Piezoelectric speaker

• US 4,969,197 A
• Filed: 02/21/1989
• Issued: 11/06/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Takaya, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ng, Jin F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Byrd, Danita R.
• Application Number:
  US07/312,999
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• Field of Search: 381/190, 381/152, 381/182, 381/184, 381/186, 381/203, 310/345, 310/324
• US Class Current: 381/190
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 17/00 Piezoelectric transducers; Electrostrictive transducers piezoelectric or electrostrictive elements in general H10N30/00; details of piezoelectric or electrostrictive motors, generators or positioners H10N30/00

Abstract

A piezoelectric speaker in which a diaphragm containing a piezoelectric driver is fixed on a frame through an elastic supporting member. The diaphragm is an assembly of two resin foam plates facing each other. Each resin foam plate has a recess and a projecting member at the substantial center of the recess bottom. The piezoelectric driver is accommodated in the space made of the two recesses while being interposed and supported by the projecting members at the substantial center thereof.

Claims

1. A piezoelectric speaker which generates sound by vibrating a diaphragm using a piezoelectric driver, comprising:

a piezoelectric driver that is vibrated in bending mode by piezoelectric effect,

a diaphragm, formed by assembling two opposed plane resin foam plates, each having a recess, wherein the pair of recesses make a space, which is to accommodate said piezoelectric driver and which is bigger than said piezoelectric driver,

a piezoelectric driver supporting means for supporting the substantial center of said piezoelectric accommodated in the above space, and

a frame for supporting said diaphragm without restricting its vibration.

2. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein the two resin foam plates forming said diaphragm have different sizes and wherein a margin of the bigger resin foam plate extending out over the smaller resin foam plate is fixed on said frame through a elastic supporting member.

3. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein said piezoelectric driver supporting means is a projecting member provided on the recess bottom of one of the resin foam plates.

4. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein said piezoelectric driver supporting means are two opposed projecting members, which are respectively provided on the recess bottoms of the two resin foam plates and which interpose and support said piezoelectric driver when the two resin foam plates are assembled.

5. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 3, wherein the projecting member is integrally formed on the resin foam plate.

6. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 4, wherein the projecting members are integrally formed on their respective resin foam plates.

7. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein each resin foam plate has a uniform density.

8. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein each resin plate has a higher density at the thin portion neighboring the recess than at the remaining thick portion.

9. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein resin sheets are pasted on the whole main outer surfaces of the resin foam plates.

10. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein the two resin foam plates forming said diaphragm are vibrated by driving said piezoelectric driver, whereby sound is emitted from both main surfaces of said diaphragm.

11. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 1, wherein a thin poster is pasted on the main outer surface of the resin foam plate.

12. A piezoelectric speaker which generates sound by vibrating a diaphragm using multiple piezoelectric drivers, comprising:

multiple piezoelectric drivers that are vibrated in bending mode by piezoelectric effect,

a diaphragm, formed by assembling two opposed plane resin foam plates, each having multiple recesses, wherein the pairs of recesses make spaces, which are to respectively accommodate said multiple piezoelectric drivers and which are bigger than their respective piezoelectric drivers,

piezoelectric driver supporting means for supporting the substantial centers of said piezoelectric drivers respectively accommodated in the above spaces, and

a frame for supporting said diaphragm without restricting its vibration.

13. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 12, wherein said piezoelectric driver supporting means is a projecting member provided on the recess bottom of one of the resin foam plates.

14. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 12, wherein said piezoelectric driver supporting means are two opposed projecting members, which are respectively provided on the recess bottoms of the two resin foam plates and which interpose and support said piezoelectric driver when the two resin foam plates are assembled.

15. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 13, wherein each projecting member is integrally formed on the resin foam plate.

16. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 14, wherein the projecting members are integrally formed on their respective resin foam plates.

17. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 12, wherein each resin foam plate has a uniform density.

18. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 12, wherein each resin foam plate has a higher density at the thin portion neighboring the recess than at the remaining thick portion.

19. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 12, wherein resin sheets are pasted on the whole main outer surfaces of the resin foam plates.

20. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 12, wherein the two resin foam plates forming said diaphragm are vibrated by driving said piezoelectric drivers, whereby sound is emitted from both main surfaces of said diaphragm.

21. A piezoelectric speaker claimed in claim 20, wherein a thin poster is pasted on the main outer surface of the resin foam plate.