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US 11,077,791 B2Granted
Fascia exciter
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Joshua Wheeler, Kristopher Karl Brown
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a vehicle body panel, a mount surface associated with the vehicle body panel, and at least one exciter mounted to the mount surface. The mount surface has a first stiffness and the vehicle body panel has a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness such that sound is effectively transmitted to a surrounding environment via the mount surface and sound transmission back to a vehicle interior is dampened via the vehicle body panel.
Claims22
An apparatus, comprising:
- a vehicle panel comprising a fascia or a body panel;
- a mount surface associated with the fascia or body panel, wherein the mount surface comprises a locally stiffened area or a rigid member that forms a portion of the fascia or body panel;
- and
- at least one exciter mounted to the mount surface, and wherein the mount surface has a first stiffness and the vehicle body panel has a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness such that sound is effectively transmitted to a surrounding environment via the mount surface and sound transmission back to a vehicle interior is dampened via the vehicle body panel.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a fascia;
- a mount surface associated with the fascia, wherein the mount surface comprises a locally stiffened area or a rigid member that forms a portion of the fascia;
- at least one exciter mounted to the mount surface and including a sound generator, and wherein the mount surface has a first stiffness and the fascia has a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness such that sound is effectively transmitted to a surrounding environment via the mount surface and sound transmission back to a vehicle interior is dampened via the fascia;
- a power source to supply power to at least the exciter;
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- a control that controls power supplied to the at least one exciter.
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A method comprising:
- associating a mount surface with a vehicle panel comprising a fascia or a body panel;
- forming the mount surface as a locally stiffened area or a rigid member that forms a portion of the fascia or the body panel;
- mounting at least one exciter to the mount surface, the at least one exciter including a sound generator;
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- providing the mount surface with a first stiffness and the vehicle body panel with a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness such that sound is effectively transmitted to a surrounding environment via the mount surface and sound transmission back to a vehicle interior is dampened via the vehicle body panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.