Speaker module design

• US 7,813,770 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2007
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Sirirattanasit, Teerada, Luk, Kar-Chai, Ho, San-Chi
• Primary Examiner(s): Edouard; Patrick N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee; Justin Y
• Application Number:
  US11/838,846
• Publication Number:
  US 20070275769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 455/569.1, 381/345, 381/349, 381/351, 381/353, 381/354, 381/334, 381/335, 381/348, 381/350, 181/155, 181/156, 181/145, 181/183, 181/184, 379/433.02, 379/432, 379/430
• US Class Current: 455/569.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/035 Improving the acoustic characteristics by means of constructional features of the housing, e.g. ribs, walls, resonating chambers or cavities

Abstract

A speaker module and a mobile device having the speaker module are provided herein. The speaker module includes a speaker unit and a speaker box. The speaker box has a wall defining an aperture receiving the speaker unit therein. The speaker box has a first speaker chamber, a second speaker chamber and a connecting section connecting the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber. The cross-sectional height of the space of the connecting section is lower than that of the first speaker chamber or the second speaker chamber. In other option, the space of the connecting section is smaller than that of the first speaker chamber or the second speaker chamber.

Claims

1. A handheld electronic device, comprising:

a casing;

a print circuit board; and

a speaker module coupled to the print circuit board within the casing, the speaker module comprising;

a speaker unit; and

a speaker box having a wall defining an aperture receiving the speaker unit therein, a first speaker chamber, a second speaker chamber, and a communicating channel positioned between the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber,

wherein the first speaker chamber has a first opening defined at one end of the communication channel, and the second speaker chamber has a second opening defined at the other end of the communicating channel,

wherein the first speaker chamber communicates with the second speaker chamber through the communicating channel,

wherein the speaker unit, the first speaker chamber, the second speaker chamber, and the communicating channel form an only enclosed space within the speaker box, and

wherein the aperture is the only one aperture to acoustically communicate the speaker box with outside thereby.

2. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the space of the communicating channel is smaller than that of the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber.

3. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the communicating channel is a narrow-spaced channel.

4. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the wall having the aperture for receiving the speaker unit defines the first speaker chamber or the second speaker chamber.

5. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, further comprising an antenna module being disposed between the casing and the speaker box.

6. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the speaker box has a connecting section connecting the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber and defines the communicating channel.

7. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first speaker chamber has a first inner wall having the first opening defined thereon, and the second speaker chamber has a second inner wall having the second opening defined thereon.

8. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the speaker unit leaves at least a certain room of the aperture unblocked, allowing a sound to transmit out from the speaker box therefrom.

9. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the print circuit board is positioned between the first chamber and the second chamber.

10. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the communicating channel is correspondingly positioned through an opening of the print circuit board.

11. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the print circuit board secures the communicating channel connecting the first chamber and the second chamber, so as to secure the speaker unit to the casing.

12. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the speaker box is substantially dumbbell shaped, and the communicating channel has a outer diameter smaller than that of the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber.

13. A handheld electronic device, comprising:

a casing;

a print circuit board; and

a speaker module coupled to and positioned through an opening of the print circuit board within the casing, the speaker module comprising;

a speaker unit; and

a speaker box having a wall defining an aperture receiving the speaker unit therein, a first speaker chamber, a second speaker chamber, and a communicating channel positioned between the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber,

wherein the first speaker chamber has a first opening defined at one end of the communication channel, and the second speaker chamber has a second opening defined at the other end of the communicating channel,

wherein the first speaker chamber communicates with the second speaker chamber through the communicating channel, and

wherein the aperture is the only one aperture to acoustically communicate the speaker box with outside thereby.

14. The handheld electronic device of claim 13, wherein the wall having the aperture for receiving the speaker unit defines the first speaker chamber or the second speaker chamber.

15. The handheld electronic device of claim 13, further comprising an antenna module being disposed between the casing and the speaker box.

16. The handheld electronic device of claim 13, wherein the communicating channel is correspondingly positioned through the opening of the print circuit board.

17. The handheld electronic device of claim 13, wherein the print circuit board secures the communicating channel connecting the first chamber and the second chamber, so as to secure the speaker unit to the casing.

18. The handheld electronic device of claim 13, wherein the speaker box is substantially dumbbell shaped, and the communicating channel has a outer diameter smaller than that of the first speaker chamber and the second speaker chamber.