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Loudspeaker for Low Frequency Signal Driven by Four Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors

Authors: Ohga, Juro; Suzuki, Ryousuke; Ishikawa, Keita; Negishi, Hirokazu; Oohira, Ikuo; Maeda, Kazuaki; Kubota, Hajime

AES Convention 132 · Paper 8670 · April 2012

Abstract

The authors have been developing a completely new direct-radiator loudspeaker construction which is driven by continuous revolution of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors. It converts continuous revolution of ultrasonic motors to reciprocal motion of a cone radiator. This loudspeaker shows almost flat phase frequency characteristics in low frequency region, because its radiating motion includes no resonance in the working frequency region. Therefore it is useful for radiation of the lowest frequency part of audio signal. At this convention, the authors are going to present a practical model of this loudspeaker driven by co-operation of four ultrasonic motors.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 132
AES Convention
132
Paper number
8670
Publication date
April 6, 2012
Session subject
Transducers
Affiliation
Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan; I. Oohira and Associates, Yokohama, Japan; Shibaura Institute of Technology/MIX Corporation, Kamakura, Japan; TOA CorporationTakarazuka, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper