Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Acoustic assembly
-
Application No.: US15693888Application Date: 2017-09-01
-
Publication No.: US10015574B1Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Thomas R. Luce , Robert I. Luan , Thomas H. Tsang
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04R1/02
- IPC: H04R1/02 ; H04R1/04 ; H04R1/28 ; H04R7/18 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
A portable electronic device is described and includes a device housing, an acoustic housing disposed within the device housing and defining an interior volume, a speaker diaphragm assembly disposed within the interior volume and in fluid communication with a first opening leading out of the housing, and a microphone disposed within the interior volume and in fluid communication with a second opening leading out of the acoustic housing. Placing both the speaker diaphragm assembly and microphone within the same acoustic housing allows both components to share common power and data transfer circuitry. Furthermore, the additional volume of the acoustic housing used to accommodate the microphone can improve the acoustic performance of the speaker diaphragm assembly by increasing the back volume associated with the speaker diaphragm assembly.
Information query