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US 5,471,540 AGranted
Electrostatic loudspeaker having stationary electrodes formed as multiple sheets insulated from each other
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKeijiro Maeda
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Abstract
An electrostatic loudspeaker has electrodes 24 and 26 arranging multiple plate electrodes 24A to 24D, 26A to 26D insulated each other on both sides of movable electrodes 12, thereby being capable of efficiently producing a large sound pressure level.
Claims11
An electrostatic loudspeaker system comprising:
- a pair of stationary electrodes which are maintained to face each other in which multiple through holes are formed and on which a driving signal having different voltages is impressed;
- a diaphragm, which is fixed at outer peripheral edges and is maintained between said pair of stationary electrodes and which forms a movable electrode having a direct current bias voltage impressed thereon, thereby generating a sound pressure by vibrating corresponding to said driving signal;
- and
- a boost means for boosting the driving signal impressed to said stationary electrodes:
- wherein;
- said stationary electrodes are arranged in front and back of said diaphragm flatly, and are composed of multiple sheet electrodes insulated from each other:
- and
- said boost means impresses the driving signal having the different voltages on said multiple sheet electrodes respectively.
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An electrostatic loudspeaker system comprising:
- first and second movable electrodes separated by a predetermined distance and arranged to oppose each other;
- a first stationary electrode which is maintained between said first and second movable electrodes;
- second and third stationary electrodes which are separated by the predetermined distance from said first and second movable electrodes and opposed to said first and the second movable electrodes in order to hold said first and second movable electrodes as well as said first stationary electrode respectively in the state that said first stationary electrode is maintained between said first and second movable electrodes;
- a driving circuit for impressing an opposite polarity driving signal between said first and second stationary electrodes and said third and first stationary electrodes;
- and,
- a power source circuit for impressing an opposite polarity direct current bias voltage on said first and second movable electrodes respectively:
- wherein,
- said power source circuit has a boost transformer for outputting a secondary output voltage by boosting an alternating voltage, and a multi-stage junction circuit formed by connecting a plurality of stages of diodes and condensers in a ladder shape circuit, and
- a multi-stage voltage doubler rectifier for rectifying said secondary output voltage to form a double voltage by said multi-stage junction circuit and outputting an output from the voltage doubler.
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An electrostatic loudspeaker system comprising:
- a speaker unit having a pair of stationary electrodes to be maintained to face each other, in which multiple through holes are formed and on which a driving signal is impressed;
- a diaphragm maintained between a pair of said stationary electrodes, which forms a movable electrode having a direct current bias voltage impressed thereon, and which generates a sound pressure by vibrating corresponding to said driving signal;
- a battery for supplying the driving voltage for forming said direct current bias voltage;
- a booster circuit for forming said direct current bias voltage upon boosting said driving voltage, said booster circuit comprising a pair of feedback windings on a primary side of a boosting transformer that has a primary side winding, said primary side winding having a middle tap connected to one side of said battery;
- and,
- an oscillation circuit having a pair of transistors, emitters of which are connected in common to the other side of said battery, wherein output signals of said pair of feedback windings are connected to feedback to the bases of said pair of said transistors, respectively, and the connection point of said emitters is connected to said feedback winding via a diode, and wherein said speaker unit, said battery and said booster circuit are maintained altogether en bloc.
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