US 12,225,342 B2
Coaxial speaker horn, and coaxial speaker
Katsutoki Hanayama, Hamamatsu (JP); Hiroyuki Shiojima, Hamamatsu (JP); and Bahari Satriyo, East Java (ID)
Assigned to Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed by Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/971,731.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-174554 (JP), filed on Oct. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0128617 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 1/24 (2006.01); H04R 1/28 (2006.01); H04R 1/30 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/24 (2013.01) [H04R 1/2803 (2013.01); H04R 1/30 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coaxial speaker horn for constituting a coaxial speaker together with a tweeter and a woofer, comprising:
a plurality of through holes arranged an entire circumference of the horn,
wherein the plurality of through holes are arranged in radial directions of the horn when viewed from an axial direction of the horn, and
wherein the plurality of through holes comprise a through hole located on a radially inner side and a through hole located on a radially outer side, and an opening area of the through hole located on the radially inner side is smaller than an opening area of the through hole located on the radially outer side.
 
2. The coaxial speaker horn according to claim 1, wherein a total opening area of the plurality of through holes when viewed in the axial direction of the horn is 35% or more of an entire area of the horn when viewed in the axial direction.
 
3. The coaxial speaker horn according to claim 1, wherein an upper limit value of an opening area of each of the plurality of through holes is set so that the horn maintains a function thereof to increase a sound pressure of a sound at a predetermined frequency output from the tweeter.
 
4. The coaxial speaker horn according to claim 1, wherein a total opening area of the plurality of through holes when viewed in the axial direction of the horn is 60% or less of an entire area of the horn when viewed in the axial direction.
 
5. The coaxial speaker horn according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of through holes are provided only in a region overlapping with the woofer when viewed from the axial direction of the horn.