512results about How to "Reduce wind noise" patented technology

The invention includes a method, apparatus, and computer program to selectively suppress wind noise while preserving narrow-band signals in acoustic data. Sound from one or several microphones is digitized into binary data. A time-frequency transform is applied to the data to produce a series of spectra. The spectra are analyzed to detect the presence of wind noise and narrow band signals. Wind noise is selectively suppressed while preserving the narrow band signals. The narrow band signal is interpolated through the times and frequencies when it is masked by the wind noise. A time series is then synthesized from the signal spectral estimate that can be listened to. This invention overcomes prior art limitations that require more than one microphone and an independent measurement of wind speed. Its application results in good-quality speech from data severely degraded by wind noise.

A mirror system for a vehicle comprising an exterior rearview mirror assembly, which includes a fixed portion which is configured to mount to a side of the vehicle. The movable portion includes a reflective element and a reflective element actuator. The reflective element has a generally rearward field of view when the mirror system is mounted to the vehicle. The reflective element actuator provides selective adjustment of an orientation of the reflective element to adjust the rearward field of view to a desired orientation, and the movable portion is movably mounted to the fixed portion. The movable portion actuator selectively moves the movable portion between a viewing position wherein the movable portion extends outwardly from the vehicle at an angle with respect to the side of the vehicle and another viewing position wherein said movable portion extends outwardly from the vehicle at another angle with respect to the side of the vehicle. The movable portion actuator is adapted to move the movable portion to one of the positions, and the reflective element actuator is adapted to generally maintain the rearward field of view at the desired orientation independent of the position of the movable portion.

An acoustic data collection system that uses an antenna array aboard a powered unmanned and remotely controlled parafoil. The antenna array has multiple microphone elements, whose outputs are combined to provide directionality to the data acquisition.

In a method for operating a hearing aid or hearing aid system, and a hearing aid or hearing aid system, wind noises are detected by analyzing the output signals of at least two microphones. If wind noises are present, the signal processing unit of the hearing aid or hearing aid system and / or the signal paths of microphones are adapted in order to reduce such noises.

By monitoring the wind noise in a location in which a cellular telephone is operating and by applying noise reduction and / or cancellation protocols at the appropriate time via analog and / or digital signal processing, it is possible to significantly reduce wind noise entering into a communication system.

A noise reducing apparatus is disclosed, which includes: input means for inputting multiple audio signals from multiple audio channels; multiple band extracting means for extracting a predetermined band from the multiple audio signals; calculating means for averaging signals from the multiple band extracting means; multiple first level detecting means for detecting the signal levels in a predetermined period of time of the signals from the multiple band extracting means; second level detecting means for detecting the signal level in a predetermined period of time of the signal from the calculating means; selecting means for selecting, for each of the predetermined period of times, the signal having the lowest level value of the level values detected by the multiple first level detecting means and the second level detecting means; band limiting means for limiting the band of the signal from the selecting means; and band synthesizing means for band-synthesizing the signal from the band limiting means and the signal in a band, which is not extracted by the multiple band extracting means, for each audio channel, wherein the output of the band synthesizing means is an audio channel output signal.

A heat-dissipating module includes a first fan unit and a second fan unit, which are serially connected together to provide an air inlet and an air outlet. Each of the first fan unit and the second fan unit includes a casing and an impeller. At least one side air inlet is defined in at least one of a plurality of sides of the casing of the first fan unit and a plurality of sides of the casing of the second fan unit. The air inlet amount and the air outlet amount of the second fan unit are increased by the side air inlet. The air density distribution is uniform, and the wind noise during operation is lowered.

The invention discloses a vehicle door handle covering device and a vehicle comprising the same. The vehicle door handle covering device comprises a handle cover plate and a driving device, wherein the driving device is in transmission connection with the handle cover plate and used for driving the handle cover plate to move between a covering position and an uncovering position, and the handle cover plate covers the a vehicle door handle in the covering position and uncovers the vehicle door handle in the uncovering position. According to the vehicle door handle covering device, the handle cover plate can cover the handle and can be driven between the covering position and the uncovering position, so that the vehicle door handle can be covered as required, wind noise during high-speed running of the vehicle is reduced, the exposure time of the vehicle door handle is shortened, and the vehicle door handle is kept clean.

A surround molding module incorporates an invisible division bar assembly. The invisible division bar includes a support or glass encapsulation that does not extend outwardly beyond the plane of the exterior surface of fixed and movable windows of the vehicle. It provides a butt joint between these window edges. The support also carries a guide member that provides tracking with a guide extending outwardly from a glass encapsulation secured to the movable window. A glass run channel is also secured to the support along the rear vertical edge of the movable window. An effective window guide tracking system is provided that has improved wind noise and a flush window appearance with no off-set.

A heat-dissipating fan includes a casing having an air outlet, a base mounted in the air outlet, an impeller being mounted on the base and having a plurality of blades, a plurality of ribs each extending between the base and the casing along a radial direction of the base, and at least one guiding ring fixedly mounted to the ribs. The guiding ring has an axial length that is longer than a width of the guiding ring in the radial direction. The guiding ring guides and divides airflow passing through the air outlet when the impeller is turning.

A side wall of a centrifugal fan includes a gap expanding portion arranged to gradually expand a gap between an impeller and the side wall from an upstream end toward a downstream end with respect to a rotation direction of a rotating portion. In the centrifugal fan, an electronic component arranging portion of a board is arranged in an area surrounded by the gap expanding portion, the impeller, and an air outlet, and accordingly does not overlap with a motor or the impeller in an axial direction. The electronic component arranging portion is arranged in an area extending, in a circumferential direction about a central axis, from a position 180 degrees upstream from a middle of the air outlet downstream to the middle of the air outlet, that is, in an area where a wind channel has a large width.

A door handle assembly is provided for a door of a vehicle. The door handle assembly includes a mount adapted for attachment to the vehicle, an input member supported for movement relative to the mount, and a handle supported for movement relative to the mount. The handle can move from a low profile position to an extended position. The handle is adjacent the mount in the low profile position, and the handle is spaced from the mount in the extended position. The handle moves from the low profile position to the extended position due to an input provided to the input member. The handle can be further moved from the extended position to an operative position to unlatch the door of the vehicle.

An automotive microphone assembly. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the assembly comprises a first microphone, a second microphone, a connection means, and a housing. The connection means provides for electrical connection to the first and second microphones, and for connection to a first automotive subsystem and a second automotive subsystem, respectively. The first subsystem and second subsystem may comprise a telephony subsystem, speech recognition subsystem, speech recording subsystem, intercom subsystem, noise control subsystem, noise compensation subsystem, or noise monitoring subsystem. By use of the assembly of the present invention, a single microphone assembly may be used in support of multiple automotive subsystems, thereby saving space in the automobile and realizing costs savings in having a single assembly. In addition, the assembly is comprised of reasonably priced components, is easy to assemble, and permits for repair or replacement of the assembly or components thereof.

The invention discloses a control method for an embedded type air conditioner. The control method comprises the following steps that (1) the closing situations of air outlets are detected periodically; (2) the wind speed is compensated according to the number of closed air outlets when it is detected that n air outlets are closed, n is a positive integer and meets the formula that 1<=n<N, and N is the total number of the air outlets of the embedded type air conditioner and is a positive integer not smaller than two; and (3) the temperature of a coil pipe of an evaporator is detected, and the open degree of an expansion valve is compensated when the temperature of the coil pipe of the evaporator exceeds a set threshold value. According to the control method for the embedded type air conditioner, operating parameters of the air conditioner are automatically adjusted by means of detecting the closing situations of the air outlets and according to the number of the closed air outlets; the air output volume of the rest of the air outlets is reduced; and therefore, wind noise can be reduced, and at the same time, discomfort caused to a user is reduced.

A mirror system for a vehicle comprising an exterior rearview mirror assembly, which includes a fixed portion which is configured to mount to a side of the vehicle. The movable portion includes a reflective element and a reflective element actuator. The reflective element has a generally rearward field of view when the mirror system is mounted to the vehicle. The reflective element actuator provides selective adjustment of an orientation of the reflective element to adjust the rearward field of view to a desired orientation, and the movable portion is movably mounted to the fixed portion. The movable portion actuator selectively moves the movable portion between a viewing position wherein the movable portion extends outwardly from the vehicle at an angle with respect to the side of the vehicle and another viewing position wherein said movable portion extends outwardly from the vehicle at another angle with respect to the side of the vehicle. The movable portion actuator is adapted to move the movable portion to one of the positions, and the reflective element actuator is adapted to generally maintain the rearward field of view at the desired orientation independent of the position of the movable portion.

An elevator installation includes an elevator car that moves in an elevator shaft with shaft doors and which car has at least one car apron arranged parallel to a plane of a shaft wall at a shaft door side. A device for reducing noises generated by the air flow arising between the shaft wall and the car apron includes sound-absorbing material that is mounted at the car apron and at the shaft wall.

In a portable cutting tool configured to perform a cutting operation through movement along the upper surface of a workpiece, when an ordinary inner rotor type motor is used as the drive source, the motor is rotated at high speed to obtain a high output, which is reduced in speed by a speed reduction device to thereby secure an appropriate rotational speed for a rotary cutter. Since the electric motor is rotated at high speed in this construction, there have been problems of noise, vibration, etc. The present invention aims to achieve a reduction in the noise and vibration of the cutting tool.A direct drive system is incorporated with an outer rotor type electric motor (11) used as the drive source and with a rotary cutter (12) directly mounted to an output shaft (11d) of the motor, and the electric motor (11) is rotated at an appropriate rotational speed for the rotary cutter (12), for example, at approximately 6,000 RPM, whereby it is possible to achieve a reduction in the noise and vibration of the cutting tool 1.

A door handle assembly is provided for a door of a vehicle. The door handle assembly includes a mount adapted for attachment to the vehicle, an input member supported for movement relative to the mount, and a handle supported for movement relative to the mount. The handle can move from a low profile position to an extended position. The handle is adjacent the mount in the low profile position, and the handle is spaced from the mount in the extended position. The handle moves from the low profile position to the extended position due to an input provided to the input member. The handle can be further moved from the extended position to an operative position to unlatch the door of the vehicle.

A heat-dissipating fan includes a casing having an air outlet, a base mounted in the air outlet, and a plurality of ribs each mounted between the base and the casing. An impeller is mounted on the base and includes a plurality of blades. Each rib includes in sequence at least a first radial guiding portion, a first circumferential guiding portion, and a second radial guiding portion. Each of the first radial guiding portion and the second radial guiding portion extends in a direction having an inclining angle with an axial direction of the air outlet. The first radial guiding portion, the first circumferential guiding portion, and the second radial guiding portion guide airflow passing through the air outlet and increase wind pressure of the airflow when the impeller is turning.

A surround molding module incorporates an invisible division bar assembly. The invisible division bar assembly includes a support or glass encapsulation that does not extend outwardly beyond the plane of the exterior surface of fixed and movable windows of the vehicle. It provides a butt joint between these window edges. The support also carries a guide member that guides a guide leg extending outwardly from the movable window. An effective window guide tracking system is provided that has reduced wind noise and a flush window appearance with no off-set.

A microphone with narrow directivity capable of obtaining high directivity and reducing wind noise is obtained. A cylindrical acoustic tube, a microphone unit arranged in the acoustic tube, a front acoustic chamber and a rear acoustic chamber formed by partitioning the acoustic tube by the microphone unit, a front acoustic terminal for causing the front acoustic chamber to communicate with an external space, a rear acoustic terminal for causing the rear acoustic chamber to communicate with an external space, and a film that covers the front acoustic terminal are comprised. It is recommended that the rear acoustic terminal be also covered with a film. Further, it is recommended that the films be made of vinyl chloride and formed into a corrugated shape.

The present invention relates to wind noise reduction for a microphone (10) achieved by locating a microphone pick up (2) in a chamber (4) provided with at least one sound passage (5), wherein one or more elements (s) (6) is / are provided in the sound passage (s) (5) to decrease the speed of the air stream.

A cooling module is presented, which includes a heat sink and a fan unit. The heat sink provides a base plate and a plurality of fins, with an outlet extending through the base plate and the fins formed on a first surface of the base plate, and with a second surface of the base plate attached to a heat generating unit. The fan unit is rotatably mounted on the heat sink and aligned with the outlet. With the above-mentioned structure, an air-guiding channel is formed between any adjacent two of the fins and communicates with the outlet for a part of air outputted by the fan unit to be guided through the air guiding channels and exhausted by the outlet. Consequently, disturbed flows and wind noise are decreased while cooling efficiency is improved.

A system and method for reducing the operational noise of a blunt trailing edge of a wind turbine blade is described. The system involves increasing the trailing edge solid angle at the blade trailing edge by providing a wedge element or projection adjacent the trailing edge of the blade, the wedge element acting to provide improved mixing of the suction side and pressure side flows at the blunt trailing edge, thereby reducing the strength of vortex shedding at the trailing edge and the associated operational noise.

A heat-dissipating fan includes a casing having an air outlet, a base mounted in the air outlet, an impeller being mounted on the base and having a plurality of blades, a plurality of ribs each extending between the base and the casing along a radial direction of the base, and at least two air-guiding ring fixedly mounted to the ribs. The air-guiding rings vary in inclinations along a longitudinal direction of the casing. The air-guiding ring guides airflow in various directions, and divides airflow passing through the air outlet when the impeller is turning.

A centrifugal multi-blade fan has multiple blades about a rotational shaft and draws in air along the rotational shaft and then blows the air approximately perpendicular to the rotational shaft to reduce wind noise. A scroll casing encloses the multi-blade fan and defines a scroll-shaped airflow passage for directing the air blown from the multi-blade fan. The scroll casing has an intake opening and an outlet opening at a scroll end, in a downstream scroll casing portion. The scroll casing expands such that a flow passage cross-sectional area on the airflow downstream side is larger than that on an airflow upstream side. A ratio of a blade length to a diameter of the multi-blade fan is greater than or equal to 0.12, and an outer scroll casing radius, relative to the rotational axis, increases as a logarithmic spiral, its expansion angle being from 3.3° to 4.8°.

The invention discloses an automatic adjustable automobile wind tunnel testing platform with the function of interference elimination. The testing platform comprises a testing bench, an automatic wheel base adjusting part, and a tread adjusting part. The testing bench is installed on a wind tunnel testing segment floor and covers a balance support. The automatic wheel base adjusting part is installed at the lower part of the balance support; and the tread adjusting part is installed in the balance support. The automatic wheel base adjusting part consists of a wheel base displacement sensor, a gear rack driving device, a drive motor, a wheel base adjustment support and a guide rod; the wheel base adjustment support is fixed at the bottom of the balance support; the guide rod passes through the wheel base adjustment support and the is connected with a balance floating frame; the wheel base adjustment support can move axially along the guide rod; the wheel base displacement sensor is arranged on the wheel base adjustment support; and the wheel base adjustment support is connected with the drive motor by the gear rack driving device. According to the invention, the interference on the process quality by the support exposed in the flow field in wind tunnel testing can be eliminated; and supports of vehicles with different wheel bases and threads can be realized.

The invention relates to a hidden structure of an automobile door external handle. The hidden structure comprises a vehicle door metal plate and the handle, a containing cavity is formed in the automobile door metal plate, a handle base is arranged in the containing cavity, the handle base is provided with a hiding groove, the handle is located in the hiding groove and is connected with the handlebase, one end of the handle is provided with a handle ejection mechanism, and the other end of the handle is provided with a locking mechanism. According to the hidden structure of the automobile door external handle, the design of guide grooves in an existing handle base and an existing control rod is canceled, so that the handle is smoother during the flat ejection of the handle, the difficultyof mold opening is reduced, the production cost is also reduced, and the production and assembly difficulty is greatly reduced.