Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Microphone port with foreign material ingress protection
- Patent Title (中): 麦克风端口具有异物进入保护
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Application No.: US14183306Application Date: 2014-02-18
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Publication No.: US09497529B2Publication Date: 2016-11-15
- Inventor: Peter N. Jeziorek , Justin D. Crosby , Trang Thi-Thanh Nguyen , Michelle R. Goldberg
- 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 ; H04R1/08 ; H04R19/00 ; H04R19/04

Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with a microphone in a microphone port. A shield may cover a microelectromechanical systems microphone device on a microphone substrate. An opening in the microphone substrate may form a sound port for the microphone. The microphone port may be formed by perforations in the microphone substrate or other layers such as a flexible printed circuit layer, a sheet metal layer, a layer of adhesive, a flexible polymer carrier layer in an adhesive tape, or an electronic device housing. The perforations may be sufficiently small to help resist the intrusions of foreign material such as liquid and dirt into the sound port of the microphone. Larger openings may be formed in other structures such as an electronic device housing. The larger openings may serve as sound passageways for the microphone port while being sufficiently large to resist clogging.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150237431A1 Microphone Port With Foreign Material Ingress Protection Public/Granted day:2015-08-20
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