Electronic apparatus

• US 20060109997A1
• Filed: 10/13/2005
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sadatsuki, Koichi, Tsujimoto, Tokusuke, Kano, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,616,260 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/08 Mouthpieces; Microphones; Attachments therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's

Abstract

Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including: an enclosure constituting an outer case of the apparatus; a receiving recess, formed of a bottom wall and a side wall uprising from a circumference of the bottom wall, disposed on the enclosure as opened outward; a holding member, formed of a vibration relaxing material capable of relaxing vibrations, received in the receiving recess; a supporting piece for supporting the holding member within the receiving recess such that a space is secured between the holding member and the bottom wall; a recess for microphone formed on a face, facing outward, of the holding member as opened outward, in a condition of the holding member being supported by the supporting piece within the receiving recess; a microphone inserted into the recess for microphone; and a grill disposed to cover a side of the holding member facing outward, in a condition of the holding member being supported by the supporting piece within the receiving recess, the grill being provided with a plurality of through holes made in its portions facing the microphones.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus equipped with a microphone comprising:

an enclosure constituting an outer case of said electronic apparatus;

a receiving recess, formed of a bottom wall and a side wall uprising from a circumference of the bottom wall, disposed on said enclosure as opened outward;

a holding member, formed of a vibration relaxing material capable of relaxing vibrations, received in said receiving recess;

a supporting piece for supporting said holding member within said receiving recess such that a space is secured between said holding member and said bottom wall;

a recess for microphone formed on a face, facing outward, of said holding member as opened outward, in a condition of said holding member being supported by said supporting piece within said receiving recess;

a microphone inserted into said recess for microphone; and

a grill disposed to cover a side of said holding member facing outward, in a condition of said holding member being supported by said supporting piece within said receiving recess, said grill being provided with a plurality of through holes made in its portions facing said microphones.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a circumferential portion of said holding member is fit into the side wall of said receiving recess, in a condition of said holding member being supported by said supporting piece within said receiving recess.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said recesses for microphone are disposed as spaced apart from each other and a plurality of said microphones are each inserted into each of said recesses for microphone.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said enclosure is constituted of an enclosure main body and a split member integrally attached to said enclosure main body and the portion of said enclosure having said receiving recess disposed thereon is provided within said split member.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said electronic apparatus is an image pickup apparatus, the optical axis of an objective lens constituting an image taking optical system of said image pickup apparatus is extended in front and rear directions in which the front is defined as a side toward a photographic subject, a plurality of said recesses for microphone are disposed at a circumferential portion of said holding member as spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction, a plurality of said microphones are each inserted into each of said recesses for microphone, and said plurality of microphones are disposed on a cylindrical surface whose imaginary cylindrical axis is parallel to said optical axis by virtue of the disposition of said recesses for microphone.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said electronic apparatus is an image pickup apparatus, the optical axis of an objective lens constituting an image taking optical system of said image pickup apparatus is extended in front and rear directions in which the front is defined as a side toward a photographic subject, a plurality of said recesses for microphone are disposed in front and rear positions and left and right positions of said holding member, a plurality of said microphones being four in total are each disposed in each of said recesses for microphone, and said four microphones are disposed in the front and rear positions and the left and right positions of said holding member as disposed on a cylindrical surface whose imaginary cylindrical axis is parallel to said optical axis.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, whereinsaid electronic apparatus is an image pickup apparatus, the optical axis of an objective lens constituting an image taking optical system of said image pickup apparatus is extended in front and rear directions in which the front is defined as a side toward a photographic subject and, in a condition of said holding member being supported within said receiving recess by said supporting piece, the face of said holding member facing outward and said grill are disposed on cylindrical surfaces whose imaginary cylindrical axis is parallel to said optical axis.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein said electronic apparatus is an image pickup apparatus, the optical axis of an objective lens constituting an image taking optical system of said image pickup apparatus is extended in front and rear directions in which the front is defined as a side toward a photographic subject and, in a condition of said holding member being supported within said receiving recess by said supporting piece, the face of said holding member facing outward and said grill are disposed on cylindrical surfaces whose imaginary cylindrical axis is parallel to said optical axis.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said supporting piece and said grill are made of a material having conductivity,

there is provided a coil spring made of a material having conductivity, said coil spring is disposed within a hole passing through said holding member, and said coil spring is compressed between said supporting piece and said grill.