Acoustical transformer for horn-type loudspeaker
CA 1085504 A · Owner: Altec Corporation · Inventors: Henricksen, Clifford A.
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An acoustical transformer or "phasing plug" for coupling sound from a speaker diaphragm to the throat of a horn. The phasing plug of the invention is in the general shape of a dome on one side and a truncated cone on the other and has evenly, spaced radial slots or channels formed therein these slots, forming air passageways for propagation of the soundwaves. The walls of the slots are tapered exponentially from their inlet ends at the speaker diaphragm towards a flat plane outlet at the throat of the horn, to provide an optimum impedance match between the output of the diaphragm and the input of the horn; the sound channels formed by the slots exponentially increasing in area between their …
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- Granted September 9, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 9, 1997.
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