508results 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

An earpiece includes an electro-acoustic transducer, a housing that encloses the electro-acoustic transducer, and a nozzle. The nozzle is coupled to the housing and is configured to direct acoustic energy from the transducer toward a user's ear canal when the earpiece is worn. The nozzle defines an inlet opening, an exit opening, and an acoustic pathway extending therebetween. A microphone is disposed within the nozzle and includes a microphone port. A chimney acoustically couples the microphone port to the exit opening and at least partially defines an effective port for the microphone. The inlet opening is closer to the electro-acoustic transducer than the exit opening such that acoustic energy radiated by the electro-acoustic transducer travels from the inlet opening toward the exit opening. The effective port is closer to the exit opening than the microphone port. The effective port is spaced from an exit opening of the nozzle.

Embodiments are directed to measuring, on a periodic basis by a hearing device, one or more transfer functions, each of the one or more transfer functions comprising a receiver-to-microphone acoustic transfer function of the hearing device. A plurality of health indicators of the hearing device are calculated over time using a measured characteristic of each of the measured transfer functions and a nominal characteristic of each of the measured transfer functions. Using the plurality of health indicators, degradation or failure of any of the receivers, any of the microphones, or a component in an acoustic path between one or more receivers and one or more microphones is detected. One or both of recommended actions and warnings are generated in response to detecting degradation or failure of any of the receivers, any of the microphones, or the component.

The present disclosure provides an open earphone comprising: a sound production component including a transducer and a housing accommodating the transducer and an ear hook. In a wearing state, a portion of the ear hook is hung between an auricle and a user's head, and the other portion of the ear hook extends towards a side of the auricle away from the head and connects to the sound production component to place the sound production component in a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. The housing is provided with a sound outlet on an inner side surface towards the auricle for guiding a sound generated by the transducer out of the housing and to the ear canal, and a ratio of an area of the sound outlet to an area of the inner side surface is between 0.015 and 0.25.

A hearing device with an adjustable vent is disclosed. The device includes at least one microphone configured to provide an input signal representing sound, a processor configured to process the input signal and provide a processed signal, at least one loudspeaker configured to receive the processed signal from the processor and to provide an acoustic signal based on the processed signal to the ear of a user, an earpiece comprising a vent, and an electrically controllable valve configured to control the vent, and a valve control unit configured to receive one or more control signals in dependence of a current hearing situation of the hearing device, wherein the valve control unit is configured to adjust the electrically controllable valve in dependence of the one or more control signals to provide the vent to be in a state between an acoustically more open and an acoustically less open state.

An headphone is provided. The headphone includes a housing assembly, an interface assembly, and a wire assembly. The housing assembly includes a first housing, the first housing being provided with a receiving slot and an accommodation cavity in communication with the receiving slot; an interface assembly inserted within the receiving slot; a circuit board disposed within the accommodation cavity; and a wire assembly electrically connecting the circuit board and the interface assembly. In the manner disclosed above, a freedom of a mounting position and a mounting posture of the interface assembly may be improved, which facilitates the assembly of the headphone.

There is provided a vent assembly comprising a membrane stack, the membrane stack comprising a plurality of membranes and an air gap between adjacent membranes in the plurality of membranes, wherein each membrane in the plurality of membranes comprises a non-fluoropolymer and substantially occlude each other in the membrane stack.

A method for determining an acoustic mass of an earpiece to be plugged into an ear of a user comprises: receiving user data comprising at least an audiogram of the user; and inputting the user data into a machine learning algorithm and determining the acoustic mass by the machine learning algorithm.

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 B 1-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.

The present disclosure relates to a vibration transmission sheet (113), a bone-conducting loudspeaker (11), and an earphone (100). The vibration transmission sheet (113) comprises a central fixing portion (1131) manufactured from a processed sheet, an annular fixing portion (1132) around a periphery of the central fixing portion (1131), and a linkage assembly (1133) connected between the central fixing portion (1131) and the annular fixing portion (1132). An inner ring edge (1132a) of the annular fixing portion (1132) has a first direction (W1) and a second direction perpendicular (W2) to each other. The linkage assembly (1133) includes two linkages (1134). Each of the two linkages (1134) includes an outer edge (1135) toward the inner ring edge (1132a) and an inner edge (1136) away from the inner ring edge (1132a). An extension component of the outer edge (1135) extends along the first direction (W1) is greater than or equal to one-half of a dimension of the inner ring edge (1132a) along the first direction (W1). A width of the linkage (1134) is greater than or equal to one-tenth of a dimension of the inner ring edge (1132a) along the second direction (W2). By adopting the above design, the extension length of the linkage (1134) can be effectively increased, thereby improving the durability and lifespan of the linkage (1134).

A voice intelligibility enhancement system is disclosed comprising at least one in-ear headphone device arranged with an ear canal facing portion and an environment facing portion. The device includes an acoustic path including a vent, the acoustic path coupling an environment-facing portion with an ear canal-facing portion, and an electro-acoustic path including a microphone at the environment-facing portion, a filter, and a speaker at the ear canal-facing portion. The acoustic path is arranged to transmit acoustic sound in a vowel-dominant frequency range, and the electro-acoustic path is arranged to acoustically reproduce a sound signal in a consonant-dominant frequency range and in the vowel-dominant frequency range, and the electro-acoustic path is arranged such that contributions from the acoustic path within the vowel dominant frequency range are compensated by the electro-acoustic path to improve the signal masking ratio. A method for enhancing speech intelligibility is also disclosed.

A speaker assembly is provided. The speaker assembly includes a housing assembly including a main housing, an air conduction speaker disposed within the main housing, and a bone conduction speaker rotatably supported on the main housing and being capable of rotating relative to the main housing along a preset rotation axis. A vibration direction of the air conduction speaker is parallel to the preset rotation axis, and a vibration direction of the bone conduction speaker is perpendicular to the preset rotation axis.

The present disclosure relates to a vibration transmission sheet (113), a bone-conducting loudspeaker (11), and an earphone (100). The vibration transmission sheet (113) comprises a central fixing portion (1131) manufactured from a processed sheet, an annular fixing portion (1132) around a periphery of the central fixing portion (1131), and a linkage assembly (1133) connected between the central fixing portion (1131) and the annular fixing portion (1132). An inner ring edge (1132a) of the annular fixing portion (1132) has a first direction (W1) and a second direction perpendicular (W2) to each other. The linkage assembly (1133) includes two linkages (1134). Each of the two linkages (1134) includes an outer edge (1135) toward the inner ring edge (1132a) and an inner edge (1136) away from the inner ring edge (1132a). An extension component of the outer edge (1135) extends along the first direction (W1) is greater than or equal to one-half of a dimension of the inner ring edge (1132a) along the first direction (W1). A width of the linkage (1134) is greater than or equal to one-tenth of a dimension of the inner ring edge (1132a) along the second direction (W2). By adopting the above design, the extension length of the linkage (1134) can be effectively increased, thereby improving the durability and lifespan of the linkage (1134).

The present disclosure relates to an earphone (100), comprising a shell assembly (10) and an air-conducting loudspeaker (12). The shell assembly (10) is provided with an accommodation cavity (1001 and 1002) and a sound outlet hole (1080) for connecting the accommodation cavity (1001 and 1002) to an external environment. The air-conducting loudspeaker (12) includes a magnetic circuit assembly (120), a voice coil (122), and a vibration diaphragm (123). The magnetic circuit assembly (120) includes a shield (121) having an open end (1211), and an annular flange (1212) that is disposed at the open end (1211) of the shield (121) and protrudes from an outer periphery surface of the shield (121). A rim of the vibration diaphragm (123) is fixed to the annular flange (1212) and the vibration diaphragm (123) covers the open end (1211) of the shield (12). The voice coil (122) is connected to the vibration diaphragm (123), and the vibration diaphragm (123) is disposed on a side of the shield (121) away from the sound outlet hole (1080). Through the above design, the present disclosure can effectively improve the spatial utilization of the shell assembly (10), reduce the overall volume of the entire shell assembly (10), and also effectively enhance the sound quality.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an acoustic output device including a sound emitting part. The sound emitting part includes: at least one acoustic driver, and a first chamber and a second chamber acoustically coupled to the at least one acoustic driver. The first chamber has at least one first sound outlet, and the second chamber has at least one second sound outlet. The at least one acoustic driver radiates sounds to an external environment through the at least one first sound outlet and the at least one second sound outlet, wherein in in at least a portion of a low-frequency range, the sounds emitted by the sound emitting part towards a far field exhibits directivity. The directivity is characterized by a sound pressure difference of not less than 3 dB, in at least one pair of opposite directions, between a sound radiated from the at least one first sound outlet and a sound radiated from the at least one second sound outlet.