Mount for loudspeaker on vehicle panel

• US 4,550,796 A
• Filed: 12/19/1984
• Issued: 11/05/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Inventors: Tomita, Shuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fuller, Benjamin R.
• Application Number:
  US06/683,444
• Time in Patent Office: 321 Days
• Field of Search: 181/141, 181/150, 181/171, 179/146 R, 179/146 E, 381/86
• US Class Current: 181/141
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0217 for loud-speakers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0047 using hidden fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0052 using screws, bolts, rivets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/025 Arrangements for fixing loudspeaker transducers, e.g. in a box, furniture
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/13 Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles

Abstract

A mount for a loudspeaker is disclosed with which the loudspeaker can be mounted to a panel of a vehicle or the like readily and in a narrow space. The mount includes a spacer having a central aperture for receiving the loudspeaker to be mounted. Around the inner periphery of the aperture in the spacer are located a plurality of sack-shaped fitting inserting members joined to the spacer through arms having screw holes aligned with respective screw holes in the spacer. To mount the loudspeaker, fittings having screw holes are inserted into the fitting inserting members, and the fitting inserting members are bent back so as to temporarily hold the spacer to a corresponding aperture in the panel and to align the screw holes formed in the spacer and mounting arms with those of the fittings. The loudspeaker is then positioned on the spacer and screws are inserted through mounting holes in the loudspeaker and into the screw holes in the fittings.

Claims

1. A mount for mounting a loudspeaker on a panel of a vehicle or the like, comprising:

a spacer having an aperture formed therein shaped to receive said loudspeaker;

a plurality of fitting inserting members provided around an inside periphery of said aperture in said spacer, each of said fitting inserting members comprising an arm protruding inwardly from an underside of said spacer, and a sack-shaped fitting inserting member extending from an inward end of said arm said arm having a mounting hole formed therein aligned with a hole in said spacer inwards of said fitting inserting member, and a hinge connecting said arm to said spacer; and

a fitting shaped to be received in one of said fitting inserting members, said fittings each having a screw hole for supporting a mounting screw on an underside of a respective one of said holes in said spacer,

wherein said loudspeaker is mounted in said panel by placing said spacer over a corresponding aperture in said panel, bending said fitting inserting members so as to hold said spacer to said aperture in said panel and align said screw holes in said fittings with the corresponding holes in said spacer, inserting said loudspeaker into said aperture in said spacer, and screwing screws through screw holes formed in said loudspeaker and into said screw holes in said fittings through said holes in said spacer.

2. The mount for a loudspeaker of claim 1, wherein said fitting inserting members have longitudinally extending holes therein exposing said screw holes in said fittings.

3. The mount for a loudspeaker of claim 1, wherein said spacer is molded of a synthetic resin.

4. The mount for a loudspeaker of claim 1, wherein prior to bending of said fitting inserting members, said fitting inserting members extend substantially perpendicular to a plane of said spacer.