Acoustic device and vibration damping method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12015888-B2
Application number	US-202217577727-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2022
Priority date	Jul 19, 2019
Publication date	Jun 18, 2024
Grant date	Jun 18, 2024

Abstract

An acoustic device includes a speaker unit, a support body, and a vibration damping member. The support body has lower mobility than a member on which the speaker unit is mounted. The vibration damping member is provided between the speaker unit and the support body or between the member on which the speaker unit is mounted and the support body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An acoustic device, comprising:
a speaker unit;
a support body with lower mobility than a member on which the speaker unit is mounted; and
a vibration damping member provided between the speaker unit and the support body or between the member on which the speaker unit is mounted and the support body, wherein
a flange of the speaker unit is in contact with a surface of the member on which the speaker unit is mounted, and
the vibration damping member is provided at a position at which the vibration damping member overlaps the flange when viewed from a sound emitting direction of the speaker unit.

2. The acoustic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibration damping member is provided at a vibration damping target area in the member on which the speaker unit is mounted, mobility of the vibration damping target area being higher than the support body.

3. The acoustic device according to claim 1 , wherein
a degree of mobility in a vibration body as the support body or the member on which the speaker unit is mounted indicates a degree of easiness of vibration in the vibration body based on driving of the speaker unit, and
the degree of easiness of vibration at an area on which the vibration damping member is mounted in the support body is lower than the degree of easiness of vibration at an area on which the vibration damping member is mounted in the member on which the speaker unit is mounted.

4. The acoustic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibration damping member is a bar-shaped member, a first end of which is fixed to the member on which the speaker is mounted, and a second end of which is fixed to the support body.

5. The acoustic device according to claim 1 ,
further comprising a plurality of vibration damping members provided at the speaker unit or the member on which the speaker unit is mounted.

6. The acoustic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the support body has higher rigidity than the member on which the speaker unit is mounted.

7. The acoustic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the vibration damping member includes a first member, a second member, and a third member,
the first member and the second member are connected to each other through the third member, and
the third member has a lower elastic modulus than the first member and the second member.

8. The acoustic device according to claim 7 , wherein the third member is shear-deformed by a force applied through the first member and the second member.

9. The acoustic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the support body is a member provided inside a vehicle.

10. The acoustic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the member on which the speaker unit is mounted is a rear tray.

11. The acoustic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the member on which the speaker unit is mounted includes a first surface with which the flange of the speaker unit is in contact and a second surface which is a back side of the first surface, and
the support body includes a first attached portion and a second attached portion each extending in a first direction and respectively attached to the second surface of the member on which the speaker unit is mounted at positions where the speaker unit is interposed between the first attached portion and the second attached portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

12. The acoustic device according to claim 11 , wherein the first attached portion and the second attached portion of the support body are respectively attached to the second surface of the member on which the speaker unit is mounted such that the first attached portion and the second attached portion do not overlap the flange when viewed from the sound emitting direction of the speaker unit.

13. The acoustic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the member on which the speaker unit is mounted includes a first surface with which the flange of the speaker unit is in contact and a second surface which is a back side of the first surface, and
the vibration damping member is disposed between the second surface of the member on which the speaker unit is mounted and the support body.

14. The acoustic device according to claim 13 , wherein the vibration damping member is in contact with the second surface of the member on which the speaker unit is mounted.

Assignees

• Yamaha Corp

Inventors

• Uchida Katsuya
• Miki Akira

Classifications

• H04R2499/13

  Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles · CPC title

• H04R9/046

  Construction · CPC title

• H04R1/2896

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/28

  Transducer mountings or enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means {(combinations of transducers with horns, i.e. front-loaded horns H04R1/30)} · CPC title

• H04R1/026 Primary

  Supports for loudspeaker casings · CPC title