The present invention provides a capacitive microphone including a MEMS microphone. In the microphone, a movable or deflectable membrane/diaphragm moves in a lateral manner relative to a fixed backplate, instead of moving toward/from the fixed backplate. The fixed backplate includes an electrical insulator sandwiched between two sub-conductors to cancel systematic/background noise. The squeeze film damping is substantially avoided, and the performance, such as signal to noise ratio, of the microphone is significantly improved.

Certain embodiments provide a hearing test probe apparatus including a hearing test probe, an eartip, and a microphone. The probe includes a speaker disposed within a probe body, and a mounting stem extending from the probe body and including a speaker sound channel. The eartip is detachably coupled to the mounting stem, and includes an eartip body having an ear insertion end and a probe insertion end opposite the ear insertion end. The eartip body defines a central opening extending from the ear insertion end to the probe insertion end. The central opening includes an eartip sound channel at the ear insertion end and an eartip mounting portion at the probe insertion end. The eartip mounting portion is configured to receive and hold the mounting stem of the probe within the central opening. The microphone is disposed within the eartip when the eartip is detachably coupled to the mounting stem.

The embodiments of the present disclosure may disclose a vibration sensor, including: an acoustic transducer and a vibration assembly connected with the acoustic transducer. The vibration assembly may be configured to transmit an external vibration signal to the acoustic transducer to generate an electric signal, the vibration assembly includes one or more groups of vibration diaphragms and mass blocks, and the mass blocks may be physically connected with the vibration diaphragms. The vibration assembly may be configured to make a sensitivity degree of the vibration sensor greater than a sensitivity degree of the acoustic transducer in one or more target frequency bands.

The present disclosure discloses a MEMS chip which includes a substrate, a back plate fixed on the substrate, and a membrane fixed on the substrate and located above the back plate. A sealed space is formed between the membrane and the back plate. A support pillar is received in the sealed space. Two ends of the support pillar along a vibration direction of the membrane are separately fixed on the membrane and the back plate. As a result, when decreasing the volume of the back cavity, the resonance frequency of the MEMS chip has been effectively improved and the SNR is simultaneously high. Furthermore, the support pillar can effectively improve the reliability and crack resistance of the membrane.

A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone is provided. The MEMS microphone includes a substrate, a diaphragm, a backplate and a first protrusion. The substrate has an opening portion. The diaphragm is disposed on one side of the substrate and extends across the opening portion of the substrate. The backplate includes a plurality of acoustic holes. The backplate is disposed on one side of the diaphragm. An air gap is formed between the backplate and the diaphragm. The first protrusion extends from the backplate towards the air gap.

A compact directional acoustic sensor having an improved signal-to-noise ratio is disclosed. The disclosed directional acoustic sensor includes a first sensing device configured to generate different output gains based on different input directions of external energy, and configured to generate at least one first output signal having a first polarity based on external energy received from an input direction; a second sensing device configured to generate different output gains based on different input directions of external energy, and configured to generate at least one second output signal having a second polarity, that is different than the first polarity, based on the external energy received from the input direction; and at least one signal processor configured to generate at least one final output signal based on the at least one first output signal and the at least one second output signal.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for cancelling a noise signal for speech recognition, the apparatus includes one or more microphones configured on a mesh enclosure to receive a first set of signals pertaining to a user command. A speaker located in the mesh enclosure configured to generate a second set of signals pertaining to noise signal, wherein each of the one or more microphones are arranged perpendicular above the speaker at predefined degrees to cancel the generated second set of signals reaching the one or more microphones. A processor configured to process the received first set of signals by cancellation of the second set of signals; and enable, on receipt of the first set of signals, an operational mode of the apparatus to execute corresponding action.

The present disclosure presents a patient respiratory mask that is configured to pick up patient speech from within the patient respiratory mask utilizing a microphone and to transmit that speech to a speaker or other communications device and a method of patient communication utilizing the same.

A MEMS microphone includes a substrate, a base, a capacitance system, and at least one cantilever structure. The substrate includes a back cavity, the base is disposed on one side of the substrate, and the capacitance system is disposed on the base. The capacitance system includes at least one back plate assembly, at least one first vibration diaphragm, and at least one second vibration diaphragm. The at least one first vibration diaphragm includes a first sub-vibration diaphragm, and the at least one second vibration diaphragm includes a second sub-vibration diaphragm. The sub-vibration diaphragm and the second sub-vibration diaphragm form a cantilever beam structure on the base, which increase compliance of the at least one first vibration diaphragm and the at least one second vibration diaphragm and reduce tension of the at least one first vibration diaphragm and the at least one second vibration diaphragm, thereby improving sensitivity of the microphones.

The present disclosure provides a vibration sensor. The vibration sensor may include a vibration receiver and an acoustic transducer. The vibration receiver may include a housing, a limiter and a vibration unit. The housing and the acoustic transducer may form an acoustic cavity. The vibration unit may be located in the acoustic cavity to separate the acoustic cavity into a first acoustic cavity and a second acoustic cavity. The acoustic transducer may be acoustically connected to the first acoustic cavity. The housing may be configured to generate a vibration based on an external vibration signal. The vibration unit may change an acoustic pressure within the first acoustic cavity in response to the vibration of the housing, such that the acoustic transducer generates an electrical signal. The vibration unit may include a mass element and an elastic element. A first side of the elastic element may be connected around a side wall of the mass element. A second side of the elastic element may be connected with the limiter.