Piezoelectric audio transducer

• US 4,374,377 A
• Filed: 12/10/1980
• Issued: 02/15/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Saito, Hiroshi, Saito, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell, Sr., John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Myer, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US06/215,037
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• Field of Search: 340/384 E, 340/384 R, 340/566, 310/322, 310/324, 310/345, 310/348, 179/110 A, 179/110 B, 179/110 C, 179/110 D, 179/110 E, 179/110 F, 179/110 R
• US Class Current: 340/384.6
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 9/22 Mountings; Casings

Abstract

A piezoelectric audio transducer adapted to produce a sound output when a vibrator which is formed by bonding a piezoelectric element to a metallic diaphragm is electrified, wherein the audio transducer is formed by securely supporting the outer periphery of the vibrator on an acoustic casing, and a fixing part to be fixed to a mounting body is provided on the audio transducer and is connected to the casing with an elastic body interposed therebetween so as to thereby enable the casing which is fixed to the mounting body to vibrate integrally with the vibrator when said vibrator is vibrated.

Claims

1. A three-terminal audio transducer, wherein the outer periphery of a vibrator, which comprises a piezoelectric element placed on a metallic diaphragm, is securely supported on an acoustic casing, and wherein an elastic part is arranged between said casing and a fixing part of said audio transducer so as to be fixed to a mounting body, and wherein said elastic part has sufficient elasticity to enable said vibrator and casing and elastic part to vibrate in a well balanced fashion.

2. A three-terminal audio transducer as defined in claim 1, wherein said elastic part comprises a thin elastic plate which is integral with said casing and wherein said casing comprises a plastic material.

3. A three-terminal aduio transducer as defined in claim 1, wherein said elastic part comprises a plurality of electroconductive terminals for fixing said audio transducer to said mounting body.

4. A three-terminal audio transducer as defined in claim 3, wherein said plurality of electroconductive terminals comprise three electroconductive terminals which are fixed to said casing, two of said three electroconductive terminals being used for both supplying electrical power to said transducer and for mechanical support and the third of said three electroconductive terminals being used for both electrical feedback and mechanical support.

5. A three-terminal audio transducer as defined in claim 1, wherein said elastic part comprises three electroconductive terminals which are fixed to said casing, two of said three electroconductive terminals being used for both supplying electrical power to said transducer and for mechanical support and the third of said three electroconductive terminals being used for both electrical feedback and mechanical support.