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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139805 | Speaker apparatus A speaker apparatus includes a speaker and a sound box. The sound box is shaped like a wine barrel and includes arced side boards and parallel top and bottom boards coupled to upper and lower ends of the side boards, respectively. The sound box is divided by at leas... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8098868 | Speaker device for portable terminal A speaker device for a portable terminal including a first housing and a second housing coupled to the first housing and rotating towards or away from the first housing while facing the first housing. The speaker device includes a speaker unit mounted in the second ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8031897 | System and method for reduced baffle vibration A system and method for reducing baffle vibration includes balancing an inertial force generated by two or more moving diaphragms and balancing an acoustic pressure acting on a housing supporting the two or more moving diaphragms such that a net force acting on the ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7840023 | Double-resonator micro-speaker assemblies and methods for tuning the same Micro-speaker assemblies and mobile terminals including micro-speaker assemblies are provided. The micro-speaker assemblies include a micro-speaker positioned in a housing. A first forward tuning volume is positioned adjacent a front face of the micro-speaker. A pas... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7796773 | Communication device comprising sound-conveying means for two sound-producing modes In a communication device (1) that is designed to deliver sound, in an against the-ear mode, into a space (22) bounded by the ear and, in an away-from-the-ear mode, into an acoustic free space, a loudspeaker (3) is provided for generating the so... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7505602 | Mobile device with improved acoustic porting The present invention is directed to a mobile device with improved acoustic porting. The mobile device includes a housing that has at least one sound hole, a transducer for converting an electrical signal into an acoustical signal, and a grommet that engages the hou... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7400910 | Speaker sound enhancement for a mobile terminal The present invention relates to a mobile terminal such as a mobile telephone or the like which has a speaker built in, and realizes a sound emission structure for separately extracting the front output and back output of the speaker in a plurality of directions. Th... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7369673 | Speaker supporting device and electronic device comprising this speaker supporting device A speaker supporting structure, which includes a speaker supporting device with improved assembly characteristics, and an electronic device comprising this speaker supporting device. The speaker supporting device is a structure which supports a speaker mounted in a ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7350618 | Multimedia speaker product A satellite speaker system includes a side firing low mid driver mounted in a sub-enclosure which is vented into a second sub-enclosure through an acoustic resistance vent and to a third sub-enclosure through a variable aperture second vent. The vents further serve ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7280666 | Moveable device component with acoustic porting An acoustic porting arrangement is provided that uses sound pressure signal ports (202, 112) to enhance speaker (406) and microphone cartridge (402) performance when mounting the speaker (406) on a moveable component, such as a flip part ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277552 | Increased LF spectrum power density loudspeaker system The power density of a bass-reflex enclosure is improved by providing transducers in pairs, with the members of each pair being oriented front to back with respect to one another. The transducers are mounted on the enclosure with at least one of the transducers bein... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263387 | Speaker module design A speaker module (200) having a speaker unit (210) and a speaker box (220) is provided. The speaker module is mounted in a casing (22) of a hand-held electronic device (20). The speaker box (220) has a wall defining an apert... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260235 | Line electroacoustical transducing A line array loudspeaker system including a large number of small, regularly and closely spaced acoustical drivers. Each of the acoustical drivers receives essentially the same audio signal. In another embodiment, a line array includes a plurality of portable line a... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242785 | Portable powered speaker A portable speaker system includes a telescoping enclosure containing at least two drivers. The telescoping enclosure includes an inner section nested within an outer section. Each of the inner section and the outer section includes at least one speaker driver. The ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237648 | Surround sound positioning tower system and method A surround sound system and method involving a surround sound tower (10) having planar speakers (11b); a base plate (20); and a structure for positioning (30) the surround sound tower on the base plate (20), the surround sou... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7212648 | Loudspeaker system in which a diaphragm panel is driven by an electromechanical acoustic converter A sound-driving loudspeaker system is achieved with a simple structure and is capable of easily improving acoustic characteristics. The loudspeaker system emits sound by driving a diaphragm panel by an electromechanical acoustic transducer. The loudspeaker system in... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207413 | Closed loop embedded audio transmission line technology for loudspeaker enclosures and systems An acoustic impedance matching enclosure is provided having a driver loaded into a chamber buffering the throat/mouth of a closed loop transmission line. Transmission line consists of a termination member, outer and inner enclosure walls, high-density lining and thr... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203329 | Audio speaker system employing an axi-symmetrical horn with wide dispersion angle characteristics over an extended frequency range A speaker system includes a speaker driver loaded by a horn waveguide. The speaker driver reproduces sound within an extended frequency range that includes a high frequency band between 8 kHz and 11 kHz. In the preferred embodiment, the extended frequency range incl... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7181297 | System and method for delivering customized audio data A method for providing customized audio data products that includes the steps of (1) storing a machine readable hearing profile for a customer, (2) accepting via a data input device or data network for example, machine readable orders from the customer for a particu... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177161 | Compact radio equipment and method of mounting the same A compact radio equipment includes internal circuits on two or more printed circuit boards electrically connected to each other and securely mounted in structure. With this structure, a first metal shield frame is mounted on a first printed circuit board to cover co... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7162050 | Compound sound generator A case is provided for mounting an information equipment and a frame of the compound sound generator is set in the case. A speaker and receiver are provided in the frame. A first back chamber is formed in the speaker and a second back chamber is formed in the receiv... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151836 | Speaker apparatus and sound reproduction apparatus A speaker apparatus includes a speaker unit, a passive radiator unit, and a front baffle on which the speaker unit and the passive radiator unit are mounted to form a portion of a speaker box and a back plate. A closed front chamber is formed by the front baffle for... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136498 | Loudspeaker having a dual chamber acoustical enclosure with two external vents and one internal vent A loudspeaker includes an acoustical enclosure having an internal wall dividing the enclosure into first and second subchambers, an electro-acoustical transducer having a vibratable speaker cone mounted in an opening in the internal wall of the acoustical enclosure,... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133533 | Passive acoustic radiating An audio device has passive radiators that are driven by acoustic drivers. The passive radiators are arranged so that the net mechanical vibration is minimized. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130438 | Acoustic enclosure for single audio transducer An acoustic enclosure for a single sound transducer has sound pressure apertures near the end where the transducer is located, and sound apertures in a wall at the other end. The sound apertures enable the low, mid-range, and high frequency sounds to exit the enclos... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123736 | Double-resonator micro-speaker assemblies and methods for tuning the same Micro-speaker assemblies and mobile terminals including micro-speaker assemblies are provided. The micro-speaker assemblies include a micro-speaker positioned in a housing. A first forward tuning volume is positioned adjacent a front face of the micro-speaker. A pas... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123725 | High intensity infrasonic tunable resonant acoustic test cell An apparatus and method are provided for high intensity acoustic test cells that employ the Helmholtz resonator principle, incorporating at least one moderately-sized volume or test cell that is tunable to a given infrasonic to low-sonic frequency and generates soun... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7103193 | Bandpass woofer enclosure with multiple acoustic fibers A bandpass loudspeaker enclosure having three sub chambers, a first subchamber being a Helmholtz-reflex chamber with a passive acoustic radiator operating in parallel with the transducer, and the remaining two chambers utilizing two passive acoustic radiators to ach... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7073624 | Loudspeaker baffle isolation system This invention provides a baffle isolation system for isolating a baffle from a housing in a loudspeaker mounting system. The isolation system may include an isolation mechanism that insulates the baffle from the speaker housing. The isolation mechanism may include ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068979 | Mobile telecommunications device A mobile telecommunications device is disclosed and comprises a casing (2), an earpiece (6), and a cover (33) associated with the earpiece (6) to define a resonant cavity (34) between the earpiece (6) and the casing (2 | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068806 | Condensed speaker system A highly miniaturized (condensed) speaker system provides the same desirable performance characteristics as a full size acoustic suspension speaker system by incorporating a combination of one or more low pressure chambers and optionally one or more high pressure ga... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7046816 | Coincident source stereo speaker A coincident source stereo speaker in accordance with the present invention includes a high-frequency component (tweeter) and a low-frequency component (woofer) that are separated by a sound channel. The tweeter emits a first sound pattern directly outward from the ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038356 | Mechanical-to-acoustical transformer and multi-media flat film speaker A mechanical-to-acoustical transducer has at least one actuator, preferably a piezo motor, that is coupled, generally perpendicularly, to one edge of a diaphragm formed from a thin, flexible sheet material. The diaphragm is fixed at a point spaced from the actuator ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032708 | Flush mountable vibration reducing loudspeaker mounting assembly A vibration dampening speaker mounting assembly includes a flush-mountable frame for mounting to a wall or ceiling, at least one vibration dampening member, and a baffle for supporting a single or multi-driver transducer array. The at least one vibration dampening m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6995659 | Sound generating transducer A sound transducer comprises at least one sound unit based on at least one radially sound emitting diaphragm arranged in a substantially cylindrical or tubular form, the diaphragm including electromechanically converting material capable of creating sound by changin... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6973994 | Apparatus for increasing the quality of sound from an acoustic source An apparatus for increasing the quality of sound from an acoustic source comprises in one embodiment a hollow enclosure, an acoustic source, an acoustic guide, a pair of acoustic inlet openings, a pair of acoustic exit openings, and pair of acoustic paths, wherein t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971162 | Localized enhancement of multilayer substrate thickness for high Q RF components An exemplary system and method for providing differential adjustment of the height of a multilayer substrate in localized areas for improved Q-factor performance of RF devices is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a multilayer substrate (200); an RF componen... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6940990 | Multi-channel audio center speaker device This invention discloses a multi-channel audio center speaker device that has a low-frequency sound box working together with a mid-frequency sound box each on both sides, and the low-frequency sound box works with a high-frequency sound box having a forward sound d... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931143 | Thin enclosure electroacoustical transducing An electroacoustical transducer has an enclosure having a thickness substantially smaller than the width and the depth. The transducer includes a first rigid sheet, a second rigid sheet, and a spacing structure for spacing the first rigid sheet from the second rigid... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6907955 | Electromagnetic electroacoustic transducer An electromagnetic electroacoustic transducer, includes: a diaphragm; a magnet; an electromagnetic coil; and a casing for storing the diaphragm, the magnet and the electromagnetic coil therein. The case has at least one first sound emitting hole through which a fron... | 06/21/2005 |
