This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202211283609.5, filed on Oct. 20, 2022, and entitled “High-Acoustic-Resistance Piston Motion Loudspeaker”, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The disclosure belongs to an acoustic device in the field of sound-electricity conversion, and relates to a structural design of a high-acoustic-resistance piston loudspeaker, which may be applied to consumer electronics or medical electronics.
A core indicator of a loudspeaker is an output sound pressure level (SPL) at a certain position. Since an output sound pressure of the loudspeaker is directly proportional to a square of a frequency and a first power of vibrating diaphragm displacement, the SPL is usually small at a low frequency (20 Hz-1 kHz), and under a condition that a device size is at a mm or even um level, the SPL at 10 mm in a free field testing environment is difficult to exceed 80 dB. For example, in order to realize a purpose of 80-dB SPL at 10 mm at the frequency of 1 kHz, a conventional fully-enclosed fixed support diaphragm (a diameter of a circular diaphragm is 3 mm) loudspeaker needs to reach 40-um vibrating diaphragm displacement, which is very difficult for the fully-enclosed fixed support diaphragm loudspeaker, and thus, it is necessary to use an open piston motion mode loudspeaker based on a driving structure.
Compared with the conventional fully-enclosed fixed support diaphragm loudspeaker, for the open piston motion mode loudspeaker based on the driving structure, since a fixed support state of the vibrating diaphragm is changed, restriction factors of boundary conditions of the vibrating diaphragm during vibration are significantly reduced, moreover, the vibrating diaphragm relies on the driving structure for motion, a motion range of the driving structure is much larger than that of the conventional fully-enclosed fixed support diaphragm, and therefore, the open piston motion mode loudspeaker based on the driving structure may realize larger vibrating diaphragm displacement. At the same time, for the open piston motion mode loudspeaker based on the driving structure, since a mechanical-acoustic energy conversion coefficient corresponding to a piston vibration mode is three times a mechanical-acoustic energy conversion coefficient of a vibrating diaphragm vibration mode of the conventional fully-enclosed fixed support diaphragm loudspeaker, a larger sound pressure output may be generated under the same size and excitation conditions. Therefore, the open piston motion mode loudspeaker based on the driving structure has more advantages in vibrating diaphragm displacement.
However, the open piston motion mode loudspeaker based on the driving structure has a problem of acoustic short circuit between front and rear cavities. During vibration of the vibrating diaphragm, the front cavity and the rear cavity generate audio signals with opposite phases at the same moment, and if there is a large air gap between the front and rear cavities, the audio signals of the front and rear cavities will weaken an audio signal generated by the loudspeaker after being superposed through the air gap, which corresponds to acoustic resistance of the air gap between the front and rear cavities. On the premise of not affecting the vibration of an air spring of the rear cavity, the smaller the air gap is, the greater the corresponding acoustic resistance between the front and rear cavities is, and the greater a conversion coefficient of converting energy generated by a mechanical motion of the vibrating diaphragm into energy of sound radiated by the front cavity to the air is, thereby generating a larger SPL.
Taking a square diaphragm with a side length of 3 mm as an example, and assuming that a length of an air gap formed between an edge of the vibrating diaphragm and a sidewall structure is 20 um at a room temperature, since the acoustic resistance is directly proportional to a first power of an air viscosity coefficient and a first power of the air gap length, and is inversely proportional to a square of a cross-sectional area of the air gap, when a distance between the edge of the vibrating diaphragm and the sidewall structure is increased, the acoustic resistance is reduced quickly, and the SPL at 10 mm is driven to be reduced quickly, referring to
Therefore, it is necessary to provide an improved piston loudspeaker that can generate a large displacement motion of the vibrating diaphragm and also provide sufficient acoustic resistance between the front and rear cavities, thereby increasing the output sound pressure level of the loudspeaker.
Different from a connecting structure coplanar with a vibrating diaphragm in a traditional piston loudspeaker, a high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure adopts a concealed connecting structure not coplanar with the vibrating diaphragm, and a displacement range of the vibrating diaphragm in a perpendicular direction is within a height range of a cavity formed by a supporting structure extending in a thickness direction of a base. On the basis of maintaining an advantage of large motion displacement of a piston loudspeaker, the concealed connecting structure may significantly alleviate a problem of serious air leakage caused by structural design and process limitations, and increase an acoustic resistance value of front and rear cavities of the piston motion loudspeaker in a working state, so that an output sound pressure level of the piston motion loudspeaker is effectively increased. In addition, by optimizing design of a vibrating diaphragm structure, the supporting structure and other assemblies of the piston loudspeaker with the above concealed connecting structure, a length and cross-sectional area of an air gap between the front and rear cavities and an opening of the base may be adjusted, and the effect of further increasing the acoustic resistance and the output sound pressure level is achieved.
The purposes of the present disclosure are implemented through the following technical solution.
A high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure includes a substrate, a vibration cavity, a driving assembly, a connecting assembly and a vibrating diaphragm. The substrate includes a base and a supporting structure extending in a thickness direction of the base, and a periphery of the supporting structure is enclosed to form the vibration cavity. The connecting assembly is not coplanar with the vibrating diaphragm, which is of a concealed connecting structure. The driving assembly and the connecting assembly are of the same structure or different structures, configured to drive the vibrating diaphragm to generate a piston motion, and composed of one or more groups of driving units. The vibrating diaphragm is located in the vibration cavity, the vibrating diaphragm is not coplanar with the connecting assembly, the vibrating diaphragm is above or below the connecting assembly to realize the concealed connecting structure, and a displacement range of the vibrating diaphragm in a perpendicular direction is within a height range of the vibration cavity formed by the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base, so as to achieve purposes of reducing air leakage and improving a sound pressure level in a working process of the loudspeaker.
Design of a vibrating diaphragm structure, the supporting structure and other assemblies of the loudspeaker are further optimized based on the piston loudspeaker with the concealed connecting structure. That is, design of a shape, size and number of openings of the base in a direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm is optimized, a distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm is reduced as much as possible, an overlapping distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm is increased as much as possible, design of a shape of the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base is optimized, so that a phenomenon of air leakage in the working process of the loudspeaker is controlled, and acoustic resistance of front and rear cavities and an output sound pressure level of the loudspeaker are further increased.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an optimized structure for further controlling a problem of air leakage by adjusting the vibrating diaphragm structure and the supporting structure is that the distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm is as small as possible, the overlapping distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm is as large as possible, and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base is successive in the thickness direction and is perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm, so that a problem of air leakage is controlled, and a requirement of manufacturing flexibility is met.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an optimized structure for further controlling a problem of air leakage by adjusting the vibrating diaphragm structure and the supporting structure is that the distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm is as small as possible, the overlapping distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm is as large as possible, and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base is not successive in the thickness direction and is perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm in segments, so that a problem of air leakage is controlled, a thin film with a large area is prepared, and a requirement of manufacturing flexibility is met.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an optimized structure for further controlling a problem of air leakage by adjusting the vibrating diaphragm structure and the supporting structure is that the distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm is as small as possible, the overlapping distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in a direction perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm is as large as possible, the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base is not perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm and forms an obtuse angle or an acute angle with the vibrating diaphragm, so that a problem of air leakage is controlled, a thin film is prepared, and a requirement of manufacturing flexibility is met.
In one embodiment of the present application, an optimized structure for further controlling a problem of air leakage by adjusting the vibrating diaphragm structure and the supporting structure is that the distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in the direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm is as small as possible, the overlapping distance between the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base in the direction perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm is as large as possible, the shape, size and number of the openings of the base in the direction parallel to the vibrating diaphragm are adjusted, so that the problem of air leakage problem is controlled, a thin film is prepared, and a requirement of manufacturing flexibility is met.
In order to be compatible with the process and flexible design, as a further improvement, a driving structure is implemented based on an electromagnetic driving principle, a piezoelectric driving principle or an electric heating driving principle, and the driving units are driving arms or electromagnetic coils.
In order to enhance the power of the driving assembly and facilitate the design of the driving assembly, as a further improvement, each group of the driving units of the driving assembly includes a single-driving-arm structure, a double-driving-arm side-by-side structure or a three-driving-arm side-by-side structure.
In order to ensure that a thin film can vibrate stably, as a further improvement, the driving assembly includes one group, two groups, four groups or more groups of the driving arm structure.
In order to enhance robustness of the driving assembly and adjust a resonant frequency and stress distribution of the driving assembly, as a further improvement, each driving arm structure of the driving assembly is in an L shape, an S shape, a spiral shape or a serpentiform shape.
In order to design flexibly and increase the symmetry of the thin film, as a further improvement, a top view of the vibrating diaphragm is a rectangle, a circle or other regular shapes, such as a regular pentagon and a regular hexagon. The shape of the vibrating diaphragm is matched with a shape projected by the vibration cavity on a horizontal plane.
In order to increase the acoustic resistance of the front and rear cavities, as a further improvement, a cross-sectional view of the vibrating diaphragm is a rectangle, the Chinese radical “cover”, or the inverted Chinese radical “cover”.
In order to further increase the acoustic resistance of the front and rear cavities and be compatible with process manufacturing, as a further improvement, a cross-sectional view of the supporting structure is a rectangle, a trapezoid, an isosceles trapezoid, an inverted isosceles trapezoid, a convex shape, or an inverted convex shape.
In order to reduce the device size and miniaturize the loudspeaker, as a further improvement, the loudspeaker is an MEMS high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker.
A working method of the high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure is: under an exciting action of an external electrical signal, the driving assembly is forced to make mechanical deformation and drive the vibrating diaphragm to make the piston motion in a direction perpendicular to the vibrating diaphragm. The vibrating diaphragm making the piston motion in a perpendicular direction drives air inside the vibration cavity to move, so as to generate an acoustic wave signal. The vibrating diaphragm is not coplanar with the connecting assembly, and the displacement range of the vibrating diaphragm in the perpendicular direction is within the height range of the vibration cavity formed by the supporting structure extending in the thickness direction of the base. In addition, the vibrating diaphragm, the supporting structure and other assemblies of the loudspeaker are further optimized, so that air leakage caused by a gap may be effectively controlled, the acoustic resistance of the front and rear cavities is increased, sound pressure level loss is reduced, and the output sound pressure level of the loudspeaker is improved.
1. The high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure has the concealed connecting structure, which may increase the acoustic resistance between the front and rear cavities of the piston loudspeaker during working, and improve the output sound pressure level of the loudspeaker. It is suitable for traditional loudspeaker design and manufacturing, as well as the design and manufacturing process of the MEMS loudspeaker.
2. Compared with a piston loudspeaker structure in which the connecting assembly and the vibrating diaphragm are located on the same plane and a large air gap penetrating through the front and rear cavities is formed when making the piston motion, for the high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure, since the vibrating diaphragm is not coplanar with the connecting assembly, the displacement range of the vibrating diaphragm is within the height range of the vibration cavity, the cross-sectional area of the air gap between the front and rear cavities during the piston motion of the vibrating diaphragm in the perpendicular direction is reduced, and air leakage is alleviated. In addition, based on the principle of increasing the length of the air gap between the front and rear cavities and reducing the cross-sectional area of the air gap between the front and rear cavities, the vibrating diaphragm and the supporting structure of the piston motion loudspeaker with the concealed connecting structure are optimized to jointly increase the acoustic resistance of the front and rear cavities and improve the sound pressure level of the sound output, and four specific structures that meet the structural optimization principle and realize the optimization technical effects are specifically provided.
3. Compared with a loudspeaker with the vibrating diaphragm fixed and supported at an edge, for the high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure, since the vibrating diaphragm is connected with the supporting structure through the connecting assembly, compared with the vibrating diaphragm fixed and supported at the edge, the displacement that the vibrating diaphragm may reach in the vibration process is not limited by the supporting structure, which improves a vibration amplitude of the vibrating diaphragm, and thus the output sound pressure level of the loudspeaker is improved.
4. The high-acoustic-resistance piston motion loudspeaker disclosed in the present disclosure significantly enriches the design and manufacturing freedom of the piston motion loudspeaker. The advantages are applied to the design and manufacturing of the piston loudspeaker, which may increase the acoustic resistance of the front and rear cavities and the output sound pressure level of the loudspeaker.
In order to better illustrate objectives and advantages of the present disclosure, contents of the present disclosure will be further described in conjunction with accompanying drawings and examples below.
It should be noted that all directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, rear, inside, outside, top, bottom . . . ) in embodiments of the present disclosure are only used for explaining a relative position relation between components in a specific posture (as shown in the accompanying drawings). If the specific posture changes, the directional indications also change accordingly.
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The specific description mentioned above provides a further detailed explanation for the objectives, technical solutions, and beneficial effects of the present disclosure. It should be understood that the above description is only specific embodiments of the present disclosure and not intended to limit the protection scope of the present disclosure. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure should be included in the protection scope of the present disclosure.
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202211283609.5 | Oct 2022 | CN | national |
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20240137704 A1 | Apr 2024 | US |