Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yoichi Kimura

Hiroyuki Takewa

Sawako Usuki

Mitsuhiko Serikawa

Shuichi Obata

Seiichi Ishikawa

Akitoshi Yamada

Yoshinobu Kikuchi

Shuji Saiki

Satoshi Takayama

Kousaku Murata

Kazue Sato

Tsuneo Tanaka

Katsuaki Satoh

Toshiyuki Goto

A speaker which is thin but which is capable of providing high-fidelity reproduction and ensuring a suitable level of sound pressure even when it is brought close to a wall. A closed chamber is formed behind one part of a disphragm mounted in an enclosure, and an open chamber is formed behind another part of the diaphragm. At least one voice coil driver unit is connected to the diaphragm. The phase difference between sounds radiated from the front and rear surfaces of the diaphragm is increased as large as possible by using an acoustic duct for the sound radiated through the open chamber, thereby minimizing cancellation of sounds and improving the sound pressure level.

Thin speaker having an enclosure with an open portion and a closed

A speaker which is thin but which is capable of providing high-fidelity reproduction and ensuring a suitable level of sound pressure even when it is brought close to a wall. A closed chamber is formed behind one part of a diaphragm mounted in an enclosure, and an open chamber is formed behind another part of the diaphragm. At least one voice coil drive unit is connected to the diaphragm. The phase difference between sounds radiated from the front and rear surfaces of the diaphragm is increased as large as possible by using an acoustic duct for the sound radiated through the open chamber, thereby minimizing cancellation of sounds and improving the sound pressure level.

Thin speaker having an enclosure within an open portion and a closed

A headphone device comprising a pair of headphones for receiving output signals from various acoustic apparatus, wherein a direct sound signal or an output signal of an acoustic apparatus is applied to a reverberation supply circuit to produce an indirect sound signal, said indirect sound signal being mixed with said direct sound signal with a ratio of more than 1 : 10 to control the feeling of distance to a sound image existing outside the head, and further the direct sound signal is added to another channel through an attenuator to control the feeling of the direction of the sound image, whereby a natural listening condition similar to the case of loudspeaker listening is obtained.

Out-of-head localization headphone listening device

The present invention relates to a headphone apparatus which is adapted to be connected, for headphone listening, to a reproduction apparatus for reproducing a program source such as a record, a magnetic tape or an acoustic apparatus such as a radio receiving set. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a headphone apparatus in which a direct audio frequency signal as an output signal from the electroacoustic apparatus is applied to reverberation circuits to generate indirect audio frequency signals and these direct and indirect audio frequency signals are mixed and applied to both the left and right electroacoustic transducers of the headphone apparatus, whereby an acoustic image can be established outside the listener's head just as in the case of listening to speakers.

Projected sound localization headphone apparatus

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Ashiya, Japan

Yoichi Kimura