Principles And Workings Of The Bose Radio
Loudspeakers are fundamental to maintaining the fidelity of sound in radios, TV, and theater, and aficionados have debated the reproduction quality of different types of loudspeakers and their associated electronics for decades. The goal of the early loudspeakers was to modify and suppress acoustic radiation from the rear of the speaker-driver. Further work on such speakers concentrated on materials that could suppress selective radiation from the rear diaphragm. However, in 1984, a class of loudspeakers was introduced by Bose, designated "acoustic wave speakers", which are more generically called transmission line (TL) speakers. Rather than suppressing the acoustic energy from the rear of the driver, a means was engineered to use standing waves to constructively sum radiation from both the front and the rear of the driver. This allowed exceptional bass response in a small volume. The TL speaker's science and operation in the Bose radio context will be described. Analogies between antennas and the acoustic wave system will be used to help frame the analysis in electrical engineering terminology.
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- Date: 27 Sep 2023
- Time: 09:15 AM to 10:30 AM
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- Starts 04 September 2023 10:56 PM
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Ram Dhurjaty of Dhurjaty Electronics Consulting LLC, Rochester, NY, 14618
Bose Radio Technology
Biography:
Seeram (Ram) Dhurjaty was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay, India, at the age of 15. He continued at IIT until 1976 when he received a Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering. In 1976, he joined Yale University for a graduate degree in mathematical control theory. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at Yale New Haven Hospital, where he researched nuclear medicine instrumentation and early Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners.
Ram has occupied several senior technical positions in industry. Over the years, he worked at Analogic Corporation in Massachusetts, designing fetal monitoring systems, ultrasound imaging systems, and CT scanner front ends. He worked at Bose, on leave from Analogic, to understand acoustics and loudspeakers. He then worked at the Eastman Kodak Company for 20 years, working on digital radiography. He was the primary inventor of the retrofittable X-ray detector, which is now ubiquitous in diagnostic radiology. At Kodak, he had the title of Technology Guru.
After leaving Kodak in 2005, he started a consulting company designing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and X-ray generators. He holds 17 patents, including a patent (now expired) for a hand-cranked defibrillator. He holds a commercial pilot’s license. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, where he is the Distinguished Speaker for the Consumer Technology Society and a past chair of the IEEE Rochester Section. He is a member of AHA, AWA, and SPIE and an emeritus member of the AAPM.
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Address:115 Sylvania Rd., , Rochester, New York, United States, 14618
Agenda
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9:15 am-10:30 am -- Principles And Workings Of The Bose Radio, by Ram Dhurjaty
Other Wednesday Talks and Demonstrations Available to Registrant Attendees:
10:45 am - 12:00 pm -- Audio Forum, by Dave Minchellla & Bill Tomkiewicz
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm -- Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD), by Jim Porter, NASA Ambassador
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm -- Radio Club of America Helps Invent Radio (focusing on the 1920s) by Dave Bart & Felicia Dreuzer
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