Angled Speaker Overlap Reduces Device Height
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices with reduced form factors often compromise on acoustic experience and increase in width due to component arrangement, where the high SPL audio speaker is either partially obscured or angled, leading to suboptimal sound quality and increased size.
Innovation Solution
The electronic device employs an angled orientation of the high SPL audio speaker and an overlapping arrangement with the display screen, allowing the speaker's bottom portion to overlap the screen's top portion, and the keypad's top portion to overlap the screen's bottom portion, maintaining sound quality while reducing the device's overall size by decreasing the volume of internal components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the high SPL audio speaker is arranged horizontally aligned with the display screen and keypad, then the acoustic experience quality is good, but the device height increases
Solution Approach 1:
The speaker is rotated about a vertical axis to change its orientation from horizontal alignment to an angled configuration. This dimensional change in orientation allows the speaker to project sound forward while occupying less vertical space, thereby reducing device height while maintaining acoustic quality
2Length of stationary object
If the display screen partially overlaps the high SPL audio speaker, then the device height decreases, but the width increases and acoustic experience quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The speaker is rotated about a vertical axis to change its orientation from horizontal alignment to an angled configuration. This dimensional change in orientation allows the speaker to project sound forward while occupying less vertical space, thereby reducing device height while maintaining acoustic quality
3Length of stationary object
If the high SPL audio speaker is arranged with an angled orientation, then the device height decreases, but the device width remains the same or increases
Solution Approach 1:
The speaker is positioned such that it overlaps with the display screen and keypad components. This merging of component spaces allows the speaker to achieve an angled orientation for height reduction while sharing the device's width space with other components, preventing width increase
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration reduces the form factor of the electronic device, providing an improved acoustic experience comparable to conventional devices without the need for an acoustic channel, resulting in a more cost-effective and less complex design.
Implementation Method 1
a first user interface component (e.g., a electroacoustic transducer)
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods (1000) for reducing a form factor of an Electronic Device (“ED”). The methods involve disposing a first user interface component (702) in a housing (710) of ED (700) such that its center axis (718) is at an angle (720) relative to a plane (722) that is perpendicular to a horizontal center axis (712) of ED. A second user interface component (704) is disposed in the housing such that its center axis (724) is parallel to the horizontal center axis of ED, and such that a top portion (734) thereof is overlapped by a bottom portion (732) of the first user interface component. A third user interface component (706) is disposed in the housing such that its center axis (726) is parallel to the horizontal center axis of ED, and such that a top portion (730) thereof overlaps a bottom portion (728) of the second user interface component.