Sound shielding device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12293755-B2
Application number	US-202318357420-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2023
Priority date	Jan 25, 2021
Publication date	May 6, 2025
Grant date	May 6, 2025

Abstract

A sound insulation device includes: a glass sheet composite including a plurality of glass plates being laminated, and partitioning an interior space and an exterior space; a vibration output unit vibrating the glass sheet composite according to an input signal; an exterior sound detection unit detecting a sound from a noise source or a vibration source and outputting a reference signal according to a detection result, the sound being correlated with a sound wave vibration induced in the glass sheet composite; an interior sound detection unit detecting a sound in the interior space and outputting an error signal according to a detection result; and a control unit including an adaptive filter that generates a cancel signal having a phase opposite to a phase of the reference signal to minimize the error signal, and outputting the cancel signal from the adaptive filter to the vibration output unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sound insulation device comprising:
a glass sheet composite comprising a plurality of glass plates being laminated, comprising an intermediate layer between at least a pair of glass plates among the glass plates, and partitioning an interior space and an exterior space;
a vibration output unit being fixed to the glass sheet composite and vibrating the glass sheet composite according to an input signal;
an exterior sound detection unit detecting a sound from a noise source or a vibration source and outputting a reference signal according to a detection result, the sound being correlated with a sound wave vibration induced in the glass sheet composite;
an interior sound detection unit detecting a sound in the interior space and outputting an error signal according to a detection result; and
a control unit comprising an adaptive filter that generates a cancel signal having a phase opposite to a phase of the reference signal to minimize the error signal, and outputting the cancel signal from the adaptive filter to the vibration output unit.

2. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the glass sheet composite has a loss coefficient at 25° C. of 1×10 −2 or more, and has a longitudinal wave sound velocity value in a plate thickness direction at 25° C. of 4.0×10 3 m/s or more.

3. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate layer is a liquid.

4. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate layer is a gel body.

5. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate layer is one of polyvinyl butyral, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin, and polyurethane.

6. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an auxiliary speaker being connected to the control unit and outputting a cancel sound according to the cancel signal.

7. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the glass sheet composite is at least one of a side window of a vehicle, a rear window of a vehicle, a front window of a vehicle, and a roof glazing of a vehicle.

8. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a surrounding member surrounding a region where the vibration output unit is fixed to the glass sheet composite and supporting the glass sheet composite by exposing a region where the vibration output unit is not fixed to the glass sheet composite from an opening to an outside;
a shielding member acoustically shielding between the opening and the glass sheet composite, and dividing the glass sheet composite into an excitation region inside the surrounding member and a vibration region outside the surrounding member; and
an internal space sound detection unit being provided inside the surrounding member, detecting a sound generated by the vibration output unit, and outputting the error signal according to a detection result.

9. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , wherein in a case where a direction in which the glass sheet composite protrudes from an inside of an internal space of the surrounding member to the outside is defined as a first direction and a direction orthogonal to the first direction in a plate surface is defined as a second direction,
a maximum width of the glass sheet composite in the second direction is equal to or greater than a maximum width of the glass sheet composite in the first direction.

10. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , wherein a ratio Ss/Sv between an area Ss of the excitation region of the glass sheet composite and an area Sv of the vibration region is 0.01 or more and 1.0 or less.

11. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , wherein the glass sheet composite has a total area of 0.01 m 2 or more.

12. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , further comprising a support member supporting the glass sheet composite on the surrounding member.

13. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , wherein the glass sheet composite is supported to be relatively movable with respect to the surrounding member.

14. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , wherein the shielding member has a storage elastic modulus at 25° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz of 1.0×10 2 Pa to 1.0×10 10 Pa.

15. The sound insulation device according to claim 8 , wherein the excitation region of the glass sheet composite is formed of a single glass plate.

16. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the vibration output unit is disposed at a plurality of locations of the glass sheet composite.

17. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the vibration output unit is disposed on only one surface of the glass sheet composite.

18. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the vibration output unit is disposed on both surfaces of the glass sheet composite.

19. The sound insulation device according to claim 1 , wherein the glass sheet composite has a curved surface having a concave shape or a convex shape in at least a part of the glass sheet composite.

20. A sound insulation method of vibrating a glass sheet composite according to an input signal, the glass sheet composite comprising a plurality of glass plates being laminated, comprising an intermediate layer between at least a pair of glass plates among the glass plates, and partitioning an interior space and an exterior space, the sound insulation method comprising:
detecting a sound from a noise source or a vibration source and outputting a reference signal according to a detection result, the sound being correlated with a sound wave vibration induced in the glass sheet composite;
detecting a sound in the interior space and outputting an error signal according to a detection result; and
generating, by an adaptive filter, a cancel signal having a phase opposite to a phase of the reference signal to minimize the error signal, and vibrating the glass sheet composite according to the cancel signal from the adaptive filter.

Assignees

• Agc Inc

Inventors

• Akiyama Jun

Classifications

• E06B5/20

  for insulation against noise · CPC title

• G10K11/168

  Plural layers of different materials, e.g. sandwiches · CPC title

• H04R2499/13

  Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles · CPC title

• H04R1/025

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

• G10K11/17854

  the filter being an adaptive filter · CPC title