Acoustic diaphragm with polyurethane elastomer coating
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsHirotoshi Niguchi, Mitsuru Ieki
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Abstract
An acoustic diaphragm has a substrate of either a hard resin film or cloth of an organic material, and at least one side of the substrate is laid with a polyurethane elastomer layer. In the case of a cloth substrate, the cloth is optionally metallized by evaporation deposition of Al or Ti and/or impregnated with a thermosetting resin. The elastomer is a copolymer given by condensation of bifunctional polymeric alcohol and a glycol with a diisocyanate. This diaphragm features a flat response curve at medium to high frequencies on account of its relatively large value for Young's modulus and adequately great internal loss, and accordingly is particularly useful for tweeters.
Claims12
In a loudspeaker comprising an acoustic diaphragm as a sound radiating means attached to a voice coil, the improvement wherein the acoustic diaphragm comprises a substrate at least fundamentally of an organic material and a solid non-cellular film of a polyurethane elastomer intimately laminated onto said substrate, said polyurethane elastomer being formed by the condensation of polytetramethylene ether glycol and ethylene glycol with 4',4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, said elastomer having a Young's modulus in the range from 5 .times. 10.sup.8 to 12 .times. 10.sup.8 dyne/cm.sup.2 and an internal loss factor of 0.23 to 0.3 in terms of tan .delta..
In a loudspeaker comprising an acoustic diaphragm as a sound radiating means attached to a voice coil, the improvement wherein the acoustic diaphram comprises a substrate of a silk cloth, at least one side of said silk cloth being laminated with a film of a metal selected from the group consisting of Al and Ti formed by evaporation deposition, said silk cloth being impregnated with a thermosetting resin, and a solid non-cellular film of a polyurethane elastomer intimately laminated onto said substrate, said polyurethane elastomer being formed by the condensation of a polytetramethylene ether glycol and ethylene glycol with 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate said elastomer having a Young's modulus in the range from 5 .times. 10.sup.8 to 12 .times. 10.sup.8 dyne/cm.sup.2 and an internal loss factor of 0.23 to 0.3 in terms of tan .delta..
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