Loudspeaker - Patent 1061769

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EP 1 061 769 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	17.12.2003 Bulletin 2003/51

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	20.12.2000 Bulletin 2000/51

(21)	Application number: 00305166.1

(22)	Date of filing: 19.06.2000

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: H04R 1/40, H04R 5/02

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

18.06.1999 JP 20806199

(71)	Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Taguchi Seisakusho
	Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture (JP)

(72)	Inventor:
	Kazunori, Taguchi Kanagawa Prefecture (JP)

(74)	Representative: Piésold, Alexander J.
	Frank B. Dehn & Co., European Patent Attorneys, 179 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4EL London EC4V 4EL (GB)

(54)	Loudspeaker

(57) The present invention provides a loudspeaker which comprises:

a plurality of octant loudspeakers which are pivotally connected with each other;
each octant loudspeaker having a vertical pivotal wall provided with a bracket having a pair of projections,
the octant loudspeaker including a plurality of loudspeaker drivers,
the octant loudspeaker being an octant hollow casing made of fibrous glass reinforced plastics and having a plurality of openings on a baffle for accommodating a loudspeaker driver,
said loudspeaker driver including a permanent magnet and a diaphragm having a voice coil bonded thereto and an electrical terminal provided on a horizontal face of the housing; and
a square strut having T-shaped notches on each side face which receive the projections of the brackets for mounting the octant loudspeakers on the strut.