Speaker apparatus

• US 8,430,200 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Issued: 04/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Arai, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN
• Application Number:
  US13/216,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20110303481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 181/148, 181/156, 181/192, 181/195, 181/199, 381/345, 381/349, 381/352
• US Class Current: 181/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2826 for loudspeaker transducers

Abstract

A speaker apparatus according to the present invention includes a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from one opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in an axial direction of the bass reflex port, and a length in one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body not changing and constant along the axial direction.

Claims

1. A speaker apparatus comprising:

a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from a first opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in a first axial direction of the bass reflex port and gradually becomes larger from the inside of the bass reflex port toward a second opening side in the first axial direction, a length in a second direction being not changing and constant along the first axial direction of the bass reflex port, the second direction being one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body; and

a connecting space portion which connects the first opening side of the tubular body to an opening face of the enclosure,

wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the opening face of the enclosure, and

the second direction is different from the first axial direction.

2. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a predetermined length portion of the tubular body portion along the first axial direction of the bass reflex port at a location at which the hollow cross-sectional area is smallest is a main tubular portion in which the hollow cross-sectional area is constant, and

a portion of the tubular body portion that connects to at least one end of the main tubular portion and in which the hollow cross-sectional area gradually increases from a side that connects to the main tubular portion toward the first opening side of the tubular body is an air rectifier.

3. The speaker apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first axial direction is perpendicular to both the second axial direction and the one direction.

4. A speaker apparatus comprising:

a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from a first opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in a first axial direction of the bass reflex port, a length in a second direction being not changing and constant along the first axial direction of the bass reflex port, the second direction being one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body; and

a connecting space portion which connects the first opening side of the tubular body to an opening face of the enclosure,

wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the opening face of the enclosure,

the second direction is different from the first axial direction,

a predetermined length portion of the tubular body portion along the first axial direction of the bass reflex port at a location at which the hollow cross-sectional area is smallest is a main tubular portion in which the hollow cross-sectional area is constant,

a portion of the tubular body portion that connects to at least one end of the main tubular portion and in which the hollow cross-sectional area gradually increases from a side that connects to the main tubular portion toward the first opening side of the tubular body is an air rectifier, and

the tubular body has a shape in which the hollow cross-sectional area gradually increases from a location where the hollow cross-sectional area is smallest toward a second bass reflex port opening side in the first axial direction of the bass reflex port.

5. The speaker apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the main tubular portion and the air rectifier are arranged so that a center of the hollow cross section of the main tubular portion that is perpendicular to the first axial direction of the bass reflex port and a center of the hollow cross section of the air rectifier that is perpendicular to the first axial direction of the bass reflex port agree, and

walls of connecting portions of the main tubular portion and the air rectifier have a shape that smoothly connects walls of the main tubular portion and walls of the air rectifier.