H04R1/227

Hearing devices and methods for implementing an adaptively adjusted cut-off frequency
11184715 · 2021-11-23 · ·

An exemplary hearing device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to receive an input audio signal having a range of input frequencies, adaptively adjust a cut-off frequency for the input audio signal such that a value of the cut-off frequency varies between a predefined minimum cut-off frequency value and a predefined maximum cut-off frequency value as a continuous function of the input audio signal, and generate an output audio signal by mapping the range of input frequencies to a range of output frequencies determined based on the adaptively adjusted cut-off frequency.

SOUND PRODUCING PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
20220009768 · 2022-01-13 · ·

A sound producing package structure includes a plurality of chips disposed within a cavity. The chips includes a first chip and a second chip, the first chip includes a first sound producing membrane and a first actuator attached to the first sound producing membrane, and a second chip includes a second sound producing membrane and a second actuator attached to the second sound producing membrane. The first sound producing membrane and the second sound producing membrane are actuated toward a center of the cavity in a synchronous fashion so as to produce a sound pressure.

SPEAKER DRIVE UNIT, SPEAKER APPARATUS, AND SPEAKER DRIVING METHOD

A speaker drive unit includes a control signal generation unit and a signal processing unit. The control signal generation unit generates a control signal on the basis of detection signals generated by a plurality of detection units that is disposed in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of actuators that vibrates a diaphragm, and detects vibration conditions. The signal processing unit includes a plurality of signal systems corresponding one-to-one to the plurality of actuators. The signal systems provide a drive signal to the corresponding actuators on the basis of the same audio signal. The drive signal generated by at least one signal system of the signal systems is controlled by the control signal.

Sound producing device
11172310 · 2021-11-09 · ·

A sound producing device includes at least one air pulse generating element. Each of the at least one air pulse generating element includes a membrane, a first air chamber and at least one opening, wherein a chamber pressure exists in the first air chamber. The membrane is actuated to change the chamber pressure of the first air chamber to generate a plurality of air pulses, the air pulses are propagated through the at least one opening, the air pulses produce a non-zero offset in terms of sound pressure level, and the non-zero offset is a deviation from a pressure value of an ambient pressure outside the sound producing device.

Voice reception device

A voice reception device includes a casing and at least two voice reception units. The casing includes a peripheral side wall, a bottom wall, a containing space formed in an inside of the peripheral side wall and the bottom wall, and a first opening end located at an end of the containing space. The voice reception units are disposed in the containing space. Each of the voice reception units includes a main body, a diaphragm, and a voice guiding channel. The main body has a chamber, and an end of the chamber has a second opening end. The diaphragm is connected to the second opening end of the main body. The voice guiding channel includes an importing end acoustically connected to the chamber and an exporting end opposite to the importing end and acoustically connected to a microphone.

MICROPHONE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME

The present disclosure relates to microphones and electronic devices having the same. A microphone may include a housing for receiving vibration signals; a converting component inside the housing for converting the vibration signals into electrical signals, and a processing circuit for processing the electrical signals. The converting component may include a transducer and at least one damping film attached to the transducer.

Micromechanical sound transducer

Micromechanical sound transducer including a plurality of unilaterally suspended bending transducers. The plurality of bending transducers are configured for deflection within a plane of vibration and are arranged side by side within the plane of vibration along a first axis and are extending along a second axis which is transverse to the first axis. The bending transducers are alternately suspended on opposite sides and engage with one another. Each bending transducer includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are located opposite one another along the first axis to cause deflections of the respective bending transducer along the first axis upon application of voltage. Mutually facing electrodes of adjacent bending transducers are electrically connected to one another by a transverse connection crossing the plane of vibration transverse to the first axis.

Methods and Systems for Modifying Acoustics of a Loudspeaker Back Enclosure Using Active Noise Control
20230282195 · 2023-09-07 ·

An active acoustics management system for the loudspeaker back-enclosure, including a first loudspeaker having a front side and a back side connected by side walls, the front facing in a first direction, is presented. An enclosure surrounds a portion of the first loudspeaker, such that the enclosure is open about the front side of the first loudspeaker and is closed about the side walls and the back side of the loudspeaker. A second loudspeaker is disposed within the enclosure behind the first loudspeaker, the second loudspeaker being oriented to output waveforms in the first direction, wherein the second loudspeaker is adapted to output waveforms in the first direction thereby to cancel at least some waveforms emanating from the back side of the first loudspeaker, using active control strategies.

Electroacoustic Transducer
20230388701 · 2023-11-30 · ·

An electroacoustic transducer includes a first diaphragm, a first voice coil that is coupled to the first diaphragm, a second diaphragm, a second voice coil that is coupled to the second diaphragm, and a single common magnetic circuit that is configured to provide a magnetic field in both a first magnetic circuit gap and a separate second magnetic circuit gap. The first voice coil is located at least in part in the first magnetic circuit gap and the second voice coil is located at least in part in the second magnetic circuit gap.

ACOUSTIC OUTPUT DEVICES
20230009102 · 2023-01-12 · ·

This present disclosure discloses an acoustic output device comprising: an acoustic driver that includes a diaphragm and a magnetic circuit structure, wherein a side of the diaphragm facing away from the magnetic circuit structure forms a front side of the acoustic driver, a side of the magnetic circuit structure facing away from the diaphragm forms a back side of the acoustic driver, the diaphragm vibrates so that the acoustic driver radiates sound outward from its front and back, respectively; a housing structure configured to carry the acoustic driver, wherein the back side of the acoustic driver and the housing structure form a back cavity, and different side walls of the back cavity are connected by a curved structure; the housing structure includes at least one sound outlet hole, the at least one sound outlet hole is acoustically coupled with the back cavity.