PLANAR ELEMENT FOR THE ACTIVE COMPENSATION OF NOISE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND ANTI-NOISE MODULE THEREFOR

• Main Authors: SCHLÄPFER, Reto, PINKPANK, Markus
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 17.07.2019
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING,NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES

A planar element is provided for the active compensation of noise from different directions in an interior room. The planar element is equipped with anti-noise modules, each having a microphone and an electronic circuit having a combination of filters for adjusting phase and amplitude and an electronically controllable amplifier and a loudspeaker for active noise cancellation. The planar element is equipped over the width thereof with a plurality of anti-noise modules on each of a plurality of different longitudinally extending lines and is to be placed, for example, in front of a window having bounding walls. The anti-noise modules can be inconspicuously integrated into the planar element and jointly form longitudinally extending chains of anti-noise modules. The loudspeakers emit a canceling sound with respect to the noise, which canceling sound first passes through the planar element and subsequently largely cancels the noise.