Onkyo Corporation

Hajime Yoshimura

Sadatoshi Hisamoto

Hiroyasu Kumo

Takeru Inoue

The vibrator includes a frame defining an internal space, a voice coil fixed to the frame in the internal space, a shaft member arranged along an axial direction of the coil in the internal space, a magnetic circuit arranged slidably relative to the shaft member and having a magnetic gap in which the coil is arranged, and a compression coil spring arranged between one end side of the magnetic circuit and one end side of the frame along the axial direction in the internal space. The compression coil spring is a coiled wave spring configured such that a plate-shaped steel wire is multiple-wound in a spiral shape in a circumferential direction of the shaft member to alternately form a peak portion and a trough portion at an equal interval and the peak portion and the trough portion contact each other in the axial direction.

Vibrator

There is provided a diaphragm or a dust cap configured to emit a sound wave and an electrodynamic speaker unit including the diaphragm or the dust cap. The speaker unit is configured so that a great peak dip of sound pressure frequency characteristics due to influence of a divided vibration mode can be prevented and excellent reproduced sound quality can be provided. In the diaphragm or the dust cap, a recessed-raised portion imitating a wing of an insect is formed at least on one surface of a diaphragm portion configured to emit a sound wave. Preferably, the recessed-raised portion is formed based on data obtained by measurement of an actual shape of a wing vein of the insect or data of a Voronoi diagram imitating the wing vein of the insect.

Diaphragm or dust cap and speaker unit

A vibrator includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap, a voice coil having a coil arranged in the magnetic gap and a bobbin around which the coil is wound on one end side, a flange member coupled to the other end side of the bobbin protruding from the magnetic circuit, and an elastic coupling member coupling the magnetic circuit and the flange member so that the magnetic circuit and the flange member can vibrate relative to each other. The elastic coupling member includes a first fixed portion, a second fixed portion, and an elastic deformation portion coupling the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion via elastically-deformable coupling portions. The elastic coupling member is configured such that the first fixed portion, the second fixed portion, and the elastic deformation portion are integrally formed, and substantially houses the magnetic circuit, the voice coil, and the flange member inside.

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Osaka, Japan

Hajime Yoshimura