Fujitsu Ten Limited

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Time Domain Corporation

Hiroshi Kowaki

Hiroyuki Yoshii

Akira Nishikawa

Katsuhiko Tsumori

Kiyosei Shibata

Katsuhiko Taira

Kazuya Sako

Toshitaka Yamato

Akira Motojima

Yuji Tomita

Yoshihito Takeuchi

Hideki Matsui

Toshihiro Kido

Hirofumi Tetsu

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Hiroyuki c/o Timedomain Corporation Yoshii

A speaker includes a first vibrator, a first driving unit, a second vibrator, a second driving unit and a supporting unit. The first vibrator is connected to a diaphragm, which vibrates, thereby emitting sound. The first driving unit vibrates the first vibrator, thereby vibrating the diaphragm. The second vibrator is connected to a weight member. The second driving unit is connected to the opposite side of the first driving unit to the first vibrator, and vibrates the second vibrator on the same vibration axis as the vibration axis of the first vibrator, thereby vibrating the weight member. The supporting unit supports a coupled body, configured by joining the second vibrator and the weight member, at two or more portions in the direction of the vibration axis.

Speaker and vibration control unit

Loudspeaker with amplifier

An integrating apparatus to lower the levels of audio outputs of an on-board audio system immediately upon cessation of a noise level such as when a vehicle comes to a stop. Audio signals from an audio source are amplified through attenuating means by an amplifying means to drive a loudspeaker. An output of a microphone for detecting a noise is inputted to each of two integrating circuits, which have different fall time constants. Outputs of the integrating circuits are applied to a selectively outputting means, which selectively derives an output having a lower level among the outputs of the integrating circuits, and which then supplies the output as a control signal to the attenuating means. When the level of noise is high such as when the vehicle is running, the control signal has a high level and the attenuating means reduces an attenuation. Thus, the output of the audio source may be heard without a drift of the audio signal level. When the vehicle stops, the control signal level is lowered immediately, whereby the attenuation of the attenuating means is increased which results in the convergence rate of a fall of the audio output increasing.

Integrating apparatus

An automotive in-cabin audio system comprising a plurality of speakers installed at different positions in the cabin is disclosed, in which the playback signal from a multichannel player having sources of at least three channels recorded therein is processed in accordance with the position of a listener seated in the cabin thereby to reproduce a sound similar to the original sound at the position of the listener. The signal of the sound reproduced from a speaker far from each seat in the cabin is retrieved as a branch signal and delayed in accordance with the law of the first wave front. At the same time, the level of the particular signal is attenuated to produce a processed sound signal, which is added to the signal of the sound reproduced from the speaker near each seat. As a result, a sound similar to the original sound can be heard at any hearing position in the cabin.

Audio system

A weight is attached to the rear side of a magnetic circuit of a speaker unit. The tip of a boss that projects from the front side of the weight is joined to the rear side of a center pole of the magnetic circuit with a bolt. Even if reactive force that is generated when an electrical signal is converted into mechanical vibration by the magnetic circuit and a voice coil and sound waves are emitted from a vibration plate is transmitted to the magnetic circuit, the vibration of the magnetic circuit is suppressed by the weight. In this manner, sound quality with a good transient characteristic can be obtained.

Speaker system having processing circuitry

The present invention was developed in order to realize a multi-channel sound system wherein appropriate output (balance and fader) control can be conducted without adversely affecting the program contents, and a sound system, which can reproduce a plurality of channel signals including at least left and right front channels and a center channel for forward-placed speakers, comprises a gain controller to control the gain of either left or right channel signal and a gain controller to control the gain of the center channel signal depending on the gain control of the left or right channel signal.

Sound system

A weight is attached to the rear side of a magnetic circuit of a speaker unit. The tip of a boss that projects to the front side from the weight is joined to the rear side of a center pole of the magnetic circuit with a bolt. Even if reactive force that is generated when an electrical signal is converted into mechanical vibration by the magnetic circuit and a voice coil and sound waves are emitted from a vibration plate is transmitted to the magnetic circuit, the vibration of the magnetic circuit is suppressed by the weight. In this manner, sound quality with a good transient characteristic can be obtained.

Speaker assembly having plural drivers

Loudspeaker

A driver unit is fixed to a stand. A front box and a rear box are directly fitted to the stand through a buffer material. A box comes into contact with the driver unit through a buffer material and is fixed to the stand. Therefore, sound of the driver unit is not transmitted to the box and the drop of sound quality of the speaker can be prevented. The driver unit is fixed to the stand at an immovable foundation, and sound energy can be efficiently transmitted from a speaker cone to the air.

Speaker system

Speaker apparatus

A speaker structure having a simple configuration while maintaining good sound quality is disclosed. The speaker structure comprises a first speaker ( ) having a first vibration plate ( ), a first frame ( ) for fixing the perimeter of the first vibration plate and a first magnetic circuit ( ) for converting a signal into the vibration of the first vibration plate, a second speaker ( ) having a second vibration plate ( ), a second frame ( ) for fixing the perimeter of the second vibration plate and a second magnetic circuit ( ) for converting a signal into the vibration of the second vibration plate, and a fixing unit ( ) for fixing the first magnetic circuit and the second magnetic circuit at their backs.

Speaker structure

As in a compartment of an automotive vehicle, when a left- and a right-channel loudspeakers are disposed at angularly different positions from each other with respect to a frontward direction of a listening position, there will be formed a sound field laterally asymmetric with respect to the frontward direction of the listening position. In order to correct the asymmetry of the sound field, a crosstalk signal obtained by correcting the phase and the level of an acoustic signal of the left-channel from an acoustic signal source and a crosstalk adjustment signal obtained by correcting the level of the acoustic signal of the left-channel are fed to the right loudspeaker, or a center loudspeaker disposed between the left and right loudspeakers, together with an acoustic signal of the right-channel from the acoustic signal source. Similarly, a crosstalk signal obtained by correcting the phase and the level of an acoustic signal of the right-channel and a crosstalk adjustment signal obtained by correcting the level of the acoustic signal of the right-channel are fed to the left or center loudspeaker together with the acoustic signal of the left-channel from the acoustic signal source.

Apparatus for expanding and controlling sound fields

When a stereophonic broadcasting signal is interrupted because an electric field has weakened, a pilot signal 1 which designates that the electric field is not strong enough to separate an R-channel signal and an L-channel signal from a signal received by the tuner, is also interrupted. This interruption of the pilot signal changes gains and/or phases which act on an R-channel signal and/or an L-channel signal which are applied to a sound field calibrating system.

System for calibrating sound field

A coefficients setting method of a plurality of parallel connected comb filters whereby a delay time is set to the delay device provided with each comb filter to flatten reverberation frequency and to remove high frequency in the rear part of reverberation. The multiplying coefficients are set to multipliers provided with each comb filter to obtain the common reverberation time in the rear part of reverberation to improve the quality of reverberation sounds.

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Kobe, Japan

Hiroshi Kowaki