Bass reflex port and tubular body

• US 9,232,300 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2014
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Miki, Akira, Onitsuka, Hirofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): San Martin, Edgardo
• Application Number:
  US14/209,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20140262598A1
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 181/156, 181/199, 181/148, 381/349, 381/345
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2815 of the bass reflex type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2826 for loudspeaker transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2869 Reduction of undesired resonances, i.e. standing waves within enclosure, or of undesired vibrations, i.e. of the enclosure itself

Abstract

A bass reflex port having a tubular shape for air flows, wherein an angle of a first inner radial line with respect to a reference plane including a center axis of the bass reflex port differs from an angle of a second inner radial line with respect to the reference plane, the first line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing a first characteristic point on an inner circumference of the bass reflex port in a first transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the second line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing a second characteristic point corresponding to the first characteristic point and located on the inner circumference in a second transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the first transverse cross section and the second transverse cross section differing form each other in position in a direction of extension of the center axis.

Claims

1. A bass reflex port which has a tubular shape and through which air flows,

wherein an angle of a first inner radial line with respect to a reference plane that includes a center axis of the bass reflex port differs from an angle of a second inner radial line with respect to the reference plane, the first inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a first characteristic point located on an inner circumference of the bass reflex port in a first transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the second inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a second characteristic point corresponding to the first characteristic point and located on the inner circumference in a second transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the first transverse cross section and the second transverse cross section differing from each other in position in a direction of extension of the center axis.

2. The bass reflex port according to claim 1,

wherein an angle of an inner radial line with respect to the reference plane continuously changes with respect to a displacement, in the direction of extension of the center axis, of a transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a characteristic point as each of the first characteristic point and the second characteristic point located on the inner circumference in the transverse cross section, and

wherein a rotation angle of the inner radial line with respect to the displacement of the transverse cross section in the direction of extension of the center axis by a unit amount differs depending upon a position of the transverse cross section in the direction of extension of the center axis.

4. The bass reflex port according to claim 1, wherein a first locus and a second locus differ from each other in shape, the first locus connecting characteristic points each located on the inner circumference in a corresponding one of a plurality of transverse cross sections perpendicular to the center axis, the second locus connecting characteristic points each of which is located on the inner circumference in a corresponding one of the transverse cross sections and which differ from the characteristic points of the first locus.

5. The bass reflex port according to claim 1, wherein an inner circumferential region enclosed by an inner circumferential surface of the bass reflex port in a transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis has a noncircular shape having rotational symmetry.

6. The bass reflex port according to claim 5, wherein an order of the rotational symmetry of the inner circumferential region is an odd number.

7. The bass reflex port according to claim 5, wherein an order of the rotational symmetry of the inner circumferential region is 3 or 5.

13. The bass reflex port according to claim 1,

wherein the first characteristic point is located on a first line that is an intersection line between the inner circumference of the bass reflex port and the first transverse cross section, wherein the second characteristic point is located on a second line that is a line of intersection between the inner circumference of the bass reflex port and the second transverse cross section, and wherein the first characteristic point is a maximum point at which an inner radius is maximum on the first line and the second characteristic point is a maximum point at which an inner radius is maximum on the second line.

14. The bass reflex port according to claim 13,

wherein an angle of a third inner radial line with respect to the reference plane differs from an angle of a fourth radial line with respect to the reference plane, the third inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a third characteristic point located on the first line, the fourth inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a fourth characteristic point corresponding to the third characteristic point and located on the second line, and wherein the third characteristic point is a minimum point at which an inner radius is minimum on the first line, and the fourth characteristic point is a minimum point at which an inner radius is minimum on the second line.

15. The bass reflex port according to claim 14,

wherein a plurality of maximum points each as the first characteristic point located on the first line and a plurality of minimum points each as the third characteristic point and located on the first line are alternate with each other along the first line, and

wherein a plurality of maximum points each as the second characteristic point located on the second line and a plurality of minimum points each as the fourth characteristic point located on the second line are alternate with each other along the second line.

16. The bass reflex port according to claim 1,

wherein an angle of a third inner radial line with respect to the reference plane differs from an angle of a fourth radial line with respect to the reference plane, the third inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a third characteristic point located on a first line, the fourth inner radial line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing through a fourth characteristic point corresponding to the third characteristic point and located on a second line,

wherein the third characteristic point is located on the first line that is an intersection line between the inner circumference of the bass reflex port and the first transverse cross section,

wherein the fourth characteristic point is located on the second line that is an intersection line between the inner circumference of the bass reflex port and the second transverse cross section, and wherein the third characteristic point is a minimum point at which an inner radius is minimum on the first line, and the fourth characteristic point is a minimum point at which an inner radius is minimum on the second line.

3. A bass reflex port which has a tubular shape and through which air flows, wherein a locus that connects characteristic points each located on an inner circumference of the bass reflex port in a corresponding one of a plurality of transverse cross sections is helical, the transverse cross sections being perpendicular to a center axis of the bass reflex port and differing from each other in position in a direction of extension of the center axis.

8. A bass reflex port which has a tubular shape and through which air flows,

wherein a trough portion and a crest portion are repeatedly formed, along a circumferential direction of the bass reflex port, on an intersection line between an inner circumferential surface of the bass reflex port along a circumferential direction of the bass reflex port and a transverse cross section perpendicular to a center axis of the bass reflex port, a distance between the trough portion and the center axis in a direction perpendicular to the center axis being larger than a distance between the crest portion and the center axis in the direction perpendicular to the center axis.

9. The bass reflex port according to claim 8, wherein an inner circumferential region enclosed by the inner circumferential surface of the bass reflex port in the transverse cross section has a noncircular shape having rotational symmetry.

10. The bass reflex port according to claim 9, wherein an order of the rotational symmetry of the inner circumferential region is an odd number.

11. The bass reflex port according to claim 9, wherein an order of the rotational symmetry of the inner circumferential region is 3 or 5.

12. The bass reflex port according to claim 8, comprising an intermediate portion and two end portions located on one and the other of opposite sides of the intermediate portion in a direction of extension of the center axis,

wherein the crest portion and the trough portion are formed in each of the two end portions and are not formed in the intermediate portion.