Microphone support
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
InventorKazuhisa Kondo
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Abstract
The present invention provides a microphone support which includes a restriction groove 520 between a universal ball 50 and a mounting member 70 in order to restrict the rotating angle range of the universal ball 50 rotating with the axis line of a pipe through-hole 510 centered, so that the direction axis L of a microphone is restricted to have a designated swinging angle range with the talker side of the microphone centered. Therefore, no breaking wire by wire-twists is generated, and since the microphone is prevented from facing to loudspeakers owing to careless handling, no howling is also generated.
Claims3
A microphone support including a supporting pipe on a distal end of which a microphone is mounted, a universal ball having a pipe through-hole in the center of the universal ball through which an end of the supporting pipe opposite the distal end is penetrated, and a base frame fixed on a surface, the base frame having a mounting member in which the universal ball is rotatably supported, the microphone being adjustable to move to any position including angles and directions of the microphone through the universal ball, a microphone cable passing through the supporting pipe of the universal ball and the supporting pipe passing through the through-hole, the microphone support comprising:
- a means for restricting rotation including a restriction groove mounted on a partial circumference of the universal ball and a set screw screwed to a screw hole on the mounting member, the screw hole reaching to the circumference of the universal ball;
- the restriction groove formed in the coaxial direction of the through-hole of the universal ball on the partial circumference of the universal ball, the restriction groove having a width in the long direction of the through-hole and a depth in the direction heading from the circumference of the universal ball to the through-hole, the restriction groove further having a right and a left predetermined circumferential length on the circumference of the universal ball from the center of the directional axis of the microphone, wherein one end of the set screw screwed into the screw hole of the mounting member enters the restriction groove;
- and wherein the set screw entered into the restriction groove restricts the rotational movement of the universal ball to more than a predetermined angle of the universal ball in cooperation with the restriction groove having the right and the left predetermined circumferential lengths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.