Electroacoustic converter

• US 7,142,687 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2002
• Issued: 11/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Akito Hanada
• Original Assignee: Akito Hanada
• Inventors: Hanada, Akito
• Primary Examiner(s): Ni, Suhan
• Application Number:
  US10/470,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20040070294A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,727 Days
• Field of Search: 381/152, 381/191, 381/396, 381412-422, 381/431
• US Class Current: 381/421
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 9/047 in which the windings of the moving coil lay in the same plane

Abstract

An electroacoustic transducer 20, such as a speaker, a headphone, an earphone, a microphone, an acoustic wave sensor, etc., includes magnet plates 21 and 22, the entirety of which are formed like a disk or a ring; and an acoustic diaphragm 23 disposed parallel to said magnet plates 21 and 22 and having a conductor formed on the plane thereof; wherein a component parallel to the vibration plane of said acoustic diaphragm 23 is zero or in the radius direction of said magnet plates 21 and 22 in the direction of magnetizing respective partial areas of said magnet plates 21 and 22, and angles formed by said magnetizing direction with respect to the vibration plane of said acoustic diaphragm 23 are made gradually different from each other in accordance with the distance from the center axis of said magnet plates 21 and 22.

Claims

1. An electroacoustic transducer, comprising:

one or a plurality of magnet plates, an entirety of which are formed like a disk or a ring, and each of the magnet plates having a plurality of partial areas each magnetized in a magnetizing direction; and

an acoustic diaphragm disposed parallel to said magnet plates and having a conductor formed on a surface of the acoustic diaphragm and configured to vibrate in a vibration plane of the acoustic diaphragm;

wherein the magnetizing direction of each of the plurality of partial areas has a component of the magnetizing direction oriented in a direction parallel to a center axis or a radius direction of said magnet plates, and angles formed by said magnetizing directions of the plurality of partial areas with respect to the vibration plane of said acoustic diaphragm gradually differ from each other in accordance with a distance from the center axis of said magnet plates.

2. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 1, wherein said magnet plates comprise an aggregate of small magnets corresponding to said respective partial areas.

3. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 2, wherein at least one of said magnet plates, an entirety of which are formed like a disk or a ring, has a thickness gradually increasing from a circumferential edge of the magnetic plate toward a center axis.

4. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 2, wherein at least one of said magnet plates, an entirety of which are formed like a disk or a ring, has a thickness at an intermediate portion between a center axis and a circumferential edge of the magnetic plate which is thicker than portions of the magnetic plate near said center axis and near said outer circumferential edge.

5. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 2, wherein said magnet plates have acoustic pores that allow acoustic waves generated to pass therethrough.

6. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 5, wherein the size, arrangement density, and arrangement pattern of said acoustic pores disposed in said magnet plates gradually differ from each other from a center axis of said magnet plates toward an outer circumferential edge of the magnet plates.

7. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 2, wherein at least one of said magnet plates which are formed like a disk or ring as an entirety has a thickness at an intermediate portion between a center axis and an outer circumferential edge of the magnetic plate thinner than portions of the magnetic plate near the center axis and near the outer circumferential edge.

8. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 2, wherein each of the plurality of magnet plates has an inner circumferential edge defining an opening about a center axis, and having an inner electroacoustic transducer disposed concentrically within the opening.

9. An electroacoustic transducer as set forth in claim 8, wherein the inner electroacoustic transducer comprises:

one or a plurality of inner magnet plates, an entirety of which is formed like a disk or a ring, and each of the inner magnet plates has a plurality of partial areas each magnetized in a magnetizing direction; and

an inner acoustic diaphragm disposed parallel to said inner magnet plates and having a conductor formed on a surface of the inner acoustic diaphragm thereof and configured to vibrate in a vibration plane of the inner acoustic diaphragm;

wherein the magnetizing direction of each of the plurality of partial areas of the inner magnet plates has a component of the magnetizing direction oriented in a direction parallel to the center axis or in a radius direction of said inner magnet plates, and angles formed by said magnetizing directions of the plurality of partial areas of said inner magnet plates with respect to the vibration plane of said inner acoustic diaphragm gradually differ from each other in accordance with a distance from the center axis of said inner magnet plates.