This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) to Patent Application No. 107136833 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on Oct. 18, 2018, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to an audio playback apparatus, and in particular, to a speaker apparatus.
Speakers (or referred to as loudspeakers) are very common sound playback apparatuses at present. A function of a speaker is converting electrical signals into mechanical vibrations of a diaphragm, to further generate changes in compression and rarefaction of surrounding air to generate sound for people nearby to listen.
For some large speakers, to reinforce sound pressure in a low-frequency band, a bass reinforcement apparatus, such as a bass reflex tube or a passive radiator, is usually added into an enclosure, to produce a low frequency reinforcing effect by using a characteristic of phase reversal.
As current electronic apparatuses are developed to be lighter and thinner, because many electronic apparatuses (such as smartphones, tablet computers, or notebook computers) have small internal spaces, micro speakers are used in most of them to reduce occupied volumes and thicknesses. However, because enclosures of micro speakers have very small volumes (most below 1 milliliter), if a bass reinforcement apparatus is introduced, not only a low frequency reinforcement effect cannot be normally produced, but also original output performance of the speakers would be degraded.
In view of the above, in an embodiment, a speaker apparatus is provided. The speaker apparatus includes an enclosure, a speaker unit, and a bass reinforcement unit. The enclosure includes an inner cavity, where a cavity volume of the inner cavity is in a range of 0.5 milliliter to 1 milliliter, the enclosure has a cavity acoustic compliance value, and the cavity acoustic compliance value is obtained by dividing the cavity volume by a product of air density and a sound velocity squared. The speaker unit is disposed inside the inner cavity, where the speaker unit includes a diaphragm and a surround, the surround is disposed around the diaphragm in a surrounding manner, the speaker unit has a speaker acoustic compliance value and an effective sound outlet area, and the speaker acoustic compliance value is a product of a mechanical compliance value of the surround and the effective sound outlet area squared, where the effective sound outlet area is proportional to an area of the diaphragm, and a ratio of the speaker acoustic compliance value to the cavity acoustic compliance value is less than or equal to 1. The bass reinforcement unit is disposed inside the inner cavity, where the bass reinforcement unit outputs a low-frequency response frequency according to operation of the speaker unit.
In conclusion, in the speaker apparatus of the embodiments of the instant disclosure, the ratio of the speaker acoustic compliance value to the cavity acoustic compliance value is adjusted to be less than or equal to 1, so as to ensure that the bass reinforcement unit can increase sound pressure in a low-frequency band and reinforce output performance of the speaker apparatus when the bass reinforcement unit is introduced into the enclosure having a relatively small inner cavity (for example, an inner cavity whose cavity volume is in a range of 0.5 milliliter to 1 milliliter).
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Further, the enclosure 10 has a cavity acoustic compliance value Cab. The cavity acoustic compliance value Cab is obtained by dividing the cavity volume V by a product of air density p and a sound velocity c squared. That is, a calculation formula of the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab is Cab=V/ρc2, where V is the cavity volume of the inner cavity 11, ρ is the air density (approximately, 1.29 kg/m3), and c is the sound velocity (approximately, 343 m/s). It can be learned from the foregoing calculation formula that the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab and the cavity volume V are positively correlated to each other. In other words, a smaller cavity volume V indicates a smaller cavity acoustic compliance value Cab of the enclosure 10.
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where f is the low-frequency response frequency, c is the sound velocity (approximately, 343 m/s), A is a cross-sectional area of the bass reflex tube 31, V is the cavity volume of the inner cavity 11 of the enclosure 10, and L is a length of the bass reflex tube 31. In an embodiment, assuming that the cross-sectional area A of the bass reflex tube 31 is 0.636 mm2, the length L of the bass reflex tube 31 is 5 mm, and the cavity volume V of the inner cavity 11 is 700 mm3, it can be obtained that the low-frequency response frequency f is 735.7 Hz by substituting them into the foregoing calculation formula. That is, during the operation of the speaker unit 20, the bass reflex tube 31 can generate a low-frequency response frequency f of 735.7 Hz, to increase sound pressure of the speaker apparatus 1 in a low-frequency band around 735.7 Hz.
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In addition, in the speaker apparatus 1 of this embodiment of the instant disclosure, a ratio of the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas of the speaker unit 20 to the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab of the enclosure 10 is adjusted to be less than or equal to 1 (that is, Cas/Cab□ 1), so as to ensure that the bass reinforcement unit 30 can increase sound pressure in a low-frequency band and reinforce output performance of the speaker apparatus when the bass reinforcement unit 30 is applied to an enclosure 10 having a relatively small inner cavity 11 (for example, an inner cavity 11 whose cavity volume V is in a range of 0.5 milliliter to 1 milliliter).
Specifically, because cavity volumes V of the speaker apparatuses 1 applied to a thin or small electronic product having a relatively small inner space are all quite small (most in a range of 0.5 milliliter to 1 milliliter), the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab is also decreased (because Cab=V/ρc2). Therefore, in an embodiment of the instant disclosure, the mechanical compliance value Cms of the surround 22 is decreased to decrease the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas of the speaker unit 20 (because Cas=Cms×S2), to enable the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas to be less than or equal to the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab, thereby adjusting the ratio of the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas to the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab to be less than or equal to 1.
In an embodiment, the mechanical compliance value Cms of the surround 22 may be adjusted to be in a range of 0.12 mm/N to 1.2 mm/N. For example, the mechanical compliance value Cms is decreased by adjusting an appearance structure or material of the surround 22. For example, the surround 22 may be made from material having relatively high rigidity to improve stiffness of the surround 22, so as to decrease the mechanical compliance value Cms by decreasing compliance of the surround 22. Alternatively, in another embodiment, wrinkles may be added to the surround 22, or thickness of the surround 22 may be increased, to improve stiffness of the surround 22 and decrease the mechanical compliance value Cms of the surround 22. For example, as shown in Table 1 below, in this embodiment, the cavity volume V of the inner cavity 11 is 0.7 milliliter, the mechanical compliance value Cms of the surround 22 is adjusted to 0.75 mm/N, and the effective sound outlet area S of the speaker unit 20 is 81 mm2. The foregoing values are substituted into the calculation formula (Cab=V/ρc2) of the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab and the calculation formula (Cas=Cms×S2) of the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas, and a ratio of the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas to the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab is calculated, so that a ratio of approximately 0.98 is obtained.
Because reducing the mechanical compliance value Cms of the surround 22 would increase a resonant frequency Fc(Fh) of the speaker unit 20, in this embodiment of the instant disclosure, decreasing a resonant frequency of the speaker unit 20 to keep it in a predetermined range can be achieved by increasing a vibration mass M of the speaker unit 20, for example, adjusting the vibration mass M by making the vibration mass M inversely proportional to the mechanical compliance value Cms. That is, when the mechanical compliance value Cms is adjusted to be smaller, the vibration mass M is adjusted to be larger. In an embodiment, the vibration mass M is total mass of at least one vibration member (such as the diaphragm 21, the surround 22, or the voice coil 24) inside the speaker unit 20 during operation of the speaker unit 20.
Further, a relational formula of the resonant frequency Fc(Fh), the mechanical compliance value Cms, and the vibration mass M of the speaker unit 20 is
where Fc(Fh) is the resonant frequency of the speaker unit 20, M is the vibration mass thereof, and CAT is speaker system acoustic total compliance. In addition, a relational formula of the speaker system acoustic total compliance CAT, the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas, and the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab is
It can be learned from the foregoing relational formula that when the mechanical compliance value Cms is adjusted to be smaller, the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas and the speaker system acoustic total compliance CAT are smaller, so that the resonant frequency Fc(Fh) of the speaker unit 20 is improved. Therefore, the vibration mass M of the speaker unit 20 may be increased, for example, a weight of the voice coil 24 or the diaphragm 21 may be increased to increase the vibration mass M, so as to decrease the resonant frequency Fc(Fh) of the speaker unit 20 into a predetermined resonant frequency range.
As shown in Table 1 above, in an embodiment of the instant disclosure, assuming that the predetermined resonant frequency range of the speaker unit 20 is a range of 870 Hz to 875 Hz, when the mechanical compliance value Cms of the surround 22 is adjusted to 0.75 mm/N to make a ratio of the speaker acoustic compliance value Cas to the cavity acoustic compliance value Cab be 0.98, the vibration mass M of the speaker unit 20 may be adjusted and increased to 88 mg, so as to make the resonant frequency Fc(Fh) of the speaker unit 20 be 872.6 Hz and be kept in the predetermined resonant frequency range.
Further, increasing the vibration mass M of the speaker unit 20 would slightly lower the sound pressure output by the speaker unit 20. Accordingly, as shown in
Hence, in this embodiment of the instant disclosure, the voice coil 24 is divided into the first coil 241 and the second coil 242 that are connected in parallel to each other, so that a total resistance value of the voice coil 24 can be decreased, and an increased force factor can be achieved, so as to increase sound pressure output by the speaker apparatus 1. Specifically, a relational formula of the force factor and the Lorentz force is F=iBL, where F is a Lorentz force, i is a current, B is magnetic field strength, L is a total length of the voice coil 24, and the force factor is a product of the magnetic field strength B and the total length L of the voice coil 24. Therefore, when the speaker apparatus 1 operates, the Lorentz force generated by a magnetic effect of the current is a product of the current i and the force factor BL. Hence, when the force factor or the current i is larger, a larger Lorentz force can be generated, so that sound pressure output by the speaker apparatus 1 can be increased.
For example, referring to Table 2 below and
In some embodiments, a ratio of a quantity of turns of the voice coil 24 to a cross-sectional area of the coil may be adjusted to generate a proper force factor. For example, as shown in Table 2 below, in a fixed winding space, when a quantity of turns of the voice coil 24 is larger, a cross-sectional area of the voice coil 24 may be adjusted to be smaller. That is, adjustment is performed in a manner in which a quantity of turns of the voice coil 24 is inversely proportional to a cross-sectional area of the coil, so that in a fixed winding space, an optimal resistance value and an optimal coil length can be generated by adjustment, so as to obtain an optimal Lorentz force, to be adapted to different requirements of products or functions.
While the instant disclosure has been described by way of example and in terms of the preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the instant disclosure needs not be limited to the disclosed embodiments. For anyone skilled in the art, various modifications and improvements within the spirit of the instant disclosure are covered under the scope of the instant disclosure. The covered scope of the instant disclosure is based on the appended claims.
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107136833 | Oct 2018 | TW | national |