Speaker device of mobile communication terminal for outputting high quality sound

• US 8,238,572 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2008
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Dong-Ik, Kwon, Soon-Youl
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Vivian
• Assistant Examiner(s): FAHNERT, FRIEDRICH
• Application Number:
  US12/210,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20090080678A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,422 Days
• Field of Search: 381/89, 381/332, 381/335, 381/120, 381/186, 381/386, 381/345, 381/300, 381/308, 381/87, 381/333, 381/334, 381/182, 381/337, 379/430, 181/198, 181/199
• US Class Current: 381/89
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/26 Spatial arrangements of separate transducers responsive to two or more frequency ranges
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2857 for loudspeaker transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/2873 for loudspeaker transducers
• 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 speaker device employing a diaphragm structure for providing high quality sound characteristics. In particular, a separate speaker unit is additionally provided so as to improve a resonator characteristic produced at the rear side of an existing speaker. As such, the rear sound arriving at an end of the resonator is dampened by the sound outputted from the additional speaker unit, thereby improving characteristics, such as clearness, total harmonic distortion, etc.

Claims

1. A speaker device for outputting a sound, comprising:

a housing having an internal space divided by at least one diaphragm formed inside the internal space into a mounting space for mounting a first speaker unit and a resonant space exclusive of the mounting space,

wherein the housing further includes a sound passage formed by the at least one diaphragm, and a second speaker unit is mounted at a distal end portion of the sound passage, and

wherein the second speaker unit outputs a second sound to dampen a rear sound outputted from a rear side of the first speaker unit.

2. The speaker device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the length of the sound passage corresponds to a half of the resonant frequency wavelength of the first speaker unit.

8. The speaker device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second speaker unit is mounted at the distal end portion of the sound passage with reference to the mounting space so as to dampen a rear side sound of the first speaker unit.

9. The speaker device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a cover coupled to the housing.

3. A speaker device for outputting a sound, comprising:

an amplifier outputting a first audio signal;

a first speaker unit connected to an output terminal of the amplifier, the first speaker unit outputting a first sound from the first audio signal; and

a second speaker unit connected to an input terminal of the amplifier, wherein, when a second input audio signal identical to a first input audio signal inputted to the amplifier is inputted to the second speaker unit, the second speaker unit outputs a second sound to dampen a rear sound outputted from a rear side of the first speaker unit,

wherein the speaker device has an internal space divided by at least one diaphragm into a sound passage and a mounting space for mounting the first speaker unit, the second speaker unit being placed at a distal end portion of the sound passage with reference to the mounting space.

4. The speaker device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a filter connected between the input terminal of the amplifier and an input terminal of the second speaker unit, wherein, when a third audio signal identical to the first audio signal is inputted to the filer, the filter filters the third audio signal and transmits the filtered third audio signal to the second speaker unit.

5. The speaker device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the filter is at least one of a low pass filter, a high pass filter, and a band pass filter.

6. The speaker device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the length of the sound passage corresponds to a half of the resonant frequency wavelength of the first speaker unit.

7. The speaker device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the internal space is provided with a resonant space being outside of and connected to the mounting space.