Electronic device

• US 10,194,237 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2017
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Liu, Feng-Ming, Chang, Jia-Ren
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US15/820,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20180098148A1
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: 34053911, 37942801, 381338, 381152, 381 86, 381352, 381373, 381380, 4555751, 4555754, 310307, 522 94, 181199
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/02 Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein H04R1/28 takes precedence ; attachments for microphones H04R1/08; mounting of transducers in earpieces H04R1/1075
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/345 for loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's

Abstract

An electronic device is provided which includes a sliding groove, a speaker and a sound conditioner. The first sound outlet and the second sound outlet are connected to the sliding groove and respectively positioned adjacent to the first side wall and the second side wall of the sliding groove. The speaker is positioned relative to the first sound outlet. The sound conditioner extends along the sliding groove for a length that is greater than the distance between the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet. The sound conditioner is slidably positioned in the sliding groove so as to allow the sound produced by the speaker to be transmitted to the outside via either the first sound outlet or the second sound outlet.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate connected to the first substrate and having a first side wall and a second side wall;

a sliding groove formed in the second substrate and extending from the first side wall to the second side wall, wherein a first sound outlet and a second sound outlet are connected to the sliding groove and respectively positioned adjacent to the first side wall and the second side wall;

a speaker positioned relative to the first sound outlet; and

a sound conditioner slidably positioned in the sliding groove so as to cover one of the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet to block the sound produced by the speaker from being transmitted to the outside via the covered first sound outlet or the second sound outlet.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the area of the first sound outlet is the same as the area of the second sound outlet, and the depth of a portion of the sliding groove that corresponds to the first sound outlet is the same as the depth of a portion of the sliding groove that corresponds to the second sound outlet.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sound conditioner comprises a tube structure, a front opening is formed on an upper side wall of the tube structure and arranged adjacent to the first end portion of the tube structure, and a rear opening is formed at the tube structure and arranged adjacent to the second end portion of the tube structure, the first end being opposite to the second end.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the area of the front opening is the same as the area of the rear opening.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the area of the rear opening is the same as the area of the first sound outlet or the area of the second sound outlet.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sound conditioner comprises a plate extending along the sliding groove.

7. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the second outlet is blocked by the sound conditioner, the sound produced by the speaker is directly transmitted to the outside of the electronic device via the first sound outlet.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the first outlet is blocked by the sound conditioner, the sound produced by the speaker is transmitted to the outside of the electronic device via the sound guiding passage in the sound conditioner and the second sound outlet.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sound outlet and the speaker are positioned at two sides of the sound conditioner.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet are positioned at the same bottom side wall of the sliding groove.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sliding groove extending from the first side wall to the second side wall along a predetermined direction;

wherein the sound conditioner is slidable along the predetermined direction.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the sound conditioner abuts against a bottom side wall of the sliding groove that connects the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sound conditioner extends along the sliding groove for a length that is greater than a distance between the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet.