Patent Application
20100158299
The present invention relates to a multi-range surround-sound speaker cabinet, and more particularly to a position and directionality adjustable multi-range surround-sound speaker cabinet, which includes a main body having a plurality of speakers mounted thereon to orient to different directions and being movably supported on a mounting bracket unit to allow adjustment in elevation angle of the main body.
Following the quick progress in the electronic technological field, most of the currently available electronic apparatus, particularly electronic entertainment apparatus, such as televisions (TVs), movie houses, and stereo systems, have digitalized hardware and program production and playback. The monitors for TVs and computers are also developed from the traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) screen to the liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma display panel (PDP). The LCD TV and PDP TV are high-tech products to provide planar imaging effect that is obviously better than the imaging effect provided by the screen of traditional CRT TV. The LCD and PDP have the advantages of showing bright colors and clear images, having small volume and light weight, and being low power consumption and low heat generation.
However, most of the currently available LCD TVs have speakers directly mounted in the TV at two lateral sides or at a lower front of the TV. These speakers are immovable and can only transmit sound waves in a fixed direction. A user is not allowed to freely change the orientation of the speakers according to different room size in order to obtain the best possible sound field effect. Therefore, the user could not enjoy good sound effect when watching TV, and the TV fails to satisfy the user's requirement in listening enjoyment.
Compared to the progress and development in TV imaging technique, the TV audio technique is apparently insufficient without significant development and has a lot of disadvantages and limits in terms of sound reproduction. Therefore, it is desirable to make more improvements in the current TV audio technique.
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a position and directionality adjustable multi-range surround-sound speaker cabinet, with which it is able to change the transmission and directionality of sound waves, and a user can change and adjust the sound wave transmission according to different room size to obtain a surrounding sound effect most suitable for the user's room size.
To achieve the above and other objects, the position and directionality adjustable multi-range surround-sound speaker cabinet according to the present invention includes an elongated three-dimensional main body and a mounting bracket unit. A plurality of speakers is mounted at predetermined positions on front, rear, bottom, and two lateral sides of the main body. The mounting bracket unit includes a left and a right mounting bracket connected near to left and right ends of the bottom side of the main body, such that the main body is movably supported on and connected to the mounting bracket unit and can be adjusted to different elevation angles. With these arrangements, the main body can resonate with room floor and room space at different angular positions and from different distances to thereby achieve different changes in sound field and the best possible surrounding sound effect.
The structure and the technical means adopted by the present invention to achieve the above and other objects can be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, wherein
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The main body 10 is in the form of an elongated three-dimensional enclosure. A plurality of speakers 11 is mounted at selected positions on front, rear, bottom, and two lateral sides of the main body 10. The number and position of the speakers 11 can be determined according to a user's requirement for sound transmission and different types of speaker cabinets.
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The mounting bracket unit 20 includes a left and a right mounting bracket 21, 22 respectively connected near to a left and a right end of the bottom side of the main body 10, such that the main body 10 is movably supported on the mounting bracket unit 20 and can be adjusted to different elevation angles.
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The suspension bracket unit 50 includes a set of two spaced L-shaped hooking brackets 51, 52 connected to the rear side of the main body 10 to face each other and having a plurality of slots 53 with different extending angles, and a particularly bent wall-mount bracket 55 provided with mounting holes 54 for mounting to a wall surface 60. Therefore, instead of being mounted on the LCD TV, the main body 10 can be otherwise mounted on a wall surface 60 at a desired position simply by engaging two corresponding slots 53 on the two hooking brackets 51, 52 with the wall-mount bracket 55. In this manner, the user can also change the sound field to obtain the best possible sound-surround ambience.
The present invention has been described with some preferred embodiments thereof and it is understood that many changes and modifications in the described embodiments can be carried out without departing from the scope and the spirit of the invention that is intended to be limited only by the appended claims.
