Patent ID: 8548190

Claim:
A composite speaker comprising: a plurality of magnets disposed at predetermined intervals; a yoke that forms a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap with respect to the magnets; a voice coil disposed in the gap between the magnets and the yoke so as to interlink with the magnetic circuit; a diaphragm with the voice coil fixed to one face thereof; a frame to which peripheral edge portions of the diaphragm are directly fixed and that houses the magnets and the yoke; a speaker base plate fixed to the frame at a side thereof opposite to a side supporting the diaphragm; and an elastic member formed from an elastic material selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic elastomer, a vulcanized rubber and a soft resin, or formed from a foamed body of an elastic material selected therefrom, and inserted between a base face of the yoke and the speaker base plate; wherein sound is generated from both the diaphragm and the speaker base plate.