Loudspeaker diaphragm and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9838817-B2
Application number	US-201415103231-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2014
Priority date	Dec 9, 2013
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

A loudspeaker diaphragm, comprising a dome portion located at central position and a suspension ring portion located at edge position; the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion comprise silk fabric and thermoplastic polyurethane combined with the silk fabric; and the silk fabric is coated with thermosetting adhesive. The method for manufacturing the loudspeaker diaphragm comprises following steps: a. coating the silk fabric with a thermosetting adhesive under a high temperature, and drying the silk fabric; b. hot pressing and combining the silk fabric and thermoplastic polyurethane to form a membrane; c. pressing the membrane to form the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion. The dome portion, or both the dome portion and the suspension ring portion of the loudspeaker diaphragm comprise silk fabric coated with a thermosetting adhesive and thermoplastic polyurethane. Thus formed loudspeaker diaphragm has good rigidity and damping characteristic, thus improving acoustic performance of the diaphragm.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a loudspeaker diaphragm, the method comprising the following steps:
step a: coating the silk fabric with an adhesive under a high temperature, and drying the silk fabric coated with the adhesive, wherein, the adhesive is the thermosetting adhesive;
step b: combining the silk fabric, which is coated with the adhesive in the step a, and the thermoplastic polyurethane through hot pressing, so as to form a membrane;
step c: pressing the membrane formed in the step b under a high temperature to form the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion,
wherein the adhesive is coated on only one surface of the silk fabric, and in step b, the thermoplastic polyurethane is combined with another surface of the silk fabric which is uncoated with the adhesive,
wherein, in step c, the membrane is pressed between an upper mold and a lower mold, and during the pressing, the thermoplastic polyurethane is in contact with the upper mold, and the silk fabric coated with the thermosetting adhesive is in contact with the lower mold, and
wherein a temperature of the upper mold is lower than a temperature of the lower mold.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the step c, both the thermosetting adhesive and the thermoplastic polyurethane in the membrane are in a molten state under the high temperature.

Assignees

• Goertek Inc

Inventors

• Chang Xiuli
• Zhang Yonghua
• Ji Chengzong

Classifications

• H04R2307/029

  Diaphragms comprising fibres · CPC title

• H04R2307/025

  Diaphragms comprising polymeric materials · CPC title

• H04R31/003 Primary

  for diaphragms or their outer suspension · CPC title

• H04R7/14

  corrugated, pleated or ribbed · CPC title

• H04R7/127

  dome-shaped · CPC title