ACOUSTIC INSTALLATION FOR EMISSION OF A TRANSVERSE ACOUSTIC WAVE IN GAS ENVIORNMENT

Abstract

The device includes a case, a flat membrane, a drive for acoustic vibrations of the transverse acoustic wave. The case is made in the form of a support frame, and a sound-emitting flat rectangular membrane is fixed to the frame. The membrane is made in the form of a honeycomb layer, a surface layer glued to the honeycomb structure from both sides, and a stabilizing impregnating composition covering the surface layers. The acoustic vibrations drive is made in the form of an acoustic vibration exciter, including ferrite parts of the magnetic circuit. The acoustic vibration exciter is attached with one of its ends to the flat membrane within a special line passing along the plane of the rectangular membrane, emerging from any top of the rectangular membrane, and ending at a point on the opposite top of the membrane's horizontal side located at a distance of ⅔ of the membrane's opposite side from the top horizontally.

Claims

1. Acoustic installation for emission of a transverse acoustic wave in a gas environment comprising: a case in the form of a support frame, a flat rectangular membrane fixed to the support frame, said rectangular membrane having four corners and four sides, a drive for acoustic vibrations of the transverse acoustic wave comprising at least one acoustic vibration exciter having a magnetic circuit including ferrite parts, wherein the membrane comprises first and second surface layers glued to respective first and second sides of a honeycomb layer, and a stabilizing impregnating composition based on polyurethane primers and varnishes covering the surface layers, wherein the at least one acoustic vibration exciter has a moveable end attached to the flat membrane within a special line passing along a plane of the rectangular membrane, emerging from a first one of the corners of the rectangular membrane, and ending at a point on the membrane side opposite to the first one of the corners located at a distance of ⅔ between the corner opposite to the first one of the corners, and another one of the corners.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0014] FIG. 1—a general diagram of a device emitting a transverse acoustic wave in a gas environment, indicating all the main elements,

[0015] FIG. 2—a rear view of a device emitting a transverse acoustic wave in a gas environment,

[0016] FIG. 3-a schematic representation of the conditions for the occurrence of a transverse acoustic wave in gas environment,

[0017] FIG. 4—external view of the device emitting a transverse acoustic wave,

[0018] FIG. 5—the position of a special (orange) line within the plane of the sound-emitting membrane where it is recommended to place at least one or several acoustic vibration exciters.

[0019] The device we propose for the emission of a transverse acoustic wave (FIG. 1), includes: a support frame (1), a sound-emitting membrane (2), an acoustic vibration drive (3), including parts of a ferrite magnetic circuit, as well as a coil of different types proposed: flat, square (rectangular), wavy flat, cylindrical (round), star-shaped, rear support cover for the drive (4).

[0020] For example, the acoustic vibration drive (3) includes one (or more) acoustic vibration exciters containing a case in which the following components are installed: a magnetic system, a cylindrical coil fixed to the frame, a system holding the coil within a magnetic gap, and flexible wires for supplying an electrical signal to the coil. The magnetic system is made as a cylindrical permanent magnet, a ferrite ring with the above mentioned cylindrical magnet and washers, joining them into a single structure. The cylindrical coil fixed to the frame is located above the cylindrical magnet and in the gap between the cylindrical magnet and the ferrite ring. The system holding the coil within the magnetic gap consists of two centering washers of different diameters fixed at some distance from each other, in the form of concentrically corrugated disks, the inner hole, attached to the cylindrical coil, attached to the frame, and the outer perimeter-to the enclosure and flexible wires supplying an electrical signal to the coil are sewn into one of the centering washers and are soldered at one end to the coil terminals, and the other one-to the outer contact group. The cylindrical coil frame is attached to the sound emitting membrane (2).

[0021] The sound-emitting membrane (2) is made of a light and rigid material. It is a sandwich structure including a honeycomb layer, a surface layer glued to the honeycomb structure from both sides and a stabilizing impregnating composition based on polyurethane primers and varnishes covering the surface layers.

[0022] Such a membrane (2) begins to transmit traveling wave structures on the surface formed by an acoustic vibration drive (3) attached to the membrane surface. The waves traveling on the surface that have a finite propagation velocity in the membrane material repeatedly re-reflecting from the edges of the membrane itself form resonant-conditioned, frequency-dependent modulations, zonally localized over the area of the panel. These modulations have one distinctive feature: they arise in the form of strictly opposite balanced oscillations within one indivisible sound-emitting membrane (2).

[0023] For ease of understanding, these opposite bending vibrations can be represented as a set of incoherent point acoustic emitters (speakers) strictly out of phase at 180 degrees, see FIG. 3. This operation mode of the proposed acoustic emitter is basic and necessary, since the process of effective sound signal generation stops in modes that go beyond the resonant balanced formation of opposed modulations, and the conditions necessary for the wave transverse component formation do not arise.

[0024] Also, numerous practical experiments have resulted in establishment of a special EB line (see FIG. 5) passing along the plane of the sound-emitting membrane, within which the acoustic vibrations exciter or several of them should be installed so that the point of the exciter's rotation axis includes a special line, or crosses the front projection of the exciter circuit installed near the special line. So if we take into consideration a sound-emitting membrane whose angles represent points A, B, C and D (see FIG. 5), a special “orange” line of exciters attachment will pass from point B to point E. In turn, E is a point on the DC side of the membrane in which it will divide the DC segment in the following proportion: DE\EC=½. Within the EB line, one or more vibration exciters can be installed. For a technical solution with one acoustic vibrations exciter within such a line, it is necessary to determine the X point according to the following proportion: EB\XB=1.62. Naturally, the orange line EB can be symmetrically reflected along any axis of symmetry of the membrane.

[0025] The advantage of the proposed technical solution in the form of a special line within the membrane area, assuming the attachment of excitation sources within it, ensures the optimal distribution of resonant modulations within the membrane area, which in turn has a positive effect on the uniformity of the amplitude-frequency response, and also ensures sound naturalness, closely related to the total amount of distortions caused by the speaker system's operation, reduction of phase shifts, and ensures the maximum frequency range in the operation of such a system.

[0026] In our acoustic device, no special measures are required to maintain the condition for the existence of a transverse sound wave. The very resonant mode of such a device operation assumes the constant presence of suitable conditions for the generation and maintenance of the transverse wave. Moreover, these conditions exist as a continuous readiness of transverse wave radiation in gas at practically any frequency of the acoustic range, including wider limits in the area of low and high frequencies, if necessary. So, to implement radiation with a transverse component, it is enough to bring one single excitation source to the emitter powered by a single-channel power amplifier and apply the appropriate signal (for example, sinusoidal, of a certain frequency, or broadband (“pink noise”, music content, etc.))

[0027] The external view of the proposed acoustic installation for radiation of a transverse sound wave in a gaseous environment is shown in FIG. 4.

[0028] At the same time, it is important to emphasize the fundamental impossibility of high-quality generation of a transverse acoustic wave at the Karavashkin installation while simultaneously transmitting signals of different frequencies and amplitudes to it. This is due to the fact that the formation of all frequencies by one piston emitter causes the acoustic Doppler effect. This unambiguously leads to the impossibility of maintaining phase consistency in the entire range of simultaneously applied frequencies.

[0029] In case of our construction (the membrane is made of honeycomb material and a certain location on the acoustic vibration exciter membrane), when the frequency modulations are zoned over the area of the panel, the lower frequency is not the main for the higher ones and the Doppler effect does not occur. Thus, only such a solution makes it possible to continuously generate and maintain a transverse acoustic wave in the gas in the entire spectrum of simultaneously applied frequencies and obtain the claimed technical result.