Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Arrayable loudspeaker with constant wide beamwidth
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Application No.: US15099474Application Date: 2016-04-14
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Publication No.: US10015583B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Jon M. Arneson , Katrin Rawks , Pablo Espinosa
- Applicant: Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA Berkeley
- Assignee: Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Berkeley
- Agency: Beeson Skinner Beverly, LLP
- Main IPC: H04R9/08
- IPC: H04R9/08 ; H04R1/24 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R1/28 ; H04R3/14

Abstract:
An arrayable loudspeaker (11) has at least one high frequency driver (39) mounted to a horn (37) and at least one pair of low frequency drivers (41) configured behind and in a closely spaced relationship to the horn to form low frequency side chambers (71) between the drivers and the horn from which acoustic energy produced by the low frequency drivers can propagate. Low frequency exit channels (77) above and below the horn are coupled to the low frequency side chambers (71). The configuration of the horn and low frequency drivers and the low frequency side chambers and low frequency exit channels is such that acoustical outputs of all drivers radiate coaxially from the loudspeaker with substantially constant wide beamwidth in the non-arraying plane. Signal processing can be added to enhance beamwidth control critical frequency ranges above crossover.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170013348A1 ARRAYABLE LOUDSPEAKER WITH CONSTANT WIDE BEAMWIDTH Public/Granted day:2017-01-12
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