Sound isolation plate structure

• US 6,082,489 A
• Filed: 03/09/1998
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Iwao, Keijiro, Shimpo, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Khanh
• Application Number:
  US09/038,502
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 181/208, 181/284, 181/286, 181/288, 181/290, 181/292, 181/293, 181/294, 181/295
• US Class Current: 181/286
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/0838 for engine compartments
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/0861 for covering undersurfaces of vehicles, e.g. wheel houses
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/172 using resonance effects

Abstract

A sound isolation plate structure comprises a sheet of perforated board in which a plurality of holes are formed, and cylindrical portions provided on one surface side of the perforated board to extend from peripheral portions of the holes like cylinders unilaterally, wherein pneumatic vibration systems are formed between the cylindrical portions. Accordingly, a resonance frequency of vibration systems is easily tuned by adjusting a projection amount of the cylindrical portions so as to mate with a frequency of the noise to be isolated.

Claims

1. A sound isolation structure comprising:

a a single, flat perforated board in which a plurality of holes are exclusively formed; and

a plurality of cylindrical pipe-like portions which extend from peripheral portions of the plurality of holes;

wherein;

a diameter and a length of a bore defined by each of the pipe-like cylindrical portions are selected in conjunction with a thickness of the single, flat perforated board to define a plurality of first and second pneumatic vibration systems wherein the air which is located within each of the pipe-like cylindrical portions acts as a first mass, while a first portion of the air which is located adjacent the outer diameter of the pipe-like cylindrical portions acts as a second mass and a remaining second portion of the air which is located adjacent the outer diameter of the pipe-like cylindrical portions acts as a spring which is associated with the second mass.

2. A sound isolation structure according to claim 1, wherein:

the thickness t of the single, flat perforated board, an effective bore length L of each cylindrical pipe-like portion, an acoustic velocity C, and a center frequency f1 in a frequency bandwidth of a noise to be isolated are set to satisfy the relationship;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">L-t=C/4f1.

3. A sound isolation structure according to claim 1, wherein:

the thickness t of the single, flat perforated board, an effective bore length L of each cylindrical pipe-like portion, an acoustic velocity C, and a peak frequency f2 of a noise to be isolated are set to satisfy the relationship;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">L-t=C/4f1.

4. A sound isolation structure according to claim 1, wherein:

a porous material is disposed in a space between the cylindrical pipe-like portions.

5. A sound isolation structure according to claim 2, wherein:

a porous material is disposed in a space between the cylindrical pipe-like portions;

a filling density and a filling thickness of the porous material being selected so that a peak frequency of transmission loss which varies with the filling density and a filling thickness of the porous material is set to coincide substantially with the center frequency in the frequency bandwidth of the noise to be isolated.

6. A sound isolation structure according to claim 3, wherein:

a porous material is disposed in a space between the cylindrical pipe-like portions;

a filling density and a filling thickness of the porous material being selected so that a peak frequency of transmission loss which varies with the filling density and a filling thickness of the porous material is set to coincide substantially with the peak frequency of the noise to be isolated.

13. A sound isolation structure according to claim 6, wherein:

the sound isolating structure is oriented so that the porous material is exposed to a noise generating source.

18. A sound isolation structure according to claim 4, wherein the porous filler is formed so as to partially fill the space defined adjacent the cylindrical pipe-like portions and to have a given thickness so that it is separated from the single, flat perforated board and defines an air filled space between the porous filler and the single, flat perforated board.

7. A sound isolation structure comprising:

first and second flat perforated boards in which a first plurality of first holes and a second plurality of second holes are respectively formed, each of the first plurality of first holes in the first perforated board being spaced from an adjacent hole by a first predetermined interval and arranged so as to be each opposite a second hole in the second flat perforate board; and

a plurality of cylindrical portions, each of the cylindrical portions connecting one of the first holes with a second hole so as to provide a continuous un-interrupted communication therebetween, the number of second holes in the second board being greater than the number of first holes in the first board, the second holes being spaced from one another by a second predetermined interval which is less than the first predetermined interval by a predetermined amount so that a predetermined number of un-connected second holes open into an air chamber defined between the first and second boards and are entirely located opposite a non-perforate portion of the first board, so that

pneumatic vibration systems are formed wherein air in each of the cylindrical portions acts as a first mass, while air which is located in each of the second un-connected holes and the air which is located above each of the second un-connected holes and within the air chamber defined between the first and second board, respectively act as a second mass and a spring associated with the second mass.

8. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein:

a peak frequency of transmission loss which varies with a diameter of the un-connected second holes which open into the air chamber, a rate of hole area of the un-connected second holes, a depth of an opening portion of the un-connected second holes, a total thickness of the sound insulation plate, and a thickness of the air chamber, is set to coincide with a center frequency of a frequency bandwidth of a noise to be isolated.

9. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein:

a peak frequency of transmission loss which varies with a diameter of the un-connected second holes which open into the air chamber, a rate of hole area of the un-connected second holes, a depth of an opening portion of the un-connected second holes, a total thickness of the sound insulation plate, and a height of the air chamber, is set to coincide with a peak frequency of a noise to be isolated.

10. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein a porous material is filled into the air chamber.

11. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein:

.

a peak frequency of transmission loss which varies with a filling density of the porous material filled into the air chamber, a diameter of the un-connected second holes which open into the air chamber, a rate of hole area of the un-connected second holes, a depth of an opening portion of the un-connected second holes, a total thickness of the sound insulation plate, and a height of the air chamber, is set to coincide with a center frequency of a frequency bandwidth of a noise to be isolated.

12. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein:

a peak frequency of transmission loss which varies with a filling density of the porous material filled into the air chamber, a diameter of the un-connected second holes which open into the air chamber, a rate of hole area of the un-connected second holes, a depth of an opening portion of the un-connected second holes, a total thickness of the sound insulation plate, and a height of the air chamber, is set to coincide with a peak frequency of a noise to be isolated.

14. A sound isolation structure according to claim 10, wherein:

the second perforated board in which the second openings are formed, is directed toward a source of noise so as to expose the porous material to the noise from the noise generating source via the un-connected second holes.

15. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein each of the second un-connected holes has a first diameter, and each of the second holes which is connected with a first holes by a cylindrical portion, has a second diameter.

16. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, the first diameter, is one of the same and different from the second diameter.

17. A sound isolation structure according to claim 7, wherein each of the second un-connected holes has an inwardly extending flange having a given height which defines a depth of the opening portion thereof.