Having Diaphragm Support Feature Patents (Class 381/398)
  • Patent number: 11856380
    Abstract: A sound control system comprises a sound generating device disposed at a vehicle ceiling corresponding to a seat region of the vehicle and disposed at a sound space formed within the vehicle to correspond to the seat region, and a sound processing circuit for providing a vibration driving signal to the sound generating device, the sound generating device vibrates based on the vibration driving signal to vibrate a vibration region of the vehicle ceiling corresponding to the sound space to provide a sound to the sound space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taehyung Kim, Jeonggoo Kang
  • Patent number: 11838736
    Abstract: An electrodynamic actuator for a speaker or an electrodynamic acoustic transducer in general is disclosed, which comprises at least one voice coil, a magnet system and an arm arrangement of a plurality of arms connecting the at least one voice coil and the magnet system or at least a movable part thereof so that a relative movement between these parts is allowed. The arms are made of a metal core, which at least partly is coated with a coating structure having at least one coating metal layer consisting of a different material than the metal core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sound Solutions International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gustav Otto, Markus Trampert, Stefan Gebhardt, Andreas Hintennach, Manuel Mefleh, Ernst Tomas
  • Patent number: 11671759
    Abstract: Provided is a speaker, including: a frame, a first diaphragm and a flexible printed circuit board connected to the frame. The first diaphragm includes a first surface close to the flexible printed circuit board and arranged opposite to the flexible printed circuit board. The first surface is recessed along a direction departing from the flexible printed circuit board to form a glue slot. The first surface is connected to the flexible printed circuit board by glue to enable the glue to enter the glue slot. A thickness of the glue at a glue junction is increased to enhance strength of connection between the flexible printed circuit board and the first diaphragm to ensure reliability of mounting of the flexible printed circuit board on the first diaphragm, which may reduce a failure rate of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Jin, Weiwei Tao, Heng Pan
  • Patent number: 11622200
    Abstract: Provided is a speaker, including a frame, a vibration unit fixed to the frame; and a magnetic circuit unit driving the vibration unit to vibrate and produce sound. The vibration unit includes a diaphragm and a voice coil; the diaphragm includes a first suspension, a second suspension and a vibrating portion; the magnetic circuit unit includes a magnetic gap, and the voice coil is inserted in the magnetic gap; the magnetic circuit unit includes a yoke; and the vibration unit further includes a fixing ring connected to the magnetic circuit unit; an inner peripheral side of the second suspension is fixed to an outer side of the fixing ring; and a connection position of the second suspension and the fixing ring is located between two opposite ends of the fixing ring along a vibrating direction of the diaphragm. With this structure, sealing performance of the speaker is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Xiao, Chenliang Kong, Tong Zhang, Ronglin Linghu
  • Patent number: 11589165
    Abstract: A sounding device includes a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system having a magnetic gap. The vibration system includes a diaphragm fixed to the frame, a voice coil inserted in the magnetic gap to drive the diaphragm to vibrate, a framework connected to the diaphragm, and an elastic conductor fixed to the frame and connected to one side of the framework away from the diaphragm. One end of the voice coil has a lead wire. The framework and the voice coil define a receiving space. The elastic conductor includes an elastic conductor body fixed to the frame, first to third connectors, first and second bending arms. The first bending arm is spaced apart from the second bending arm. The lead wire is fixed to and electrically connected to the third connector. The sounding device has a good consistency in bending size and high pad position precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Jin, Zhiwei Zhong
  • Patent number: 11570547
    Abstract: An acoustic device comprising an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines an enclosure volume; a first mass movably coupled to the enclosure, the first mass comprising a sound radiating surface, a voice coil and a first suspension member; a second mass movably coupled to the enclosure, the second mass comprising a magnet assembly and a second suspension member, and wherein the first suspension member couples the first mass to the second mass, the second suspension member couples the magnet assembly to the enclosure wall, and the second suspension member is tuned to reduce enclosure vibrations caused by a movement of the first mass and the second mass relative to the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Jason D. Silver
  • Patent number: 11450302
    Abstract: A loudspeaker is provided with a motor assembly having at least one planar coil and first and second magnets magnetized in a magnetized direction perpendicular to direction of coil movement and perpendicular to a central axis of radiation of the loudspeaker. Ferrofluid is disposed between a diaphragm and the first and second magnets. Third and fourth magnets are disposed outside the first and second magnets and are magnetized in a direction parallel to the direction of coil movement and perpendicular to the magnetized direction of the first and second speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Guenther Weber, Gilles Milot, Marc-Olivier Chauveau, Ludovic Fournier, Armin Prommersberger
  • Patent number: 11438702
    Abstract: Sound-producing acoustic receivers are disclosed. The acoustic receiver includes a housing, a first diaphragm, and a motor. The housing has an internal volume separated by the first diaphragm into a first front volume and a first back volume such that the first front volume has a first sound outlet. The first diaphragm includes a first paddle movable about a first hinge. The motor is disposed in the housing and includes an armature mechanically coupled to the first paddle. The first hinge is located between opposite ends of the first paddle such that actuation of the armature pivots both ends of the first paddle about the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Kalyan Nadella, Thomas Miller, Shehab Albahri, Yahui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11438699
    Abstract: A micro speaker with amplitude stability, includes a vibrating diaphragm unit, a magnetic unit which is disposed below the vibrating diaphragm unit, and a circuit unit which is disposed between the vibrating diaphragm unit and the magnetic unit. The vibrating diaphragm unit includes a diaphragm which is connected with a voice coil; whereas the diaphragm and the voice coil are connected electrically by an upper fixing arm on the vibrating diaphragm unit, and a pair of flexible circuit board disposed in the circuit unit. The circuit unit also includes plural lower fixing arms to connect and support the flexible circuit boards. Therefore, when an external power source energizes the circuit unit, the voice coil can drive the diaphragm to generate a stable amplitude along the height of the magnetic element, through the upper fixing arm and the lower fixing arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DRAGONSTATE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si-Si He, Jie-Ru Chen
  • Patent number: 11387296
    Abstract: A flexible display panel and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The flexible display panel has a display region and a bending region. The flexible display panel has a substrate, an organic pattern layer, layered structures, first holes, and second holes. The organic pattern layer is at the bending region and disposed on the substrate. The layered structures cover the organic pattern layer and the substrate located at the display region. The first holes pass through the layered structures and the organic pattern layer located at the bending region. The second holes pass through the layered structures located at the display region, wherein the second holes are adjacent to the bending region. When the bending portion is bent, the flexible display panel has a specific bending shape by disposing an organic pattern layer. Further, the first holes and the second holes are formed to balance stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronies Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong Gao
  • 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: 11310603
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sound generating unit, a sound generating module and electronic terminal, comprising a magnetic circuit system, a vibration system, and a circuit board. The voice coil is jointly wound by two voice coil wires, and the two end portions of each voice coil wire respectively form a wire-in end and a wire-out end; the lead-out positions of the two wire-in ends are located on two sides of the voice coil and arranged diagonally, and the lead-out positions of the two wire-out ends are located on two sides of the voice coil and arranged diagonally; the two wire-in ends and the two wire-out ends are electrically connected to the corresponding pads of the circuit board respectively, and the internal circuit of the circuit board is configured to electrically connect the two wire-in ends together, and electrically connect the two wire-out ends together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventors: Hanlong Cheng, Chengfei Zhang, Chunfa Liu
  • Patent number: 11304007
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a loudspeaker diaphragm and a loudspeaker. The loudspeaker diaphragm comprises: a center portion, a suspension ring portion, and a fixed portion successively connected from the inside to the outside; the diaphragm is provided thereon with a plurality of patterns that span across the suspension ring portion and the fixed portion; first ends of the patterns extend towards the peripheral edge of the fixed portion, while second ends thereof stretch towards the peripheral edge of the suspension ring portion so as to extend onto the suspension ring portion. The technical solution of the present invention can not only effectively disperse stress of a stress concentration region of the fixed portion, but also can increase the strength of the fixed portion, thus effectively avoiding the problem of warping deformation of the diaphragm after the diaphragm is molded, thereby improving the yield of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yajing Sun, Wentao Ma
  • Patent number: 11212601
    Abstract: A sound transducer includes a substrate including a first surface, a second surface, and a cavity, a support structure disposed on the first surface and including an inner peripheral edge and a third surface, a fixing structure disposed on the third surface, a moving structure including an exterior peripheral edge and a fourth surface, a first set of comb fingers fixed to the inner peripheral edge, extending toward the moving structure, and being electrically isolated from the fixing structure and the moving structure, a second set of comb fingers fixed to the exterior peripheral edge, extending toward the support structure, and interdigitated with the first set of comb fingers, and an elastic connecting structure including a first connecting part connected to the fourth surface, a second connecting part connected to the fixing structure, and an elastic body; the moving structure is disposed above the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yannick Kervran
  • Patent number: 11212616
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bonding structure of a diaphragm for a receiver and a method thereof. The diaphragm of the receiver includes a center diaphragm and a side diaphragm elastically supporting the center diaphragm, formed by heat and pneumatic pressure, and bonded to the center diaphragm. At least one of the center diaphragm and the side diaphragm is formed of a thermoplastic elastomer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: EM-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Young Woo Kim, Yong Ju Ji, Young Seok Noh, Chan Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 11206489
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a diaphragm for radiating sound, including: a dome; a suspension surrounding the dome, including a first connecting portion adjacent to the dome and having a first surface and a second surface, a suspending portion extending from and surrounding the first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion extending from and surrounding the suspending portion. The suspending portion includes a convex part along a direction from the second surface to the first surface, an inner edge connecting to the first connecting portion, and an outer edge connecting to the second connecting portion. The diaphragm further includes glue layers located on corners of the first surface of the first connecting portion, extending from the inner edge toward the dome. The present disclosure further includes a speaker incorporating the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Binbin Yang, Bin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11202139
    Abstract: A speaker unit includes a magnet, an upper plate fixed to a top surface of the magnet, a voice coil disposed to surround outer circumferences of the magnet and the upper plate, a vibration plate to which the voice coil is fixed, a fixing ring on which an edge of the vibration plate is mounted, and a frame having an open top and configured to accommodate the magnet, the upper plate, and the voice coil. Here, a pipe conduit is formed in the frame along a circumferential direction. A first hole configured to come into contact and communicates with a 1_1 space disposed in front of the speaker unit and to allow a 1_2 space disposed on a side of the speaker unit to communicate with the pipe conduit is formed in at least one first position of a side surface of the frame in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ALMUS CORP.
    Inventors: Ju Heon Ko, Byung Il Min, Yun Uk Ha, Jeong Kwon Park, Yeong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11178492
    Abstract: A loudspeaker is provided having a frame, a device for generating a magnetic field in a magnetic circuit exhibiting an air gap, turns of conductive materials for moving in the air gap, a diaphragm rigidly connected to the turns of the conductive materials that moves in a direction of movement with respect to the frame, the diaphragm having an inner face and an outer face. The inner face of the diaphragm is positioned to face the frame, and the loudspeaker also contains ag rid that stiffens the diaphragm and is shaped to allow the grid to be glued to the outer face of the diaphragm. The grid glued on the diaphragm forces the diaphragm to execute the movements of the turns of conductive materials. The diaphragm obeys impulses given by the turns of the conductive materials, reproduces them identically and transmits vibrations to the air without creating parasitic standing waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Jean Mauriac
  • Patent number: 11128956
    Abstract: An edge including an inner notch extending in a diaphragm-side region, and an outer notch extending in a frame-side region near the inner notch, in which the inner notch and the outer notch have a depression with a depth equal to or larger than a thickness, and an angle B formed by an extending direction of the outer notch with respect to a line radially extending from an edge center is larger than an angle A formed by an extending direction of the inner notch with respect to the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Kikuchi, Nobukazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11102587
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hybrid acoustic apparatus. The hybrid acoustic apparatus includes: a rectangular microspeaker used as a first acoustic device; and a second acoustic device integrated with the microspeaker. The microspeaker includes a plate configured to constitute a part of a magnetic field part, a magnet configured to be disposed beneath the plate, a diaphragm configured to be disposed on the plate, and a frame configured to accommodate the diaphragm, the plate, and the magnet. A path of vibration sound generated by the diaphragm is formed to be perpendicular to a direction in which the diaphragm vibrates so that the vibration sound is discharged through a side surface of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BUJEON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minkoo Park, Seungwoo Chun
  • Patent number: 11057709
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible printed circuit board comprising: providing a first flexible precursor board having a layer; adhering a first covering layer with a lower opening, a portion of the circuit layer exposed; adhering a second covering layer with an upper opening to the first covering layer, the upper opening being formed in the lower opening, and a portion of circuit layer being exposed to obtain a second flexible precursor board; providing an upper mound having a protruding portion and a lower mound having a recessed portion, moving the second flexible precursor board between the upper mound and the lower mound, the upper opening being positioned away from the protruding portion and the recessed portion, pressing the upper mound to the lower mound to press the protruding portion into the recessed portion; removing the upper mound and the lower mound to get the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited., HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Biao Li, Ning Hou, Hao-Wen Zhong, Xiao-Wei Kang
  • Patent number: 11057713
    Abstract: A vibratable element for loudspeaker use including a coil bobbin, a voice coil attached thereto, and a main body being constituted by a single thin plate and including a fixing portion, a damper portion, a vibrating portion, and an edge portion. The fixing portion is a part of the plate to which the coil bobbin is fixed from one side in a first direction being the axial direction of the voice coil. The damper portion is a part of the plate located inside the fixing portion. The vibrating portion is a part of the plate located outside the fixing portion. The inside refers to a side toward the center of the plate, and the outside refers to a side away from the center of the plate. The edge portion is a part of the plate outside the vibrating portion and includes an outer perimeter portion of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventor: Satofumi Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 11032648
    Abstract: An adhering portion of an electroacoustic sound generator provided by the present disclosure, for engaging a front cover and a diaphragm, includes a thickened layer for coupling with the diaphragm, which effectively avoid the glue from overflowing. The hardness of the front cover is 150˜200 HV, which makes it easier to manufacture the thickened layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11019444
    Abstract: A method of forming a device having a compliant member includes applying heat to a thermoplastic elastomer to maintain the thermoplastic elastomer in a softened state. The thermoplastic elastomer is extruded in the softened state as a film of thermoplastic elastomer. One or more of a bobbin and a housing, each having and end, is positioned such that the end extends at least partially into the film of thermoplastic elastomer. The positioning occurs when the thermoplastic elastomer is in the softened state and/or the bobbin and/or housing is at a temperature that is greater than a temperature of the film of thermoplastic elastomer. The film is cooled so that the bobbin and/or housing are secured to the film and so that the thermoplastic elastomer is in a state that exhibits rubber-like properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shawn J. Prevoir, Prateek Nath
  • Patent number: 10993038
    Abstract: The invention discloses a speaker. The speaker includes a housing, a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system. The vibration system has a diaphragm and a voice coil. The housing includes a front cover and a frame. The diaphragm has a dome, a suspension and a fixing portion. The frame includes a first connecting wall and a second connecting wall extending from the first connecting wall. The front cover includes a third connecting wall and a fourth connecting wall. The fixing part includes a first fixing portion sandwiched between the first connecting wall and the third connecting wall and a second fixing part sandwiched between the second connecting wall and the fourth connecting wall. By virtue of the configuration, the speaker is provided with better waterproof performance and higher sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10939208
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a diaphragm for radiating sound, including: a dome; a suspension surrounding the dome, including a first connecting portion adjacent to the dome and having a first surface and a second surface, a suspending portion extending from and surrounding the first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion extending from and surrounding the suspending portion. The suspending portion includes a concave part recessed along a direction from the first surface to the second surface, an inner edge connecting to the first connecting portion, and an outer edge connecting to the second connecting portion. The diaphragm further includes a stiffening layer located on the first surface of the first connecting portion, extending from the inner edge toward the dome. The present disclosure further includes a speaker incorporating the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Binbin Yang, Bin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10932045
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker. The speaker comprises a fixing system and a vibration system, the vibration system includes a membrane, a voice coil for driving the membrane to generate sound, and an elastic part fixedly connected to one end of the voice coil distal from the membrane. The elastic part comprises a diaphragm elastically supporting the voice coil. The diaphragm comprises a first fixing portion fixedly connected to the fixing system, a second fixing portion fixedly connected to the voice coil and an edge connecting the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion. The edge is provided with a plurality of openings. The present disclosure also provides a speaker using a breathable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuwen Wu, Wei Song
  • Patent number: 10932059
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a speaker having a frame, a vibrating system and a magnetic circuit system. The vibrating system has a vibrating diaphragm, a voice coil and an elastic supporting assembly. The magnetic circuit system has a main magnet, a secondary magnet and a magnetic plate having a main body and a supporting portion opposite to the elastic supporting assembly. The elastic supporting assembly has an avoiding hole penetrating there through and facing to the supporting portion. The yoke has a yoke body fixed on the frame and an extending portion extending from two opposite sides of the yoke body towards the supporting portion. The extending portion passes through the avoiding hole thereof and attach on the supporting portion. The speaker of the present invention has advantages of good reliability and excellent acoustic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Liu, Long Zhang
  • Patent number: 10932026
    Abstract: The invention relates to a broadband electrodynamic transducer for headphones, said transducer comprising: —a magnetic motor designed to generate a magnetic field; —a coil that is disposed in the air gap of the magnetic motor and can move translationally under the effect of the magnetic field; and —a membrane that is connected to the coil in such a way as to convert the translational movement of the coil into an acoustic wave; —the transducer comprising a self-supporting coil that is glued to the membrane, the membrane having a Young's modulus of more than 40 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FOCAL JMLAB
    Inventors: Ludovic Uhring-Cadart, Clement Auzou, Arnaud Cazes Bouchet
  • Patent number: 10887702
    Abstract: To make it possible to take countermeasures against noises of a loudspeaker by means of a simple configuration. A loudspeaker 10 includes: a bobbin 15 that is provided with a voice coil 31; a diaphragm 13 that is connected to the bobbin 15; a frame 11 that supports the diaphragm 13; and a magnetic circuit section 17 that includes a magnet 22. The loudspeaker 10 further includes: a first conductive body 41 that is connected to the voice coil 31 and is led out to the outside of a bobbin 15A; and a second conductive body 51 that is connected to the first conductive body 41 and penetrates the magnet 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Ueno, Takao Ishikawa, Fumiaki Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10779076
    Abstract: A damper and a speaker apparatus includes the damper, which suppresses damage to an oscillatory system from an excessive input signal, enabling an efficiency increase of the speaker apparatus. As a damper has a planar surface, undue deformation of the oscillatory system due to an excessive input signal is suppressed, and damage to the oscillatory system can be suppressed. Furthermore, since the deformation of a corrugation portion by a normal input signal is hardly prevented, a reduction in sound pressure of the speaker apparatus with respect to an input signal is suppressed, enabling an increase in efficiency. Furthermore, the planar surface is extended at a height in a thickness direction different from that of an attachment portion. Thus, rising portions are deformed when a voice coil bobbin is oscillated, enabling suppression of rupture of the damper in the vicinity of a boundary between the planar surface and the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10757494
    Abstract: A symmetric dual suspension speaker structure is herein disclosed, comprising a basin frame, a U-shaped iron, a magnet permeability ferrite ring, a corrugated rim, a diaphragm, a sound coil, a damper clamped between the magnet permeability ferrite ring and the U-shaped iron, as well as a magnet, wherein the peripheral edge around the upper surface of the diaphragm can be stretched in the vertical direction to form a barrel component, and the corrugated rim is used to bond and fix the top end of the barrel component while the damper is used to bond and fix the bottom end of the barrel component, such that the sound coil can bring the barrel component of the diaphragm to vertically vibrate thus improving the instability existing in the bonding of the conventional diaphragm and the coil framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: EASTECH (HUIYANG) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kheng-Wee Lee, Zuojian Huang
  • Patent number: 10735863
    Abstract: A sound producing device includes: a frame having an opening portion; a vibration plate arranged in the opening portion; a vibration support sheet that supports the vibration plate; and a drive mechanism that drives the vibration plate, which are contained in a case. The vibration support sheet includes a vibration plate support portion that covers the opening portion and includes a peripheral fixation portion that is bent from a peripheral edge portion of the vibration plate support portion and that faces an inner end surface of the opening portion. The vibration plate is fixed to the vibration plate support portion. An adhesive layer is interposed at a portion where the peripheral fixation portion faces the inner end surface, and an adhesive pool is formed at a boundary portion between an opening edge portion of the opening portion and the vibration plate support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Sato, Akihiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10735864
    Abstract: A speaker, including: a magnetic circuit system, a vibration system, and a speaker support, the speaker support is provided with a mounting cavity, both the magnetic circuit system and the vibration system are mounted in the mounting cavity; the vibration system includes a metal diaphragm and a flexible connector; the metal diaphragm is placed in the mounting cavity; an inner periphery of the flexible connector is bonded to an outer periphery of the metal diaphragm, and an outer periphery of the flexible connector is bonded to an inner periphery of the speaker support. The overall rigidity of the vibration system of the speaker can be improved via adopting the metal diaphragm, and the overall performance of the speaker is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GRANDSUN ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiyong Gong, Haiquan Wu, Mickael Bernard Andre Lefebvre, Ruiwen Shi
  • Patent number: 10696201
    Abstract: In a headrest including a core member, an acoustic speaker, and an acoustic microphone, the acoustic microphone is provided in a recessed portion provided in the core member, and a sound collection surface of the acoustic microphone is provided in a position rearward of a vibrating surface of the acoustic speaker. An opening at a tip end of the recessed portion can be provided in a position forward of a tip end of the vibrating surface of the acoustic speaker. The recessed portion can be formed into a shape that narrows from the opening toward a bottom surface. Even when the acoustic microphone is provided near to the acoustic speaker, accuracy of voice recognition by the acoustic microphone can be prevented from being reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fujikake, Takao Ishikawa, Shingo Takei, Naoki Takada
  • Patent number: 10681467
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a slim acoustic transducer having a thin thickness a low-frequency reproduction capability and a sound pressure level in the entire frequency band of which may not be lowered. A slim acoustic transducer includes a diaphragm; a voice coil disposed at a peripheral portion of the diaphragm; and a permanent magnet disposed around the voice coil and configured to apply a magnetic field to the voice coil, wherein a maximum amplitude of the diaphragm is less than a thickness of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyeong-tae Lee, Jong-bae Kim, Sung-ha Son
  • Patent number: 10631091
    Abstract: A distributed mode loudspeaker (DML) includes a flat panel extending in a panel plane. The DML also includes a rigid, elongate member displaced from the flat panel and extending parallel to the panel plane, the elongate member being mechanically coupled to the flat panel at a first position along the elongate member and extending away from the first position to an end of the member free to vibrate in a direction perpendicular to the plane. The elongate member includes a soft magnetic material. The DML also includes an electromagnet system including at least one electrically-conducting coil having an axis perpendicular to the panel plane and displaced from the elongate member. The DML further includes an electronic control module electrically coupled to the electromagnet system and programmed to energize the electrically-conducting coil sufficient such that a magnetic field produced by the electrically-conducting coil displaces the free end of the elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Edward Beckett, Mark William Starnes
  • Patent number: 10567858
    Abstract: A loudspeaker module, comprising a housing, and a sounding unit located in an inner cavity of the housing. The sounding unit partitions the inner cavity into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity isolated from each other, a sound hole communicated with the front acoustic cavity being further provided on the housing. The loudspeaker module further comprises a pressure relief channel which communicates the front acoustic cavity with the rear acoustic cavity and is acoustically sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Han, Yun Yang, Xinxiang Huo
  • Patent number: 10524032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sound generator, including: a vibration system including a diaphragm and a voice coil; a frame with an accommodation space, including an upper surface, a lower surface, and an inner wall; and a magnetic circuit system including a magnetic yoke and a side plate bending and extending from the bottom plate. The side plate is fixed on the inner wall, the bottom plate covers the lower surface and encloses the accommodation space. The lower surface obliquely extends in a direction close to the upper surface and forms an extension surface. The extension surface extends to an edge of the frame, one end of the extension close to the edge of the bottom plate is spaced apart from the bottom plate for forming a leakage channel communicating with the accommodation space and an outside of the speaker box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaojiang Gu
  • Patent number: 10524057
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board used in a loudspeaker as a dome and a holder supporting the dome has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The flexible printed circuit board comprises a dome portion and a supporting portion surrounding the dome portion. The dome portion is formed by the top surface being depressed from the top surface to the bottom surface and the bottom surface projecting from the top surface to the bottom surface; and a supporting portion surrounds the dome portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited., HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Biao Li, Ning Hou, Hao-Wen Zhong, Xiao-Wei Kang
  • Patent number: 10477320
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are speaker assemblies and acoustic devices comprising a panel having a long side and a short side, at least one transducer configured to excite the panel at a plurality of excitation locations on the panel to generate a wave having a wave front substantially perpendicular to the long side and propagating toward the short side of the panel and, optionally, at least one attenuating component mounted to the panel. Methods for generating an acoustic sound are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, David Ralph Maack, Zhiqiang Shi
  • Patent number: 10448169
    Abstract: A sound producing device includes a diaphragm, an armature extending parallel to the diaphragm, a coil having a wire wound around the armature in multiple turns, multiple magnets facing the armature, a yoke supporting the multiple magnets, a transmitting body configured to transmit a vibration of the armature to the diaphragm, a driving-side frame on which the armature, the coil, and the yoke supporting the multiple magnets are mounted, and a vibration-side frame including an opening in which the diaphragm is vibratably supported. The driving-side frame and the vibration-side frame are placed one over the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taishi Numata, Yutaka Sato, Kiyoshi Sato, Hideji Sato
  • Patent number: 10375478
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm includes a cone having a curved surface from the outer to the inner periphery, and an annular edge of which inner peripheral part is bonded to the front side of the outer peripheral part of the cone. When seen from the front, the outer periphery of the cone is defined by smooth connection of three larger-diameter parts tangent to a first circle with a larger diameter, and three smaller-diameter parts each located between adjacent two of the three larger-diameter parts and tangent to a second circle with a smaller diameter. In the cone, a shape defined by connecting together points at the same position on the central axis is more circular as the points approach the inner periphery from the outer periphery. The inner periphery of the edge has a smaller radius than the second circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Konno, Ryo Kuribayashi, Kazutaka Kubo, Hiroyuki Amada, Yohei Jin, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10362398
    Abstract: A monolithic loudspeaker and a method for controlling a monolithic loudspeaker are disclosed. The loudspeaker comprises: a first pair of speakers for a first channel, including a first front speaker and a first rear speaker, wherein the first front speaker and the first rear speaker are arranged along a first axis in a first cross-section of the loudspeaker, and are arranged towards opposite directions; and a second pair of speakers for a second channel, including a second front speaker and a second rear speaker, wherein the second front speaker and the second rear speaker are arranged along a second axis in a second cross-section of the loudspeaker, and are arranged towards opposite directions; wherein the first axis and the second axis are deflected by an angle. According to an embodiment of this invention, a new arrangement for a monolithic loudspeaker is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Goertek, Inc.
    Inventor: Morten Birkmose Sondergaard
  • Patent number: 10341779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a miniature sounding device, the miniature sounding device includes a fixing system; and a vibrating system including a diaphragm, a voice coil which is arranged underneath the diaphragm and is configured to drive the diaphragm to vibrate and sound, and a flexible circuit board arranged at an external side of the voice coil, the voice coil including a first end surface which is connected with the diaphragm and a second end surface which is opposite to the first end surface, the flexible circuit board is level with the first end surface. In the miniature sounding device provided by the present disclosure, the arrangement that the flexible circuit board is level with the voice coil can save height space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Li, Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10277976
    Abstract: Provided is a speaker device achieving thinning and cost reduction. The speaker device includes a first speaker unit and a second speaker unit. An outer peripheral side of the speaker unit is provided with a folded portion protruding to an opposite side of a sound emission direction P. A flat portion is provided inside the folded portion. An opening is provided inside the flat portion. A voice coil bobbin is secured to the opening. A speaker unit is arranged in the voice coil bobbin. An external-magnet-type magnetic circuit is provided in the speaker unit. As a magnet of the magnetic circuit, a ferrite magnet having a large volume is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Oshima, Koji Takayama, Hirohito Ohno, Hiroyuki Dohi, Hayami Kondo
  • Patent number: 10271143
    Abstract: Provided is a linear acoustic transducer for transducing an electrical signal into an acoustic signal and, more specifically, to a linear acoustic transducer, which can efficiently deliver the vibration energy of a driver by connecting a driving rod, to which a plurality of diaphragms are fixed, to the center of the driver and has partitions integrally formed inside a housing at regular intervals such that the partitions are located between the plurality of diaphragms, thereby generating an acoustic signal by compressing or expanding the air between the diaphragms and the partitions when the plurality of diaphragms vibrate upward and downward by the vibration of the driving rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BUJEON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Seo
  • Patent number: 10244324
    Abstract: A diaphragm for a loudspeaker may include a continuous primary diaphragm having an upper surface and a lower surface, where the primary diaphragm comprises a ring-shaped, flat region having an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The diaphragm may also include a reinforcing ring attached to the upper surface of the primary diaphragm, where the reinforcing ring has an inside diameter and an outside diameter, and where the reinforcing ring is attached to the upper surface of the primary diaphragm such that the inside diameter of the reinforcing ring coincides with the inner diameter of the flat region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Warren Little
  • Patent number: 10206028
    Abstract: A damper and a speaker apparatus includes the damper, which suppresses damage to an oscillatory system from an excessive input signal, enabling an efficiency increase of the speaker apparatus. As a damper has a planar surface, undue deformation of the oscillatory system due to an excessive input signal is suppressed, and damage to the oscillatory system can be suppressed. Furthermore, since the deformation of a corrugation portion by a normal input signal is hardly prevented, a reduction in sound pressure of the speaker apparatus with respect to an input signal is suppressed, enabling an increase in efficiency. Furthermore, the planar surface is extended at a height in a thickness direction different from that of an attachment portion. Thus, rising portions are deformed when a voice coil bobbin is oscillated, enabling suppression of rupture of the damper in the vicinity of a boundary between the planar surface and the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10194247
    Abstract: There is provided an electrodynamic sound transducer having a diaphragm capable of vibrating, a vibrating coil coupled to the diaphragm, and a magnet system. The magnet system has a first and a second magnet ring, which are arranged above and below the diaphragm and are radially magnetized. The vibrating coil is arranged between the first and second magnet rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz Epping