Pattern voice coil loudspeaker with baffles touching diaphragm
AssigneeStrathern Audio Limited
InventorsRobert C. Whelan, Charles J. Sealey
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Abstract
An electrodynamic loudspeaker has a diaphragm with a central driven area. Undriven areas of the diaphragm are baffled to minimize the effect of vibrations from the undriven areas which are out of phase with those in the central driven area.
Claims3
An electrodynamic loudspeaker including a diaphragm having on at least one face thereof an electric current conductor arranged with spaced apart portions thereof extending parallel to one another over the major part of the length of the diaphragm, a permanent magnet arrangement spaced from the diaphragm and having elements extending parallel to the said portions along regions opposite to the spaces between the said conductor portions, the said conductor portions extending over a central area of the diaphragm only, a first pair of baffles arranged on one side of the diaphragm, each baffle covering a region of the diaphragm extending from a longitudinal edge of the diaphragm towards the central area, and a second pair of baffles arranged on the other side of the diaphragm, each of the second pair of baffles extending from a longitudinal edge of the diaphragm towards the central area, one pair of baffles being in contact with one side of the diaphragm.
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