270results about "Metallic diaphragms" patented technology

Disclosed herein is an acoustic diaphragm for converting electrical signals into mechanical signals to produce sounds. The acoustic diaphragm comprises carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers as major materials. Preferably, the carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers are included or dispersed in the acoustic diaphragm. Since the acoustic diaphragm has excellent physical properties in terms of elastic modulus, internal loss and strength, it can effectively achieve superior sound quality and high output in a particular frequency band as well as in a broad frequency band.

A disposable-type hearing aid uses a relatively large single diaphragm or a large single diaphragm subdivided into a plurality of smaller active diaphragm areas obtained using a grate-like back support plate with ridges which contact and divide the diaphragm into the several smaller active diaphragm areas. The diaphragm and a backplate are enclosed in a metal housing and are disposed proximal and parallel to a shell-like hearing aid enclosure having sound inlets. The metal housing is closed at an end opposite the sound inlets by a printed circuit board (PCB) forming an acoustical seal for a back volume of the microphone. The PCB also carries substantially all the electronic components for the hearing aid thereon. The PCB has a ground plane in contact with the housing whereby the PCB also acts as an EMI shield. An electrical connection is formed in various ways between the back support plate and the PCB during assembly of the metal housing and components with the PCB. Mass production of disposable hearing aids with large diaphragms and relatively low noise levels is thus possible using this invention.

Provided are a display apparatus and a computing apparatus including the same. A display apparatus includes: a display module including a display panel configured to display an image, a vibration plate on the display module, a first air gap between the vibration plate and the rear surface of the display module, a vibration module on the vibration plate, and a system rear cover on the vibration plate, a second air gap between the system rear cover and the vibration plate, wherein the vibration plate includes a communication part configured to allow air to flow between the first air gap and the second air gap.

The present invention provides diamond tools, and methods for the formation thereof, using CVD techniques. In one aspect, a mold is provided which has an interface surface configured to inversely match a configuration intended for the working surface of a diamond layer in a tool. An adynamic diamond mass or layer is then deposited upon the diamond interface surface of the mold, and a support layer is joined to the growth surface of the adynamic diamond layer. At least a portion of the mold is then removed to expose the working surface of the diamond which has received a shape which inversely corresponds to the configuration of the mold's diamond interface surface.

A diaphragm for a speaker includes two portions. The first portion is made of metallic material for producing a high frequency tone. The second portion is made of a non-metallic material for producing a low frequency tone. The first portion is joined at a first peripheral edge to a voice coil while a second peripheral edge is joined at a first peripheral edge of the second portion to form the diaphragm.

The invention provides a sound generating device and a preparation method of a metal plastic part. The sound generating device comprises the metal plastic part; the metal plastic part comprises a plastic part body and a metal insert combined with the plastic part body; the surface of the metal insert is provided with an oxidation film layer obtained through metal nanometer treatment and nano-holes located on the surface of the oxidation film layer, and the hole diameter of the nano-holes ranges from 20 nm to 1,000 nm; the nano-holes are filled with a resin composition for preparing the plastic part body. According to the sound generating device and the preparation method of the metal plastic part, the nano-holes are filled with the resin composition from which the plastic part body is prepared, therefore, the purpose that the metal insert and the plastic part body are closely attached to each other is achieved, the adhesive grasping capability of the metal inset is greatly enhanced, and the condition that the metal insert and the plastic part body are separated from each other after being subjected to injection molding is prevented; the length that the metal insert is embedded into the plastic part body is greatly decreased, therefore, ultrasonic energy is smoothly transmitted, the ultrasonic non-melting problem of the metal plastic part is effectively prevented, then the waterproofness and the sealing property of the metal plastic part are improved, and the properties of the sound generating device are improved.

A mobile phone (100) detects at least a direction of an utterance position of a user from the voice input to a plurality of microphones (121,122) and controls an output direction of a voice out of a speaker unit (110) to match the detected utterance position. Accordingly, it is possible to provide sound with sufficient volume only for a specific user without causing noise in the neighborhood. The microphones may form a matrix together with piezoelectric vibrators that form a speaker unit, or may be formed separately from the speaker unit.

A diaphragm for a speaker includes two portions. The first portion is made of metallic material for producing a high frequency tone. The second portion is made of a non-metallic material for producing a low frequency tone. The first portion is joined at a first peripheral edge to a voice coil while a second peripheral edge is joined at a first peripheral edge of the second portion to form the diaphragm.

Disclosed is a speaker module, comprising an active sound source, a passive sound source and a protective frame; the active sound source comprises a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system; the side surface of the protective frame is provided with a sound hole for the active sound source; the passive sound source comprises two passive radiators, and the two passive radiators are arranged in parallel and enclose a cavity; a sound wave at one side of a vibrating diaphragm adjacent to the magnetic circuit system is divided into two parts respectively transmitted to one side of each of the two passive radiators away from the cavity; and a sound wave in the cavity is projected and emitted to the external environment via a sound hole for the passive sound source. The structure improves the bass effect of the speaker module, and improves the acoustic performance of the product.

A component that is rigid and three-dimensional and has a relatively low mass. The component has a foil body formed of a metal or metal alloy matrix that is embedded with ultra-hard particles or grit, such as diamond and / or cBN. It can be used in applications where a combination of high rigidity and low mass is required, such as in audio applications, for example.

A speaker and the like, which is capable of wideband reproduction by improving the bass characteristic, and which is suitable for size reduction, is provided.A housing (110) includes one main surface (111) having a polygonal shape, and an opening portion (112) in the one main surface. A diaphragm (120) is disposed in the opening portion so as to cover the one main surface, except for corner regions (115a, 115b, 115c, and 115d) which are areas in the vicinity of respective vertices of a polygonal shape of the one main surface. A driving unit (130) causes the diaphragm to vibrate so as to generate a sound corresponding to a signal inputted from an outside. A plurality of movable supports (140a, 140b, 140c, and 140d) is disposed in the respective corner regions, for supporting the diaphragm by joining the housing and the diaphragm such that the diaphragm is vibratable.

A vibration-sound generating device and yoke thereof are described. The vibration-sound generating device comprises a diaphragm, a vibration part comprising a magnet and a yoke, which is positioned apart from the diaphragm by a desired distance, a suspension elastically supporting the vibration part, a supporting part supporting the diaphragm and the suspension, and a voice coil electromagnetically driving the diaphragm and the vibration part. The yoke of the invention has higher specific gravity and magnetic permeability than iron. So that it can improve performance of vibration and sound device.

An improved electrically conductive membrane pump / transducer. The electrically conductive pump / transducer includes an array of electrically conductive membrane pumps that combine to generate a desired sound by moving a membrane (such as a membrane of PDMS), a piston, and / or by the use of pressurized airflow in the absence of such a membrane or piston. The electrically conductive membranes in the array can be, for example, graphene-polymer membranes. The electrically conductive pump can include mid-range, tweeter, and sub-woofer speakers.

An electromagnetic transducer such as a tweeter audio speaker, having a very low density diaphragm constructed of a nanoporous material such as aerogel or the like. The solid aerogel diaphragm has improved rigidity and reduced susceptibility to breakup modes. The aerogel may be provided with a skin of e.g. metal, plastic, or oxide to protect it, and it may be built by filling a conventional cone. The skin may encapsulate part or all of the aerogel body's surface, and it may further encapsulate the bobbin, or even the entire voice coil assembly. The nanoporous material comprises a very large percentage of the diaphragm's overall volume, giving the diaphragm a very low overall mass density with respect to conventional diaphragms. This allows diaphragm configurations, such as solid filled spheres, which have excellent stiffness without suffering from the large mass that such shapes would mandate if constructed from conventional materials.

The invention relates to audio transducers, such as loudspeaker, microphones and the like, and includes improvements in or relating to hinge systems for rotational action audio transducers. The hinge systems of the invention being configured to operatively support a diaphragm in use, and comprising a hinge assembly having one or more hinge joints, wherein each hinge joint comprises a hinge element and a contact member. The contact member comprises a contact surface and the configuration is such that during operation each hinge joint is configured to allow the hinge element to move relative to the associated contact member, while maintaining a substantially consistent physical contact with the contact surface. The hinge assembly biases the hinge element towards the contact surface. Preferably the hinge assembly is configured to apply a biasing force to the hinge element of each joint toward the associated contact surface, compliantly. Various applications and implementations are described and envisaged for the audio transducer embodiments including, for example, personal audio devices such as headphones, earphones and the like.

The invention discloses a moving coil type loudspeaker, which comprises a vibrating system and a magnetic circuit system positioned below the vibrating system, wherein the vibrating system comprises a vibrating film, a centering support chip and a sound coil which are combined together from top to bottom, the vibrating film comprises a vibrating film body part with a folded ring, and a vibrating film reinforcement part combined at the center position below the vibrating film body part; the vibrating film reinforcement part consists of a first conductive material layer, the centering support chip consists of a second conductive material layer, and the vibrating film reinforcement part and the centering support chip are adhered by a conductive binder and are conducted; the magnetic circuit system comprises a central washer, a central magnet and a magnetic conductive yoke which are combined together from top to bottom; the first conductive material layer and the second conductive material layer are used as movable polar plate, and the central washer, the central magnet and the magnetic conductive yoke are used as fixed polar plate, to form a capacitance structure for detecting the vibration displacement of the moving coil type loudspeaker. The vibrating displacement of the moving coil type loudspeaker can be detected by utilizing the capacitance structure provided by the invention.

In the rolling process, a rolling amount at each time of rolling by a rolling machine is set to 1 μm to 20 μm, and a magnesium substrate is heated by a constant temperature oven and rolled by rollers. Thus, a magnesium sheet of 30 μm to 100 μm is produced. This magnesium sheet is used to form a bobbin and a diaphragm integrally molded with each other, and the diaphragm is molded into a semi-dome shape or a dome shape. Thus, a bobbin integrated type magnesium diaphragm having the semi-dome shaped diaphragm or the dome shaped diagram is manufactured. The bobbin integrated type magnesium diaphragm is applied to a dynamic speaker device. As a result, the high-quality dynamic speaker device, which realizes high rigidity, high sensibility, high internal loss, less distortion and the like, is obtained.

The claim invention is directed at a MEMS microphone die fabricated using CMOS-based technologies. In particular, the claims are directed at various aspects of a MEMS microphone die having anisotropic springs, a backplate, a diaphragm, mechanical stops, and a support structure, all of which are fabricated as stacked metallic layers separated by vias using CMOS fabrication technologies.

A speaker diaphragm that has a high heat-radiation efficiency. The speaker diaphragm includes a diaphragm main body made from a resin, and a metallic plate adhered to a major acoustic surface of the diaphragm main body adjacent a voice coil bobbin. The voice coil bobbin is attached to the diaphragm man body.

A speaker device that comprises a cabinet and a speaker unit. The speaker unit is attached to an opening portion formed in a front surface of the cabinet. The speaker unit has a back surface frame, a front surface frame, a first magnetic circuit, a second magnetic circuit, an edge, a damper, a diaphragm, a voice coil bobbin, and a voice coil. A non-magnet member which is a portion of the diaphragm, the first magnetic circuit, and the second magnetic circuit play a role as a negative stiffness mechanism to suppress an influence of an acoustic stiffness, thereby achieving a small-size speaker device capable of reproducing low-frequency sound.

A piezoelectric speaker comprises a plurality of diaphragms, connecting components, and piezoelectric elements. The plurality of diaphragms are each formed by a laminated material in which a core layer made of an insulating material is laminated to skin layers each made of a conductive material so as to form the skin layers on both surfaces of the core layer. The connecting components each corresponds to a plate-shaped component of the insulating material and connects between at least two of the plurality of diaphragms. Piezoelectric elements are mounted on surfaces of the plurality of diaphragms, respectively. The plurality of diaphragms are insulated from each other such that separate voltages are applied to the piezoelectric elements mounted thereon, respectively.

A method for forming diamond tools using CVD techniques. In one aspect, a mold is provided which has an interface surface configured to inversely match a configuration intended for the working surface of a diamond layer in a tool. An adynamic diamond mass or layer is then deposited upon the diamond interface surface of the mold, and a support layer is joined to the growth surface of the adynamic diamond layer. At least a portion of the mold is then removed to expose the working surface of the diamond which has received a shape which inversely corresponds to the configuration of the mold's diamond interface surface.

In one aspect, a speaker is provided having a coil and a diaphragm assembly coupled to the coil. The diaphragm assembly includes a piezo stiffener plate and a flexible membrane, the piezo stiffener plate including at least one piezo layer and at least one metal layer. The speaker is operable in a human audible frequency operating range and in an ultrasonic frequency operating range. In the ultrasonic frequency operating range, the piezo stiffener plate bends to extend the ultrasonic output beyond the ultrasonic range produced without the use of the piezo stiffener plate. In another aspect, a speaker is provided having a flexible membrane constructed at least partially of a piezo material. The speaker is operable in an ultrasonic frequency operating range wherein the piezo material bends to extend the ultrasonic output beyond the ultrasonic range produced without the use of the piezo material in the membrane.

An MEMS microphone device and an electronics apparatus are provided. The MEMS microphone device comprises: a substrate; a MEMS microphone element placed on the substrate; a cover encapsulating the MEMS microphone element together with the substrate; and an acoustic port for the MEMS microphone element, wherein a compliant membrane is provided to seal the acoustic port, and the membrane has a mechanical stiffness lower than that of the diaphragm of the MEMS microphone element.

A single-magnet double-tone-circuit coaxial loudspeaker includes a shell, a U iron, a magnet, a spring washer, a first diaphragm assembly, a second diaphragm assembly, an upper cover and a terminal plate. A single “magnet+spring washer+U iron” magnetic circuit is extended to be two upper-lower coaxial magnetic circuits, therefore, the first diaphragm assembly and the second diaphragm assembly which are electrically connected to the terminal plate generate a double-magnetic-circuit feature by sharing a single-magnet system. High frequency and low frequency wave bands are driven independently, such that high frequency and low frequency portions can achieve a better sound resolution effect. The complementation of the two reduces distortion, thus improves the overall acoustic performance of the loudspeaker.

A speaker assembly membrane including a sound radiating surface (SRS) having a first material; a substantially planar SRS ring positioned concentrically outward from the SRS and having a second material; and a suspension member positioned concentrically outward from the SRS ring and having a third material. The second material is stiffer than the first material and the third material to locally stiffen an area surrounding the SRS and improve a breaking mode frequency of the membrane. In another embodiment, the speaker assembly membrane may include a diaphragm having a first material density; a substantially planar stiffening ring extending radially outward from an outer edge of the diaphragm and having a second material density; and a suspension member extending radially outward from an outer edge of the stiffening ring and having a third material density. The second material density is greater than the first material density and the third material density.

The typical micro-transducer dedicated for mobile phones and headphones produces at high output in small back enclosure significant distortion in the acoustical output. These typical micro-transducers are designed for very high sensitivity and their mechanical suspension compliances are designed for worst case scenario, free air environment or a very large back enclosure (were the air stiffness from the back enclosure is much lower than the mechanical transducer suspension stiffness). This leads to poor low frequency response, high distortion, non-linear SPL characteristic and unnecessary high system resonance fre-quency when the transducer is placed in a small back enclosure. The Soft Suspension Long throw (SSL) micro-transducer has been designed with an improved non-circular shaped magnetic system, a low density / high Young's modulus thermal conducting diaphragm, a large-area non-circularly shaped diaphragm area, a non-circular shaped voice coil and a soft long-throw suspension which has been designed so that the SSL micro-transducer only functions properly when mounted in a small back enclosure. The combination of these inventions leads to a transducer architecture offering significant improvements in overall distortion, high RMS power handling, extended bass reproduction, also in compact volumes, and an overall flat frequency response. The combined result of several inventions is a significant overall improvement in perceived sound quality.