Speaker box

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12238474-B2
Application number	US-202218089575-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2022
Priority date	Aug 15, 2022
Publication date	Feb 25, 2025
Grant date	Feb 25, 2025

Abstract

The present invention provides a speaker box including a housing, a sound unit and a magnetic circuit coupling valve. The sound unit includes a bracket, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system including a secondary magnet. The housing includes a bottom cover having leakage holes. The magnetic circuit coupling valve is accommodated in a rear cavity and includes a support, a negative stiffness diaphragm and a coil. The negative stiffness diaphragm faces to the leakage holes. The coil receives an external control signal and generates an electromagnetic field with the secondary magnet to drive the negative stiffness diaphragm to seal the leakage holes, or make the leakage holes open, or make the leakage holes partially open or closed. Compared with a related technology, the speaker box has fine acoustic performance and is able to accurately control communication of a rear cavity with the outside.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A speaker box, comprising a housing and a sound unit fixedly accommodated in the housing, wherein the sound unit comprises a bracket, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system having a magnetic gap, the vibration system and the magnetic circuit system are fixed to the bracket, the magnetic circuit system comprises a yoke, a primary magnet fixed to the yoke and a secondary magnet spaced from the primary magnet to form the magnetic gap, wherein
the housing comprises a bottom cover fixed to the bracket, the bottom cover, the bracket and the magnetic circuit system form a rear cavity, the bottom cover comprises one or more leakage holes provided through the bottom cover, and the rear cavity is in communication with outside through the one or more leakage holes; and
the speaker box further comprises a magnetic circuit coupling valve accommodated in the rear cavity, the magnetic circuit coupling valve comprises a support fixed to the bracket or the yoke, a negative stiffness diaphragm fixed to the support and a coil fixed on a side of the negative stiffness diaphragm close to the secondary magnet and separated from the secondary magnet, the negative stiffness diaphragm faces to and is separated from the one or more leakage holes, and the coil receives an external control signal and generates an electromagnetic field with the secondary magnet to drive the negative stiffness diaphragm to abut on and seal the one or more leakage holes to a closed state, or drive the negative stiffness diaphragm to separate from the one or more leakage holes to make the one or more leakage holes open, or drive the negative stiffness diaphragm to partially abut on the one or more leakage holes to make the one or more leakage holes partially open or closed.

2. The speaker box according to claim 1 , wherein there are two secondary magnets arranged on either sides of the primary magnet, the bottom cover comprises a bottom cover plate arranged to face to and separate from the yoke and a bottom cover side wall that bends at a periphery of the bottom cover plate and extends from the periphery along an outer surface of the sound unit, the bottom cover side wall is fixedly connected to the bracket, the one or more leakage holes are formed on the bottom cover side wall, and the magnetic circuit coupling valve is arranged on a side of one of the two secondary magnets away from the primary magnet.

3. The speaker box according to claim 2 , wherein the negative stiffness diaphragm comprises an elastic film and a seal for sealing the one or more leakage holes, the seal is arranged to face to the one or more leakage holes, the elastic film comprises a first fixing portion, an elastic bending portion formed by bending and extending a periphery of the first fixing portion and a second fixing portion extending away from a side of the first fixing portion from the elastic bending portion, the second fixing portion is fixed to a side of the support away from the secondary magnets, the coil is fixed to a side of the first fixing portion close to the secondary magnets, the seal is fixed to a side of the first fixing portion away from the secondary magnets, and in response to there being no current in the coil, a distance between the second fixing portion and the seal in a moving direction of the coil is greater than a distance between the second fixing portion and the bottom cover side wall on which the one or more leakage holes are formed in the moving direction of the coil.

4. The speaker box according to claim 3 , wherein the negative stiffness diaphragm is a symmetrical structure or an asymmetrical structure.

5. The speaker box according to claim 4 , wherein the negative stiffness diaphragm is in a form of a bilaterally symmetrical or quadrilaterally symmetrical rectangle, or of a rectangle with four asymmetrical corners, or a side of the negative stiffness diaphragm is fixed by a hinge and an opposite side of the negative stiffness diaphragm is in a negative stiffness bending form.

6. The speaker box according to claim 2 , wherein the magnetic circuit system further comprises a secondary magnetic conductive plate fixed to a side of the secondary magnets away from the yoke, the coil is shaped as a runway structure, and the secondary magnetic conductive plate at least partially extends into the coil.

7. The speaker box according to claim 2 , wherein the speaker box further comprises a gasket accommodated in the rear cavity, the gasket is fixed to an inner side of the bottom cover side wall on which the one or more leakage holes are formed.

8. The speaker box according to claim 7 , wherein the gasket is a rubber sheet, flexible foam, macromolecular gel or high-viscosity grease.

9. The speaker box according to claim 1 , wherein the vibration system comprises a diaphragm fixed to the bracket and a sound coil fixed to the diaphragm and inserted into the magnetic gap, the sound coil is configured to drive the diaphragm to vibrate and sound, and the sound unit further comprises an top cover pressed to the diaphragm and forming a front cavity with the diaphragm, sound holes are defined in the top cover, and the front cavity is in communication with the outside through the sound holes.

10. The speaker box according to claim 9 , wherein the vibration system further comprises an elastic support component fixed to the bracket and connected to an end of the sound coil away from the diaphragm, the elastic support component is provided with four pads each arranged at a respective corner of the elastic support component, the sound coil has two wires each welded to a respective pad of two of the four pads, and the coil has two wires each welded to a respective pad of the other two of the four pads, or one of the two wires of the coil is welded to one of the two pads to which the two wires of the sound coil are welded, so as to share with the sound coil one pad that functions as a negative electrode.

Assignees

• Aac Technologies Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Hui Yao
• Chu Yufen
• Liu Jiujian
• Chen Weimin

Classifications

• H04R1/025

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

• H04R9/063

  using a plurality of acoustic drivers (H04R1/24 and H04R1/403 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04R7/04

  Plane diaphragms · CPC title

• H04R9/045

  Mounting (H04R9/043 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04R2400/11

  Aspects regarding the frame of loudspeaker transducers · CPC title