A head-mountable device can include a speaker unit that provides structural support to its own components and electrical connections between other components. The arrangement of conductive strips within a back plate of a speaker unit can provide the structural support needed by the components of a speaker while allowing components on opposing sides of the speaker unit to be operably connected to each other. By providing both functions with the conductive strips of a back plate, the total space required is minimized so that the head-securement element (e.g., band) of the head-mountable device maintains a thin profile.

An external component of a medical device, including an actuator including a static magnetic flux path that reacts with a dynamic magnetic flux path to actuate the actuator, and a magnetic retention system configured to retain the external component to a recipient via interaction with a ferromagnetic component attached to a recipient, the magnetic retention system including a magnetic flux path that encircles the static magnetic flux path of the actuator.

A vibration sensor includes a circuit board, a spacer, a pressure sensing device and a housing. The spacer is located on the circuit board. The pressure sensing device is located on the spacer, and the circuit board, the spacer and the pressure sensing device jointly form a first chamber and an air gap. The housing is mounted on the circuit board to defining a third chamber along with the circuit board, wherein the air gap allows the first chamber venting to the third chamber.

A device, including an electromagnetic transducer including a bobbin having a space therein, a connection apparatus in fixed relationship to the bobbin configured to transfer vibrational energy directly or indirectly at least one of to or from the electromagnetic transducer, and a passage from the space to the connection apparatus.

A sound generator comprises a shell, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system sequentially accommodated and fixed at a first end of the shell from top to bottom; the magnetic circuit system is provided with a rear sound hole; the shell comprises a first portion corresponding to the vibration system and the magnetic circuit system, and a second portion integrally extending downward from the first portion beyond a bottom surface of the magnetic circuit system. A second end portion of the shell is integrally provided with a shell bottom wall or separately mounted with a lower cover plate; and a rear cavity in communication with the rear sound hole is formed.

The utility model discloses a bone conduction speaker composed of double magnetic fields, which comprises a mechanical conductive sheet, a conduction shell, an outer housing, a coil and a magnetic assembly, wherein the conduction shell comprises a bottom plate and a side wall, and the magnetic assembly comprises a first magnet, a magnetic conductive sheet and a second magnet; the side wall of the conduction shell surrounds the first magnet, the magnetic conductive sheet and the second magnet; and the coil is arranged in a magnetic gap formed between the side wall of the conduction shell and the magnetic assembly. The second magnet can inhibit leakage of magnetic induction field generated by the first magnet, restrain the form of magnetic induction lines passing through the coil, make more of the magnetic induction field pass through the coil as horizontally and densely as possible, and enhance the magnetic induction sensitivity at the coil position. In addition, a magnetic induction field generated by a magnetic field of the second magnet can further enhance the magnetic induction strength at the magnetic field position (i.e., at the magnetic gap), thereby improving the sensitivity of the bone conduction speaker and further improving the mechanical conversion efficiency of the bone conduction speaker.

An electromechanical transducer (e.g., 200 or 300) includes a motor structure and voice coil winding support structure or former (203 or 303) configured with a vented annular spacer (e.g., 250) and vented distal pole tip member (e.g., 255) having aligned radial channels aimed to transport heat away from a voice coil (202 or 302) during the transducer's reciprocating movement while providing an extended, linear dynamic range and continuous cooling for the voice coil. A dual magnetic gap embodiment has an inside annular spacer member (e.g., 355A) and a co-planar outside annular spacer member (e.g., 350-O), each made of a thermally conductive steel alloy.

An electric motor including two magnetic assemblies each having an even number of magnets in a circular arrangement, the magnets arranged in a bucking configuration with like poles directed at each other. There are a plurality of ferrous members for each of the magnetic assemblies arranged between each of the magnets. The ferrous members having a face that is directed radially toward a face of another ferrous member of the corresponding magnetic assembly. An electromagnetic assembly has a plurality of electromagnetic members arranged in a generally circular arrangement and is located radially between the two magnetic assemblies. Each electromagnetic member has a ferrous element with an electrical conductor wound around the ferrous element, each ferrous element having an inward and outward face respectively being directed to the ferrous members of the two magnetic assemblies as they pass each other as the magnet assemblies rotate relative to the electromagnetic assembly.

An electric motor including a driven element, a magnet assembly and a driving element. The driven element being driven in a direction of movement. The magnet assembly is includes first and second magnets each having first and second magnetic poles. The first magnetic pole of the first magnet and the first magnetic pole of the second magnet being proximate to each other and facing each other thereby defining a first magnetic zone therebetween. The first magnetic poles all being similar, and the second magnetic poles all being similar. The driving element is proximate to the magnet assembly, producing a magnetic field within the driving element that is primarily orthogonal to the direction of movement.

A modular audio system which includes an acoustic module configured to be removably engaged with a head-worn peripheral device. In some examples, the head-worn peripheral device is a pair of eyeglass frames and the acoustic module is configured to removably secure to a socket arranged on the inside face of the temples of the eyeglasses. The acoustic module can slidingly, pivotably, and/or magnetically engage with the socket such that, when secured, the acoustic module is configured to generate acoustic energy in the form of audible sound proximate a user's ear while the user is wearing the head-worn peripheral device. In other examples, the temples of the head-worn peripheral device are configured to slidingly engage with a sleeve, where the sleeve includes a pocket configured to slidingly engage with the acoustic module.