the silencers are connected to peripheral surface-opening portions formed on a peripheral surface of the tubular member.

12. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the silencers are disposed in the tubular member.

13. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of the silencers are provided, and
the opening portions of the plurality of silencers are disposed on at least two or more positions in the axial direction of the tubular member.

14. The silencing system according to claim 13 ,
wherein the depths La of the cavity portions of the silencers are different at the respective positions of the opening portions.

15. The silencing system according to claim 13 ,
wherein sound-absorbing materials having different acoustic characteristics are disposed in the cavity portions of the silencers at the respective positions of the opening portions.

16. The silencing system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a decorative plate that is provided in parallel to the wall,
wherein a total thickness of the wall and the decorative plate including a space between the wall and the decorative plate is in a range of 175 mm to 400 mm.

17. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein a width L w of the cavity portion of the silencer satisfies “5.5 mm≤L w ≤300 mm”.

18. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the depth L d of the cavity portion of the silencer satisfies “25.3 mm≤L d ≤175 mm”.

19. The silencing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the conversion mechanism is a sound-absorbing material, and
a plurality of the sound-absorbing materials are disposed in the cavity portion.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Sugawara Yoshihiro
• Yamazoe Shogo
• Hakuta Shinya
• Ohtsu Akihiko

Classifications

• G10K11/162

  Selection of materials · CPC title

• F24F13/24 Primary

  Means for preventing or suppressing noise · CPC title

• G10K11/161

  in systems with fluid flow (G10K11/162 takes precedence; gas flow silencers or exhaust apparatus for machines or engines in general or for internal combustion engine F01N, noise absorbers in pipes or pipe systems F16L55/02; noise absorption in air conditioning and ventilation F24F13/24; silencing exhaust or propulsion jets in aircraft B64D33/06) · CPC title

• F24F2013/245

  using resonance · CPC title

• G10K11/172 Primary

  using resonance effects · CPC title