IP Library Granted Patent US 7,425,361
Granted Patent B2
US 7,425,361 · App. 11/167,075 · Granted Sep 16, 2008

Speaker grille, injection molding mold, and broadcast data receiving device having such speaker grille

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Patent No.
US 7,425,361
App. No.
11/167,075
Granted
Sep 16, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A speaker grille has a grille base, a plurality of front through holes formed on a front side of the grille base, and a plurality of back through holes formed on a back side of the grille base, each of the plurality of front through holes communicating with one of the plurality of back through holes at its inner end. The front through holes are smaller than the back through holes at the inner ends. Such speaker grille is formed by injection-molding a resin using a mold having a stationary half provided with a plurality of stationary side mold pins, and a movable half provided with a plurality of movable side mold pins. The stationary half is designed to form a front side of the speaker grille. The stationary mold pins have distal end faces that are smaller than distal ends faces of the movable mold pins.

Claims (26)

1. A speaker grille formed by resin mold-injection and configured to cover a speaker, comprising:

a grille base, the grille base having

a plurality of front through holes formed on a front side of the grille base, and

a plurality of back through holes formed on a back side of the grille base, each of the plurality of front through holes communicating with one of the plurality of back through holes at its inner end, the back side of the grille base being configured to face the speaker,

the front through holes being smaller than the back through holes at the inner ends and tapering from a front side end toward the inner end.

2. The speaker grille according to claim 1 , wherein

a length of the front through hole between the inner end and a front side end is substantially the same as a length of the corresponding back through hole between the inner end and a back side end.

3. The speaker grille according to claim 1 , wherein

the front through holes are circular in shape at their inner ends, and

the back through holes are rectangular in shape at their inner ends.

4. A broadcast data receiving device, comprising

a cabinet having a display and the speaker grille according to claim 1 ; and

a broadcast data receiver configured to receive data and display the data at the display.

5. A speaker grille formed by resin mold-injection and configured to cover a speaker, comprising:

a grille base, the grille base having

a plurality of front through holes formed on a front side of the grille base, and

a plurality of back through holes formed on a back side of the grille base, each of the plurality of front through holes communicating with one of the plurality of back through holes at its inner end, the back side of the grille base being configured to face the speaker,

the front through holes being smaller than the back through holes at the inner ends,

a length of the front through hole between the inner end and a front side end being substantially the same as a length of the corresponding back through hole between the inner end and a back side end,

the front through holes being circular in shape at their inner ends,

back through holes being rectangular in shape at their inner ends, and

each of the front through holes tapering from the front side end toward the inner end.

6. The speaker grille according to claim 1 , wherein

each of the front through holes communicates in a one-to-one relationship with each of the back through holes at the inner end.

7. The speaker grille according to claim 3 , wherein

each of the front through holes communicates in a one-to-one relationship with each of the back through holes at the inner end.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 20, 2025
From: FUNAI GROUP CO., LTD
To: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 073121/0824 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 20, 2025
From: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (F/K/A FE-TECH CO., LTD.)
To: FEC IP LLC
Reel/Frame 073121/0883 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2005
From: ISHII, HIROKI
To: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017101/0981 →