Microphone Module Integration on Camera Decoration Member
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Solution Overview
Problem
The elongated sound travel path in electronic devices with stacked structures can lead to sound loss and inconsistent sound flow due to errors in assembly, particularly when microphone holes are formed in camera areas, affecting sound quality and waterproofing.
Innovation Solution
The electronic device incorporates a simplified structure with a waterproof member to reduce stacked structures, ensuring sound is not lost and improving sound quality by using a camera decoration member with a microphone module, adhesive member, and waterproof membrane to prevent water infiltration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If stacked structures are used to accommodate microphone module and camera module, then device integration is improved, but sound travel path becomes elongated causing sound loss
Solution Approach 1:
The camera decoration member is merged with the microphone module, integrating the microphone onto the same structural component that houses the camera. This merging eliminates the need for separate stacked structures, thereby shortening the sound travel path while maintaining device integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera decoration member serves multiple functions: it decorates the camera area, supports the camera module, and houses the microphone module. This multi-functionality allows integration of multiple components without requiring additional stacked structures, thus reducing sound travel path length.
2Volume of moving object
If stacked structures are used for microphone module placement, then space utilization is improved, but assembly errors affect sound flow consistency
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the microphone module with the camera decoration member, the invention reduces the number of separate stacked components. This reduces the number of assembly interfaces and potential sources of assembly errors, thereby improving sound flow consistency while maintaining effective space utilization.
3Ease of operation
If microphone hole is formed in camera area, then sound reception is improved, but waterproofing is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
A waterproof film is applied to cover the microphone hole in the camera area. This thin film allows sound to pass through while providing waterproof protection, thus maintaining both sound reception capability and waterproofing reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The waterproof film acts as an intermediary element between the microphone hole and the external environment. It mediates between the need for sound reception and the need for waterproofing, allowing sound to pass while blocking water.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple stacked structures are used, then component integration is improved, but structure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the microphone module with the camera decoration member, reducing the number of separate stacked structures. This merging maintains component integration functionality while simplifying the overall structure, thereby reducing structure complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera decoration member is designed to serve multiple functions including camera housing and microphone mounting. This multi-functionality allows integration of multiple components into a single structural element, reducing overall structure complexity while maintaining component integration.
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AI summary
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device includes a housing, a camera decoration member having at least a portion disposed inside the housing and a first through-hole formed therein to be at least partially fluidly connected with the outside of the housing, the camera decoration member being configured to support at least a portion of a camera module disposed inside the housing, a microphone module including a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed on the camera decoration member and a microphone disposed on the first PCB, an adhesive member that is disposed between the first PCB and the camera decoration member and that has a second through-hole, at least a portion of which is fluidly connected with the first through-hole, and a waterproof membrane disposed in the second through-hole so as to be located between the camera decoration member and the first PCB to cover the first through-hole. Besides, it may be permissible to prepare various other embodiments speculated through the specification.