Tablet Woofer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016073201-A1
Application number	US-201314889103-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 31, 2013
Priority date	May 8, 2013
Publication date	Mar 10, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides a tablet woofer, including: a vibration diaphragm, at least four mutually independent driving units, and a housing for accommodating and securing the vibration diaphragm and the driving unit. The driving unit includes independent voice coil units and magnetic circuit units, the voice coil units being attached and fixed to the vibration diaphragm. The woofer further includes a FPCB communicating with an internal circuit and an external circuit, and the FPCB is disposed at two sides of the housing, the part of the FPCB disposed on the side of the housing close to the voice coil units being electrically connected to the voice coil units, the part of the FPCB disposed on the side of the housing far away from the voice coil units being electrically connected to the external circuit. The woofer can solve the problems of thick and heavy voice coils and magnet performance surplus.

First claim

1 . A tablet woofer, comprising:
a vibration diaphragm, at least four mutually independent driving units, and a housing for accommodating and fixing the vibration diaphragm and the driving units; wherein, the driving units comprise independent voice coil units and magnetic circuit units corresponding to the voice coil units, and the voice coil units are attached and fixed to the vibration diaphragm respectively; and the flat-plate bass loudspeaker further comprises a FPCB (Flexible Printed Circuit Board) for connecting internal circuits with external circuits of the woofer, wherein the FPCB is provided at both sides of the housing, wherein a part of the FPCB provided at a side of the housing close to the voice coil units is electrically connected with the voice coil units via leading wires of the voice coils, and a part of the FPCB provided at a side of the housing away from the voice coil units is electrically connected with the external circuits of the loudspeaker.

2 . The tablet woofer according to claim 1 , wherein,
the vibration diaphragm is rectangular in shape, and comprises a rigid dome part in the center thereof and a suspension ring part on the edge thereof; four voice coil units are attached to four corners of the dome part, respectively; and, edges of the suspension ring part are fixedly coupled with the upper side surface of the housing.

3 . The tablet woofer according to claim 1 , wherein,
the housing comprises a mounting plane and an annular side wall surrounding the mounting plane, and mounting holes for accommodating and fixing the magnetic circuit units and sound holes penetrating through the mounting plane are provided on the mounting plane; the sound holes comprise a central sound hole provided in the center of the mounting plane and edge sound holes provided between the annular side wall and the mounting holes; and, the FPCB enables both sides of the mounting plane to be in communication with each other through the sound holes.

4 . The tablet woofer according to claim 3 , wherein,
the FPCB is clamped and fixed on the mounting plane at the edge of the central sound hole, and one part of the FPCB is located at a side of the mounting plane closer to the vibration diaphragm, and the other part of the FPCB is located at a side of the mounting plane away from the vibration diaphragm.

5 . The tablet woofer according to claim 4 , wherein,
the FPCB comprises two mutually independent parts, each part of which is electrically connected with two of the voice coils adjacent thereto.

6 . The tablet woofer according to claim 3 , wherein,
the FPCB is partially attached and fixed to a side of the vibration diaphragm on which the voice coil units are attached, and a part of the FPCB not attached and fixed to the vibration diaphragm extends to the side of the mounting plane away from the vibration diaphragm through the sound holes.

7 . The tablet woofer according to claim 6 , wherein,
the FPCB has a strip shape; and a middle part of the FPCB is attached and fixed to the vibration diaphragm, and both ends parts of the FPCB extend to the side of the mounting plane away from the vibration diaphragm through the edge sound holes.

8 . The tablet woofer according to claim 7 , wherein,
both ends of the FPCB are bent in an arc shape to a position in parallel with the mounting plane.

9 . The tablet woofer according to claim 1 , wherein,
both front and back surfaces of the FPCB are provided with pads, and there is a one-to-one correspondence relationship between the pads provided on the front surface of the FPCB and the pads provided on the back surface of the FPCB; and wherein, the pads provided on the front surface of the FPCB are electrically connected with each of the voice coil units, respectively, and the series or parallel connections between the voice coil units are controlled by the pads provided on the back surface of the FPCB.

10 . The tablet woofer according to claim 1 , wherein, the FPCB is made of a Polyimide CCL base material.

Assignees

• Goertek Inc

Inventors

• Jiang Chao
• Yang Jianbin
• Li Zhi
• Jiao Qijin

Classifications

• H04R7/127

  dome-shaped · CPC title

• H04R9/025

  Magnetic circuit · CPC title

• H04R1/22

  for obtaining desired frequency characteristic only  {(circuit for combining transducers having different responses H04R3/00; for hearing aids H04R25/407)} · CPC title

• H04R2499/11

  Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's · CPC title

• H04R9/045

  Mounting (H04R9/043 takes precedence) · CPC title