Portable apparatus

• US 8,804,990 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Chang, Jia-Ren, Tu, Po-Jen, Tai, Kuei-Ting
• Primary Examiner(s): Ensey, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yu, Norman
• Application Number:
  US13/802,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20140098982A1
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 381/345, 381/349, 381/388, 181/148, 379/430
• US Class Current: 381/345
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/28 Transducer mountings or enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means combinations of transducers with horns, i.e. front-loaded horns H04R1/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2811 for loudspeaker transducers
• 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

A portable apparatus including a main body and a receiver is provided. The main body has a surface, an active sound hole and a passive sound hole. The active sound hole and the passive sound hole are both disposed at the surface of the main body. The receiver is disposed inside the main body and arranged for emitting a first sound wave and a second sound wave with the same amplitude and frequency but opposite transmission directions. The first sound wave is transmitted out of the main body via the active sound hole and the second sound wave is guided in the main body and transmitted out of the main body via the passive sound hole.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus, comprising:

a main body, having a surface;

an active sound hole;

a passive sound hole, wherein the active sound hole and the passive sound hole are both disposed at the surface of the main body, wherein the active sound hole and the passive sound hole are at least partially overlapped with each other; and

a receiver, disposed inside the main body, arranged for emitting a first sound wave and a second sound wave, wherein amplitudes and frequencies of the first sound wave and the second sound wave are the same as each other but transmission directions thereof are opposite to each other, the first sound wave is transmitted out of the main body via the active sound hole, and the second sound wave is guided in the main body and transmitted out of the main body via the passive sound hole.

2. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the active sound hole and the passive sound hole are totally isolated with each other, the active sound hole has a first edge, the passive sound hole has a second edge, and the first edge and the second edge are adjacent to each other but separated by a distance.

3. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein an effective radiating area of the active sound hole ranges between 1 mm² and 4 mm².

4. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein an effective radiating area of the passive sound hole ranges between 10 mm² and 20 mm².

5. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ratio of an effective radiating area of the active sound hole over an effective radiating area of the passive sound hole is less than or equal to 1:

3.

6. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main body further comprises:

a sound-guiding chamber, surrounding at least one side of the receiver and connected with the passive sound hole.

7. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the main body further comprises:

a pair of sound-guiding pipes, disposed in the sound-guiding chamber of the main body and located at both sides of the passive sound hole.

8. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface has a displaying region, and the active sound hole and the passive sound hole are located on top of the displaying region.

9. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a first dust-proof mesh, disposed at the main body and covering the active sound hole.

10. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a second dust-proof mesh, disposed at the main body and covering the passive sound hole.

11. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a volume adjusting button, disposed at one side of the main body.

12. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a buffering washer, disposed between the receiver and the active sound hole, wherein the buffering washer seals the surrounding portion of the receiver to form monopole sound mode for preventing the sounds from being counteracted by each other.