Acoustic Enclosure Patents (Class 381/345)
  • Patent number: 11979730
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a loudspeaker assembly and an electronic device, relating to the technical field of electronic devices, so as to solve the problems of single sound effect and lack of good sound effect. The loudspeaker assembly includes a first housing, a second housing, a loudspeaker vibrator and an adjusting mechanism. The first housing and the loudspeaker vibrator form a first cavity, and the second housing and the loudspeaker vibrator form a second cavity. The adjusting mechanism includes a driving mechanism and a filling part. The driving mechanism drives the filling part to move, so as to change the volume of the filling part extending into the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Chao Xu, Ruimin Li, Ke Feng, Ming Xie, Shicai Long, Qilu Ye, Zhekang Luo, Yadong Zheng
  • Patent number: 11972749
    Abstract: A wearable sound device includes a venting device including a film structure and an actuator and a driving circuit configured to be controlled by a controller and to drive the actuator, such that the film structure is controlled to form a vent or to seal the vent. The controller is coupled to a sensing device configured to generate a sensing result and determine whether to seal the vent according to the sensing result. The film structure partitions a space within the wearable sound device into a first volume and a second volume. The first volume is connected to or to be connected to an ear canal of a wearable sound device user. The second volume is connected to or to be connected to an ambient of the wearable sound device. The first volume and the second volume are connected via the vent when the vent is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: James Wargnier, Michael David Housholder, Yanchen Lu, JengYaw Jiang
  • Patent number: 11962969
    Abstract: An acoustic device comprises a sound generating unit having a vibration diaphragm, the acoustic device is provided with a sound outlet, the sound waves at a front side of the vibration diaphragm radiates to the outside through the sound outlet; and an enclosed closed cavity formed at a rear side of the vibration diaphragm, the closed cavity is divided into first and second closed cavities by a partition part, and at least a portion of the partition part flexibly deforms, the first closed cavity is adjacent to the vibration diaphragm, the second closed cavity is far away from the vibration diaphragm, the volume of the second closed cavity is larger than that of the first closed cavity; the second closed cavity encloses the sound waves into the second closed cavity; at least a part of an electronic apparatus housing is used for forming the first and/or the second closed cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Chunfa Liu, Tongyan Xu, Chengfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950048
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a sound absorption material including an organic frame material; a binder; a thickener; and a plurality of sound absorption grains attached to the organic frame material via the binder, having a grain size in a range of 10-100 ?m. The stability and the sound absorption performance of the sound absorption material have been effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongyang Wang, Hezhi Wang, Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950055
    Abstract: A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the housing. The at least one sound guiding hole guides the sound wave inside the housing through the at least one sound guiding hole to an outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interferes with the leaked sound wave in a target region. The interference at a specific frequency relates to a distance between the at least one sound guiding hole and the portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11950034
    Abstract: A loudspeaker enclosure design is disclosed. The speaker enclosure consists of two sections. An upper section contains a mid-range speaker oriented along a first axis. A lower section contains a subwoofer speaker and two tweeter speakers. The subwoofer, when oriented along a second axis to face upwardly within the enclosure, produces a clean, crisp, and sonorous big bass sound. The mid-range speaker, oriented along the first axis to face downwardly toward the subwoofer speaker, simulates subwoofer sound waves. The tweeters, located at a vertex of an angle defined by the first and second axes, produce a high frequency, treble sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Manley Beaubrun
  • Patent number: 11937033
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises: a housing comprising a front plate, a rear plate facing in the opposite direction to the front plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate; a display which is viewed from the outside through the front plate; a first opening formed between an edge of the front plate and the side member; a mid-plate which is arranged between the display and the rear plate and extends from the side member, overlaps the display when viewed from above the display, and includes a second opening adjacent to the first opening; a speaker which is located in a space adjacent to the second opening, between the mid-plate and the rear plate, and includes a diaphragm facing the display; a sound guide structure arranged between the mid-plate and the display, the sound guide structure comprising a grill portion, which is inserted into the first opening and includes a plurality of through holes, and a flange portion which extends from the grill portion to a space betw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangjin Kim, Sungyoung Lee, Taehwa Moon, Sunghyun Yoon, Jeongmoo Ha
  • Patent number: 11917388
    Abstract: A speaker device includes a speaker unit including a magnetic circuit and a diaphragm, connected to the magnetic circuit and being capable of generating sound waves by electrically driving the magnetic circuit to vibrate the diaphragm; and a Helmholtz resonator connected to the speaker unit. The diaphragm includes a first surface oriented to a sealed space, and a second surface that is back surface of the first surface and is oriented to the Helmholtz resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Foster Electric Company, Limited
    Inventor: Takayuki Tabata
  • Patent number: 11899511
    Abstract: A desktop computing system having at least a central core surrounded by housing having a shape that defines a volume in which the central core resides is described. The housing includes a first opening and a second opening axially displaced from the first opening. The first opening having a size and shape in accordance with an amount of airflow used as a heat transfer medium for cooling internal components, the second opening defined by a lip that engages a portion of the airflow in such a way that at least some of the heat transferred to the air flow from the internal components is passed to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Eugene A Whang, Christopher J. Stringer, Brett W. Degner, David H. Narajowski, Patrick Kessler, Eric R. Prather, Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski, Adam T. Stagnaro, Daniel L. McBroom, Matthew P. Casebolt, Michael D. McBroom
  • Patent number: 11825282
    Abstract: A portable wireless sound system comprising at least two speakers is provided. A first speaker is determined to be a host speaker by having a wireless connection to a source device, such that the host speaker receives audio data from the connected source device, outputs the audio data signal, and plays audio. One or speakers are determine to be a satellite speaker by not having a connection to a source device, such that the satellite speakers receive audio data from the host speaker and play audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventor: Jeff Leitman
  • Patent number: 11785377
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, and an acoustic unit connected to a sound source to transmit sound, wherein the acoustic unit includes a first cavity extending from the sound source in a first direction in which the sound is emitted, and a second cavity extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction, the second cavity being connected with the first cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Katsumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11785374
    Abstract: An acoustic device (1), comprises: a container (2); a passive resonator, including a suspension (3) connected to the container (2) and a radiator (4) connected to the suspension (3), where the suspension (3) is configured to allow the radiator (4) to vibrate relative to the container (2), a structure (5) having at least a first connecting point (51), where it is connected to the radiator (4), and a second connecting point (52), where it is connected to the container (2), the structure (5) being movable alternately between a first position and a second position, responsive to a vibration of the radiator (4); one or more masses (61, 62), spaced from the radiator (4) and associated with the vibrating structure (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: POWERSOFT S.P.A.
    Inventor: Claudio Lastrucci
  • Patent number: 11765863
    Abstract: A system including a cooling element and a support structure is described. The cooling element has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The cooling element is configured to undergo vibrational motion when actuated to drive a fluid from the first side to the second side. The support structure thermally couples the cooling element to a heat-generating structure via thermal conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Frore Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ananth Saran Yalamarthy, Prabhu Sathyamurthy, Suryaprakash Ganti, Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy, Vikram Mukundan
  • Patent number: 11758321
    Abstract: Provided is a speaker box, including housing and sounding unit having diaphragm including vibration portion and suspension portion. The housing includes holder, lower and upper covers. The holder includes holder body, holder extension portion and holder fixing portion. The sounding unit is fixed to the holder fixing portion. Orthographic projection of the vibration portion completely falls into the holder body. The suspension portion is arc-shaped formed by recessing away from the holder body. The lower cover includes lower cover plate and lower cover sidewall. The sounding unit, the holder and the lower cover sidewall define front sound cavity. The sounding unit and the lower cover define rear sound cavity. The lower cover sidewall, the holder fixing portion, the holder extension portion and the upper cover define auxiliary rear sound cavity communicated with the rear sound cavity. The speaker box has large cavity volume and good acoustic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhang Ren, Zhiwei Zhong
  • Patent number: 11743632
    Abstract: An electronic device having a speaker includes: a housing having a front wall member; a cover member detachably attached to the front wall member; a fastening member arranged behind the cover member and fastened to the housing; and a first elastic member provided between the cover member and the fastening member. The cover member, the fastening member, and the first elastic member are arranged inside the housing. The speaker is arranged between the front wall member and the cover member. The front wall member and the cover member are formed so that a closed space is defined by a back surface of a vibration plate, the front wall member, and the cover member. The front wall member is provided with an opening communicating from outside of the housing to the front surface of the vibration plate. The first elastic member contacts the cover member and the fastening member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Okazaki, Kumpei Fujita
  • Patent number: 11729545
    Abstract: A loudspeaker comprises an enclosure, at least one dynamic driver mounted in the enclosure, and at least one porous monolithic block. The at least one porous monolithic block comprises a plurality of pores and is mounted within the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SSI New Material (Zhenjiang) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Christian Lembacher, Christoph Schmauder, Gordon Schriefer
  • Patent number: 11700482
    Abstract: A speaker device for reproducing sound within a predetermined audio spectrum is provided. The speaker device comprises: a housing including a top, a bottom, and a side surface; at least one speaker disposed within the housing, the at least one speaker including a speaker flange facing towards the bottom; a waveguide including at least a first surface defining at least one sound channel for conducting a given sound produced by the at least one speaker, and the at least one channel includes a first zone, a second zone, and a third zone sequentially defined along a length thereof to provide for sound reproduction from 100 Hz to 20000 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
    Inventor: Maksim Viktorovich Chizhov
  • Patent number: 11696066
    Abstract: A speaker device of the present disclosure includes a speaker unit, a first passive radiator disposed adjacent to a vibrating plate of the speaker unit, a second passive radiator located in a first direction with respect to the first passive radiator and disposed to be opposed to the first passive radiator, a first cabinet including a first wall section and forming a sealed acoustic space, and a second cabinet including a second wall section, including an opening section adjacent to the first passive radiator, and forming an opened acoustic space. The second passive radiator is located in a second direction with respect to a first imaginary surface passing the first wall section of the first cabinet. The second wall section of the second cabinet does not project in the first direction with respect to the first wall section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 11696057
    Abstract: Provided is a speaker box and a mobile terminal. The speaker box is applied to the mobile terminal and includes a shell having a receiving space and a speaker unit received in the receiving space. The shell includes a bottom shell and a metal top plate covering the bottom shell and together defining the receiving space. The metal top plate includes a main body covering one end of the sidewall away from the bottom wall and a connector extending outwards from the main body. A positioning portion is provided in the connector. The housing extends toward the connector to form a heat stake supporting and fixing the connector. The connector is fixed to the housing after hot melting of the heat stake. A stable connection between the speaker box and the mobile terminal can be achieved and mounting is fast and firm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mushu Xiao, Shuwen Wu
  • Patent number: 11678094
    Abstract: A fixation assembly is configured to fix an electroacoustic transducer to a shell of the electronic device, and includes a first support and a second support. The first support defines a receiving space and a sound transmission channel communicating with the receiving space. The electroacoustic transducer is received in the receiving space. The second support is engaged with the first support and configured to restrict freedom of the transducer assembly cooperatively with the first support. Even when the electronic device is under extreme conditions, a relative position between the electroacoustic transducer and the fixation assembly remain unchanged. The second support is engaged with the shell to fix the first support and the electroacoustic transducer with the shell, such that the electroacoustic transducer is fixed relative to the shell, improving reliability of the electronic device under extreme conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Enfu Liu
  • Patent number: 11664008
    Abstract: An active display can be used in a theatre with reduced screen-door effect. For example, the active display can have a structure, such as a diffuser structure, or a diffuser and mask structure, that can have, or appear to have, transmissive areas and opaque areas to reduce the audience from detecting gaps or other non-light sources in the active display. The active display may additionally or alternatively have audio ports to allow sound to pass through the active display and appear to the audience as if the sound is coming from the active display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 11632608
    Abstract: A microphone assembly for a vehicle headliner includes a housing arranged to be received within a substrate layer of the headliner and having an upper portion and a lower portion. A circuit board is mounted in the upper portion and has a microphone element coupled thereto. An insert bracket includes a base and a shaft member extending upwardly therefrom, the base having a plurality of apertures aligned with the shaft member, wherein the shaft member engages the lower portion to connect the insert bracket to the housing. A sealing gasket having at least one channel defining an air path extending therethrough is arranged to be received within the shaft member and extend between the base and the upper portion, providing acoustic sealing between the insert bracket and the housing such that the air path directs sound from a cabin of the vehicle through the apertures to the microphone element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Zsolt Marton, Viktor Dobos
  • Patent number: 11627407
    Abstract: A speaker device includes a bass driver mounted in the internal space of an enclosure for generating a bass output. The bass driver has a central axis along which a piston area of the bass driver actuates oriented at an oblique angle relative to the bottom end of the enclosure to increase bass driver size and acoustic output and to reduce acoustic frequency distortion by providing a varying distance between the bass driver and the top and bottom ends of the enclosure. An elastomeric reflector-damper plate is spaced apart from the bass driver in the internal space in the enclosure. The reflector-damper plate radially disperses low to midrange audio frequencies of the bass output of the bass driver around the enclosure to further reduce acoustic frequency distortion. Electronic subsystems in the internal space coupled to the bass driver receive and process input audio signals to be rendered by the bass driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Lenbrook Industries Limited
    Inventors: Paul Barton, Matthew Simmonds, Gordon Van Kessel
  • Patent number: 11622189
    Abstract: This application provides a speaker and a mobile terminal. The speaker includes a housing and a kernel located in the housing, where there is a front cavity and a rear cavity in the housing, the front cavity is in communication with the outside, and the rear cavity is an isolated cavity. In addition, to reduce a space area occupied by the entire speaker, the front cavity and the rear cavity are disposed in a stacked manner when being disposed. Specifically, the front cavity and the rear cavity are at least partially stacked along a thickness direction of the kernel. Therefore, the rear cavity is disposed in space of the entire speaker in the thickness direction of the kernel, to reduce an area occupied by the entire speaker in the mobile terminal on the premise that a size of the rear cavity meets a requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Renxuan Qin, Shizhe Li
  • Patent number: 11606633
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume in which a speaker assembly is positioned. The speaker assembly can include a speaker module and a speaker enclosure in fluid communication, with the speaker enclosure at least partially defining a speaker volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Chanjuan Feng, Christopher Wilk, Dinesh C. Mathew, Keith J. Hendren, Stuart M. Nevill, Daniel K. Boothe, Nicholas A. Rundle, Simon S. Lee, Xiang Zhang, Thomas H. Tsang, Rebecca J. Mikolajczyk
  • Patent number: 11582541
    Abstract: An elevating speaker device for use in bathtub includes: a main body having an accommodation space formed therein and having at least one water hole and a penetrating hole; and an elevating speaker member, having a lower portion thereof disposed with an inner fastening member having a base and an inner sliding member, the inner fastening member respectively has a damping teeth and a spring, the inner sliding member has a long teeth connected to the damping teeth; the elevating speaker member has an inclined plate downwardly inclined from one end towards another end, and has two ends respectively downwardly extended with a water discharging channel and a fastening channel, at least one plastic sleeve is disposed in the fastening channel and sleeved with a tubular member allowing a power wire and a signal wire to be enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TROLLING ENTERPRISES CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Huei-Ching Chou Lu, Tzeng-Tian Huang, Ta-Tsung Dan
  • Patent number: 11570543
    Abstract: An example method of operation includes performing a plurality of polar pattern permutations based on a function of an inputted magnitude and phase adjustment range, determining a plurality of polar pattern outputs, creating a list of the polar pattern outputs, and creating a set of FIR filters to apply to a loudspeaker based on a selected one of the list of polar patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Biamp Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Xian Yu
  • Patent number: 11570544
    Abstract: Provided is a sound-absorbing material, including an adsorbent material and a thermal conductive material. The thermal conductive material is uniformly dispersed in the sound-absorbing material. The thermal conductive material includes a carbon fiber material, and a weight ratio of the carbon fiber material in the sound-absorbing material is within a range of 0.05% to 10%. Further provided are a preparation method of the sound-absorbing material and a speaker using the sound-absorbing material. The sound-absorbing material has higher thermal conductivity and can be added to a rear cavity of the speaker to effectively conduct heat generated when the speaker is working, thereby improving the heat dissipation performance of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hezhi Wang
  • Patent number: 11568846
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are implementations of acoustic metamaterial structures and geometric configurations of acoustic metamaterial structures which produce sound amplification or cancellation. An acoustic metamaterial device for using with a sound source includes a plurality of fins, where each fin is made from a very dense material with respect to air which creates the anisotropic properties of the acoustic metamaterial device, where each fin has a length dimension, a width dimension, and a thickness dimension, the width and length dimension being equal and substantially perpendicular to the direction of sound wave propagation from the sound source, where each fin is sized different from other fins along the width and length dimension, and where the plurality of fins are interconnected such that planes formed by the width and length dimension of each fin faces perpendicular to the sound wave propagation direction from the sound source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Jabil Inc.
    Inventors: David Donald Logan, Katelyn Christensen, Andrew Thomas Ferguson, Arthur Ray Junior Cruz Paquia, Calvin Saechao
  • Patent number: 11558689
    Abstract: Provided in this disclosure is an acoustic adapter which includes an interior enclosure for substantially surrounding a back of a speaker driver and for defining a predetermined three-dimensional interior volume (3DV1) around the back of the speaker driver to thereby act as a vibration dampener. An exterior enclosure is provided having a configuration that corresponds to a configuration of the interior enclosure and spaced apart from the interior enclosure to define a restricted two-dimensional volume (2DV) outside the three-dimensional interior volume. An aperture is formed in the interior surface of the enclosure for admitting sound into the two-dimensional volume. A foam material is received within the two-dimensional volume (2DV) for at least coating an inner surface of the exterior enclosure, to provide a frictional surface for damping the sound admitted into the two-dimensional volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TBI Audio Systems LLC
    Inventor: Jan Plummer
  • Patent number: 11543864
    Abstract: Systems of the present disclosure include an electronic device with a chassis and a speaker assembly. The speaker assembly can include a speaker support surrounding a speaker and coupled to the chassis via a spring element. The spring element can be monolithically formed with a main body of the speaker support and be configured to reduce transmission of vibrations from the speaker to the chassis. For example, the spring element can include an arm that extends within an opening of the main body to connect the main body to a fastener secured to the chassis. The spring element can be provided with features that facilitate wide distribution of loads and relative movement between the speaker assembly and the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Stuart M. Nevill, Andreas Rousounelos, Kieran Poulain, Martial A. Rousseau, Daniel W. Corona, Alix V. McCabe, Michael S. Browne, Bao Liu
  • Patent number: 11541688
    Abstract: A wheel hub assembly for motor vehicles, having a rotatable hub, a bearing unit in turn comprising a radially outer ring, a radially inner ring and a plurality of rolling bodies. The axial interface between the wheel hub assembly and a knuckle of a motor vehicle suspension provides at least one piezoelectric spacer configured to detect first mechanical vibrations coming from the components of the wheel hub assembly and to implement corrective action consisting of second mechanical vibrations of almost equal amplitude but with opposite direction and phase, so that the resultant of the first and second mechanical vibrations is close to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventor: Marco Falossi
  • Patent number: 11540046
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide an audio output mode adjustment structure that can include a sound output channel communicating an interior and an exterior of the electronic device and an adjusting unit. An opening of the sound output channel is located at the top of the electronic device. The adjustment unit moves relative to the opening of the sound output channel so that when the electronic device outputs audio in a loud-speaking mode, the adjustment unit does not cover the sound output channel, and sound waves propagate in a straight line through the opening of the sound output channel, and when the electronic device outputs audio in the handset mode, the adjustment unit covers the opening of the sound output channel, so that the sound waves propagate toward a display screen side of the electronic device through the opening of the sound output channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ziping Song
  • Patent number: 11516588
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a sound generation device and a portable terminal. The sound generation device comprises a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system, the vibration system and the magnetic circuit system being mounted and fixed to an housing. The housing comprises a first shell and a second shell that are connected and fixed together, the vibration system comprises a first diaphragm and the magnetic circuit system comprises a magnetic yoke, and wherein the first diaphragm is mounted on one surface of the first shell far away from the second shell, and the magnetic yoke and the second shell are injection molded as an integrated part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventors: Xinglong Wang, Lianshan Ge, Chunfa Liu
  • Patent number: 11503390
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a speaker. The speaker includes: an enclosure provided in a rectangular parallelepiped shape; a speaker unit mounted on at least one face of the enclosure; and a partition provided inside the enclosure and partitioning a space, wherein the partition divides a space inside the enclosure, and a space starting from the speaker unit has an asymmetrical cross section of a tunnel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Nam Hae Lee
  • Patent number: 11482203
    Abstract: A broadband sparse acoustic reflector includes a periodic array of laterally spaced apart unit cells, each unit cell having a plurality of longitudinally positioned Helmholtz resonators. Each unit cell includes a Helmholtz resonator having a neck that places the resonator interior in fluid communication with an ambient fluid, in the lateral direction. Each Helmholtz resonator of the unit cell has a different resonance frequency, providing broadband reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Taehwa Lee, Hideo Iizuka
  • Patent number: 11477553
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a substrate and a pixel array layer disposed on a surface of the substrate; a sound generation device disposed on an opposing surface opposite to the surface of the substrate; and a set cover including a plurality of ribs which overlap the sound generation device in a thickness direction of the display panel. The sound generation device vibrates the display panel to output a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Tae Kim, Sang Wook Yoo
  • Patent number: 11463802
    Abstract: A vibration system of an ultra-thin full-range loudspeaker includes a diaphragm and frameless winding voice coils directly attached to the diaphragm. Each frameless winding voice coil is a planar coil formed by winding a single enameled wire. Each planar coil is of a racetrack or an annular shape and the enameled wires are arranged by tightly contacting to each other. According to the vibration system, the frameless winding voice coils are directly attached to the diaphragm, and lead wires of the voice coils are tightly arranged, so that a space utilization rate in a magnetic gap is effectively improved, so as to improve a driving force factor BL and an output sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Tymphany Worldwide Enterprises Limited
    Inventor: ZhiWen Chen
  • Patent number: 11432073
    Abstract: A loudspeaker assembly and an electronic device are provided. The loudspeaker assembly includes: a loudspeaker body and a magnetic shielding cover. The magnetic shielding cover is arranged at a side of a sound radiation face of the loudspeaker body and defines a sound transmission hole. The magnetic shielding cover is a ferromagnetic cover. The magnetic shielding cover is configured to prevent at least partial magnetic flux at the side of the sound radiation face of the loudspeaker body from passing through the magnetic shielding cover and conduct the at least partial magnetic flux to an inertial magnetic field of the loudspeaker body. Magnetic induction of a portion of the magnetic shielding cover away from a periphery of the sound transmission hole is greater than that of a portion of the magnetic shielding cover close to the periphery of the sound transmission hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HYTERA COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Weiqiang Lei
  • Patent number: 11425513
    Abstract: A suspension assembly for a hearing aid receiver is described in which the receiver is contained within a receiver can. A cover assembly may be provided for covering the open top end of the receiver can and for containing the receiver's spout when the receiver is mounted within the receiver can. To dampen or reduce the transmission of receiver vibrations within the receiver can, a spout seal and corner bumpers may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney A. Higgins, Brian Dobson
  • Patent number: 11405708
    Abstract: This invention provides a speaker cabinet, and the aforementioned speaker cabinet includes a containment space within; multiple reinforcing rib connectors pass through the space between the two faces on the inside of the aforementioned containment space with the largest area; when these two faces start moving towards or away from each other, the reinforcing rib connectors provide resistance in the opposite direction of the movement; the aforementioned cabinet and reinforcing rib connectors are created in one piece via extrusion blow moulding. The invention provides a speaker cabinet, where the total capacity of the cabinet can remain unchanged during use, and the cabinet is very light-weight, and the inner walls of the cavity are also very thin. Completely fulfils sound quality and portability requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TGI Technology PTE LTD
    Inventor: Shihuang Li
  • Patent number: 11297437
    Abstract: An improved ribbon microphone preferably includes a housing tube and a microphone assembly. The microphone assembly includes a ribbon transducer, a reflector bar, a first magnet, a second magnet, a upper ribbon retainer and a lower ribbon retainer. The housing tube includes at least one audio aperture. The ribbon transducer includes a thin strip of metal with an embossed non-linear pattern formed therein. The lower ribbon retainer is the same as upper ribbon retainer, but turned upside down. The ribbon retainer includes a retainer base and a ribbon clamp. The retainer base includes a clamp slot to receive the ribbon clamp. Each end of the ribbon transducer is retained between the ribbon clamp and the retainer base. Opposing ends of magnets and reflector bar are retained in the upper and lower ribbon retainer. An upper end cap and a lower end cap capture the microphone assembly within the housing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Tyler Campbell
  • Patent number: 11290816
    Abstract: Provided are a loudspeaker and an audio video device. The loudspeaker includes a loudspeaker box and a drive unit. The loudspeaker box includes a middle frame, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm. The first diaphragm and the second diaphragm are respectively disposed at the two ends of the middle frame, the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm and the middle frame are enclosed to form a sound cavity. The drive unit is disposed in the sound cavity. The drive unit comprises a U-iron, a magnet, a magnetic conductive plate and a voice coil. The magnet is disposed on the U-iron, the magnetic conductive plate is disposed on the magnet, and the voice coil is sleeved on the magnet and the magnetic conductive plate. The U-iron is disposed on the first diaphragm, and the voice coil is disposed on the second diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN LUXSHARE ACOUSTICS TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventor: Jiin Tarng Huang
  • Patent number: 11199924
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, a decoration structure included in an electronic device may be enhanced, wherein the decoration structure comprises: a first member comprising a second projecting portion formed with a plurality of through holes and a first planar portion formed with at least one coupling hole; and a second member supporting the first member and comprising at least one coupling portion inserted into the at least one coupling hole, wherein the at least one coupling portion is bent while being inserted into the at least one coupling hole, so that the first member and the second member can be coupled to each other. Various other embodiments may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WONJIN INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Soo Han, In-Sik Yang
  • Patent number: 11140481
    Abstract: A wireless speaker assembly for broadcasting audio and charging an electronic device includes a housing that defines an interior space. A first battery, a microprocessor, and a transceiver are coupled to the housing and are positioned in the interior space. The microprocessor is operationally coupled to the first battery and the transceiver. A speaker and a plurality of connectors are coupled to the housing and are operationally coupled to the microprocessor. The transceiver is configured to receive an audio signal from the electronic device, positioning the microprocessor to command the speaker to broadcast the audio signal. A respective connector is configured to couple to a charging cord of the electronic device to charge a second battery that is positioned in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Phil Marino
  • Patent number: 11134338
    Abstract: A speaker includes a vibrating body having an annular valley portion recessed rearward and a diffuser having an annular or arcuate base part, which is positioned so that an end of the base part on the side of the vibrating body is opposed to the valley portion. The base part is provided, at the end on the side of the vibrating body, with one or more recessed parts from which distance to the vibrating body is larger than a distance of the other portion of the end to the vibrating body, each of the recessed parts being formed in any one of a sine-wave shape, a triangular-wave shape and an arc shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Negishi, Kazuyuki Inagaki
  • Patent number: 11026017
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a loudspeaker including an enclosure having front portion, side portions and back portion defining an inner volume, the front portion is formed as a waveguide surface and includes at least one driver in the center of the waveguide surface and is capable to radiate the main acoustic power of the loudspeaker to ambient volume in direction of first acoustic axis, and an additional driver attached to the enclosure. In accordance with the invention the additional driver is attached inside the enclosure such that a sub volume is formed inside the inner volume, the sub volume limited by the driver, spacers between the driver and the front portion, and the front portion of the enclosure, and at least one port is adapted to open from the sub volume to ambient volume either to side portion or back portion of the enclosure and at least one resonator acoustically connected to the sub volume, the resonator being tuned to at least one of unwanted resonances of the sub volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Genelec Oy
    Inventors: Aki Mäkivirta, Juha Holm, Jussi Väisänen, Siamäk Naghian, Ilpo Martikainen
  • Patent number: 11026012
    Abstract: An earphone includes a housing, the speaker unit disposed in the housing, a cover coupled with the housing and including a nozzle, a first space portion disposed in front of the speaker unit, and a second space portion disposed in the rear of the speaker unit and partitioned off from the first space portion. Here, the speaker unit includes a cylindrical yoke with an open top, a magnet fixed to a bottom surface of an inside of the yoke, a plate fixed to a top surface of the magnet, a voice coil disposed between an inner circumference of the yoke and outer circumferences of the magnet and the plate, a vibration plate disposed above the plate and to which the voice coil is fixed, a cap coupled with the yoke, and a frame coupled with the yoke and the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: ALMUS CORP.
    Inventors: Ju Heon Ko, Byung Il Min, Jeong Kwon Park, Yeong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10932032
    Abstract: An acoustic device includes a first chamber, a first through hole, a vibration structure, and a separation structure. The first chamber includes a first end and a second end. The first through hole is defined at the first end of the first chamber. The vibration structure is disposed at the second end of the first chamber and is configured to transmit an acoustic wave away from the first chamber. The separation structure is disposed within the first chamber and divides the first chamber into a first sub-chamber and a second sub-chamber. The separation structure defines a second through hole connecting the first sub-chamber and the second sub-chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: Ming-Tau Huang
  • Patent number: 10891934
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems for broad-band active reduction of noise in target spaces, such as spaces around headrests in aircraft cabins. Systems describe herein are effective over wide frequency ranges without causing undesirable amplification at any subrange ranges. Specifically, a system comprises a speaker and a resonator, both coupled to an enclosure. The interior space of the resonator is in fluid communication with the enclosed space of the enclosure, allowing the resonator to reduce the amplitude of unwanted amplification by the audio reducing sound generated by the speaker. The amplitude is reduced in a selected frequency range, which may correspond to an expected amplification for this particular system. The resonator may partially extend into the enclosure or may be completely incorporated into the enclosure. Some examples of the resonator include a Helmholtz resonator, a passive radiator, a quarter wave resonator, a pipe resonator, and an acoustic metamaterial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven F. Griffin, Adam R. Weston, Mark M. Gmerek