Disposition Of Sound Reproducers (epo) Patents (Class 348/E5.13)
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Patent number: 11438690Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing; a case including a first plate facing in a first direction, a second plate facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a recess received in the housing and formed toward an inner space at an outer surface of the first plate or the second plate; an electronic element received in the case and configured to generate a vibration in an operation process; an anti-vibration member seated in the recess of the case and having an insertion hole formed in a center thereof; and a fixing protrusion protruded from an inner surface of the housing, having a latch jaw at an end portion, and inserted into and coupled to the insertion hole of the anti-vibration member.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventor: Brian Han
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Patent number: 11089394Abstract: A device includes a loudspeaker body, a loudspeaker fastener structure, and a loudspeaker shock absorption structure, in which the loudspeaker absorption structure further comprises a first elastomer, a second elastomer, and a bridging beam, wherein the bridging beam is made of an elastic material, and the first elastomer is connected to the second elastomer by the bridging beam.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.Inventors: Jiabin Yuan, Zongtao Zhang, Yulong Wang
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Patent number: 10771890Abstract: This disclosure relates to speakers and more specifically to an array speaker for distributing music uniformly across a room. A number of audio drivers can be radially distributed within a speaker housing so that an output of the drivers is distributed evenly throughout the room. In some embodiments, the exit geometry of the audio drivers can be configured to bounce off a surface supporting the array speaker to improve the distribution of music throughout the room. The array speaker can include a number of vibration isolation elements distributed within a housing of the array speaker. The vibration isolation elements can be configured reduce the strength of forces generated by a subwoofer of the array speaker.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Craig M. Stanley, Jason C. Della Rosa, Samuel G. Parker, Ethan L. Huwe, Glenn K. Trainer, Javier Mendez, Sean T. McIntosh
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Patent number: 10750264Abstract: The present utility model relates to a loudspeaker, in particular to a loudspeaker and a loudspeaker shock absorption structure, which comprise a first elastomer for connecting with a loudspeaker body and a second elastomer for connecting with a loudspeaker fastener structure, the first elastomer and the second elastomer are connected by a cantilever, the cantilever is made of an elastic material. The present utility model forms a non-coaxial connection structure between the loudspeaker body and the loudspeaker fastener structure by setting a cantilever, so that a force produced by a vibration of the loudspeaker body cannot be directly transmitted to the loudspeaker fastener structure. Instead, the force is acted on the fastener structure in the form of a small force after being weakened by buffering and filtering via the cantilever, thereby greatly reducing a machine vibration caused by a large amplitude of the loudspeaker.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiabin Yuan, Zongtao Zhang, Yulong Wang
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Patent number: 10708678Abstract: A device includes a loudspeaker body, a loudspeaker fastener structure, and a loudspeaker shock absorption structure, the loudspeaker absorption structure including a first elastomer, a second elastomer, and a bridging beam, wherein the first elastomer is connected to the second elastomer by the bridging beam, the first elastomer is connected with the loudspeaker body, the first elastomer is configured with an annular groove, the loudspeaker body is configured with a snap ring matching the annular groove, and the snap ring is clamped with the annular groove, wherein the second elastomer is connected with the loudspeaker fastener structure, the second elastomer is configured with a through hole, the loudspeaker fastener structure is configured with a connecting post matching the through hole, and the connecting post passes through the through hole of the second elastomer, and wherein the bridging beam is configured with a first opening and a second opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiabin Yuan, Zongtao Zhang, Yulong Wang
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Patent number: 10674271Abstract: A flat speaker includes a diaphragm having a flat plate shape, a drive unit that is attached to a back surface of the diaphragm and vibrates the diaphragm, a fixing member that fixes an outer circumference of the diaphragm in a circumferential direction, a first support member that is disposed on an inner side in a radial direction of the fixing member, supports the back surface of the diaphragm in the circumferential direction, and has a value of hardness smaller than a value of hardness of the fixing member and/or a value of internal loss larger than a value of internal loss of the fixing member, and a second support member that is disposed on an inner side in the radial direction of the first support member, supports the back surface of the diaphragm in the circumferential direction, and has a value of hardness smaller than the value of hardness of the first support member and/or a value of internal loss larger than the value of internal loss of the first support member.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 10609330Abstract: Systems for videoconferencing are designed for where people are seated around a video conferencing system. The systems include a camera so the far site can see the local participants and the systems include displays that show the far site. The displays are properly aligned with the cameras so that when people at the far site view the displayed images of the near site, it looks like they have eye contact with the near site. Obtaining the alignments of the camera and the displays to provide this apparent eye contact result requires meeting a series of different constraints relating to the various sizes and angles of the components and the locations of the participants.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Martin Duys, Alain Nimri, Stephen Schaefer, Shu Gao, Glenn G. George, Alvin Okunami
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Patent number: 10499143Abstract: An electronic device having several speaker modules that are acoustically in-phase and mechanically out-of-phase is disclosed. Embodiments include a pair of speaker modules mounted at respective ends of a lateral link, and the lateral link may be supported relative to a housing of the electronic device. The speaker modules may receive a same audio signal, and the audio signal may drive a first voicecoil in a first direction and a second voicecoil in a second direction. Accordingly, the speaker modules may be driven in mechanically different directions by the same audio signal, such that reactive forces cancel and/or mechanical energy is dissipate in the lateral link between the speaker modules. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Justin D. Crosby, Daniel K. Boothe, Houtan R. Farahani, Edward T. Sweet
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Patent number: 10027921Abstract: A display device includes a panel module including a display cell; a front side exterior panel and a rear side exterior panel which sandwich the panel module therebetween from back and front; a driving circuit which drives the display cell; and a stand which is separately provided from the rear side exterior panel, includes a speaker box inside which a first speaker is built-in, and is located on a lower rear side of the rear side exterior panel when placing the panel module.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Nikaido, Hiroaki Nemoto, Yusuke Mori, Masahiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 9973858Abstract: Provided is an electro-acoustic conversion film that is suitably used for a digital speaker or the like, and that includes a polymer composite piezoelectric body formed by dispersing piezoelectric particles in a viscoelastic matrix formed of a polymer material having viscoelasticity at room temperature, and thin-film electrodes provided on both surfaces of the polymer composite piezoelectric body, and at least one of the thin-film electrodes is divided into a plurality of regions of which an area increases by 2n times (n is a natural number including 0). Thus, a digital speaker in which reverberation or crosstalk between segments is suppressed is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tetsu Miyoshi
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Patent number: 9758256Abstract: A small thin display unit that can be installed in the flight deck for displaying only flight crew-selected tactical information needed for the task at hand. The flight crew can select the tactical information to be displayed by means of any conventional user interface. Whenever the flight crew selects tactical information for display, the user interface sends a corresponding request for tactical information to a computer system. The computer system processes the request, including periodically retrieving measured current values or computing current values for the requested tactical parameters and returning those current tactical parameter values to the display unit for display.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Syed Tahir Shafaat, Tan Nhat Che, Julian Ametsitsi, Charles Frederick Bell
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Patent number: 9602926Abstract: A system includes a video display screen configured to display selected portions of video content on a main portion of the video display screen and on one or more extended portions of the video display screen. The system also includes an audio portion configured to dynamically create one or more sound radiating speaker elements at one or more spatially selected locations with respect to the displayed selected portions of the video content. A method is also provided that provides the video display screen and the audio portion of the system.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Martin G. Keen, David B. Lection, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, John D. Wilson
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Patent number: 9367090Abstract: Docking platforms formed in one of the largest-surface-area surfaces (the back surfaces) of mobile electronic devices (1, 32). Such a docking platform comprises a docking accessory cavity (3, 41, 51, 60) having a docking connection system (49) comprising one or more docking connectors (4, 5, 42, 52, 56, 58) formed within the cavity, and optionally two or more electrical contacts (19) within the cavity, the contacts electrically connected to electronics within the electronic device and constructed and arranged to allow electrical connection to detachable docking accessories (6, 8, 27, 30, 31, 33, 36, 45, 61). The docking connection system is operable to form detachable attachments to multiple independent docking accessories simultaneously. The cavities of the docking platforms are shaped to accommodate a broad range of docking accessories that are specially adapted to sit in a generally flush manner with the back surface of the mobile electronic device while attached to the docking connectors.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Plugged LLCInventors: David B. Barnett, Altan Nahum