Bass reflex type speaker device, mounting structure and mounting method for speaker device

• US 7,184,566 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2003
• Issued: 02/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ohtani, Shuhki, Katayama, Kazuhiro, Tamura, Ichiro, Murayama, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ni; Suhan
• Application Number:
  US10/507,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20050117768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,456 Days
• Field of Search: 381/306, 381/333, 381/361, 381/365, 381/386, 381/388, 181/148, 181/160, 181198-199
• US Class Current: 381/388
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/642 Disposition of sound reproducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/66 Transforming electric information into light information scanning details H04N3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2819 for loudspeaker transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2826 for loudspeaker transducers

Abstract

A bass reflex type speaker apparatus comprises a speaker box having an opening portion on a front surface, a speaker unit (1) mounted within the speaker box in conformity with the opening portion, and a tubular duct (7) that externally radiates sound from a rear surface of the speaker unit (1) disposed within the speaker box through phase inversion. The duct (7) has on the same plane one or a plurality of bent portions bent in substantially dogleg form and linear portions extending at both ends of the bent portion, the duct being disposed in parallel with the front surface of the speaker box. At least the longest linear portion of the linear portions is disposed tilted relative to wall surfaces except for the front and rear surfaces of the speaker box. It is thus possible to reduce the size, namely height, width and depth, of the speaker box incorporating the duct.

Claims

1. A speaker apparatus mounting structure for mounting and fixing a speaker apparatus with a substantially box-shaped speaker box within an enclosure of a television receiver having front and back panels, wherein the speaker apparatus is provided with a plurality of first mounting portions for clamping and retaining vibration-insulating members at any plurality of corner portions of all the corner portions of the speaker box and with a second mounting portion that projects upward at a substantially center position on an upper portion of a top surface of the speaker box, the second mounting portion clamping and retaining at least one vibration-insulating member, the first and second mounting portions being disposed integrally with the speaker box, and wherein the vibration-insulating members of the first mounting portions are secured to mounting members provided on the front panel of the television receiver, the vibration-insulating member of the second mounting portion being clamped between the front and back panels by clamping members on the front and back panels of the television receiver such that the clamped vibration-insulating member and the clamping members are tightened together and fixed.

2. The speaker apparatus mounting structure as defined in claim 1, wherein the speaker box includes front and back cabinets,

wherein the first and second mounting portions are disposed in parallel and on substantially the same plane when viewed from a cross-section joining the front and back cabinets of the speaker box.

3. The speaker apparatus mounting structure as defined in claim 1, wherein the first and second mounting portions are depression-shaped so as to be open upward when viewed from the front or back cabinet.

4. The speaker apparatus mounting structure as defined in claim 1, wherein the vibration-insulating member of the second mounting portion is clamped by bosses provided on the front and back panels of the television receiver, each boss projecting inward, and wherein, by fixing the clamped vibration-insulating member and each of the bosses with fixing members, the speaker apparatus is mounted such that at least one point of the speaker apparatus is suspended by the front and back panels of the television receiver.

5. The speaker apparatus mounting structure as defined in claim 1, wherein the vibration-insulating members are cylindrical elastic bodies.

6. The speaker apparatus mounting structure as defined in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the speaker apparatus is a bass reflex type speaker apparatus incorporating at least one speaker unit.

7. The speaker apparatus mounting structure as defined in claim 6, wherein the speaker apparatus has a tubular duct for externally radiating sound from a rear surface of the speaker unit through phase inversion, and wherein a sound release surface of the duct is disposed on a wall surface other than the front and rear surfaces of the speaker box.

8. A speaker apparatus mounting method for mounting and fixing a speaker apparatus with a substantially box-shaped speaker box within an enclosure of a television receiver having front and back panels, comprising:

clamping and retaining vibration-insulating members by first mounting portions disposed at any plurality of corner portions of all the corner portions of the speaker box;

clamping and retaining at least one vibration-insulating member by a second mounting portion projecting upward at a substantially center position on an upper portion of a top surface of the speaker box;

securing the vibration-insulating members of the first mounting portions to mounting members provided on the front panel of the television receiver; and

clamping the vibration-insulating member of the second mounting portion between the front and back panels by clamping members on the front and back panels of the television receiver such that the clamped vibration-insulating member and the clamping members are tightened together and fixed.