Patent ID: 7190801

Claim:
A horn loudspeaker comprising: a horn housing defining a driver-receiving space that is adapted to receive a sound-generating driver therein, and having a top wall that is formed with a sound exit, an inner surrounding wall that extends downwardly from said top wall, a bottom wall that extends laterally and outwardly from said inner surrounding wall, and an outer surrounding wall that extends upwardly from said bottom wall and that is spaced apart from said inner surrounding wall to define a gap therebetween; a cover having a top wall that is disposed over said top wall of said horn housing, and a surrounding wall that extends downwardly from said top wall of said cover into said gap; and a plurality of spaced apart partitioning members disposed between and connected sealingly to said horn housing and said cover so as to define a plurality of sound channels thereamong, each of said sound channels diverging from said sound exit in said horn housing so that the acoustic pressure wave resulting from the sound-generating driver can propagate through said sound exit in said horn housing and into said sound channels.