Having Diaphragm Support Feature Patents (Class 381/398)
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Patent number: 12160722Abstract: A sound generating apparatus and an electronic device, comprising: a voice coil assembly; a pad disposed on a surface of the voice coil assembly and also provided with a separation structure, and the separation structure separates the pad into a first conductive part and a second conductive part, the first conductive part and the second conductive part are electrically connected, and the voice coil assembly is electrically connected with the first conductive part; and a conductive elastic member connected with the second conductive part, and the conductive elastic member is used for centering support the voice coil assembly. The technical solution of the present disclosure is intended to ensure that the welding end of the conductive structure and the welding end of the voice coil are consistent in height on the welding surface, so as to ensure the sound generating effect of the sound generating apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Chunfa Liu, Jianbin Yang, Jianxin Wang, Shousong Qiang
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Patent number: 12114145Abstract: Disclosed are a magnetic-potential loudspeaker and an electronic device using the same. The magnetic-potential loudspeaker comprises: a movable sound generating device provided with a magnetic conductive material, wherein at least a part of the magnetic conductive material is arranged in an area where an alternating magnetic field overlaps with a static magnetic field, a magnetic field force generated by an interaction between the static magnetic field and the alternating magnetic field is applied to the magnetic conductive material, the movable sound generating device further comprises a diaphragm and a rigidity adjusting portion arranged on at least one surface of the diaphragm; and at least one suspension device, wherein the suspension device comprises an elastic recovery device, an inner fixing portion of the elastic recovery device is fixed to the diaphragm, an outer fixing portion thereof is fixed to an inside of the magnetic-potential loudspeaker, and the rigidity adjusting portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Chunfa Liu, Fenglei Zu, Xinfeng Yang
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Patent number: 12058504Abstract: A loudspeaker for hearing devices including a diaphragm arranged in a housing to form a back volume and a front volume acoustically coupled to a sound port is disclosed. A surface of a first magnet in the front volume faces an opposing surface of a second magnet in the back volume, and the opposing surfaces of the magnets are separated by a gap and have the same magnetic polarity. An electrical coil assembly coupled to the diaphragm has a radial difference dimension to thickness dimension ratio greater than 1, wherein the diaphragm and the electrical coil assembly are movable in the gap between the magnets in response to an electrical audio signal applied to the electrical coil assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLCInventors: Charles Bender King, Mekell Jiles, Christopher A Jones, Evan Llamas-Young
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Patent number: 12010497Abstract: Various implementations include miniature loudspeaker drivers. In some aspects, an electro-acoustic driver includes: a cone having a surface area configured to radiate acoustic energy; a suspension coupled to the cone; and a support structure coupled to the suspension and having an outer linear dimension in a plane of the cone of approximately 6.0 millimeters (mm) or less, wherein the surface area of the cone is at least 49% of an overall cross-sectional area of the electro-acoustic driver in the plane of the cone.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Cheng, Andrew D. Munro, Mark A. Hayner
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Patent number: 11856380Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Taehyung Kim, Jeonggoo Kang
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Patent number: 11838736Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Sound Solutions International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gustav Otto, Markus Trampert, Stefan Gebhardt, Andreas Hintennach, Manuel Mefleh, Ernst Tomas
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Patent number: 11671759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xin Jin, Weiwei Tao, Heng Pan
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Patent number: 11622200Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Xiao, Chenliang Kong, Tong Zhang, Ronglin Linghu
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Patent number: 11589165Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xin Jin, Zhiwei Zhong
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Patent number: 11570547Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Jason D. Silver
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Patent number: 11450302Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATEDInventors: Guenther Weber, Gilles Milot, Marc-Olivier Chauveau, Ludovic Fournier, Armin Prommersberger
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Patent number: 11438702Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLCInventors: Kalyan Nadella, Thomas Miller, Shehab Albahri, Yahui Zhang
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Patent number: 11438699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: DRAGONSTATE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Si-Si He, Jie-Ru Chen
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Patent number: 11387296Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronies Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hong Gao
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Patent number: 11350216Abstract: 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, theType: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takahisa Tagami, Emiko Ikeda, Haruka Sakai
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Patent number: 11310603Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Goertek Inc.Inventors: Hanlong Cheng, Chengfei Zhang, Chunfa Liu
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Patent number: 11304007Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Yajing Sun, Wentao Ma
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Patent number: 11212616Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: EM-TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Young Woo Kim, Yong Ju Ji, Young Seok Noh, Chan Ho Jeong
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Patent number: 11212601Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Yannick Kervran
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Patent number: 11206489Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Binbin Yang, Bin Zhao
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Patent number: 11202139Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: ALMUS CORP.Inventors: Ju Heon Ko, Byung Il Min, Yun Uk Ha, Jeong Kwon Park, Yeong Jae Lee
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Patent number: 11178492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Inventor: Jean Mauriac
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Patent number: 11128956Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Kikuchi, Nobukazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 11102587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: BUJEON CO., LTD.Inventors: Minkoo Park, Seungwoo Chun
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Patent number: 11057709Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited., HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Biao Li, Ning Hou, Hao-Wen Zhong, Xiao-Wei Kang
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Patent number: 11057713Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Hosiden CorporationInventor: Satofumi Nagaoka
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Patent number: 11032648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Guqing Zhang
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Patent number: 11019444Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Shawn J. Prevoir, Prateek Nath
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Patent number: 10993038Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Tong Zhang
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Patent number: 10939208Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Binbin Yang, Bin Zhao
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Patent number: 10932026Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: FOCAL JMLABInventors: Ludovic Uhring-Cadart, Clement Auzou, Arnaud Cazes Bouchet
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Patent number: 10932045Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Shuwen Wu, Wei Song
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Patent number: 10932059Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Xiaodong Liu, Long Zhang
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Patent number: 10887702Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Ueno, Takao Ishikawa, Fumiaki Nakashima
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Patent number: 10779076Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihiro Kimura
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Patent number: 10757494Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: EASTECH (HUIYANG) CO., LTD.Inventors: Kheng-Wee Lee, Zuojian Huang
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Patent number: 10735864Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: SHENZHEN GRANDSUN ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiyong Gong, Haiquan Wu, Mickael Bernard Andre Lefebvre, Ruiwen Shi
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Patent number: 10735863Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Sato, Akihiro Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10696201Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Fujikake, Takao Ishikawa, Shingo Takei, Naoki Takada
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Patent number: 10681467Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gyeong-tae Lee, Jong-bae Kim, Sung-ha Son
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Patent number: 10631091Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Edward Beckett, Mark William Starnes
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Patent number: 10567858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Goertek Inc.Inventors: Dan Han, Yun Yang, Xinxiang Huo
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Patent number: 10524032Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventor: Xiaojiang Gu
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Patent number: 10524057Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited., HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Biao Li, Ning Hou, Hao-Wen Zhong, Xiao-Wei Kang
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Patent number: 10477320Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, David Ralph Maack, Zhiqiang Shi
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Patent number: 10448169Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Taishi Numata, Yutaka Sato, Kiyoshi Sato, Hideji Sato
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Patent number: 10375478Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuichi Konno, Ryo Kuribayashi, Kazutaka Kubo, Hiroyuki Amada, Yohei Jin, Hiroyuki Morimoto
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Patent number: 10362398Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Goertek, Inc.Inventor: Morten Birkmose Sondergaard
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Patent number: 10341779Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.Inventors: Shuai Li, Fan Zhang
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Patent number: 10277976Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Oshima, Koji Takayama, Hirohito Ohno, Hiroyuki Dohi, Hayami Kondo