Wide band sound diffuser with self regulated low frequency absorption and methods of mounting
First Claim
1. A wide band sound diffuser with self regulated low frequency absorption, said wide band sound diffuser comprising:
- a center hemisphere like shape (1) which is confined and intersecting an octagon truncated pyramid (2);
wherein said octagon truncated pyramid (2) intersects on each of its four sides, respectively, four symmetrical one quarter cylinder like shapes (3);
said octagon truncated pyramid (2) also intersects four symmetrical quarter-hemisphere like shapes (4), each located on the corners of said diffuser;
wherein each symmetrical quarter-hemisphere like shape (4) consists of a quarter-hemisphere like shape embedded into a prism wherein each base prism intersects another lateral side of the central octagon truncated pyramid (2) at the remaining four sides, the angles between all intersected shapes are the same;
wherein at least 90% of said diffuser surface being convex therefore diffusing;
wherein said apparatus comprises two lateral rigid supports (5) glued or produced as one with the main body, and positioned on the inside of said diffuser on an opposite face by two T-shaped rails (6);
wherein the two T-shaped wooden rails are mounted on a wall or ceiling surface with screws or nails;
wherein at least four of said wide band sound diffusers are mounted together at a distance from one another, such that the rigid supports (5) and T-shaped rails (6) of each diffuser is in tight mechanical contact with one another;
wherein the at least four diffusers, at their nearest and common contact points display together a new three dimensional shape which consists of a sphere like shape embedded into a base prism;
wherein each base prism intersects a lateral side of the central truncated pyramid (2), and the angle between each three dimensional shape is the same along the four created directions, like a cross;
from the common point of the one-quarter cylinder like shape forms hemisphere like shapes, all being symmetrical towards two perpendicular axes and respectively towards two diagonal axes;
wherein the common point of each of the four diffusers forms a small inward decreasingly curvature which serves to avoid central sphere reflections and optimize more local diffusion;
wherein a small cross from four concave curvatures is formed on top of each shape (1);
wherein two T-shaped rails (6) are made from wood or any suitable material, and may be steady mounted parallel or perpendicular to the ground or similarly on a ceiling, providing two lateral supporting surfaces for the grouped apparatus;
wherein the remaining two sides are not sealed relative to the supporting surface, the distance between their bottom side and the supporting surface being equal to the height of the two T-shaped rails (6);
wherein air circulates freely in one direction on many parallel columns;
wherein the resulting parallel surfaces behaves like hard plates steady supported at the two longer edges;
wherein an empty space behind each diffuser follows their back geometry and the resulted geometry from the grouped diffuser forms a Helmholtz resonator;
where the lower frequencies are related to the inside highest points of the diffusers main body relative to the supported wall, and to the largest dimension of the grouped diffusers;
wherein the group mounted diffusers comprise at least two columns of diffusers in very tight contact, creating air resonance behind each of the grouped diffusers resonating at almost the same sound source spectral contents but, not at the same sound levels, resulting in the rooms standing waves being continuously variable and following their natural distribution; and
said diffuser having linearity for the low frequency and the diffusing capability of an inverse ultra fast automatic and signal adaptable wide range digital equalizer.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an acoustical diffuser device, said apparatus comprising the main body from FIG. 1 and two lateral rigid supports (5), glued to the inside of the said diffuser which lateral supports are received, like a drawer, by two wooden rails (6), section T. The two wooden rails (6) are simply mounted on the wall or ceiling surface with screws or nails. The main diffuser body with his two drivers is mounted just like a drawer toward the two rails T or is embedded into the complex endless-screw containing base from FIGS. 6 (1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15). The main body is composed from three basically 3D shapes (1, 2, 3, and 4). Each fourth diffusers, displays together a new 3D shapes at their nearest point, FIGS. 10, 11 and 12. This diffuser may be used in any kind of room and geometry where the critical listening is needed such live or recorded music and music teaching. His main advantage is that it is working simultaneously in two ways: as a clean diffuser for mid and high frequencies and as a self controlled absorber, below 250 Hz, for low frequencies, as from FIG. 1 and related figures and very low frequencies when the apparatus from FIG. 6 is used. This is possible, because being mounted in two new different ways, his compartmented volumes behind the diffuser surfaces works like a complex Helmholtz resonator. There are described methods for mounting it for one and four grouped apparatus.
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1. A wide band sound diffuser with self regulated low frequency absorption, said wide band sound diffuser comprising:
- a center hemisphere like shape (1) which is confined and intersecting an octagon truncated pyramid (2);
wherein said octagon truncated pyramid (2) intersects on each of its four sides, respectively, four symmetrical one quarter cylinder like shapes (3);
said octagon truncated pyramid (2) also intersects four symmetrical quarter-hemisphere like shapes (4), each located on the corners of said diffuser;
wherein each symmetrical quarter-hemisphere like shape (4) consists of a quarter-hemisphere like shape embedded into a prism wherein each base prism intersects another lateral side of the central octagon truncated pyramid (2) at the remaining four sides, the angles between all intersected shapes are the same;
wherein at least 90% of said diffuser surface being convex therefore diffusing;
wherein said apparatus comprises two lateral rigid supports (5) glued or produced as one with the main body, and positioned on the inside of said diffuser on an opposite face by two T-shaped rails (6);
wherein the two T-shaped wooden rails are mounted on a wall or ceiling surface with screws or nails;
wherein at least four of said wide band sound diffusers are mounted together at a distance from one another, such that the rigid supports (5) and T-shaped rails (6) of each diffuser is in tight mechanical contact with one another;
wherein the at least four diffusers, at their nearest and common contact points display together a new three dimensional shape which consists of a sphere like shape embedded into a base prism;
wherein each base prism intersects a lateral side of the central truncated pyramid (2), and the angle between each three dimensional shape is the same along the four created directions, like a cross;
from the common point of the one-quarter cylinder like shape forms hemisphere like shapes, all being symmetrical towards two perpendicular axes and respectively towards two diagonal axes;
wherein the common point of each of the four diffusers forms a small inward decreasingly curvature which serves to avoid central sphere reflections and optimize more local diffusion;
wherein a small cross from four concave curvatures is formed on top of each shape (1);
wherein two T-shaped rails (6) are made from wood or any suitable material, and may be steady mounted parallel or perpendicular to the ground or similarly on a ceiling, providing two lateral supporting surfaces for the grouped apparatus;
wherein the remaining two sides are not sealed relative to the supporting surface, the distance between their bottom side and the supporting surface being equal to the height of the two T-shaped rails (6);
wherein air circulates freely in one direction on many parallel columns;
wherein the resulting parallel surfaces behaves like hard plates steady supported at the two longer edges;
wherein an empty space behind each diffuser follows their back geometry and the resulted geometry from the grouped diffuser forms a Helmholtz resonator;
where the lower frequencies are related to the inside highest points of the diffusers main body relative to the supported wall, and to the largest dimension of the grouped diffusers;
wherein the group mounted diffusers comprise at least two columns of diffusers in very tight contact, creating air resonance behind each of the grouped diffusers resonating at almost the same sound source spectral contents but, not at the same sound levels, resulting in the rooms standing waves being continuously variable and following their natural distribution; and
said diffuser having linearity for the low frequency and the diffusing capability of an inverse ultra fast automatic and signal adaptable wide range digital equalizer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
- a center hemisphere like shape (1) which is confined and intersecting an octagon truncated pyramid (2);
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