VIBRATION PICKUP MICROPHONE

• US 20100290660A1
• Filed: 02/06/2009
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Temco Japan Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Temco Japan Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Fukuda, Mikio
• Application Number:
  US12/863,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20100290660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/355
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/14 Throat mountings for microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/46 Special adaptations for use as contact microphones, e.g. on musical instrument, on stethoscope throat mountings H04R1/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 7/122 comprising a plurality of sections or layers

Abstract

To provide a microphone used for telecommunication or speech recognition input in a high noise environment, or more specifically, a vibration pickup microphone that hardly howls even when transmission and reception occur simultaneously. A vibration pickup microphone has: a housing 1 attached to a human body contact surface of a transmitter/receiver or the like; a microphone unit 2 of an aerial vibration collecting type incorporated in the housing 1; and a microphone holder 5 that is made of an elastic material and supports the microphone unit 2 in the housing 1. The housing 1 has a case 3 having an opening in an upper surface thereof, in which the microphone holder 5 is fitted, and a cover 4 that is made of an elastic material and covers an outer surface of the case 3. A multilayered diaphragm 6 is disposed on an upper surface of the microphone holder 5 with an air space 16 formed between the multilayered diaphragm 6 and the microphone holder 5. A sealed cavity 7 is formed between diaphragms 6a and 6b constituting the multilayered diaphragm 6.

Claims

1. A vibration pickup microphone, comprising:

a housing adapted to be attached to a human body contact surface of a transmitter/receiver;

a microphone unit of an aerial vibration collecting type incorporated in said housing; and

a microphone holder that is made of an elastic material and supports said microphone unit in said housing,

wherein said housing has a case having an opening in an upper surface thereof, in which said microphone holder is fitted, and a cover that is made of an elastic material and covers an outer surface of said case, a multilayered diaphragm is disposed on an upper surface of said microphone holder with an air space formed between said multilayered diaphragm and said microphone holder, and a sealed cavity is formed between diaphragms constituting said multilayered diaphragm.

2. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 1, wherein said multilayered diaphragm has a dome-like shape.

3. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 1, wherein said multilayered diaphragm includes two diaphragms, an inner sub diaphragm and an outer sub diaphragm, and said sealed cavity is formed between said inner sub diaphragm and said outer sub diaphragm.

4. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 3, wherein said inner sub diaphragm has a protrusion formed at a center part of an outer surface thereof, and the protrusion abuts against or is fixed to an inner surface of said outer sub diaphragm.

5. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 3, wherein said outer sub diaphragm has a protrusion formed at a center part of an inner surface thereof, and the protrusion abuts against or is fixed to an outer surface of said inner sub diaphragm.

6. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 1, wherein said microphone holder has a supporting frame on the upper surface thereof, and the supporting frame is fitted into a recess in a bottom surface of said multilayered diaphragm to support said multilayered diaphragm.

7. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 1, wherein said multilayered diaphragm has a flange along a lower edge thereof, and a circumferential edge of the flange abuts against an inner surface of said case.

8. The vibration pickup microphone according to claim 1, wherein said multilayered diaphragm has a spherical outer surface.