Patents Assigned to AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.
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Patent number: 12192702Abstract: The invention provides a MEMS speaker including a substrate enclosing a cavity, a cantilever beam at least partially suspended above the cavity, a piezoelectric actuator away from the cavity, a polymer layer away from the cavity and attached to the cantilever beam and the piezoelectric actuator for completely covering the cantilever beam, the piezoelectric actuator and the cavity, and a piezoelectric composite vibration structure formed by the polymer layer. The cantilever beam includes a first section fixed to the substrate, a second section extending from the first section to the cavity and suspended above the cavity, and a third section extending from the second section away from the first section, an end of the third section away from the second section being suspended; and the piezoelectric actuator is only fixed with the third section.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: AAC Kaitai Technologies (Wuhan) CO., LTD, AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiang Dan, Yu Shen, Yiwei Zhou, Yang Li
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Patent number: 12180065Abstract: A microelectromechanical system includes a lower membrane including a plurality of troughs and crests arranged alternately, an upper membrane including a plurality of troughs and crests arranged alternately, and a spacer layer disposed between the lower membrane and the upper membrane. The spacer layer includes counter electrode walls and support walls made of nitride, the counter electrode walls being provided with conductive elements. Chambers are formed between the troughs of the lower membrane and the crest of the upper membrane and the counter electrode walls are suspended in the chambers respectively. The support walls are sandwiched between the crests of the lower membrane and the troughs of the upper membrane with a space formed between adjacent support walls. The spaces between adjacent support walls may be empty or filled with oxide. Unwanted capacitance between the upper and lower membranes is reduced significantly.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Euan James Boyd, Colin Robert Jenkins
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Patent number: 12160704Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a vibration transducer including a circuit board, a vibration detection assembly and a signal detection assembly arranged on two opposite sides of the circuit board; the vibration detection assembly includes a first vibration detection unit, a second vibration detection unit, and a third vibration detection unit; the signal detection assembly includes a first MEMS microphone, a second MEMS microphone, and a third MEMS microphone. A first membrane of the first vibration detection unit, a second membrane of the second vibration detection unit, and the third membrane of the third vibration detection unit vibrate along three orthogonal directions. The vibration transducer has higher sensitivity and bigger bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Jinyu Zhang
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Patent number: 12154538Abstract: A method for eliminating sound leakage includes: controlling, upon detecting call voice being outputted by a receiver, a collection device to determine a first frequency response curve of first sound wave of the call voice at a first position outside a terminal device; controlling a speaker to generate a second sound wave; controlling the collection device to determine a second frequency response curve of the second sound wave at the first position; and regulating, according to the first frequency response curve, the second frequency response curve to a third frequency response curve. Frequency responses of the first and third frequency response curves at a corresponding frequency are superimposed on and cancel each other. The speaker actively generates second sound wave that is modulated according to a parameter of first sound wave, so as to ensure that second sound wave effectively eliminates leakage of call content caused by first sound wave.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Kejia Liu, Yuheng Jiang, Wenkai He
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Patent number: 12151933Abstract: A comb-drive device used in Micro Electro Mechanical System is provided, and the comb-drive device includes: a rotor comprising a rotor body and a plurality of rotor combs provided on the rotor body; and a stator comprising one or more stator bodies and a plurality of stator combs provided on the one or more stator bodies. The rotor is spaced from the stator by a distance, the rotor and the stator are arranged along a direction in which the rotor is movable, and the plurality of rotor combs and the plurality of stator combs are alternately arranged in a direction particular to the direction in which the rotor is movable; and the rotor body is made of an insulating material, and each of the plurality of rotor combs is made of a conductive material or coated with a conductive material. The present invention can increase sensitivity and capacitance efficiency of the comb-drive device.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Scott Lyall Cargill
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Patent number: 12155997Abstract: An MEMS optical microphone, including: a case, a membrane, a waveguide plate, a variable optical waveplate, an optoelectronic module, and an IC module. The case includes a cavity and a sound inlet. The membrane is suspended in the cavity and closes the sound inlet. The waveguide plate is suspended in the cavity and located at a side of the membrane away from the sound inlet. The optoelectronic module includes an electromagnetic radiation source and a sensing part provided at two opposite sides of the waveguide plate, respectively. The variable optical waveplate is configured to convert an input polarization state of the first light path into an output polarization state, which varies as a moving distance of the variable optical waveplate. The IC module is electrically connected to the membrane and the optoelectronic module. It has advantages such as high sensitivity, flat frequency response, thereby further improving the device performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Taimoor Ali
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Patent number: 12126961Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a vibration transducer including a circuit board enclosing a receiving cavity, a MEMS chip, a first vibration unit having a first vibration cavity and a second vibration unit having a second vibration cavity. A first through hole provided on the circuit board is configured to connect the receiving cavity with the first vibration cavity; a second through hole provided on the circuit board is configured to connect the receiving cavity with the second vibration cavity. The first vibration unit vibrates to cause pressure change in the first vibration cavity which is transmitted to the MEMS chip through the first through hole; the second vibration unit vibrates to cause pressure change in the second vibration cavity which is transmitted to the MEMS chip through the second through hole. The vibration transducer in the present disclosure has higher sensitivity and SNR.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhenkui Meng
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Patent number: 12126959Abstract: The present invention provides a diaphragm and a MEMS sensor using the diaphragm. The diaphragm is a rectangular diaphragm, and the diaphragm includes a main body of the diaphragm and fixed parts arranged outside the main body of the diaphragm and located at the four corners of the diaphragm. The four corners of the rectangular diaphragm are depressed parts formed by concave in the direction of the diaphragm main body. The fixed part includes at least two fixed anchor points arranged along the edge of the diaphragm forming the depressed part. The present invention improves the effective sensing area of the diaphragm and the acoustic performance of the MEMS sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Linlin Wang, Zhuanzhuan Zhao, Kaijie Wang, Zhengyu Shi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Rui Zhang
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Patent number: 12120486Abstract: A cantilever microphone includes: a substrate; a cantilever including a rotor frame and a plate covering the rotor frame, where the cantilever includes a first edge fixed to the substrate and a second end opposite to the first edge, a plurality of rotor comb fingers is attached to the plate at an edge of the plate adjacent to the second edge; and a stator fixed to the substrate or attached to a sub structure to allow some displacement from the substrate, where the stator includes a plurality of stator comb fingers, and the stator comb fingers are interdigitated with the rotor comb fingers. For the cantilever microphone, high mechanical sensitivity of the cantilever and high electrostatic sensitivity of the comb structure can be implemented, so as to increase the performance or signal-to-noise ratio of the cantilever microphone.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yannick Pierre Kervran, Scott Lyall Cargill
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Patent number: 12028679Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic clutch. The electrostatic clutch includes: multiple arrays of HIN electrodes, a respective pass-through channel being formed between any two arrays of the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes; and multiple arrays of biased electrodes, each array of the multiple arrays of biased electrodes moving back and forth in the respective pass-through channel such that electrostatic force is generated between the multiple arrays of biased electrodes and the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes. Such configuration allows microphone performance over a wide range of atmospheric pressures which is likely expected by applications. This is achieved electrostatically in a purely passive way having advantages over other designs which require complex electronics and active control. Physically decoupling the membrane and sense structure simplifies design of the sense structure as only small AC perturbations of the rotor is considered with no DC changes in rotor position.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Anup Patel, Euan James Boyd, Yannick Pierre Kervran
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Patent number: 12022272Abstract: Provided is a MEMS device. The MEMS device includes: substrate having back cavity passing through; diaphragm connected to the substrate and covers the back cavity, the diaphragm comprises first and second membranes, and accommodating space is formed between the first and second membranes; supports arranged in the accommodating space, and opposite ends of the support are connected to the first and second membranes; counter electrode arranged in the accommodating space, the first and second membranes each include conductive and second regions, ventilation slots are annularly spaced on the diaphragm along circumferential direction and penetrate through the first and second membranes, the electrode region extends from center of the first and second membranes toward but does not reach the ventilation slots. Through design of the first and second membranes and the electrode region, sensitivity of the microphone is increased.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Euan James Boyd, Scott Lyall Cargill, Yannick Pierre Kervran
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Patent number: 11974109Abstract: Provided is an MEMS device, including: a base, a rear cavity; a vibrating diaphragm, the vibrating diaphragm including an upper diaphragm and a lower diaphragm, and an accommodation space being formed between the upper and lower diaphragms; a counter electrode arranged in the accommodation space; and supporting members concentrically arranged and spaced apart. The supporting members are arranged between the upper and lower diaphragms and are spaced apart from the counter electrode, two opposite ends of each supporting member are connected to the upper and lower diaphragms, and at least one of the supporting members is provided with first cavities. An upper ventilation hole and a lower ventilation hole are respectively formed at a position of the upper diaphragm and a position of the lower diaphragm corresponding to one of the first cavities; and the upper ventilation hole, the first cavity and the lower ventilation hole communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Euan James Boyd, Scott Lyall Cargill
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Patent number: 11968497Abstract: The present invention discloses a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System MEMS) chip including a substrate with a back cavity; a capacitance system disposed on the substrate including a back plate, a membrane opposite to the back plate forming an inner cavity; a protruding portion accommodated in the inner cavity, fixed on one of the back plate and the membrane and spaced apart from the other along a vibration direction; a reinforce portion fixed to the membrane, having an area smaller than that of the membrane; a support system configured to support the capacitance system, including a first fixation portion suspending the membrane on the substrate, and a second fixation portion suspending the back plate on the substrate. The MEMS chip has higher sensitivity, higher resonance frequency and higher low frequency property.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhengyu Shi, Linlin Wang, Rui Zhang
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Patent number: 11950054Abstract: Provided is a MEMS condenser microphone, including a base plate, a spacer and a membrane. The membrane is supported above the base plate by the spacer. The base plate, the spacer, and the membrane enclose a vacuum cavity. An end of the membrane close to the vacuum cavity is connected, by means of a connecting rod, to an electrostatic clutch. The electrostatic clutch is connected to a capacitive sensing structure. The microphone has the advantage of allowing microphone performance over a wide range of atmospheric pressures which is likely expected by customers. This is achieved electrostatically in a purely passive way which has an advantage over other designs which require complex electronics and active control. Physically decoupling the membrane and sense structure simplifies the design of the sense structure as only small AC perturbations of the rotor need to be considered with no DC changes in rotor position.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Anup Patel, Euan James Boyd, Yannick Pierre Kervran
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Patent number: 11950053Abstract: The present invention discloses a MEMS chip including a substrate with a back cavity; a capacitance system disposed on the substrate including a back plate, a membrane opposite to the back plate forming an inner cavity; a protruding portion accommodated in the inner cavity, fixed on one of the back plate and the membrane and spaced apart from the other along a vibration direction; a support system configured to support the capacitance system, including a first fixation portion suspending the membrane on the substrate, and a second fixation portion suspending the back plate on the substrate; the protruding portion comprises an annular first protruding portion and an annular second protruding portion surrounding the first protruding portion. The MEMS chip has higher sensitivity, higher resonance frequency and higher low frequency property.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhengyu Shi, Linlin Wang, Rui Zhang
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Patent number: 11917366Abstract: An MEMS optical microphone, including: a shell including an inner cavity and a sound inlet that communicates the inner cavity with outside; an MEMS module including a diaphragm suspended in the inner cavity, when an acoustic pressure is applied, an aperture is formed in the diaphragm, and the size of the aperture increases or decreases with the magnitude of the acoustic pressure applied to the diaphragm; an optoelectronic module including an electromagnetic radiation source and a sensor, the electromagnetic radiation source and the sensor are arranged on opposite sides of the diaphragm, and a light beam emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source passes through the aperture and reaches the sensor; and an integrated circuit module electrically connected with the MEMS module and the optoelectronic module. Advantages of high sensitivity and flat frequency response can be achieved, which provides the potential to further improve the performance of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Taimoor Ali
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Patent number: 11891297Abstract: The present invention provides a motion control structure and a actuator. The motion control structure includes a motion platform, a first actuator having a first execution unit arranged on opposite sides of the motion platform along an X-axis direction and a second execution unit arranged on opposite sides of the motion platform along a Y-axis direction. The first execution unit includes a first actuating element displaced along the X-axis direction. The second execution unit includes a second actuating element displaced along the Y-axis direction. A second actuator surrounds an inner periphery of the motion platform and includes a third execution unit having an assembly portion displaced along the Z-axis direction. The motion control structure of the invention has the advantages that the motion platform can be driven to realize motion in six degrees of freedom.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Ze Tao, Wooicheang Goh, Zhan Zhan, Kahkeen Lai, Yang Li
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Patent number: 11895452Abstract: The present invention provides a bone conduction microphone including a housing and a circuit board connected with the housing. The circuit board has an acoustic channel. The microphone further includes a vibration assembly forming a first conduction cavity and a second conduction cavity. The vibration assembly includes a vibration member and a frame. The frame, the vibration member and the circuit board form a first conduction cavity. The frame, the vibration member and the circuit board form a second conduction cavity. The vibration of the vibration member is conducted to one side of the vibration diaphragm, and is also conducted to the other side of the vibration diaphragm. Compared with the related art, the bone conduction microphone of the present invention can effectively improve the sensitivity and the signal to noise ratio.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhenkui Meng, Tingting Hong, Kai Wang
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Patent number: 11889248Abstract: The present invention provides a MEMS microphone, including: a base with a back cavity; and an electric capacitance system arranged on the base. The electric capacitance system includes a back plate, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm opposite to the back plate and arranged on an upper and lower sides of the back plate. The MEMS microphone further includes an insulation layer isolating the base, the back plate, the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm, and a sealing space formed between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm. The pressure in the sealing space is equal to an external pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhenkui Meng, Zhengyan Liu
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Patent number: 11889282Abstract: Provided is a MEMS device. The MEMS device includes: substrate having back cavity passing therethrough; diaphragm connected to the substrate and covers the back cavity, the diaphragm comprises first and second membranes, and accommodating space is formed between the first and second membranes; supports arranged in the accommodating space, and opposite ends of the support are connected to the first and second membranes; counter electrode arranged in the accommodating space, the first and second membranes each include conductive and second regions, the second region is formed by semiconductor material without doping conductive ions. Through design of the first and second membranes as the first region and the second region, respectively, the second region is formed by semiconductor material without doping conductive ions, and the first region is formed by doping conductive ions in the semiconductor material, so that the compliance performance is improved and not at risk of delamination.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Euan James Boyd, Scott Lyall Cargill, Yannick Pierre Kervran