US 9,517,740 B2Granted

Sound output device for vehicle

AssigneesPioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation

InventorsTakeshi Okuyama, Yutaka Moriyama, Tomokazu Nitta

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Abstract

A loudspeaker device is installed in a space between a bumper reinforcement for reinforcing a bumper of a vehicle and a bumper absorber attached to a front side of the bumper reinforcement. An approach notification sound output from a front side of the loudspeaker device is radiated outside through a first opening provided on a driver's seat side of the bumper absorber. An approach notification sound output from a rear side of the loudspeaker device passes through a sound path between the bumper reinforcement and the bumper absorber and is then radiated outside through a second opening provided on a passenger seat side of the bumper absorber.

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Dependent claims

A sound output device for vehicles, comprising:

a reinforcing member for reinforcing a bumper of a vehicle;
a shock absorbing member attached to a front side of the reinforcing member, and
a loudspeaker device installed in between the reinforcing member and the shock absorbing member,
wherein a first opening and a second opening are provided to a front side of the shock absorbing member,
wherein the loudspeaker device is installed so that a front side of the loudspeaker device faces the first opening,
wherein a sound radiated from the front side of the loudspeaker device is radiated through the first opening, and
wherein a sound radiated from a rear side of the loudspeaker device is radiated through the second opening via a space between the reinforcing member and the shock absorbing member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/781,368Filed 1 Apr 2013
Published: US 2016/0039375 A111 Feb 2016
Granted: 13 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B60R 19/48
Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects: combined with, or…
B60Q 5/00
Arrangement or adaptation of acoustic signal devices
B60R 11/0217
For radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof: for loud-speakers
B60R 2011/004
Characterised by position: outside the vehicle

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