Speaker apparatus

• US 20050232450A1
• Filed: 03/07/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Inventors: Hikichi, Toshihiro, Kobayashi, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,324,657 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/172
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 9/063 using a plurality of acoustic drivers H04R1/24 and H04R1/403 take precedence

Abstract

A voice coil and a magnetic driving circuit oscillate a diaphragm and a center cap. A magnetic lighting circuit for providing a magnetic field to an induction coil is mounted separately from a magnetic driving circuit. The induction coil generates an electromotive force for lighting light-emitting devices. Further, the light-emitting devices, the induction coil, and the magnetic lighting circuit are mounted integrally on the center cap.

Claims

1. A speaker apparatus comprising:

an oscillation unit for generating a sound;

a drive unit having a voice coil and a magnetic driving circuit for providing a magnetic field to the voice coil to oscillate the oscillation unit;

light-emitting devices mounted on specific positions; and

an electromotive force generator for lighting the light-emitting devices including an induction coil and a magnetic lighting circuit, said magnetic lighting circuit being mounted separately from the magnetic driving circuit for providing a magnetic field to the induction coil,

whereby owing to an oscillation of the oscillation unit, the induction coil of the electromotive force generator generates an electromotive force for lighting the light-emitting devices.

2. The speaker apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the induction coil and the magnetic lighting circuit are mounted on the oscillation unit.

3. The speaker apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the induction coil and the magnetic lighting circuit are mounted on a center cap of the oscillation unit.

4. The speaker apparatus as claimed in claim 2 or 3,

wherein the electromotive force generator further comprises a damper for coupling either one of the induction coil or the magnetic lighting circuit to the oscillation unit movably relative to the oscillation unit, while the other one of the induction .coil or the magnetic lighting circuit is fixed on the oscillation unit.

5. The speaker apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the light-emitting devices are attached to a substrate on which the induction coil is mounted.

6. The speaker apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the light-emitting devices are attached to the center cap of the oscillation unit.