Patents Examined by Sean H Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12108227
    Abstract: A device, system, and a method for adjusting audio parameters for a user are disclosed. The method comprises performing a hearing test of the user. The hearing test comprises playing an audio and capturing an auditory response of the user towards the audio. A hearing profile of the user is generated based on one or more results of the hearing test. A playing speed of the audio is adjusted based on the hearing profile, thereby adjusting the audio parameters for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Leigh M. Rothschild
  • Patent number: 12101615
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm (12) comprising a woven fibre body supports damping material (25), for example PVA polymer, on a rearward-facing surface (24). The woven fibre body may be formed of lengths (14) non-metallic fibre material (for example glass fibre) coating with a thin metal coating (32). The mass of the layer of damping material (25) may be less than the mass of the woven fibre body. An attractive sparkly looking loudspeaker diaphragm (12) may thus be provided which damps undesirable vibration whilst providing a flatter frequency-response curve (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: B&W Group Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas O′Brien, Martial Andre Robert Rousseau
  • Patent number: 12096196
    Abstract: A moving magnet motor comprising: a stationary voice coil coupled to a frame; a moving magnet assembly movably coupled to the frame and operable to move relative to the stationary coil, the moving magnet assembly comprising a magnet and a flux concentrating member that define a gap within which the stationary coil is positioned; and an actuating surface coupled to the moving magnet assembly, and wherein a movement of the moving magnet assembly drives a movement of the actuating surface along an axis of translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Onur I. Ilkorur, Oliver Leonhardt, Matthew A. Donarski, Christopher Wilk
  • Patent number: 12083963
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an audio speaker bracket for use water based and land-based vehicles and a method for installing the speaker to a mounting panel using at least one suspension member. The method permits the speaker to be supported by a secure attachment of the bracket to the vehicle is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: David Smith
  • Patent number: 12088982
    Abstract: A display apparatus may include a display panel including a display area configured to display an image, and a non-display area, an optical module on a rear surface of the display panel, at least one first sound generator on a rear surface of the optical module, and at least one second sound generator in the non-display area and between the display panel and the optical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: DongGeun Lee, KyuSung Han
  • Patent number: 12088991
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a bone conduction earphone. The bone conduction earphone may include a loudspeaker assembly. The bone conduction earphone may also include an ear hook assembly including a first ear hook housing, a connection member, and a second ear hook housing. One end of the connection member may be connected to the first ear hook housing, and the other end of the connection member may be connected to the loudspeaker assembly. The first ear hook housing may include a first sub-accommodating space, and the second ear hook housing may include a second sub-accommodating space. The first ear hook housing may be spliced and matched with the second ear hook housing by a first connection assembly such that the first sub-accommodating space and the second sub-accommodating space may be combined to form an accommodating space, and a length direction of the accommodating space may be perpendicular to a thickness direction of the accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueqiang Wang, Zhongqi Wu, Fen You
  • Patent number: 12088999
    Abstract: The present document describes a textile-assembly toolkit for reversible assembly of a textile to an electronic-speaker device. The toolkit includes multiple attachment features, including rigid features with matched purposefully-designed knit types that can be combined to enable repeatable, mass-producible, reversible assembly of the textile to the electronic-speaker device. The techniques described herein enable accurate alignment of the textile on the electronic-speaker device without distorting the textile's cosmetic pattern and in a manner that results in no visible edges of the textile or visible attachment features on the exterior of the electronic-speaker device. Also, the textile-assembly toolkit includes attachment features that secure the textile with sufficient tension to avoid acoustic distortion such as rub and buzz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Laura Charlotte Shumaker, Brian Huynh, Edmond Lu, Phanindraja Ancha, Robert Sean Murphy, Myrrhia R. Resneck
  • Patent number: 12081948
    Abstract: A self-fitting hearing compensation device with real-ear measurement is provided and includes: a first transducer, which receives a first test signal from a device and converts the first test signal into a first electrical signal; a first hearing compensation module, which is connected to the first transducer and performs gain compensation on the first electrical signal; a second transducer, which is connected to the first hearing compensation module, converts the gain-compensated first electrical signal into sound, and transmits the sound into an ear canal; and a third transducer, which synchronously converts the sound transmitted in the ear canal into a second electrical signal, so as to transmit the second electrical signal to the device via a wireless transmission network. In addition, a self-fitting hearing compensation method and a computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GMI Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Han Yeh, Ying-Hui Lai
  • Patent number: 12081937
    Abstract: A sound emitting apparatus includes a speaker unit and an enclosure of the speaker unit having an aperture configuring a Helmholtz resonator. A resonance frequency Fr of the Helmholtz resonator is set to be equal to or higher than a reproducible lower limit frequency of the speaker unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Kato, Yoshifumi Oizumi
  • Patent number: 12082377
    Abstract: The present document describes a passive thermal-control structure for speakers and associated apparatuses and methods. The architecture of the passive thermal-control structure is such that heat is transferred from electronic subsystems of the electronic speaker device to the passive thermal-control structure, which acts as an internal, structural frame of the electronic speaker device and provides both thermal mitigation and structural stability. The passive thermal-control structure conducts heat from the electronic subsystems to a housing of the electronic speaker device. The housing of the electronic speaker device may dissipate the heat to the ambient environment to prevent thermal runaway of the electronic subsystems, and the internal frame mitigates the temperature of the housing from exceeding ergonomic temperature limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Emil Rahim, Ihab A. Ali, Phanindraja Ancha, Neha Ravi Dixit
  • Patent number: 12075204
    Abstract: An accessory tray for a loudspeaker includes a main portion defining a perimeter and a base surface configured to support an accessory within the perimeter. An anchor portion extends under the base surface of the main portion, the anchor portion configured to engage a portion of the loudspeaker. The main portion has a tapering height from a rear to a front thereof, forming a rake angle in side view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael D. Kasten, Andrew Grunloh, Nicholas Sulzer, Shawn Filipek, Andrew Cho
  • Patent number: 12075230
    Abstract: The present invention provides a microspeaker having a water drainage structure capable of rapidly discharging water, entering the microspeaker, to the outside. In the case of a woofer-tweeter speaker, water is discharged through the side and bottom of a housing, and in the case of a 1-way speaker, water is discharged through the side of a housing. In addition, the present invention provides a connection portion that is formed to position a plurality of soldering points, to which a woofer wire and a tweeter wire are bonded, not outside a driver but inside or at the boundary of a space formed by the driver in a TWS-type 2-way microspeaker. This secures design freedom and save space by reducing the overall length of a small speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventors: Minkoo Park, Seungwoo Chun
  • Patent number: 12075229
    Abstract: A planar magnetic transducer of a speaker driver unit includes one or more magnetic bodies wherein a proximate surface of the one or more magnetic bodies are facing rearward toward the transducer membrane, and wherein the proximate surface includes a tapered portion directed rearward so as to direct the frontward orientation of the soundwaves generated by the transducer membrane when electrical power is supplied to the electrical trace of the transducer membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventor: Zachary Arthur Mehrbach
  • Patent number: 12075209
    Abstract: An acoustic waveguide in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present technology that comprises a housing having a proximal end with an inlet aperture and a distal end with an outlet aperture, and a mounting flange positioned at the proximal end and configured to acoustically couple a driver to inlet aperture. A plurality of sound channels extend through the housing and acoustically couple the inlet aperture to the outlet aperture. Each sound channel at least partially defining a sound path has an acoustic length, wherein at least one of the sound paths of the plurality of sound channels has a bend angle that exceeds 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: QSC, LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Halley, Chris Smolen
  • Patent number: 12063471
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include a housing including a first housing and a second housing receiving at least a portion of the first housing and configured to guide a slide of the first housing, a display including a first display area disposed on the second housing and a second display area extending from the first display area, a speaker module disposed in the housing, a resonance space facing at least a portion of the speaker module and configured to vary in size based on a slide of the first housing with respect to the second housing, and a processor configured to adjust a sound output from the speaker module based on the size of the resonance space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Jinwan An
  • Patent number: 12058497
    Abstract: A bone conduction device, including a transducer and a housing, wherein the housing is directly flexibly connected to the transducer at a dynamic component of the bone conduction device and directly flexibly connected to a static component of the bone conduction device. In an exemplary embodiment, the bone conduction device is a percutaneous bone conduction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Dan Nyström, Tobias Good
  • Patent number: 12047740
    Abstract: A balanced armature receiver including a motor with a yoke for retaining magnets and fastening to an armature are disclosed. The yoke includes a close-ended wall structure formed of a soft magnetic material having multiple folded corners defining an armature passage. A first magnet retaining wall portion of the yoke is arranged in parallel with, and opposite, a second magnet retaining wall portion, wherein at least a portion of the first magnet retaining wall portion has a reduced thickness relative to other wall portions of the close-ended wall structure. The armature is connected to the reduced thickness portion of the first magnet retaining wall portion, thereby reducing an overall z-axis dimension of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Yahui Zhang, Shehab Albahri
  • Patent number: 12047733
    Abstract: A coaxial speaker includes a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system. The vibration system includes a vibrating diaphragm and a voice coil. The magnetic circuit system includes a transmission cavity, an inner magnetic gap, and an outer magnetic gap. The inner magnetic gap includes a first magnetic gap and a second magnetic gap. The transmission cavity penetrates through the magnetic circuit system. The vibrating diaphragm includes a first vibrating diaphragm, a second vibrating diaphragm, and a third vibrating diaphragm. The third vibrating diaphragm and the first vibrating diaphragm reversely vibrate. The first vibrating diaphragm and the third vibrating diaphragm seal the transmission cavity. The voice coil includes a first voice coil, a second voice coil, and a third voice coil. The coaxial speaker effectively reduces sound leakage of a front receiver during working, and realizes a private call function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: AAC MICROTECH (CHANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhang Ren, Zhiwei Zhong
  • Patent number: 12041418
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for automatic correction of real ear measurements (REMs). A sound signal is produced through a receiver of a hearing device, and a sound pressure signal is sensed using a microphone placed inside the ear canal. The sound pressure signal is transformed to obtain a frequency response signal, a local minimum of the frequency response signal is detected above a programmable frequency level, and a spectral flatness of the frequency response signal is calculated in a selected frequency band surrounding the local minimum. If the spectral flatness is greater than a selected threshold value, acoustic correction is applied to the frequency response in the selected frequency band using an estimated transfer function to obtain a corrected sound pressure frequency response. The corrected sound pressure frequency response is used to modify, or make a recommendation to modify, a physical or operational characteristic of the hearing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenyu Jin, Tim Schoof
  • Patent number: 12035096
    Abstract: A personal acoustic system and flexible mount for the same are disclosed. The flexible mount is comprised of an elastomeric material. The personal acoustic system further includes a band comprising a first mount and an earpiece comprising a second mount. An acoustic element is housed within the earpiece. The elastomeric mount is positioned intermediate the first mount and the second mount to flexibly connect the band to the earpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Koss Corporation
    Inventor: Nicholas S. Blair