# US 5,703,337 A · System for cancelling sound waves > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 5,703,337 A - Document ID: US5703337A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 08/683,253 - Filed: 1996-07-18 - Granted: 1997-12-30 - Earliest claimed: 1995-07-20 - Assignees: Nokia Technology GmbH - Inventors: Stefan Geisenberger - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5703337A ## CPC - F16L 55/0333: {by means of an active system} - F01N 1/065: {by using an active noise source, e.g. speakers} - G10K 11/161: {in systems with fluid flow (G10K11/162 takes precedence; gas flow silencers or exhaust apparatus for machines or engines in general or for internal combustion engine F01N, noise absorbers in pipes or pipe systems F16L55/02; noise absorption in air conditioning and ventilation F24F13/24; silencing exhaust or propulsion jets in aircraft B64D33/06)} - F16L: PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL - F01N: GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in vehicles B60K13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M35/00; protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K11/16) - G10K: SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract An area between a gas exhaust pipe (23) and the front side (26) of a diaphragm (14) near the magnet system (11) is closed off by means of a corrugated cover (27). The presence of the cover (27) prevents acoustic short circuits between the front side (26) and a rear side (28) of the diaphragm (14). Since furthermore the end of the gas exhaust pipe (23, 23'), which protrudes into a space (25), does not reach the end of the diaphragm (14) which is connected with a bead (31), such a loudspeaker (10) can operate at very low continuous output. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for cancelling sound waves in gas exhaust streams, comprising: a loudspeaker (10) that comprises a magnet system (11), an oscillating system (12) formed of a diaphragm (14) and an oscillator coil (15) for oscillating with respect to the magnet system, and to a frame (13) attached to the magnet system and the diaphragm, where the magnet system (11) includes a channel (22) along an axis of symmetry of the loudspeaker (10), and a gas exhaust pipe, having an end from where sound-affected exhaust gases exit from the gas exhaust pipe that pass through the channel (22), the pipe situated in the channel, at least in part, in such a way that it emerges into and terminates at an end thereof within a cone-shaped space (25) formed by the diaphragm (14), wherein a gas impermeable cover (27) is connected to the diaphragm (14) and to the end of the gas exhaust pipe to form a gastight barrier across a space between the diaphragm and the end of the gas exhaust pipe. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cover (27) is corrugated. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cover (27) is made of an injection moldable elastomer, and that at least the cover is connected to the diaphragm (14) by injection molding. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the cover (27) comprises several layers. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one opening is present in the diaphragm for connecting a first space (R1) formed by the cover (27), the end of the gas exhaust pipe and the magnet system (11), with a second space (R2), which is bounded by a surface (28) of the diaphragm (14) that faces away from the gas exhaust pipe for permitting an exchange of air between the first and the second space. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein an outside surface of the gas exhaust pipe is spaced at a radial distance A from an inner surface (29) of the channel (22) for forming an annular space of width A through which air is pumped by excursions of the diaphragm for cooling the system. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the diaphragm (14) is cone-shaped and that a space exists between a distal termination of the end of the gas exhaust pipe and a plane formed by a largest diameter of the diaphragm cone.