Patents Examined by Amir H Etesam
  • Patent number: 11375308
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a holding device for attachment to the ear of a user, wherein a flexible connecting element arranged between an end piece and a terminal holder ensures that, even when subjected to relatively pronounced loads caused by external effects, such as for example a change in position of the head, the holding device is securely held on the ear without exerting unpleasant pressure on individual anatomical structures of the ear. By virtue of a flexible basic structure, the holding device according to the invention enables use on both ears of a user, without the holding device having to be adapted individually to each ear by a change in structure. In addition, a box suitable for storing the holding device ensures safe storage of the holding device when not in use, serves to keep the holding device ready for immediate use, and prevents deformation of the holding device caused by improper storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Cosinuss GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Kreuzer, Leo Lorenz, Tim Adams
  • Patent number: 11375327
    Abstract: Various implementations include sleep aiding in-ear audio devices. Certain implementations include sleep aiding in-ear audio devices with a noise-reduction finish, along with methods of applying a noise reduction finish to an in-ear audio device. In some cases, a sleep aiding in-ear audio device includes: a set of earbuds, each earbud having: an eartip for mating with an ear of a user; and a housing coupled with the eartip, the housing containing an electro-acoustic transducer for providing an audio output to the user via the eartip, where when inserted in the ear of the user, substantially all of an exposed surface of the earbud is finished with a matte coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natalie Zucker, Han Zhang, Nitzan Mokady
  • Patent number: 11375324
    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: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao, Jinbo Zheng, Qian Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11368779
    Abstract: A headset includes a curved headband, at least one sliding rod slidably arranged to one end of the headband, at least one suspension bracket rotatably connected to the at least one sliding rod, at least one insertion hole penetrating through the at least one suspension bracket, at least one fastening shaft mounted in the at least one insertion hole, and at least one elastic element. The at least one insertion hole has an assembling end, a buffering end, and a pivot block located between the assembling end and the buffering end. The at least one fastening shaft has a fixing portion, an extending portion, and an interfering portion located between the fixing portion and the extending portion. The pivot block clamps the interfering portion. The at least one elastic element is fastened between the extending portion and the buffering end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Ming Tseng, Chin-Chung Lin
  • Patent number: 11368800
    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: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao, Jinbo Zheng, Qian Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11368801
    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: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao, Jinbo Zheng, Qian Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11363392
    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: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao, Jinbo Zheng, Qian Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11363391
    Abstract: An exemplary hearing device configured to be worn by a user includes a microphone and a processor. The microphone detects an audio signal. The processor is configured to determine that the audio signal includes own voice content representative of a voice of the user and determine that an environmental noise level within the audio signal is below a threshold The processor is further configured to apply, based on the environmental noise level being below the threshold, a biomarker feature analysis heuristic to the own voice content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Nadim El Guindi, Anne Thielen
  • Patent number: 11363362
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a speaker device including a circuit housing, an ear hook, a rear hook, and a speaker assembly. The speaker assembly may include a headphone core and a housing for accommodating the headphone core, the housing may include a housing panel facing a human body and a housing back opposite to the housing panel, and the headphone core may cause the housing panel and the housing back to vibrate. An absolute value of a difference between a first phase of a vibration of the housing panel and a second phase of a vibration of the housing back may be less than 60 degrees when a frequency of each of the vibration of the housing panel and the vibration of the housing back is between 2000 Hz and 3000 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Yongjian Li, Wenbing Zhou, Jinbo Zheng, Zhuyang Jiang, Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao
  • Patent number: 11355834
    Abstract: An ear-worn electronic device is configured to be worn by a wearer and comprises a housing configured to be supported at, by, in or on the wearer's ear. A processor is disposed in the housing. A speaker or a receiver is operably coupled to the processor. A radio frequency transceiver is disposed in the housing and operably coupled to the processor. An antenna is disposed on or in the housing and operably coupled to the transceiver. The antenna comprises a radiating element, a ground plane, and a substrate disposed between the radiating element and the ground plane. The substrate comprises one or both of a dielectric gel and a dielectric liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ezdeen Elghannai, Zhenchao Yang, Stephen P. Flood
  • Patent number: 11350216
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes: a magnetic circuit including an annularly formed magnet, a yoke that includes a base surface part and a center pole part protruding from the base surface part, the center pole part being disposed while being inserted into a central part of the magnet, and a plate that is annularly formed and disposed on an outer peripheral side of the center pole part of the yoke while being attached to the magnet; a coil bobbin that is cylindrically formed and is displaceable in an axial direction of the center pole part while a part thereof is fitted onto the center pole part of the yoke; a voice coil that is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the coil bobbin, at least a part thereof being disposed in a magnetic gap formed between the plate and the center pole part of the yoke; and a diaphragm that is connected to the coil bobbin and is caused to vibrate in conjunction with displacement of the coil bobbin, in which a first air passage path and a second air passage path are formed, the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Tagami, Emiko Ikeda, Haruka Sakai
  • Patent number: 11350201
    Abstract: A headband structure for headphones, comprising: a headband set, and an adjustment module arranged at an end of the headband set, wherein the adjustment module includes: an earphone hanger which is consisted of a hanger frame, a fixing base arranged at an end of the hanger frame, a spring arranged on the fixing base and a convex face arranged on the spring, a first cap body arranged at a side of the earphone hanger, a wave form fastener arranged on the first cap body to contact with the convex face, a second cap body arranged at another side of the earphone hanger, and a sliding space formed between the first cap body and the second cap body for accommodating an end of the earphone hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Ming Tseng, Chin-Chung Lin
  • Patent number: 11350224
    Abstract: A hearing device includes: at least one microphone for converting sound received by the at least one microphone into an audio signal; a sound impulse detector configured for detecting a presence of an impulse in the audio signal; and a signal processor configured for processing the audio signal into a processed audio signal in response to the presence of the impulse in the audio signal as detected by the sound impulse detector; and a receiver coupled to the signal processor for converting the processed audio signal into an output sound signal for emission towards an eardrum of a user; wherein the sound impulse detector is configured for operation in a frequency domain for detecting presence of the impulse in the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Soren Christian Voigt Pedersen
  • Patent number: 11350227
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a hearing assistance device and a method of forming such device are disclosed. The device includes a housing having a shell and a frame disposed at least partially within the shell. An inner surface of the shell and at least a portion of the frame define a void. Further, an indentation hardness value of the frame is greater than an indentation hardness value of the shell. The hearing assistance device also includes hearing assistance components that are disposed at least partially within the void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay M. Stewart, Westley G. Gentry, Michael K. Sacha, Craig C. Feldsien
  • Patent number: 11350221
    Abstract: A MEMS microphone includes a substrate, and a first conversion portion and a second conversion portion provided on the substrate, the first conversion portion and the second conversion portion convert sound into an electrical signal, the first conversion portion includes a first through hole, a first membrane covering the first through hole, and a first back plate facing the first membrane via a first air gap, the second conversion portion includes a second through hole, a second membrane covering the second through hole, and a second back plate facing the second membrane via a second air gap, and a dimension of the second air gap is greater than a dimension of the first air gap in a thickness direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Kamijima, Tohru Inoue
  • Patent number: 11350207
    Abstract: A bone conduction speaker is provided herein. The bone conduction speaker may include a magnetic circuit component for providing a magnetic field, a vibration component located in the magnetic field, and a case. At least a part of the vibration component may convert an electrical signal into a mechanical vibration signal. The case may include a case panel facing a human body side and a case back opposite to the case panel, and accommodate the vibration component that causes the case panel and the case back to vibrate. A vibration of the case panel may have a first phase, and a vibration of the case back may have a second phase. When frequencies of the vibration of the case panel and the case back are within 2000 Hz to 3000 Hz, an absolute value of a difference between the first and the second phase(s) may be less than 60 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbo Zheng, Fengyun Liao, Lei Zhang, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11350194
    Abstract: A loudspeaker including a diaphragm having a front surface facing in a forward direction for producing sound to be radiated outwardly from the loudspeaker in the forward direction and a back surface facing in a backward direction that is opposite to the forward direction; a magnet unit configured to provide magnetic field in a predetermined region of space; a voice coil rigidly connected to the diaphragm, wherein the voice coil is configured to produce a magnetic field in use which interacts with the magnetic field provided by the magnet unit in the predetermined region of space so as to move the diaphragm along a longitudinal axis of the loudspeaker; a flexible dustcap attached to the diaphragm and an attachment surface of the loudspeaker that is fixed with respect to the magnet unit and is located radially inwards of the voice coil relative to the longitudinal axis of the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: PSS BELGIUIM NV
    Inventor: Johan Schepens
  • Patent number: 11350217
    Abstract: A micromechanical sound transducer according to a first aspect includes a first bending transducer with a free end and a second bending transducer with a free end, the two bending transducers being arranged in a mutual plane, wherein the free end of the first bending transducer is separated from the free end of the second bending transducer via a slit. The second bending transducer is excited in-phase with the vertical vibration of the first bending transducer. A micromechanical sound transducer according to a second aspect includes a first bending transducer that is excited to vibrate vertically and a diaphragm element extending vertically to the first bending transducer, the diaphragm element being separated from a free end of the first bending transducer via a slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Fabian Stoppel, Bernhard Wagner, Shanshan Gu-Stoppel
  • Patent number: 11343624
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described herein related to improving the sound quality of a bone conduction speaker. The sound quality of the bone conduction speaker is adjusted in the sound generation, sound transferring, and sound receiving of the bone conduction speaker by designing vibration generation manners and vibration transfer structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengyun Liao, Jinbo Zheng, Qian Chen, Hao Chen, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11343625
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described herein related to improving the sound quality of a bone conduction speaker. The sound quality of the bone conduction speaker is adjusted in the sound generation, sound transferring, and sound receiving of the bone conduction speaker by designing vibration generation manners and vibration transfer structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengyun Liao, Jinbo Zheng, Qian Chen, Hao Chen, Xin Qi