Speaker unit for automotive vehicles
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Soma, Makoto Iyobe, Takekazu Iijima, Yutaka Moriyama
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Abstract
A speaker unit for an automotive vehicle including a woofer speaker flush mounted with the rear parcel shelf of the vehicle with a tweeter or medium- and high-range speaker unit mounted to the rear of the woofer speaker. The tweeter speaker is directed toward the passenger compartment of the vehicle. A woofer frame is detachably coupled around the outer edge of the woofer speaker. The woofer frame supports a grill which extends as well over the tweeter speaker. A sound diffuser is positioned over the open surface of the tweeter speaker.
Claims9
A speaker unit for an automotive vehicle, comprising:
- a low-range speaker;
- a medium- and high-range speaker;
- means for fixedly connecting said low-range speaker and said medium- and high-range speaker so that their central axes intersect in a side section;
- grill frame detachably coupled with a peripheral surface of said low-range speaker;
- a low-range speaker grill member mounted in said grill frame for covering an open surface of said low-range speaker;
- said medium- and high-range speaker being fixedly connected to said low-range speaker by said connecting means so that said medium- and high-range speaker is located in an area outside an area confined by said low-range speaker grill member.
A speaker unit for an automotive vehicle, comprising:
- a low-range speaker having a woofer frame to which an outer peripheral edge of a diaphragm of said low-range speaker is attached, said woofer frame being adapted to be flushly mounted to a rear parcel shelf of said automotive vehicle;
- a tweeter holder rigidly mounted upon a rear edge of said woofer frame, said holder being adapted to support a tweeter unit having a tweeter speaker having a central axis directed towards a passenger compartment of said vehicle, said tweeter speaker being positioned in said tweeter holder;
- a woofer grill frame detachably coupled around said low-range speaker;
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- a low-range grill member supported by said grill frame covering said diaphragm, said holder occupying an area outside an area confined by said low-range grill member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.