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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1998
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In an electroacoustic transducer (1) including a substantially hollow cylindrical magnet system (9) which is substantially centro-symmetrical with respect to a transducer axis (2), a diaphragm (17) and a voice coil (16) connected to the diaphragm (17) having two coil leads (20), and two contact terminals which, viewed in the direction of the transducer axis (2), are disposed inside the magnet system (9) and are each connected to one coil lead (20), the contact terminals are spring contacts (21, 22) which are formed with at least one bend and are preferably U-shaped, having two limbs (23, 24) extending transversely to the transducer axis (2) and including a first limb (23), which is mechanically connected to a contact holder (26) of the transducer (21), and a second limb (24) having contact faces (25) which are movable parallel to the transducer axis (2), the contact faces (25) of both spring contacts (21, 22) having different radial distances from the transducer axis (2).