Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Hiroko Tsutsumi

Mitsukazu Kuze

Shoji Tanaka

Satoshi Koura

Takafumi Yuasa

Tomonori Shibuya

Koichi Nakayama

Kazuhiro Oshika

A loudspeaker includes a diaphragm body having a dome shape protruding upwardly, a magnetic circuit disposed below the diaphragm body, a voice coil coupled to the diaphragm body, an edge coupled to an outer circumference of the diaphragm body, and a frame coupled to the edge. The edge includes a first coupling portion provided at an outer circumference of the edge, a second coupling portion provided at an inner circumference of the edge and coupled to an outer circumference of the diaphragm body, and a roll portion disposed between the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion. The edge has a surface facing downward. The frame has a connecting surface disposed below the second coupling portion and coupled to the surface of the edge at the first coupling portion of the edge. This loudspeaker can decrease distortion of sound.

Loudspeaker

A speaker of the present invention includes the following: a diaphragm that includes an inner periphery coupled to a voice coil, and a corrugation provided at the intermediate position between the inner periphery and an outer periphery; a speaker edge for supporting the outer periphery of the diaphragm; and a damping member attached to an outer peripheral part of the diaphragm outside the vicinity of an outer periphery of the corrugation. The effective vibration area of an inner peripheral part of the diaphragm inside an inner periphery of the corrugation is substantially half or less of the total effective vibration area. The damping member is configured as a damping portion by extending an overlap portion of the speaker edge overlapping with the diaphragm to the vicinity of the outer periphery of the corrugation. This configuration can suppress the vibration transmission at high frequencies to the outer peripheral part of the diaphragm outside the corrugation, allows only the inner peripheral part of the diaphragm inside the corrugation to mainly vibrate at high frequencies, and also can suppress a resonance in the outer peripheral part of the diaphragm outside the corrugation. Thus, the speaker can have both an excellent high frequency response and an excellent mid-high frequency response.

Speaker

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Hiroko Tsutsumi