Professor Thump Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Well after 4 years of debate, the US Patent Office has awarded my first patent. Roy Delgado is the co-author. Axially Propagating Horn Array For A Loudspeakers 7,590,257 Now I can retire... Plus that 15 year wait...Oh college loans, mortgage... Never mind! Back to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Congratulations Mark and Roy! Judging from the illustrations and description, I'd imagine that the Klipsch products utilizing this technology would be (in order or manufacture) R-5650S side surround in-wall loudspeaker look very similar to the first diagram, have been around for several years. KPT1202VB 'virtual boundary' pro cinema surround came about around 2007 THX in-ceiling and in-wall surrounds in 2008-9 Palladium surrounds2008 Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMcD Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Congrats to Mark and Roy. See attached. As you may know, the "new" rule on US Patents is that the duration is 20 years from date of filing. But if the delay in examination is the fault of the USPTO the duration is extended accordingly. As you can see, that is the situation here. Wm McD US Patent 7590257 to Blanchard and Delgado.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Way to go Mark--quite an accomplishment. Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSamuel Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Congratulations Mark! And Roy! I hope someone will post that soon so I don't have to go find it. I don't recall too many horn arrays except maybe the tweeter and midrange horns in the Palladiums? Ahh.... others smarter than me have already posted the horns in the surrounds. And William has posted the patent. Some headphone patents should be coming as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnatnoop Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Professor Thump indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Congrats and well done! [8-|][H][Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Congratulations!!! As always the Klipsch gang leads the way!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 At the 1990 CES,,,In the JBL room i saw a variant of that horn...( Everest 1) But i guess they didnt file a pat. on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arky Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.reed21 Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Congrats...[Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnatnoop Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 can you explain what this is to non engineers? or can (should) it be discussed on the net? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted October 12, 2009 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2009 Congratulations both Professor Thump and Roy D. [Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Thump Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 can you explain what this is to non engineers? or can (should) it be discussed on the net? Good question.... The primary concept is that you can project sound broadband 160 degrees from a recessed horn array in the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Cool, so should we be seeing more implementations of this concept in the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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