840results about "Hearing aid vents" patented technology

The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a housing assembly, a speaker, and an ear hook assembly. The housing assembly includes a first accommodating cavity and a connecting portion that is provided with a socket extending along a first direction. The first accommodating cavity and a first channel and a second channel included in the socket are sequentially connected. A first abutment surface is disposed at transition between the first and second channels. The first abutment surface is inclined to the first direction. The ear hook assembly includes a first connecting end that includes a plug portion. The plug portion is inserted into the socket and includes a second abutment surface and an annular surface. The second abutment surface is inclined to the first direction and faces the first abutment surface. The annular surface extends from an inner edge of the second abutment surface toward the first abutment surface.

An acoustic output device is provided. The acoustic output device includes a housing; a bone conduction vibrator configured to generate bone conduction sound waves and transmit the bone conduction sound waves to a cochlea through the housing to produce sound; an air conduction vibrator configured to generate air conduction sound waves, the air conduction sound waves being transmitted to an ear through sound guiding holes in the housing; and a processing module configured to provide the bone conduction vibrator and the air conduction vibrator with a first audio signal and a second audio signal, respectively, the first audio signal and the second audio signal having a frequency division point, the first audio signal and the second audio signal including components with frequencies above and below the frequency division point, respectively. The frequency division point is not less than 600 Hz.

An air-pulse generating device, a wearable sound device, bladeless fan, and an airflow producing method are disclosed. The air-pulse generating device includes a film structure, configured to be actuated to generate a plurality of air pulses at an ultrasonic pulse rate. The plurality of air pulses produces a net airflow toward one single direction.

The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. In a wearing state, the ear hook is configured to place the sound production component at a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. An inner contour of the ear hook's projection on a user's sagittal plane includes a first curve having an extremum point in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to a long-axis direction of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane. The extremum point is located behind a projection point of an upper vertex of the ear hook on the sagittal plane, and the upper vertex is a highest point of an inner contour of the ear hook along the user's vertical axis. An inclination angle of the long-axis direction relative to a horizontal direction is within a range of 13°-21°.

An electronic device includes a first housing connected to a second housing having a protrusion configured to be seated on an ear. The electronic device also includes a printed circuit board, a wireless communication circuit, an antenna carrier disposed in internal space defined by the first housing and the second housing. The electronic device also includes a conductive pattern formed over the first surface and the second surface through a first through hole and electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit. The antenna carrier includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and through holes passing through the antenna carrier. The antenna carrier also includes a groove structure including a portion in contact with a second through hole and formed on the second surface of the antenna carrier. The wireless communication circuit transmits and / or receives a wireless signal by providing power to the conductive pattern.

A wearable device may be worn in an ear of a user. The wearable device may include a biometric sensor that collects biometric information from the ear, and an environmental sensor that collects environmental information from the ear. The wearable device may receive the biometric information from the biometric sensor, and the environmental information from the environmental sensor, and send biofeedback determined from the biometric information, and an environmental condition determined from the environmental information, wirelessly to a communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A piezoelectric valve comprising: a fixed portion defining an opening; and a number of movable portions extending from the fixed portion over the opening and separated from one another by radially oriented slits, each movable portion of the number of movable portions comprising a first material layer and a second material layer, and at least one of the first material layer or the second material layer comprises a piezoelectric material that is operable to drive a displacement of the movable portion in a direction opposite to an adjacent movable portion sharing a same radially oriented slit upon application of a voltage.

A transducer arrangement for head- or earphones comprises a sound steering unit, which comprises the sound steering unit includes a frontal chamber and at least one sound canal. Each of the at least one sound canal comprises at least one internal opening towards the frontal chamber and an external open end for directing sound towards the outside of the transducer arrangement. The transducer arrangement further comprises a rear chamber and at least one loudspeaker arranged between the frontal chamber and the rear chamber.

An insert headset apparatus utilizes a user generated sound signal such as the user's own voice to control de-occlusion and make the user's own voice sound normal. A voice accelerometer or microphone is used to detect when the user or a nearby person is speaking. When the voice of the user or a nearby person is detected a valve is opened. The valve enables venting of the ear canal, resulting in de-occlusion.

An example earphone includes a housing having a speaker module embedded therein and an ear tip connected to the housing. The housing includes a coupling portion having a sound hole formed in an end portion thereof. The ear tip includes a first tip including a first hollow aligned with the sound hole in a first direction and a first sidewall that surrounds the first hollow and a second tip including a second hollow in which the first tip is accommodated and a second sidewall that surrounds the second hollow, the first direction being a direction toward the speaker module from the sound hole. The first tip includes a first connecting portion having a protrusion form on an end portion thereof in the first direction. The coupling portion includes, on one surface thereof, a second connecting portion including a groove with which the first connecting portion is engaged. A connection gap is formed between facing surfaces of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion, and the coupling portion of the housing and the ear tip are connected so as to be rotatable relative to each other.

A wearing assembly and an earphone are provided. The wearing assembly includes an elastic metal wire, a lead assembly, an insert member, and a wrapping assembly. The insert member is fixed to an end of the elastic metal wire and includes an insert body. The wrapping assembly includes a body wrapping portion wrapping a periphery of the elastic metal wire and the lead assembly, the lead assembly has an exposed portion that is exposed from the body wrapping portion and extends to the insert body; and at least one of the insert body and the wrap assembly further wraps a periphery of the exposed portion. The above solution uses at least one of the insert body or the wrap assembly to wrap the periphery of the exposed portion to improve a mounting yield of the wearing assembly.

A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines a first chamber, a second chamber and an acoustic opening from the first chamber or the second chamber; and an electroosmotic flow valve operable to open and close the acoustic opening.

An electronic device wearable on a body may include: a first case configured to at least partially contact the body when the electronic device is worn on the body; a second case coupled to the first case, the second case being configured to, at an exposed area on an outer surface of the second case, be exposed when the electronic device is worn on the body; a first acoustic hole configured to penetrate the second case in the exposed area; a second acoustic hole configured to penetrate the second case at a position different from the first acoustic hole; and an acoustic dimple recessed into the outer surface of the second case and extending from the second acoustic hole.

An earphone includes a housing having a space therein and having a path capable of ventilation from one end side on an external auditory canal side of a wearer to the other end side on an ambient environment side, a valve accommodated in the housing and configured to switch the path between an open state and a close state, a microphone disposed on one end side of the housing and configured to collect uttered voice of the wearer, and a control unit configured to control the open state and the close state. The control unit switches the path to the open state during a first operation in a call including an operation in which the uttered voice of the wearer is collected by the microphone, and switches the path either the open state or the close state during a second operation different from the first operation.

A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that forms an interior chamber and a sound output port to an ambient environment; a transducer positioned within the interior chamber and dividing the interior chamber into a front volume chamber coupling a first side of the transducer to the sound output port and a back volume chamber coupled to a second side of the transducer; and an electromechanical valve comprising a number of flaps operable to open and close a vent to the interior chamber, the front volume chamber or the back volume chamber.

The present disclosure provides an acoustic device including a microphone array, a processor, and at least one speaker. The microphone array may be configured to acquire an environmental noise. The processor may be configured to estimate a sound field at a target spatial position using the microphone array. The target spatial position may be closer to an ear canal of a user than each microphone in the microphone array. The processor may be configured to generate a noise reduction signal based on the environmental noise and the sound field estimation of the target spatial position. The at least one speaker may be configured to output a target signal based on the noise reduction signal. The target signal may be used to reduce the environmental noise. The microphone array may be arranged in a target area to minimize an interference signal from the at least one speaker to the microphone array.

An ear-worn hearing device is disclose and includes a body portion with a sound-producing transducer acoustically coupled to a sound passage of a nozzle. A physiological or activity sensor is located at a side of the body portion, and a resilient lobe extends from or is disposed at least partially about the body portion. The resilient lobe has greater stiffness on a side of the body portion opposite the side at which the sensor is located, wherein the resilient lobe biases the sensor toward ear tissue when the hearing device is worn by a user.

Example earphones are provided. An example earphone includes a centrosymmetric shape. The example earphone includes an earphone front housing, an earphone magnet, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The earphone magnet includes a ring structure surrounding a center line of the earphone. The earphone magnet is fastened on an inner wall of the earphone front housing. Both the first electrode and the second electrode are located on an outer side of the earphone, and comprise ring structures surrounding the center line of the earphone. The first electrode and the second electrode are respectively fastened on two opposite ends of the earphone front housing.

An in-ear electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines an interior chamber surrounding a transducer and an opening from the interior chamber to an ambient environment surrounding the enclosure; and an acoustic valve comprising a driven member coupled to a driving member having a lever and a shape memory alloy operable to cause the driven member to open and close the opening upon application of a current.

The utility model discloses an earphone, and the earphone comprises a sound production part, and the sound production part comprises a first housing which is used for forming a first accommodation cavity; the sound production assembly is arranged in the first containing cavity and comprises two loudspeakers, each loudspeaker comprises a vibrating diaphragm, the two loudspeakers are assembled and matched with each other in the axis direction so that a first acoustic cavity can be formed between the two loudspeakers, and the sound production assembly and the first shell are matched with each other; a first acoustic cavity is formed in the first shell, a second acoustic cavity isolated from the first acoustic cavity is formed between the sound production assembly and the first shell, the first shell is provided with a sound outlet hole communicated with the first acoustic cavity and a pressure relief hole communicated with the second acoustic cavity, and sound produced on one sides of vibrating diaphragms of the two loudspeakers is output through the first acoustic cavity and the sound outlet hole. And sound generated by the other sides of the vibrating diaphragms of the two loudspeakers is output through the second acoustic cavity and the pressure relief hole. In this way, the sound quality of the earphone can be improved.

There is provided an acoustic signal output device that does not completely block the ear canal and is capable of suppressing sound leakage into the surroundings. There is provided an acoustic signal output device 10 including a structure portion provided with one or more sound holes 121a to emit an acoustic signal AC1 to outside and one or more sound holes 123a to emit an acoustic signal AC2 to the outside. The sound holes 121a are each positioned at an eccentric location offset in the B1-direction from a central axis of the structure portion. A sound pressure level of the acoustic signal AC2 that is emitted from the sound holes 123a into a first space is lower than a sound pressure level of the acoustic signal AC2 that is emitted from the sound holes 123a into a second space. Here, the first space is a space positioned on the B1-direction side relative to the sound holes 121a, the second space is a space positioned on the B2-direction side relative to the sound holes 121a, and the B2 direction contains an opposite direction component of the B1 direction.

According to an embodiment, a wearable device includes: a housing, an audio port protruding from the housing in a first direction and configured to transmit an audio signal from an audio output circuit disposed in the housing, and an ear tip including a fastening part inserted in a pit disposed in an end portion of the audio port, an extension part extending from the fastening part in the first direction, a radiation surface including openings spaced apart from the extension part, a wing extending from a periphery of the radiation surface to the audio port. The extension part includes a first material, and the fastening part includes a second material having lower flexibility than a flexibility of the first material.

To provide an earphone that includes an earphone body, an earpiece, and a wing portion.SOLUTION: An earphone body includes a main housing and a sound outlet pipe connected to the main housing. The sound outlet pipe includes an audio channel and a sound outlet hole communicating with the audio channel at an end of the sound outlet pipe. The earpiece includes a fixing portion and a first noise canceling portion which are connected with each other. The fixing portion is fitted to the outside of the sound outlet pipe and the first noise canceling portion is arranged surrounding an outer periphery of the fixing portion. The wing portion includes a mounting portion and a second noise canceling portion which are connected with each other. The mounting portion is connected to the main housing and the second noise canceling portion is arranged surrounding an outer periphery of the main housing, a noise canceling cavity is formed between the first noise canceling portion and the second noise canceling portion, and the noise canceling cavity blocks environmental noise from entering a user's ear canal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The earphone comprises a sound production part, an abutting part and an ear hook, the ear hook is connected with the sound production part and the abutting part, in a wearing state, the sound production part and the abutting part form a clamping state on the two sides of a helix of a user, the sound production part is located in an auricular conchae cavity, the sound production part comprises a first shell and a sound production assembly, and the sound production assembly is used for forming a first containing cavity; the sound production assembly is arranged in the first containing cavity, a sound outlet hole is formed in the first shell, sound produced by the sound production assembly is output through the sound outlet hole, the sound outlet hole is arranged in a strip shape and is provided with a first end and a second end which are arranged at intervals in the length direction of the sound outlet hole, and in the wearing state, the first end is arranged towards the earhole, and the second end is arranged towards the earhole. And the distance between the outer wall surface of the first shell at the second end and the inner wall surface of the auricular conchae cavity is smaller than the distance between the outer wall surface of the first shell at the first end and the inner wall surface of the auricular conchae cavity. In this way, the sound quality of the earphone can be improved.

The embodiment of the invention provides an earphone. The earphone comprises a sound production part, an ear hook and a microphone assembly, the ear hook is configured to wear the sound production part at a position near the ear canal but not blocking the ear canal, and at least part of the sound production part extends into the auricular conchae; the microphone assembly at least comprises a first microphone and a second microphone, the first microphone or the second microphone is arranged in the sound production part or the ear hook, and the sound production part or the ear hook is provided with a first sound receiving hole and a second sound receiving hole respectively corresponding to the first microphone and the second microphone; wherein the extension line of the connecting line of the projection of the first sound receiving hole on the sagittal plane of the user and the projection of the second sound receiving hole on the sagittal plane has an intersection point with the projection of the antihelix on the sagittal plane, and the distance between the projection of the first sound receiving hole on the sagittal plane and the projection of the second sound receiving hole on the sagittal plane is a first distance; the distance between the projection of the second sound receiving hole on the sagittal plane and the intersection point is a second distance, and the ratio of the first distance to the second distance is 1.8-4.4.

An embodiment of the present specification provides an ear clip type earphone, comprising: a sounding part configured to be located in a conchae of a wearer and to be in contact with an inner wall of the conchae, the sounding part comprising: a housing forming an accommodating cavity; the sound production assembly is accommodated in the accommodating cavity; the sound outlet hole is formed in the shell, the sound outlet hole is configured to lead out sound generated by the sound production assembly, and a partial area of the sound outlet hole is shielded by the auricular conchae wall; the abutting part is configured to abut against the back of the ear of the wearer; and the ear hook is configured to bypass the antihelix and the helix of the wearer and connect the sound production part and the abutting part.

Systems, devices, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media may correspond to in-ear acoustic devices, such as an earbud, with transparency and noise-cancellation. The earbud may include one or a combination of the following. A housing may include a first section and a second section. A speaker may be housed by the housing. A first volume may be partially defined by the speaker and the first section. A second volume may be partially defined by the speaker and the second section. A bypass duct may fluidically connect the first volume with the second volume. The bypass duct may include a vent to outside of the housing.

This earphone comprises: a housing 11 to which a guide tube part 15 for emitting sound to the outside is coupled; fixed poles 17 fixed to the inside of the housing 11; a vibration membrane 21 which is provided to bisect the space inside the housing 11 and vibrates in response to a potential difference generated between the facing fixed poles 17; a support member 27 which supports the vibration membrane 21 so that a portion of the vibration membrane 21 is in contact with the fixed poles 17; and an adjustment hole part 14 which is formed in the housing 11 so as to pass through a wall on a side opposite to the guide tube part 15 when viewed from the vibration membrane 21, and which is for adjusting the pressure inside the housing 11. A membrane-penetrating hole 22 which passes through the vibration membrane 21 is formed in the portion of the vibration membrane 21.

An ear tip assembly structure includes a housing, a sound guide tube, and an elastic support. The sound guide tube is disposed inside the housing and extends out of the housing. The elastic support is disposed inside the sound guide tube and includes a snap fastener and an elastic arm. The elastic arm is connected to the snap fastener and is bent in a vertical direction. The snap fastener extends out of the sound guide tube to engage with an ear tip.