Abstract: A loudspeaker apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a loudspeaker and a structure. The loudspeaker outputs sounds. The structure is configured with respect to an object that is disposed on a sound output side of the loudspeaker and forms, between the object and the loudspeaker, a gap space communicating with an external space, and includes a connecting portion and one or more plate-like members. The connecting portion is connected to the loudspeaker. The one or more plate-like members have a plate shape, are disposed in the gap space, extend toward an opening portion of the gap space, and guide sounds output from the loudspeaker toward the external space, the opening portion being located on a side communicating with the external space.

Abstract: Provided is an earphone having a pressure equilibrium structure capable of preventing a decrease in acoustic characteristics or sound pressure, while having a structure capable of achieving equilibrium within an ear canal. The earphone includes a receiver including a frame, a magnetic circuit, a voice coil, and a diaphragm, a front housing surrounding a front and a side surface of the receiver and including a sound tube, a rear housing attached to a rear of the receiver and coupled to the front housing, and a duct located between the diaphragm and the sound tube. An acoustic path through which sound is emitted is formed from the receiver to an end of the sound tube. The front housing or the rear housing includes a leakage hole. An inner end of the duct is connected to the acoustic path. An outer end of the duct is connected to the leakage hole.

Abstract: A acoustic horn includes an input port configured to acoustically couple with a front cavity of a loudspeaker, a pair of output ports leading to exterior of the horn, and a pair of channels each communicating the input port with a corresponding output port. Each of the channels has a cross section of which the area increases gradually in a direction from the input port to a corresponding output port and the areas of the cross sections of the channels in the same plane are substantially equal to each other such that the channels are acoustical symmetrical, which improves the high-frequency performance the sound waves and reduces distortion of the sound waves at low frequencies.

Abstract: A power distribution system including a first and second speaker is provided. The first speaker includes (1) a first input receiving a first power signal; (2) a second input receiving a second power signal phase shifted 120 degrees from the first signal; (3) a third input receiving a third power signal phase shifted 120 degrees from both the first and second signal; (4) a first output transmitting the third power signal; (5) a second output transmitting the first power signal; (6) a third output transmitting the second power signal; and (7) a first load coupled to the first and second input. The second speaker includes (1) a first input receiving the third power signal; (2) a second input receiving the first power signal; (3) a third input receiving the second power signal; and (4) a second load coupled to the first and second input.

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.

Abstract: Implementations of a power generator may include an enclosure including a cavity therein; a magnet supported within the cavity of the enclosure through one or more supports; and a coil disposed around the enclosure where the magnet may be configured to vibrate under the influence of one of a magnetic field generated by a coil or a resonant frequency emitted by a noise source where the vibration of the magnet generates electrical power with the coil.

Abstract: A head phone structure includes an earmuff casing and a speaker. The earmuff casing includes a first casing and a second casing. A first accommodating space and a first chamber are formed between the first casing and the second casing, and the first chamber is formed outside the first accommodating space. The speaker is disposed in the first accommodating space of the earmuff casing and at least includes a frame and a vibration system. A second chamber is defined and formed by the frame and the vibration system. An airflow is generated in the second chamber when the vibration system vibrates. The second chamber communicates with the first chamber of the earmuff casing.

Abstract: A sound bar apparatus having a detachable sound transducer includes a sound bar body comprising an audio signal processor and a plurality of terminals; and a sound transducer housing comprising a connection terminal connected to one of the plurality of terminals of the sound bar body, wherein the plurality of terminals are connected in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the sound bar body, and the sound transducer housing is configured to be detachably connected to the sound bar body.

Abstract: An audio speaker having a speaker housing surrounding a back volume that is divided into a rear cavity behind a speaker driver and an adsorption cavity separated from the rear cavity by a permeable partition, is disclosed. More particularly, the adsorption cavity may be defined between the speaker housing and the permeable partition, and may be directly filled with adsorptive particles to adsorb gas during sound generation. The permeable partition may allow the gas to flow between the rear cavity and the adsorption cavity, and may retain the adsorptive particles within the adsorption cavity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A sound bar apparatus having a detachable sound transducer includes a sound bar body comprising an audio signal processor and a plurality of terminals; and a sound transducer housing comprising a connection terminal connected to one of the plurality of terminals of the sound bar body, wherein the plurality of terminals are connected in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the sound bar body, and the sound transducer housing is configured to be detachably connected to the sound bar body.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker box including a lower cover, an upper cover, a sounding unit, a blocking wall, a surrounding wall, a communication hole and a gas permeable spacer. The sounding unit, the lower cover and the upper cover enclose a rear chamber. The rear chamber is partitioned into a first rear chamber and a second rear chamber by the blocking wall. The sounding unit is accommodated in the first rear chamber. A sound absorbing chamber having a gas permeable spacer is formed in the first rear chamber. The blocking wall has a communication hole that communicates the sound absorbing chamber with the second rear chamber, and the second rear chamber and the sound absorbing chamber are filled with sound absorbing particles. Compared with the related art, the speaker box of the present disclosure has a simple structure and excellent audio performance, especially excellent low frequency performance.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker box, including a housing having an accommodation space, an acoustic device accommodated in the accommodation space, a first air-permeable separation component, a second air-permeable separation component. The acoustic device separates the accommodation space into a front cavity and a rear cavity. The first air-permeable separation component is fixed inside the housing and separates the rear cavity into a first rear cavity and a second rear cavity in air communication with each other. The acoustic device is located in the first rear cavity. The second rear cavity is filled with acoustic absorption particles. The second air-permeable separation component separates the second rear cavity into at least two rear sub-cavities in air communication with each other. Types of the acoustic absorption particles filled in two of the rear sub-cavities are not completely the same. Acoustic performance of the speaker box in the present disclosure is better.

Abstract: An acoustic structure defining a cavity in which a sound wave propagates, wherein a first portion of the cavity substantially corresponding to a position of a node or an antinode of a standing wave generated in the cavity has an area different from an area of a second portion of the cavity except the first portion, the area being on a plane orthogonal to a direction of propagation of the sound wave.

Abstract: A loudspeaker module comprises an outer casing in which a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system are received. The magnetic circuit system comprises a basin-like stand fixed on the outer casing. The outer casing comprises a second casing provided with a rear sound exit hole that transversely runs through the inner side surface and the outer side surface of the second casing at the position corresponding to the outer side surface of the sidewall of the basin-like stand. The rear sound exit hole is communicated with an inner cavity of the module and an inner cavity of the electronic terminal. A chamfered plane is disposed at an upper end of the sidewall of the basin-like stand, and on a side of the sidewall of the basin-like stand. A sound emitting channel is formed between the chamfered plane and the inner side surface of the second casing.

Abstract: A directional microphone and an operating method thereof include a first signal generator generating a first sound signal corresponding to a front sound coming through a front sound hole of the directional microphone. A second signal generator generates a second sound signal corresponding to a rear sound coming through a rear sound hole of the directional microphone. A phase delay controller delays a phase of the rear sound coming through the rear sound hole, and a signal processor synthesizes the first sound signal and the second sound signal.

Abstract: A micromechanical functional apparatus, particularly a loudspeaker apparatus, includes a substrate having a top and an underside and at least one circuit chip mounted on the underside in a first cavity. The apparatus further includes a micromechanical functional arrangement, particularly a loudspeaker arrangement, having a plurality of micromechanical loudspeakers mounted on the top in a second cavity. A covering device is mounted above the micromechanical functional arrangement on the top. An appropriate method is implemented to manufacture the micromechanical functional apparatus.

Abstract: An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber with one or more of a reactive element and a resistive element for acoustically coupling the first acoustic chamber with an environment external to the earphone. The earphone includes an acoustic transducer and a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by the acoustic transducer. A housing supports the earphone from the concha of a wearer's ear and extends the second acoustic chamber at least to an entrance of an ear canal of the wearer's ear. A port acoustically couples the first and second acoustic chambers.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a case, a microphone array housing consists of a first acoustic extending structure, a second acoustic extending structure, an interface IC, a first membrane and a second membrane. The case includes a first acoustic opening and a second acoustic opening. The first acoustic extending structure is connected to the first acoustic opening. The second acoustic extending structure is connected to the second acoustic opening. The first membrane receives a first acoustic signal via the first acoustic opening and the first acoustic extending structure. The second membrane receives a second acoustic signal via the second acoustic opening and the second acoustic extending structure.

Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, electronic devices with improved radiators (or “passive drivers”) comprising an elastomerically mounted mass in order to improve sound reproduction fidelity. The mass comprises a component of the device not normally used for such purpose—e.g.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention discloses a speaker box having a housing and a speaker accommodated in the housing. The speaker includes a sound radiation surface for generating sound. The housing includes a first and second output ports disposed at one side of the housing for transmitting the sound to outside of the speaker box. The housing includes a plurality of ribs disposed therein and forming a bending channel. The first and second output ports are disposed at two ends of the bending channel. The bending channel is divided into a front channel and a back channel by the speaker. The speaker box is capable of obtaining a better low frequency sound reproduction quality.

Abstract: Method, user terminal and computer program product for controlling audio signals at the user device during a communication session between the user device and a remote node, in which a primary audio signal is received at audio input means of the user device for transmission to the remote node in the communication session. It is determined whether the user device is operating in (i) a first mode in which secondary audio signals output from the user device are likely to disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means, or (ii) a second mode in which secondary audio signals output from the user device are not likely to disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system has a front loudspeaker enclosure (30) having at least one first loudspeaker (20) and a rear loudspeaker enclosure (50) having at least one second loudspeaker (60). The rear loudspeaker enclosure (50) is in the form of a bandpass enclosure.

Abstract: In a speaker, a space surrounded by a frame on one side of a diaphragm is separated by a damper into a first internal space and a second internal space. The first internal space and the second internal space are caused to face one part and another part of an opening provided in the frame. A duct protrudes from the frame, and the opening is an open end of the duct on the base end side thereof. The speaker is installed, for example, outside a vehicle cabin with the duct inserted into an opening in a vehicle cabin wall, and the first and second internal spaces are caused to communicate with a space in the vehicle cabin through the duct. Therefore, reproduced sound in the bass range having a high sound pressure can be discharged through the duct to the space in the vehicle cabin.

Abstract: In a low frequency transducer system a multi-compression chamber, an inverse horn structure is employed in combination with a resonance-distortion filter chamber. The filter chamber effectively expands the effective enclosure volume at low frequencies and connected to one of the compression chambers filter parasitic resonances and distortion and allowing the system to more efficiently reproduce low frequencies while being able to use smaller diameter transducers and maintaining good system sensitivity. Compression chambers are organized for constant or continuous compression on a section-by-section basis throughout the inverse horn system.

Abstract: A multi-channel stereo speaker system includes acoustically separated but mechanically connected chambers containing active drivers to reproduce sound for each channel, and a passive radiator for each chamber to help tune the frequency response of the chamber. Passive radiators are positioned and oriented so that their movements tend to cancel each other out.

Abstract: A passive acoustic booster attachment for a mobile media device is disclosed, the attachment including an attaching portion, and a passive acoustic boosting portion extending from the attaching portion. The attaching portion attaches the passive acoustic booster attachment to the mobile media device. The passive acoustic boosting portion includes an acoustic waveguide, the acoustic waveguide being a conduit capable of guiding sound waves from at least one speaker of the mobile media device towards a listener. In some embodiments, the attaching portion serves as a case that holds and secures the entire perimeter of the mobile media device. In some embodiments, the attaching portion is a clip that can attach to a mobile media device. By guiding the sound waves produced by the speakers of the mobile media device, the passive acoustic booster attachment provides an enhanced listening experience.

Abstract: A speaker enclosure includes a gas cavity and an air cavity separated by a flexible membrane. A diaphragm is located roughly in an opening of the enclosure surrounding the gas cavity and attached to the enclosure by an outer suspension member. The enclosure, the flexible membrane, the diaphragm, and the outer suspension member are gas and air impermeable. The enclosure surrounding the air cavity has a vent hole to allow air to travel into and out of the air cavity for barometric pressure equalization of the gas cavity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: An acoustic transformer includes at least one outer boundary wall. A plurality of inner walls are disposed within the outer boundary wall. The outer boundary wall and the inner walls define a substantially annular input opening divided by at least some of the inner walls into a plurality of circumferentially-spaced input sections. Each of the input sections has an inner circumferential side and an outer circumferential side. A substantially rectangular output opening is divided by at least some of the inner walls into a plurality of output sections. Each of a plurality of acoustic paths interconnects a respective one of the input sections with a respective one of the output sections. Each of the paths has a substantially equal path length and a substantially equal expansion rate.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an internal speaker module and an external sound box detachably applied to the internal speaker module. The valve is resisted to the opening to cover the opening of the internal speaker module. When external sound box is applied to the internal speaker module, the connector is magnetically attracted with the magnetic attracter, while the valve is magnetically repelled from the connector and moves away from the opening to open the opening, thereby the external sound chamber is communicating with the internal sound chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a transducer configured to generate sound; and a housing defining a first cavity and a second cavity, the first cavity and the second cavity being connected to the transducer; wherein the first cavity comprises a first sound outlet at a first surface of the housing; and the second cavity comprises a second sound outlet at the first surface of the housing and a third sound outlet at a second surface of the housing wherein the first and second cavities and the first and second sound outlets are configured to limit a sound pressure level of the generated sound at the first and second outlets at one or more frequencies.

Abstract: A MEMS microphone includes a case having sidewalls, a top wall, and an opened bottom; a PCB attached to the bottom of the case; a MEMS chip, which is arranged on the PCB and includes an inner-MEMS space; and at least one sound hole formed through a surface of the case for introduction of external sounds, wherein an internal communicating unit which forms a sound path via which the sound hole and the inside-MEMS space communicate with each other is arranged inside the case such that external sounds introduced via the sound hole pass through the sound path and enter the inner-MEMS space.

Abstract: A speaker system includes a case having a receiving chamber; a variable mechanism received in the receiving chamber for dividing the receiving chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber and being capable of varying a volume of the first chamber; and a speaker unit is received in the first chamber and defining an acoustic port facing an exterior of the case. The separating wall alternatively inserts into one of the receiving member for placing the separating wall precisely at specific locations. Thus, it is easy to vary the volume of the first chamber for achieving an excellent acoustic capability of the speaker system.

Abstract: A computing device comprises a platform and an audio receiver component. The audio receiver component is provided on a front side of the platform and is oriented to emit sound out of the front of the housing. A gap volume adjacent to the audio receiver is defined by the front side of the platform and the front façade of the housing. The gap volume supports audio output from the audio receiver component. A first air channel is defined by a combination of (i) a through-hole in the platform at the gap volume, and (ii) an opening in a back façade of the housing.

Abstract: In the invention a speaker apparatus acoustically combines the earpiece and hands free functions. Thus a speaker has acoustically separated functions for acting as the earpiece and as the hands free. The speaker apparatus has a back cavity having an outlet so that the damped sound of the outlet operates as the earpiece. The front of the speaker apparatus operates as the louder hands free.

Abstract: A system and methods for controlling a mobile electronic device is disclosed. A notification in response to a prescribed event is outputted. A change in a position of the mobile electronic device is detected. A strength of the notification is reduced, when a change in the position of the mobile electronic device is detected while the notification sound is being outputted.

Abstract: A portable full duplex communication device (100) is provided with improved acoustic porting (114) by providing an earpiece enclosure (108) within the housing (102) of device. The earpiece enclosure (108) includes an array of micro-ports (114) formed to provide optimal low frequency response and echo performance without the use of external acoustical leak ports to the housing.

Abstract: The invention provides in some aspects a loudspeaker, for example, configured in a band-like shape and suitable, for example, for wearing as a wristband, armband, legband or the like. A related aspect of the invention is to provide such a wearable loudspeaker comprising a band-shaped enclosure, a driver that is mounted in the enclosure, and an active diaphragm that is coupled to the driver to generate sound waves directed outwardly from the enclosure (referred to below as “outwardly directed waves,” “outward waves” and, more often, by analogy to a conventional, non-wearable loudspeaker “frontward-directed sound waves” or, more simply, “front waves”) and backward-directed sound waves (“back waves”) directed inwardly into the enclosure (referred to below as “inwardly directed waves,” “inward waves” and, more often, by analogy to a conventional loudspeaker “backward-directed waves” or, more simply, “back waves”).

Abstract: In an aspect, in general, a loudspeaker element includes an enclosure, a cone diaphragm of a driver element located within the enclosure, a first cavity wall extending from the cone diaphragm of the driver element to a throat opening which has an area less than an area of the cone diaphragm and forming a first cavity within the enclosure, an exit element extending from the throat opening to an environment outside of the enclosure, and an impedance compensation element extending from the first cavity wall, the impedance compensation element including a second cavity wall which forms a second cavity within the enclosure and a resistance element separating the second cavity from the first cavity.

Abstract: Sound generated by a sound emitting unit passes through a first sound passage defined between a first shielding board and a shielding cylinder and a second sound passage defined between a second shielding board and the shielding cylinder, and is emitted outside from a sound emitting hole defined in at least one of a case and a cover. The second shielding board and the shielding cylinder shield a space between the sound emitting hole and the first sound passage when the first sound passage is seen from the sound emitting hole.

Abstract: Provided are loudspeaker systems. Embodiments include a first speaker to provide a direct radiating output from the front of the loudspeaker system and a second speaker to drive a ported side chamber of the loudspeaker system, wherein the first and second speakers share a ported common chamber, and wherein at least one port of the ported common chamber exits the front of the loudspeaker system. In one embodiment, the common chamber includes at least one port that is substantially aligned with the front of the loudspeaker system. In another embodiment, each speaker is coupled to a separate amplifier and signal processing unit.

Abstract: A telescopic loudspeaker includes an extendable telescopic body (1) responsible for housing a loudspeaker (2) for generating sound from a input audio signal and for creating a inner resonance chamber (2) of volume V0 when the telescopic body (1) is retracted and of volume V1 when the telescopic body (1) is extended, V1>V0 being met. The telescopic body (1) includes a support base (15); of hollow bodies (11,12,13) with decreasing transversal sections and coupleable to one another, the section decreasing progressively from the body (11) closest to the base (15) up to the body (13) furthest from the base (15); and a gasket (8) between each pair of consecutive bodies (11,12,13) of the telescopic body (1) for sealing the air chamber inside the enclosure of the telescopic loudspeaker.

Abstract: An acoustic transformer includes at least one outer boundary wall. A plurality of inner walls are disposed within the outer boundary wall. The outer boundary wall and the inner walls define an input opening divided by at least some of the inner walls into a plurality of input sections. A substantially annular output opening is divided by at least some of the inner walls into a plurality of circumferentially-spaced output sections. Each of the output sections has an inner circumferential side and an outer circumferential side. Each of a plurality of acoustic paths interconnects a respective one of the input sections with a respective one of the output sections. Each of the paths has a substantially equal path length and a substantially equal expansion rate.

Abstract: A loudspeaker enclosure for mounting in an aperture in a cavity wall with a part of the enclosure being located within the wall cavity adjacent the aperture, comprises a main enclosure unit for mounting in the aperture and housing one or more loudspeaker drive units, and a supplementary enclosure unit for location within the wall cavity and being acoustically connected in use to the main unit to increase the effective internal volume of the enclosure beyond that of the main unit. The supplementary unit is connected to the main unit by an articulated connection enabling the main unit to be angled relative to the supplementary unit while the supplementary unit is being inserted through the aperture and into the wall cavity, and enabling the main unit to be aligned with and acoustically coupled to the supplementary unit when the main unit is positioned in the wall aperture.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided to produce tactile feedback from sound. The apparatus is a sound cavity apparatus for a portable communication device and includes: at least one loudspeaker; and at least one cavity. At least one surface of the at least one cavity is configured to vibrate. The sound cavity apparatus is attached to the portable communication device and the sound cavity apparatus is configured to transmit vibration to the portable communication device.

Abstract: A portable electronic device having an enclosure having a top wall, a bottom wall, at least one sidewall connecting the top wall to the bottom wall, an acoustic output opening and a back volume defined by the top wall, the bottom wall and the at least one sidewall. A speaker driver is positioned within the enclosure, the speaker driver including a sound radiating surface having a top face and a bottom face for emitting sound waves therefrom. A frame member is attached to the speaker driver, the frame member forming a front volume chamber acoustically coupling the top face of the sound radiating surface to the acoustic output opening and a back volume chamber that overlaps a side of the speaker drive and acoustically couples the bottom face of the sound radiating surface to the back volume.

Abstract: Method, user terminal and computer program product for controlling audio signals at the user device during a communication session between the user device and a remote node, in which a primary audio signal is received at audio input means of the user device for transmission to the remote node in the communication session. It is determined whether the user device is operating in (i) a first mode in which secondary audio signals output from the user device are likely to disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means, or (ii) a second mode in which secondary audio signals output from the user device are not likely to disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means.

Abstract: An in-wall speaker system having at least one pair of active transducers mounted in a wall section. The active transducers may be mounted in at least one enclosure. Each active transducer has a sound radiating surface. Each active transducer is also mounted substantially perpendicular to a surface of the wall section with the sound radiating surfaces substantially parallel to each other. The sound radiating surfaces may be facing each other or away from each other. The in-wall speaker system may also include one or more pairs of passive radiators to generate sound from sound pressure generated by the active transducers. The pairs of speakers in the wall section may be mounted vertically or horizontally within the wall, with a slot or a vent at the opening at the space between the speaker pairs.

Abstract: A microphone mounting assembly (800A/800b) include one or more transducers (801) mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB) (805) where a spacer (803) is used having a channel (807) positioned on the PCB (805) for allowing acoustical energy to pass through the channel (807) to a port (809) in the PCB (805). A first cover (811) is positioned over the channel (807) for disrupting the direct encounter with airflow into the channel (807) while a top section (813) having a second cover (815) is further positioned adjacent to the first fabric cover (811) for preventing debris from obstructing the first fabric cover (811).

Abstract: Two or more acoustic transducers share the same acoustic port in a device. The acoustic properties—such as acoustic impedance and frequency response—of the shared acoustic port are matched to each of the two or more acoustic transducers. To accomplish acoustic impedance matching, a separate back volume is provided for each of the acoustic transducers, matched to that transducer. Frequency response matching can be accomplished by the design of the transducer itself, but also by providing an adjacent element in the acoustic system of the transducer. One transducer may serve as an element in the acoustic system of another transducer. Frequency response adjustment of an individual element may also affect acoustic impedance of the entire port-transducer system.

Abstract: A mobile communication device is provided. The mobile communication device includes a terminal body, and a speaker module located in the terminal body. The speaker module includes an enclosure located in the terminal body, the enclosure defining a chamber therein, and a speaker having a front surface and a rear surface, the speaker being located in the enclosure such that the front surface of the speaker is exposed from the enclosure and the rear surface thereof is positioned within the chamber, to allow a sound generated from the rear surface to resonate within the chamber. A mutual interference between the sound generated from the front side of the sound emission part and the sound emitted from the rear side thereof can be reduced to thereby improve the performance of the middle and low sound.