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US 7,401,681 B2Granted
Mounting support device for ceiling embedded speaker system
AssigneeTOA Corporation
InventorsKen Iwayama, Takashi Nishino
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Abstract
An auxiliary mounting device 10 for an in ceiling speaker system comprises a ceiling reinforcing element 11 and an elongate element 21. The ceiling reinforcing element 11 includes a flat plate portion 12 and a vertical portion 14 provided to extend vertically from the flat plate portion, 12. The vertical portion 14 is capable of being in a slidable state in which the vertical portion 14 is vertically slidable and in a fixed state in which the vertical portion 14 is fixed so as not to vertically displace.
Claims11
An auxiliary mounting device for an in ceiling speaker system, comprising:
- a ceiling reinforcing element;
- an elongate element;
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- an intermediate element, the intermediate element mounted to the elongate element such that the intermediate element is capable of being in a horizontally slidable state and in a horizontally fixed state;
- wherein the ceiling reinforcing element includes a flat plate portion provided horizontally on a rear surface of a ceiling plate and having an opening at a center portion thereof, and a vertical portion provided to extend vertically from the flat plate portion,
- the elongate element is provided to extend on a horizontal plane,
- the vertical portion is mounted to the intermediate element such that the vertical portion is capable of being in a vertically slidable state and in a vertically fixed state, and
- wherein the vertical portion is vertically slidable relative to the intermediate element and the elongate element when in the vertically slidable state and is vertically fixed relative to the intermediate element and the elongate element when in the vertically fixed state;
- wherein the intermediate element is horizontally slidable relative to the elongate element when in the horizontally slidable state and is horizontally fixed relative to the elongate element when in the horizontally fixed state;
- and wherein the vertical portion may be in the vertically slidable state when the intermediate element is in the horizontally fixed state, and wherein the vertical portion may be in the vertically fixed state when the intermediate element is in the horizontally slidable state.
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An auxiliary mounting device for an in ceiling speaker system, comprising:
- an elongate element;
- an intermediate element mountable to the elongate element;
- the intermediate element horizontally adjustable in a direction parallel to the elongate element and arranged to be fixed relative to the elongate element in a plurality of horizontal positions;
- a ceiling reinforcing element, the ceiling reinforcing element including a central opening, a flat portion surrounding the central opening, and a vertical portion extending vertically relative to the flat portion, the vertical portion mountable to the intermediate element;
- the vertical portion vertically adjustable in a direction perpendicular to the elongate element and arranged to be fixed relative to the elongate element in a plurality of vertical positions;
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- wherein the vertical portion may be horizontally adjusted to one of the plurality of horizontal positions while fixed in one of the plurality of vertical positions;
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- wherein the vertical portion may be vertically adjusted to one of the plurality of vertical positions while fixed in one of the plurality of horizontal positions.
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An auxiliary mounting device for an in ceiling speaker system, comprising:
- an elongate element;
- an intermediate element;
- the elongate element and the intermediate element mounted to one another by at least one horizontally oriented slit to permit sliding horizontal adjustment of the intermediate element relative to the elongate element between a plurality of horizontally fixed positions;
- a ceiling reinforcing element, the ceiling reinforcing element including a central opening, a flat portion surrounding the central opening, and a vertical portion extending vertically relative to the flat portion;
- the vertical portion and the intermediate element mounted to one another by at least one vertically oriented slit to permit sliding vertical adjustment of the vertical portion relative to the intermediate element between a plurality of vertically fixed positions;
- wherein the vertical portion may be horizontally adjusted relative to the elongate element while in one of the plurality of vertically fixed positions;
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- wherein the vertical portion may be vertically adjusted relative to the elongate element and the intermediate element while in one of the plurality of horizontally fixed positions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.