1、 ANSI/ASA S3.55-2015/Part 3 / IEC 60318-3:2014 AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD Electroacoustics Simulators of Human Head and Ear Part 3: Acoustic Coupler for the Calibration of Supra-aural Earphones Used in Audiometry (a nationally adopted international standard) Accredited Standards Committee S3, Bioaco
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4、-3:2014 AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD Electroacoustics Simulators of Human Head and Ear Part 3: Acoustic Coupler for the Calibration of Supra-aural Earphones Used in Audiometry (a nationally adopted international standard) Secretariat: Acoustical Society of America Approved on May 15, 2015 by: American
5、 National Standards Institute, Inc. Abstract This standard specifies an acoustic coupler for objective and reproducible measurements of supra-aural audiometric earphones in the frequency range from 125 Hz to 8000 Hz. The results of these measurements can be used for specifying reference equivalent t
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16、 For permission, address a request to the Standards Secretariat of the Acoustical Society of America. 2015 Acoustical Society of America All rights reserved iContents 1 Scope 1 2 Normative references 1 3 Terms and definitions 1 4 Construction 1 4.1 General 1 4.2 Cavity dimensions 2 4.3 Static pressu
17、re equalization . 4 4.4 Calibrated pressure type microphone 4 5 Coupling of earphone to acoustic coupler. 5 6 Calibration . 6 6.1 Reference environmental conditions 6 6.2 Method of calibration 6 Figures Figure 1 Dimensions of acoustic coupler . 3 Figure 2 Coupling of earphone to coupler 5 Tables Tab
18、le 1 Height of the coupler as a function of the acoustic volume of the microphone 4 Table 2 Values of maximum permitted uncertainties Umax for a level of confidence of approximately 95 % . 7 2015 Acoustical Society of America All rights reserved ii Foreword This Foreword is for information only, and
19、 is not a part of the American National Standard ANSI/ASA S3.55-2015/Part 3 / IEC 60318-3:2014 American National Standard Electroacoustics Simulators of Human Head and Ear Part 3: Acoustic Coupler for the Calibration of Supra-aural Earphones Used in Audiometry. As such, this Foreword may contain mat
20、erial that has not been subjected to public review or a consensus process. In addition, it does not contain requirements necessary for conformance to the standard. This standard comprises a part of a group of definitions, standards, and specifications for use in bioacoustics. It was developed and ap
21、proved by Accredited Standards Committee S3 Bioacoustics, under its approved operating procedures. Those procedures have been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The Scope of Accredited Standards Committee S3 is as follows: Standards, specifications, methods of measuremen
22、t and test, and terminology in the fields of psychological and physiological acoustics, including aspects of general acoustics which pertain to biological safety, tolerance and comfort. This standard is a nationally adopted international standard (NAIS). It was undertaken as part of the revision of
23、ANSI/ASA S3.7-1995 (R2008), Method for Coupler Calibration of Earphones, which, in addition to coupler calibration methods, contains detailed information about the audiometric ear, the 6cc coupler, and the 2cc coupler. Several years ago, IEC 60318 was reorganized into several parts, which now includ
24、e the same information about the aforementioned couplers (IEC 60318, Parts 1, 3, and 5, respectively). Given that the manufacture of these couplers has changed little if at all in more than 25 years, the fact that the IEC and ANSI/ASA specifications for these couplers are essentially identical, and
25、the fact that manufacturers of these couplers do not produce different versions of the devices to meet alternative versions of the standards, harmonization was deemed appropriate. The first step in this process has been the move of the detailed coupler specifications from the previous version of ANS
26、I/ASA S3.7 to NAIS ANSI/ASA S3.55, Parts 1, 3, and 5, which correspond directly to their IEC 60318 counterparts. References in other standards that previously pointed to ANSI/ASA S3.7 for a particular coupler will now point to the appropriate NAIS ANSI/ASA S3.55 part instead as these documents are r
27、evised and updated. The next revision of ANSI/ASA S3.7 will focus solely on the calibration methods for earphones, and will also point to the appropriate NAIS ANSI/ASA S3.55 part, where the detailed coupler information now resides. This standard is an identical national adoption of IEC 60318-3 Ed. 2
28、.0 b:2014 Electroacoustics Simulators of human head and ear Part 3: Acoustic coupler for the calibration of supra-aural earphones used in audiometry, which was prepared by IEC/TC 29. However, in conformance with ANSI and IEC rules, the words “this part of ANSI/ASA S3.55 / IEC 60318” replace the word
29、s “this part of IEC 60318” where they appear in the IEC document, decimal points were substituted in place of the decimal commas used in IEC documents, and American English spelling is used in place of British English spelling. At the time this Standard was submitted to Accredited Standards Committe
30、e S3, Bioacoustics for approval, the membership was as follows: C.J. Struck, Chair P.B. Nelson, Vice-Chair S.B. Blaeser, Secretary Acoustical Society of America . C.J. Struck P.B. Nelson (Alt.) American Academy of Audiology . .C. Schweitzer T. Ricketts (Alt.) 2015 Acoustical Society of America All r
31、ights reserved iiiAmerican Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inc. .R.A. Dobie A. Kim (Alt.) American Industrial Hygiene Association . T.K. Madison D. Driscoll (Alt.) American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) . L.A. Wilber . N. DiSarno (Alt.) Beltone/GN Resound S. Petrovic C
32、ouncil for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) . L.D. Hager Diagnostic Group . T. McColley P. Dobrowski (Alt.) ETS Lindgren Acoustic Systems . S. Dunlap . D. Winker (Alt.) Etymotic Research, Inc. M.C. Killion . J.K. Stewart (Alt.) Food and Drug Administration S-C Peng G.R.A.S.
33、 Sound FAX: 631-923-2875; E-mail: asastdsacousticalsociety.org. AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD ANSI/ASA S3.55-2015/Part 3 / IEC 60318-3:2014 2015 Acoustical Society of America All rights reserved 1American National Standard Electroacoustics Simulators of Human Head and Ear Part 3: Acoustic Coupler for t
34、he Calibration of Supra-aural Earphones Used in Audiometry 1 Scope This part of ANSI/ASA S3.55 / IEC 60318 specifies an acoustic coupler for the measurement of supra-aural audiometric earphones in the frequency range from 125 Hz to 8,000 Hz. The sound pressure developed by an earphone is not, in gen
35、eral, the same in the coupler as in a persons ear. However, the acoustic coupler can be used as an objective and reproducible means of measuring the output of supra-aural earphones. It can be used for specifying reference equivalent threshold sound pressure levels (RETSPL) for the calibration of aud
36、iometers. 2 Normative references The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including
37、 any amendments) applies. IEC 61094-1, Measurement microphones Part 1: Specifications for laboratory standard microphones ISO/IEC Guide 98-3, Uncertainty of measurement Part 3: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM:1995) 3 Terms and definitions For the purpose of this document,
38、the following definition applies: 3.1 acoustic coupler device for measuring the acoustic output of sound sources where the sound pressure is measured by a calibrated microphone coupled to the source by a cavity of predetermined shape and volume which does not necessarily approximate the acoustical i
39、mpedance of the normal human ear 4 Construction 4.1 General The coupler consists essentially of a cylindrical cavity whose acoustic transfer impedance is determined by the volume of air in the cavity and its dimensions (see 4.2). A microphone with a diaphragm having high acoustic impedance is locate
40、d in the base of the cylindrical cavity. The coupler shall be made of a material that has no negative influences on its performance. For example it should be acoustically hard and dimensionally stable. The general construction of the coupler and mounting of the microphone shall aim to reduce the res
41、ponse to vibration of any earphone or to sound outside the cavity. ANSI/ASA S3.55-2015/Part 3 / IEC 60318-3:2014 2015 Acoustical Society of America All rights reserved 2In the following, the specified tolerance shall be reduced by an amount equal to the actual expanded measurement uncertainty of the
42、 test laboratory before deciding if a device conforms to this specification. 4.2 Cavity dimensions The critical dimensions (see Figure 1) of the coupler are those that determine the shape and volume of the cavity terminated by the microphone, the static pressure equalization mechanism, the upper edg
43、e (lip) and the 45 angle. The effective acoustic volume of the coupler shall be 5,780 mm3 130 mm3. The diameter d1shall be 23.825 mm 0.080 mm. Diameter d2shall be 18.55 mm 0.16 mm. The height l2shall be 1.950 mm 0.065 mm. The angle defining the slope of the external part of the coupler shall be 45 5
44、.5. The height h of the coupler shall be calculated according to the following formula: 212141dVVVheq(1) where V1is the effective acoustic volume; Veqis the equivalent acoustic volume of the microphone; V2is the volume of the front cavity of the microphone, given by 22214Vdl(2) It is recommended tha
45、t a value of h be selected from Table 1, according to the value of the equivalent acoustic volume of the microphone. NOTE 1 It is recognized that certain combinations of coupler cavity and microphone could cause problems if the tolerance of the coupler diameter is exploited towards the smallest allo
46、wed diameter and at the same time, the tolerance of the microphone diameter is exploited towards the largest allowed diameter. Practical experience however, has proven that those problems are very unlikely to occur. NOTE 2 If the coupler described in this standard is constructed with a fixed value o
47、f h + l2= 13.41 mm regardless of the equivalent volume of the microphone, then the coupler will be identical with the NBS 9A coupler, see 11. The nominal effective acoustic volume of the type 9A coupler is: V1= Veq+ 5,640 mm31 Numbers in square brackets refer to the Bibliography. ANSI/ASA S3.20-2015
48、/Part 3 / IEC 60318-3:2014 2015 Acoustical Society of America All rights reserved 3Dimension Specification mm A 73 B 57.2 C 25.27 d123.825 d218.55 l21.95 h See 4.2, Equation (1), Table 1 H 7.5 Angle In degrees Y 25 45 25 The dimensions printed in bold are the critical dimensions that determine the s
49、hape and volume of the cavity terminated by the microphone, the capillary leak, the upper edge (lip) and the 45 angle; see 4.2. Key 1 hole for thermometer 2 microphone 3 ground shield 4 contact pin 5 venting mechanism, see 4.3. Figure 1 Dimensions of acoustic coupler ECANSI/ASA S3.55-2015/Part 3 / IEC 60318-3:2014 2015 Acoustical Society of America All rights reserved 4Table 1 Height of the coupler as a function of the acoustic volume of the microphone Equivalent acoustic volume of the microphone
