Acoustic device

• US 9,154,865 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.), AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. (AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.), AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. (AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.)
• Inventors: Zha, Yu-Bin, Zhang, Xiong
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBINSON, RYAN C
• Application Number:
  US13/975,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20140133684A1
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: 379/433.02
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/021 incorporating only one transducer
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2803 for loudspeaker transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2811 for loudspeaker transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/30 Combinations of transducers with horns, e.g. with mechanical matching means , i.e. front-loaded hornshorns in general G10K; transducer enclosures or mountings using a back-loaded horn H04R1/2861; application of horns as guiding means to obtain a predetermined directivity characteristic H04R1/345
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's

Abstract

One embodiment of the invention discloses an acoustic device having a housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the housing. The speaker unit forms a front volume and a back volume together with the housing. The housing includes an extra volume communicating with the back volume and a sound channel communicated with the front volume. The extra volume is isolated from the sound channel. The invention provides an acoustic device with enlarged back volume for improving low frequency sound quality.

Claims

1. An acoustic device, comprising:

a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of sidewalls cooperatively forming a space with the top and bottom walls;

a mounting plate positioned in the space with edges thereof connecting to the sidewalls;

a speaker unit mounted on the mounting plate, the speaker unit having a sound radiation surface;

an inner wall extending from the mounting plate to the bottom wall for partitioning the space into a first space for receiving the mounting plate and a second space;

a first volume formed between the top wall and the mounting plate;

a second volume formed by the mounting plate, the inner wall, the bottom wall and the sidewalls connecting with the mounting plate, the sound radiation surface being capable of vibrating in the second volume;

a barrier located in the second space for dividing the second space into an extra volume communicating with the first volume, and a sound channel communicating with the second volume;

the extra volume being isolated from the sound channel, and the sound channel transmitting sounds from the sound radiation surface to outside of the acoustic device via a sound aperture formed in the housing.

2. The acoustic device as described in claim 1, wherein the housing includes a base, a top cover covering one side of the base, and a lower cover covering another side of the base.

3. The acoustic device as described in claim 2, wherein the top cover is a part of the top wall of the housing, and the lower cover is a part of the bottom wall of the housing.

4. The acoustic device as described in claim 1, wherein the mounting plate forms an opening for fixing the speaker unit.

5. The acoustic device as described in claim 4, wherein the speaker unit includes a frame, and the mounting plate includes a plurality of fixing members around the opening for cooperating with the frame for fixing the speaker unit.

6. The acoustic device as described in claim 1, wherein the inner wall forms a through window for communicating the second volume with the sound channel.

7. The acoustic device as described in claim 1, wherein the inner wall keeps a distance from the bottom wall for forming an interval to communicate the second volume with the sound channel.

8. The acoustic device as described in claim 1, wherein the top wall of the housing and the inner wall form a gap therebetween for communicating the extra volume with the first volume.