Acoustic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12452586-B2
Application number	US-202318454980-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2023
Priority date	Aug 29, 2022
Publication date	Oct 21, 2025
Grant date	Oct 21, 2025

Abstract

A speaker unit on the left side and a speaker unit on the right side are included in a case positioned behind a listener. Sound generation openings and bass-reflex ports are formed in the case on the left side and right side. From each sound generation opening, sound pressure generated forward by the relevant speaker unit is output. Each bass-reflex port communicates with an air chamber to which sound pressure behind the speaker unit is transmitted. With each sound generation opening, the opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than the opening dimension in the horizontal direction. With each bass-reflex port, as well, the opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than the opening dimension in the horizontal direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An acoustic device, wherein a direction in which a face of a listener is oriented is referred to as a forward direction, a side opposite to a side in the forward direction is referred to as a rear side, a direction in which left and right ears of the listener are aligned is referred to as a horizontal direction, and a direction orthogonal to both the forward direction and the horizontal direction is referred to as an up-down direction, the acoustic device comprising:
a case, a pair of speaker units disposed in the case, and a pair of bass-reflex ports disposed in the case, such that each pair is line-symmetric in the horizontal direction with respect to a center line extending in an up-down direction, wherein:
the case is positioned on the rear side of the listener, and the respective speaker unit is disposed so that a sound generated by the speaker unit is directed forward;
the case includes an air chamber to which air vibration on the rear side of the respective speaker unit is transmitted, the respective bass-reflex port that communicates with the air chamber and is open in the forward direction, a head-facing portion that faces a back of a head fo the listener, sound generation spaces to each of which air vibration in front of one of the speaker units is transmitted, and sound generation openings each of which communicates with one of the sound generation spaces and is open at one of both ends of the head-facing portion in the horizontal direction;
with the bass-reflex ports, an opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than an opening dimension in the horizontal direction;
each of the bass-reflex ports is open on an outside of one of the sound generation openings in the horizontal direction;
with the sound generation openings as well, an opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than an opening dimension in the horizontal direction; and,
the opening dimension of the sound generation openings in the up-down direction and the opening dimension of the bass-reflex ports in the up-down direction are generally equal to each other such that a difference between the opening dimension of the sound generation openings and the opening dimension of the bass-reflex ports is 10% or less of the larger ones of the opening dimensions.

2. An acoustic device, wherein a direction in which a face of a listener is oriented is referred to as a forward direction, a side opposite to a side in the forward direction is referred to as a rear side, a direction in which left and right ears of the listener are aligned is referred to as a horizontal direction, and a direction orthogonal to both the forward direction and the horizontal direction is referred to as an up-down direction, the acoustic device comprising:
a case, a pair of speaker units disposed in the case, and a pair of passive vibrating bodies disposed in the case, such that each pair is line-symmetric in the horizontal direction with respect to a center line extending in an up-down direction, wherein:
the case is positioned on the rear side of the listener, and the respective speaker unit is disposed so that a sound generated by the speaker unit is directed forward;
the case includes an air chamber to which air vibration on the rear side of the respective speaker unit is transmitted, the respective passive vibrating body that receives pressure in the air chamber and operates, a head-facing portion that faces a back of a head of the listener, sound generation spaces to each of which air vibration in front of one of the speaker units is transmitted, and sound generation openings each of which communicates with one of the sound generation spaces and is open at one of both ends of the head facing proportion in the horizontal direction;
each of the passive vibrating bodies is positioned in one of the sound generation spaces;
the respective passive vibrating body is oriented in the forward direction, and a dimension of the respective passive vibrating body in the up-down direction is larger than a dimension of the passive vibrating body in the horizontal direction;
with the sound generation openings as well, an opening dimension in the up-down direction is larger than an opening dimension in the horizontal direction; and,
the opening dimension of the sound generation openings in the up-down direction and the dimension of the passive vibrating bodies in the up-down direction are generally equal to each other such that a difference between the opening dimension of the sound generation openings and the dimension of the passive vibrating bodies is 10% or less of the larger ones of the opening dimensions.

Assignees

• Alps Alpine Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ito Ryo

Classifications

• H04R2499/13

  Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles · CPC title

• H04R1/2819

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/025

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

• B60N2/879

  with additional features not related to head-rest positioning, e.g. heating or cooling devices or loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R1/2834

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title