Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vibration diaphragm. The vibration diaphragm includes a central dome part; a suspension part surrounding the dome part; a number of first reinforcing parts disposed on the suspension part; a number of second reinforcing parts disposed on the suspension part and being adjacent to the first reinforcing parts. The second reinforcing part includes a first master extension part and a first slave extension part, and the first master extension part and the first slave extension part cross with each other.

Abstract: Techniques for addressing impulse sounds in an auditory prosthesis. The auditory prosthesis comprises a sound processor that is configured to convert received sound signals into output signals for use in generating stimulation for delivery to a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. The sound processor comprises an impulse-aware gain system that is configured to generate a time-variable gain for the application to the audio signal. The time-variable gain applied to the audio signal is dependent on both a level of the audio signal and the presence or absence of impulse sounds in the audio signal.

Abstract: A speaker system for a mobile object capable of being easily mounted on the mobile object is provided. The speaker system includes a speaker unit, enclosure accommodating the speaker unit, and a tubular member one end of which is connected to an internal space of the enclosure, and the speaker unit and the enclosure are built in a back door thereof. A free space in a vehicle is utilized effectively, thereby mounting the speaker system for the mobile object in the vehicle easily.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a loudspeaker enclosure having a front and a rear. Further, the loudspeaker system includes at least one first bass sound source, arranged in the loudspeaker enclosure, having a main direction of radiation at the front and at least one treble and/or midrange sound source. At least one first chamber of the loudspeaker enclosure is provided with a first sound exit opening that is at the side in regard to the main direction of radiation. The loudspeaker system further comprises at least one first directivity bass sound source that is arranged in the first chamber.

Abstract: An MEMS sound transducer comprises a first and a second backplate, as well as a diaphragm, which is arranged between the first and the second backplate and is held by an edge fastening between the first and the second backplate. The MEMS sound transducer comprises a clamping structure, which is configured to provide fixing for the diaphragm when an electrostatic force acting in an operating state is applied between the first and the second backplate and at a distance from the edge fastening, and to release the fixing in absence of the electrostatic force.

Abstract: An earpiece including an intra-auricular support, a projection element coupled thereto, and a flexible body disposed thereon and inside an external ear canal of an ear, and a moldable earpiece material moldable about the intra-auricular support to conform to the auricle of an ear and curable to provide a fixed configuration of the earpiece.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit has a transducer biasing node for outputting a transducer bias voltage for biasing the capacitive transducer and a signal node for receiving the input signal. An amplifier arrangement comprising a feedback resistor network provides an amplified output signal. A voltage buffer provides a buffered bias voltage at a buffer node which is connected to a terminal of the feedback resistor network, to at least partly define the quiescent level of the output signal. The buffer node is electrically coupled to the transducer biasing node via a capacitance which may form part of a bias filter.

Abstract: A hearing device having a construction configured to minimize internal noise components of the hearing device is disclosed. In more detail, a hearing device, such as a hearing aid comprising a battery and a compartment configured for receiving a battery is disclosed, wherein the construction of the hearing aid housing is configured such that the noise components arising from the battery being in contact with a battery spring is substantially minimized.

Abstract: A MEMS microphone system comprises a transducer die having a pierce-less diaphragm and a motion sensor suspended from the diaphragm. The system further comprises a housing and the diaphragm divided a volume inside the housing into a front volume and a back volume. The motion sensor suspended from the diaphragm is located in the back volume having a gas pressure that is substantially equal or lower than an ambient pressure.

Abstract: There is disclosed a portable sound equipment comprising a support body formed in a gentle curve; electronic bodies provided in both ends of the support body, respectively, and exhaustible from the support body and rotatable to be folded or unfolded in an exhausted state; and a hinge unit configured to provide a shaft for the rotation, wherein the hinge unit comprises a connection portion projected from one end of the support body; a hinge rotatably coupled to the connection portion; a cylinder connected to the hinge and loaded in the electronic body; and a hinge spring having one end fixed to the cylinder and the other end supporting the electronic body to generate a restoring force which makes the exhausted electronic bodies become drawn into the support body, and when the electronic bodies are drawn into the support body is caught in the connection portion with respect to the rotational direction.

Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a first sound box, a second sound box, and a connection shaft. The first sound box includes at least one first speaker unit. The second sound box includes at least one second speaker unit. The connection shaft includes a cylinder, at least one first guide ring, and at least one second guide ring. The first guide ring is electrically sleeved on the cylinder and connected to the first speaker unit. The second guide ring is electrically connected to the second speaker unit. The first guide ring and the second guide ring correspond to each other and are electrically connected to each other, so that the first sound box and the second sound box are electrically connected to each other. The first sound box may rotate freely, about the connection shaft, with respect to the second sound box.

Abstract: An image of a pinna is captured. Based on the image of the pinna, a non-linear transfer function is determined which characterizes how sound is transformed at the pinna. A signal is output indicative of one or more audio cues to facilitate spatial localization of sound via the pinna, where the one or more audio cues is based on the non-linear transfer function.

Abstract: A sound-reproducing device has a DSP and a ?Com performing a predetermined calculation to an input signal, and an AMP amplifying the calculated signal and outputting the signal to a speaker unit. The DSP and the ?Com cuts a part of a reverse characteristic of a frequency characteristic of the speaker unit in a low frequency, and superimposes the reverse characteristic on the input signal. The sound-reproducing device can overcome a shortage of low sound during reproduction of low to medium volume in the speaker unit having a relatively small diameter, and can keep reproduction sound quality without loss of the reproduction sound quality during reproduction of large volume.

Abstract: A speaker device includes: a diaphragm that radiates sound; an edge arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm; a frame arranged in an outer periphery of the edge, and including an annular attachment part connected to an outer peripheral region of the edge; and a connecting member arranged between the outer peripheral region and the attachment part and adhered to the outer peripheral region and the attachment part. An inner diameter of the attachment part is less than an inner diameter of the outer peripheral region.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an electroacoustic transducer, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; a piezoelectric material at least partially sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a flexible electrical connector in electrical connection with the first or second electrode at discrete points around a periphery of that electrode, the discrete points being distributed about a substantial portion of that periphery.

Abstract: A non-uniform stress distribution of a MEMS microphone having a non-circular shape is compensated by a structured back plate that has a compensating structure to provide a stress distribution opposite to that of the membrane.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first speaker for generating a first sound wave; a first chamber coupled to a first side of the first speaker for outputting the first sound wave generated by the first speaker; a second chamber coupled to a second side of the first speaker; a functional device in the second chamber including at least one functional device that generates heat during operation; and a hollow duct located in the second chamber for transporting air from the second chamber to an outlet of the hollow duct, dissipating heat generated by the functional device.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a loudspeaker apparatus and a method of driving the acoustic transducers by predicting and compensating a physical phenomenon of acoustic pressure changes within an enclosure caused by at least one of the acoustic transducers. The loudspeaker apparatus includes an enclosure having an inner space, a first acoustic transducer, a second acoustic transducer, and a controller. The first and second acoustic transducers are mounted on the enclosure and share the same inner space of the enclosure, such as sound bar and the likes. For the operation of the loudspeaker apparatus, the controller applies an algorithm or mathematical model (e.g., transfer function) to an audio signal received from an external source, so that the sound respectively outputted by the first and second acoustic transducers sharing the same inner space may be compensated as if the first and second acoustic transducers are individually mounted on its own enclosure.

Abstract: The application relates to a filter bank for an audio processing device, e.g. a hearing aid. The filter bank comprises an analysis filter bank comprising a plurality of M first filters hm(n), where m=0, 1, . . . , M?1 is a frequency band index, n being a time index, the first filters hm(n) having a first filter length of Lhm; a synthesis filter bank comprising a plurality of M second filters gm(n), m=0, 1, . . . , M?1, the second filters gm(n) having second filter lengths of Lgm; the plurality of first and second filters being arranged in pairs, each pair forming a frequency channel. the first filters hm(n) exhibiting a first filter delay ?h, the second filters gm(n) exhibiting a second filter delay ?g, each of the first filter lengths Lhm and the second filter lengths Lgm is uneven, and wherein the first filters are subject to the constraint that the sum of the first filters hm(n) of the analysis filter bank is a delta function ?(n??h).

Abstract: A micro electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) microphone includes a first back plate positioned on top of a first moving plate, wherein the first moving plate flexes in response to changes in air pressure caused by audio signals. The MEMS microphone also includes a valve comprising a valve moving plate, wherein a first end of the valve moving plate is fixedly attached to a MEMS die and the valve moving plate flexes in response to high sound pressure levels such that a second end of the valve moving plate enables airflow to prevent audio signal distortion.