Wide-Range, High-Power Tweeter Using the Printed-Planar Voice Coil (the "Leaf Tweeter")

Sakamoto N, Atoji N, Aoi T, Ohno M. Wide-Range, High-Power Tweeter Using the Printed-Planar Voice Coil (the "Leaf Tweeter"). In: AES Convention 58. Audio Engineering Society; 1977. Paper 1276. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=3078

@inproceedings{Sakamoto1977_3078,
  author = {Sakamoto, Naraji and Atoji, Nobuhisa and Aoi, Takahisa and Ohno, Masaharu},
  title = {{Wide-Range, High-Power Tweeter Using the Printed-Planar Voice Coil (the "Leaf Tweeter")}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 58},
  note = {Paper 1276},
  year = {1977},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=3078}
}

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TI  - Wide-Range, High-Power Tweeter Using the Printed-Planar Voice Coil (the "Leaf Tweeter")
AU  - Sakamoto, Naraji
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AU  - Aoi, Takahisa
AU  - Ohno, Masaharu
T2  - AES Convention 58
M1  - Paper 1276
PY  - 1977
DA  - 1977/11/06
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AB  - From the viewpoint of waveform-transmission, the response of the tweeter must be flat as far up to the high frequency range as possible. The ribbon-type dynamic transducer is well known, but the basic disadvantage of this type is that the handling power is much lower, and a transformer is needed for impedance matching. In this paper, a dynamic tweeter reproducing a frequency range of from 4 kHz to 150 kHz, and having a handling power of 20 W (continuous sine wave) is presented. This Leaf Tweeter has a planar voice coil printed on a very thin diaphragm (polyimide thermostable film of 7.5 um thickness) which is placed on top of two parallel magnetic air gaps. Uniformity of distribution of the driving force, the conditions necessary to obtain a flat response as the ratio of the mass of the printed-planar voice coil to the mass of the base film, and acoustic performance are presented.
ER  -