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Directional Sound Radiation System Using a Large Planar Diaphragm Incorporating Multiple Vibrators

Yoko YAMAKATA, Michiaki KATSUMOTO, Toshiyuki KIMURA

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In this paper, we propose a new system for controlling radiated sound directivity. The proposed system artificially induces a bending vibration on a planar diaphragm by vibrating it artificially using multiple vibrators. Because the bending vibration in this case is determined by not one but all of the accelerated vibrations, the vibration of the diaphragm can be controlled by modulating the accelerated vibration waveforms relatively for each frequency. As a consequence, the directivity of the radiated sound is also varied. To investigate the feasibility of this system, we constructed a prototype that has for a diaphragm a circular plate-one of the most typical shapes considered for discussing plate vibration-and three vibrators. The measurement data showed visually that with this system, surface vibration and sound directivity change depending on the phases of the accelerated vibrations.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E92-A No.6 pp.1399-1407
Publication Date
2009/06/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E92.A.1399
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Engineering Acoustics

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