Patents by Inventor Rex PRICE
Rex PRICE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11166105Abstract: A movable diaphragm comprises a layer having a disc shape with undulating waves that extend from an inner diameter to an outer diameter. The layer is to be offset from a stationary surface and displaced toward the stationary surface, the displacement of the layer to effectively cause a respective compression and rarefaction of air between the layer and the stationary surface to an external environment. An annular surround is to seal outer edge portion of the layer to a transducer component, the surround having compliant properties to allow the displacement of the layer relative to the stationary surface and the transducer component without breaking the seal. The undulations increases an effective surface area of the layer to lower an overall size of the transducer that would otherwise be needed for a low frequency speaker.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventor: Rex Price
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Publication number: 20210314708Abstract: A movable diaphragm comprises a layer having a disc shape with undulating waves that extend from an inner diameter to an outer diameter. The layer is to be offset from a stationary surface and displaced toward the stationary surface, the displacement of the layer to effectively cause a respective compression and rarefaction of air between the layer and the stationary surface to an external environment. An annular surround is to seal outer edge portion of the layer to a transducer component, the surround having compliant properties to allow the displacement of the layer relative to the stationary surface and the transducer component without breaking the seal. The undulations increases an effective surface area of the layer to lower an overall size of the transducer that would otherwise be needed for a low frequency speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: 10996717Abstract: In a display assistant device, a speaker is mounted in a waveguide structure which is at least partially disposed beneath a display screen. The waveguide structure is mounted in an exterior housing which includes speaker grills distributed on a plurality of surfaces of the exterior housing, permitting sound waves from the speaker to be projected outside the exterior housing. A cover structure is disposed on top of the waveguide structure to conceal the waveguide structure and speaker within the exterior housing. The cover structure has a tilted bottom surface configured to be suspended above the waveguide structure and to be separated by a first space. Sound waves projected from an upper portion of the speaker are reflected by the tilted bottom surface and are guided through the first space to exit the device from a speaker grill portion located on a rear side of the exterior housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: James Castro, Carl Cepress, Liang Ching Tseng, Darren Torrie, Frances Kwee, Rex Price
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Publication number: 20200112786Abstract: In a display assistant device, a speaker is mounted in a waveguide structure which is at least partially disposed beneath a display screen. The waveguide structure is mounted in an exterior housing which includes speaker grills distributed on a plurality of surfaces of the exterior housing, permitting sound waves from the speaker to be projected outside the exterior housing. A cover structure is disposed on top of the waveguide structure to conceal the waveguide structure and speaker within the exterior housing. The cover structure has a tilted bottom surface configured to be suspended above the waveguide structure and to be separated by a first space. Sound waves projected from an upper portion of the speaker are reflected by the tilted bottom surface and are guided through the first space to exit the device from a speaker grill portion located on a rear side of the exterior housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: James Castro, Carl Cepress, Liang Ching Tseng, Darren Torrie, Frances Kwee, Rex Price
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Patent number: 10397719Abstract: Headphones may include an ear-cup housing and an audio driver disposed at least partially within the ear-cup housing. The audio driver may include a driver housing, a diaphragm suspended from the driver housing, one of a magnet and a coil carried on a back side of the diaphragm, and another of the magnet and the coil carried by the driver housing behind the diaphragm, the magnet and coil magnetically coupled with one another such that electrical current flowing through the coil generates a magnetic force acting on the diaphragm through the magnet or coil carried on the back side of the diaphragm. A port may extend through a surface of the driver housing directly between an acoustical cavity within the driver housing and an exterior of the ear-cup housing without communicating acoustically with a volume of space outside the driver housing and within the ear-cup housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: 10368168Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for sonically customizing an audio reproduction device. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to determine an application environment associated with an audio reproduction device associated with a user; determine one or more sound profiles based on the application environment; provide the one or more sound profiles to the user; receive a selection of a first sound profile from the one or more sound profiles; and generate tuning data based on the first sound profile, the tuning data configured to sonically customize the audio reproduction device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuro Oishi, Rex Price, Samuel Paschel, Matthew Windt, Thomas Bishop
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Publication number: 20180302732Abstract: Headphones may include an ear-cup housing and an audio driver disposed at least partially within the ear-cup housing. The audio driver may include a driver housing, a diaphragm suspended from the driver housing, one of a magnet and a coil carried on a back side of the diaphragm, and another of the magnet and the coil carried by the driver housing behind the diaphragm, the magnet and coil magnetically coupled with one another such that electrical current flowing through the coil generates a magnetic force acting on the diaphragm through the magnet or coil carried on the back side of the diaphragm. A port may extend through a surface of the driver housing directly between an acoustical cavity within the driver housing and an exterior of the ear-cup housing without communicating acoustically with a volume of space outside the driver housing and within the ear-cup housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: 10034112Abstract: A headphone includes an ear-cup housing and an audio driver. The audio driver has a driver housing, and a driver aperture extending through the audio driver from an exterior thereof toward a diaphragm. A mass port plug is disposed at least partially within the driver aperture extending through the audio driver. The mass port plug has an acoustic aperture extending through the mass port plug from a first side thereof to an opposing second side thereof, and the acoustic aperture is configured to cause the audio driver to exhibit a selected detectable sound pressure level (SPL) profile. Methods of fabricating headphones include insertion of such a mass port plug into a driver aperture extending through an audio driver. The mass port plugs and methods may be used to adapt substantially identical audio drivers for use in ear-cup housings having differing configurations while providing selected detectable sound pressure level profiles.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: 10028047Abstract: Headphones include removable audio drivers electrically coupled with electrical conductors using solderless and detachable interconnections. Driver assemblies for headphones include an audio driver and a driver unit housing. An acoustical cavity is defined between the driver unit housing and the audio driver, and a port extends through the driver unit housing between the acoustical cavity and the exterior of the driver assembly. The driver unit housing is configured to be secured within an outer ear-cup housing of a headphone such that the port is open to the exterior of the headphone without communicating acoustically with a volume outside the driver unit housing and within the outer ear-cup housing. Headphones include such driver assemblies. Methods are used to form such headphones and driver assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuro Oishi, Rex Price, Matt Windt, Thomas Burton
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Publication number: 20170303040Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for sonically customizing an audio reproduction device. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to determine an application environment associated with an audio reproduction device associated with a user; determine one or more sound profiles based on the application environment; provide the one or more sound profiles to the user; receive a selection of a first sound profile from the one or more sound profiles; and generate tuning data based on the first sound profile, the tuning data configured to sonically customize the audio reproduction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Tetsuro Oishi, Rex Price, Samuel Paschel, Matthew Windt, Thomas Bishop
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Patent number: 9699553Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for sonically customizing an audio reproduction device. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to determine an application environment associated with an audio reproduction device associated with a user; determine one or more sound profiles based on the application environment; provide the one or more sound profiles to the user; receive a selection of a first sound profile from the one or more sound profiles; and generate tuning data based on the first sound profile, the tuning data configured to sonically customize the audio reproduction device.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuro Oishi, Rex Price, Samuel Paschel, Matthew Windt, Thomas Bishop
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Publication number: 20160353191Abstract: Headphones include removable audio drivers electrically coupled with electrical conductors using solderless and detachable interconnections. Driver assemblies for headphones include an audio driver and a driver unit housing. An acoustical cavity is defined between the driver unit housing and the audio driver, and a port extends through the driver unit housing between the acoustical cavity and the exterior of the driver assembly. The driver unit housing is configured to be secured within an outer ear-cup housing of a headphone such that the port is open to the exterior of the headphone without communicating acoustically with a volume outside the driver unit housing and within the outer ear-cup housing. Headphones include such driver assemblies. Methods are used to form such headphones and driver assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Tetsuro Oishi, Rex Price, Matthew Windt, Thomas Burton
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Patent number: 9485584Abstract: An apparatus related to a magnetic circuit design is disclosed. The apparatus includes a magnetic assembly and an electrically-conductive mobile member. The magnetic assembly includes an inner magnet, an outer magnet, an inner cap, an outer cap and a washer. The magnetic assembly is configured to produce a magnetic field having a zone of operation between the inner cap and the outer cap. The zone of operation has substantially uniform magnetic field strength. The zone of operation has magnetic field directions substantially perpendicular to an ideal motion direction. The electrically-conductive mobile member is disposed in the zone of operation of the magnetic field and electrically coupled to a diaphragm of a driver. The electrically-conductive mobile member is configured to move within the zone of operation of the magnetic field in response to the magnetic field when an alternating current is passed through the electrically-conductive mobile member.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: 9414145Abstract: Headphones include removable audio drivers electrically coupled with electrical conductors using solderless and detachable interconnections. Driver assemblies for headphones include an audio driver and a driver unit housing. An acoustical cavity is defined between the driver unit housing and the audio driver, and a port extends through the driver unit housing between the acoustical cavity and the exterior of the driver assembly. The driver unit housing is configured to be secured within an outer ear-cup housing of a headphone such that the port is open to the exterior of the headphone without communicating acoustically with a volume outside the driver unit housing and within the outer ear-cup housing. Headphones include such driver assemblies. Methods are used to form such headphones and driver assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuro Oishi, Rex Price, Matt Windt, Thomas C. Burton
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Publication number: 20160029137Abstract: A headphone includes an ear-cup housing and an audio driver. The audio driver has a driver housing, and a driver aperture extending through the audio driver from an exterior thereof toward a diaphragm. A mass port plug is disposed at least partially within the driver aperture extending through the audio driver. The mass port plug has an acoustic aperture extending through the mass port plug from a first side thereof to an opposing second side thereof, and the acoustic aperture is configured to cause the audio driver to exhibit a selected detectable sound pressure level (SPL) profile. Methods of fabricating headphones include insertion of such a mass port plug into a driver aperture extending through an audio driver. The mass port plugs and methods may be used to adapt substantially identical audio drivers for use in ear-cup housings having differing configurations while providing selected detectable sound pressure level profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: 9241210Abstract: A mass port configured to tune a frequency response of an audio reproduction device is disclosed. The mass port includes a head portion and an insertion portion coupled to the head portion. The head portion includes a sealing structure on a rear side. The head portion is configured to attach to a rear plate of a driver at the sealing structure. The insertion portion is configured to be inserted into a speaker port on the rear plate of the driver. The head portion and the insertion portion include an air slot that runs through the head portion and the insertion portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: SKULLCANDY, INC.Inventor: Rex Price
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Patent number: D736910Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: George Christopher Dorbin, Beth Goldman Mason, Daniel Patrick Findley, Timothy Wayne Robertson, David Rex Price
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Patent number: D751698Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: George Christopher Dobrin, Beth Goldman Mason, Daniel Patrick Findley, Timothy Wayne Robertson, David Rex Price
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Patent number: D779658Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: George Christopher Dobrin, Beth Goldman Mason, Daniel Patrick Findley, Timothy Wayne Robertson, David Rex Price
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Patent number: D800302Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: George Christopher Dobrin, Beth Goldman Mason, Daniel Patrick Findley, Timothy Wayne Robertson, David Rex Price