Audio mixing console

• US 9,432,069 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2013
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman International Industries Ltd (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Harman International Industries Ltd (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Rowe, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US13/767,635
• Publication Number:
  US 20130208954A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,293 Days
• Field of Search: 846/44, 108/15, 324/319, 324/756.06, 343/702, 370/241, 379/127.01, 381/56, 381/74, 381/107, 381/119, 381/311, 381/323, 382/119, 455/3.05, 455/11.1, 455/73, 455/515, 455/569.1, 463/35, 463/46, 704/260, 704/275, 710/74, 715/716, 235/439
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3827 Portable transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/04 Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios

Abstract

An audio mixing console can process at least one audio signal. The audio mixing console includes a main housing with a plurality of outer surfaces. The audio mixing console also includes a wireless transceiver provided substantially outside the main housing and an interface connected to the wireless transceiver. The audio mixing console further includes a radio-frequency permeable housing detachably coupled to a second outer surface of the main housing, wherein the wireless transceiver is positioned within the radio-frequency permeable housing.

Claims

1. An audio mixing console for processing of at least one audio signal, comprising:

a main housing having a plurality of outer surfaces, including a first outer surface and a second outer surface,

a plurality of operating elements being disposed on the first outer surface, the operating elements configured to control processing of the at least one audio signal,

a wireless transceiver extending away from the main housing and configured to establish wireless transmission of a first audio signal of the at least one audio signal,

an interface connected to the wireless transceiver and provided on one of the outer surfaces, the interface configured to forward the first audio signal to and from the wireless transceiver, and

a radio-frequency permeable housing detachably coupled to the second outer surface, wherein the wireless transceiver is positioned within the radio-frequency permeable housing,

where the wireless transceiver extends in a vertical direction (X) beyond a plane defined by the first outer surface.

2. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the radio-frequency permeable housing substantially covers the second outer surface.

3. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where a portion of the radio-frequency permeable housing protrudes beyond a plane defined by the first outer surface, the portion being proximate to where the wireless transceiver is housed.

4. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the wireless transceiver is positioned inside the radio-frequency permeable housing offset from the second outer surface.

5. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the radio-frequency permeable housing is substantially made out of a plastic material, and where the outer surfaces of the main housing are substantially made out of metal.

6. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the wireless transceiver is detachably coupled with the radio-frequency permeable housing.

7. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the wireless transceiver comprises an antenna which extends in the vertical direction (X) beyond the plane defined by the first outer surface.

8. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the wireless transceiver is configured to establish wireless communication using the wireless transmission with audio-related devices selected from the group consisting of:

a microphone, headphones, a loudspeaker, an amplifier, a portable music device, or an audio signal source.

9. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the first one of the surfaces forms a planar surface of the main housing having a tapered vertical extension, a periphery of the planar surface coupled between first peripheral edges of a front outer surface, a back outer surface and two side outer surfaces formed as surrounding surfaces of the main housing and having second peripheral edges opposite the first peripheral edges that are lie in a single plane, a distance between the first and second peripheral edges of the front outer surface being less than the first and second peripheral edges of the back outer surface to create the tapered vertical extension of the planar surface, and the first peripheral edges of the two side outer surfaces being correspondingly tapered.

10. The audio mixing console of claim 1, where the second outer surface is a side surface of the main housing.

11. The audio mixing console of claim 10, where the wireless transceiver is positioned closer to a back outer surface of the main housing than to a front outer surface of the main housing, and the wireless transceiver disposed inside the radio-frequency permeable housing is detachably coupled with the side surface.

12. The audio mixing console of claim 1, further comprising:

a second wireless transceiver provided substantially outside the main housing and configured to establish wireless transmission of a second audio signal of the at least one audio signal,

a second interface connected to the second wireless transceiver and provided on one of the outer surfaces, the second outer surface configured to provide data forwarding of the second audio signal, and

a second radio-frequency permeable housing detachably attached to a third outer surface included among the surfaces, where the second wireless transceiver is positioned within the second radio-frequency permeable housing and wherein the third outer surface is on a side of the main housing opposing the second outer surface.

13. The audio mixing console of claim 12, where the wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver establish wireless transmission with two different audio-related devices selected from the group consisting of:

a microphone, headphones, a loudspeaker, an amplifier, a portable music device, an audio signal source.

14. The audio mixing console of claim 13, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to output an output audio signal to headphones and wherein the second wireless transceiver is configured to input an input audio signal from the microphone.

15. An audio mixing console for processing of at least one audio signal, comprising:

a main housing having a plurality of outer surfaces, including a first outer surface and a second outer surface,

a plurality of operating elements being disposed on the first outer surface, the operating elements configured to control processing of the at least one audio signal,

a wireless transceiver extending away from the main housing and configured to establish wireless transmission of a first audio signal of the at least one audio signal,

an interface connected to the wireless transceiver and provided on one of the outer surfaces, the interface configured to forward the first audio signal to and from the wireless transceiver, and

a radio-frequency permeable housing detachably coupled to the second outer surface, wherein the wireless transceiver is positioned within the radio-frequency permeable housing,

where the wireless transceiver comprises an antenna which extends in a vertical direction (X) beyond a plane defined by the first outer surface.