Speaker Box Fan for Mobile Terminal Heat Dissipation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile terminals, such as smartphones, face significant heat dissipation challenges due to their compact size and integration of heat-generating components like CPUs and batteries, which restricts their development and performance.

Innovation Solution

A sounding device with an integrated speaker box that functions as a fan, utilizing a one-way intake valve and air outlet valve to create air circulation within the device, enhancing heat dissipation by drawing in external air and expelling hot air through the sound channel, thereby facilitating internal cooling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a mobile terminal integrates heat source components like CPUs and batteries to provide diverse functions, then the functionality and performance are improved, but heat generation increases and heat dissipation becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidheat generation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the fan function with the speaker box by integrating the speaker unit into the housing body and using the speaker box's air inlet and air outlet structures to form a heat dissipation channel. The fan blade is disposed in the air inlet of the speaker box, merging cooling functionality into the existing audio component structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The speaker box structure serves dual purposes: it functions as both an audio output device and a heat dissipation system. The air inlet and air outlet of the speaker box are utilized for both speaker operation and creating airflow for cooling internal components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Volume of moving object

If the mobile terminal is made compact with small internal space, then portability is improved, but heat dissipation capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice sizeVSAvoidheat dissipation capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The fan blade is disposed within the air inlet of the speaker box, nesting the cooling component inside the existing speaker structure. The heat dissipation channel is formed by utilizing the internal space of the housing body and speaker box, nesting multiple functions within a compact volume.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a three-dimensional heat dissipation pathway by forming a heat dissipation channel that extends from the air inlet through the housing body to the air outlet. The speaker box is positioned to create vertical and horizontal airflow paths, utilizing spatial dimensions efficiently within the compact device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Temperature

If a traditional separate fan structure is used for heat dissipation, then cooling effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and space occupation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecooling effectivenessVSAvoidstructural complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The fan function is merged with the speaker box by integrating the speaker unit into the housing body and using the speaker box's air inlet and air outlet structures to form a heat dissipation channel. The fan blade is disposed in the air inlet of the speaker box, merging cooling functionality into the existing audio component structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The speaker box structure serves dual purposes: it functions as both an audio output device and a heat dissipation system. The air inlet and air outlet of the speaker box are utilized for both speaker operation and creating airflow for cooling internal components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

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

The solution effectively accelerates air circulation inside the mobile terminal, improving heat dissipation and cooling efficiency, thus addressing the heat radiation issues in compact mobile devices.

Implementation Method 1

an elastic body of which one end is fixed on the reinforcement part and the other end is fixed on the first housing body

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Implementation Method 2

a one-way intake valve arranged corresponding to the through opening for introducing air in the first accommodation space into the front acoustic cavity

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectOne-way flow control: Valve

Implementation Method 3

a speaker unit accommodated in the second housing body, comprising a diaphragm

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroacoustic conversion:

Implementation Method 4

forming a heat dissipation channel to guide air flow from the air inlet to the air outlet, so as to form air circulation inside the housing body

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectConvection: Convection

Data Source

PatentUS11159892B2Sounding device and mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2021.10.26 AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE LTD
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AI summary

The invention relates to a sounding device having a first housing body with a first accommodation space, and a speaker box accommodated into the first housing body. The speaker box includes a second housing body with a second accommodation space, and a speaker unit accommodated in the second housing body. The speaker unit divides the second accommodation space into a front acoustic cavity. The sounding device further comprises a one-way intake valve. The speaker box, serving as a fan in a mobile terminal, pushes air circulation inside and outside the mobile terminal, thereby achieving a heat dissipation effect and facilitating internal cooling of the mobile terminal.