Audio Unit Arrangement with Spring Element for Camera Acoustic Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Designing a camera with an integrated audio unit poses challenges in achieving desired audio quality while ensuring easy installation and minimal impact on the camera's design, especially when the audio unit needs to be retro-fitted or installed with encapsulated electronics.
Innovation Solution
An audio unit arrangement is configured to be installed between the camera unit and a removable cover, featuring an audio unit electronically connected to the camera, a holder mechanically connected to the camera, and a spring element that resiliently forces the audio unit into abutment against the cover, providing a secure and acoustically sealed connection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the audio unit is integrated into the camera with encapsulated electronics, then the camera structure is sealed and protected, but the audio unit cannot be easily installed or retro-fitted
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system is divided into separate functional modules: the main camera unit with encapsulated electronics, and a separate audio unit that can be independently installed. The audio unit connects to the camera through a defined interface on the removable cover, allowing the sealing of the main camera unit to be maintained while enabling easy audio unit installation and removal without compromising the sealed enclosure.
2Manufacturing precision
If the audio unit is installed to achieve desired audio quality, then acoustic sealing is improved, but the installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The audio unit is combined with the removable cover as an integrated assembly. The cover itself serves as part of the acoustic sealing structure, and the audio unit is mounted on the cover rather than requiring separate installation into the camera body. This merging reduces installation complexity while maintaining acoustic sealing, as the cover naturally positions and seals the audio unit when attached to the camera.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the audio unit is made as a separate retro-fit component, then installation flexibility is improved, but the acoustic connection to the camera may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The removable cover acts as an intermediary component that bridges the audio unit and the camera unit. The cover provides a defined mounting interface for the audio unit and creates an acoustic pathway from the audio unit through the cover to the camera interior. This intermediary structure ensures reliable acoustic connection while allowing the audio unit to be installed separately as a retro-fit component.
4Manufacturing precision
If the audio unit is forced into abutment against the cover, then acoustic sealing is enhanced, but the mechanical connection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A spring element is used to provide a resilient forcing mechanism that pushes the audio unit into abutment against the removable cover. The spring element compensates for manufacturing tolerances and ensures consistent acoustic sealing without requiring complex mechanical fastening systems. The resilient force from the spring maintains reliable acoustic contact while allowing for simple installation and removal of the audio unit.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution facilitates easy installation of the audio unit with improved audio quality by ensuring a secure mechanical connection and acoustic sealing, allowing for flexible logistics and retro-fitting options without compromising the camera's design or sound quality.
Implementation Method 1
the spring element allowing the audio unit to be pushed into the audio unit container in a first direction due to a resilience of the spring element and thereby resiliently forcing the audio unit in a second direction, opposite the first direction, outward relative to the audio unit container
Data Source
AI summary
An audio apparatus and a camera including the audio apparatus. The audio apparatus includes an audio transducer electronically connectable to a camera unit, and an audio transducer holder being mechanically connectable to the camera unit and having an audio transducer container being configured to receive the audio transducer and being provided with a spring element allowing the audio transducer to be pushed into the audio transducer container in a first direction and resiliently forcing the audio transducer outward relative to the audio transducer container such that, when the audio apparatus is installed in the camera and the camera is in an assembled state including the removable cover, the audio transducer is forced into abutment against an inside of the removable cover of the camera.