Patent ID: 8259986

Claim:
A loudspeaker comprising: a plurality of magnets configured in a motor assembly to each produce a magnetic flux; a magnet housing configured to surround one of the magnets and have at least one of the magnets not surrounded by the magnet housing, the magnet housing comprising a magnetically conductive material; and a magnetic flux collector coupled with the magnet housing and extending outwardly away from the magnet housing to a distal end proximate an outer diameter of the magnetic flux collector; where the magnetic flux collector is a magnetically conductive material configured to receive and channel the magnetic flux of the at least one of the magnets not surrounded by the magnet housing to an air gap formed between the magnet housing and the motor assembly; the at least one of the magnets not surrounded by the magnet housing having a distal end positioned at a greater axial distance from the magnet housing that is the magnetic flux collector distal end.