IP Library Granted Patent US 8,553,920
Granted Patent B2
US 8,553,920 · App. 12/605,920 · Granted Oct 8, 2013

Arrangement comprising a microphone

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Patent No.
US 8,553,920
App. No.
12/605,920
Granted
Oct 8, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An arrangement includes a circuit carrier and a housed microphone. A mounting side of the housed microphone is mounted on a top side of the circuit carrier. The housed microphone includes solderable contacts on the mounting side and a sound entry opening facing the circuit carrier. An acoustic channel connects the sound entry opening and surroundings above the circuit carrier.

Claims (33)

1. An arrangement comprising:

a circuit carrier that has an upwardly facing cutout at an upper surface of the circuit carrier;

a housed microphone, a mounting side of the housed microphone mounted on the upper surface of the circuit carrier, the housed microphone including solderable contacts on the mounting side and a sound entry opening facing the circuit carrier, wherein the sound entry opening is arranged above the cutout; and

an acoustic channel connecting the sound entry opening and surroundings above the circuit carrier, wherein the acoustic channel is led through the cutout such that the cutout laterally alongside the microphone remains open facing upward and thus creates the acoustic channel from the surroundings above the circuit carrier or the arrangement toward the sound entry opening.

2. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the microphone only partly covers the cutout and wherein the acoustic channel is led out from the microphone through a non-covered region of the cutout.

3. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the microphone comprises an encapsulated microphone chip mounted on a baseplate, wherein the sound entry opening is formed in the baseplate and the acoustic channel is at least partly formed in the baseplate.

4. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the microphone comprises an encapsulated microphone chip mounted on a baseplate;

wherein perforations are provided in the baseplate laterally alongside the microphone chip;

wherein the microphone completely covers the cutout; and

wherein the acoustic channel is led through the perforations.

5. The arrangement as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the acoustic channel is formed in the baseplate and led out laterally from the microphone.

6. The arrangement as claimed in claim 3 ,

wherein a downwardly open depression is disposed at an underside of the baseplate, the acoustic channel running through the depression; and

wherein perforations are provided in the baseplate laterally alongside the microphone chip, the acoustic channel being led out upwardly from the microphone through the perforations.

7. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a covering, wherein the microphone is covered with the covering, the acoustic channel being led through the covering.

8. The arrangement as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the covering is formed by a flat covering plate resting on spacers, the spacers being arranged between the circuit carrier and the covering plate.

9. The arrangement as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the covering is formed by a covering film that is placed over the microphone and circuit carrier, the covering film terminating against the circuit carrier.

10. The arrangement as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the covering is formed by a rigid cap that covers the microphone, the rigid cap being seated on the circuit carrier.

11. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the microphone is attached to the circuit carrier by bonding or soldering in a flip-chip arrangement.

12. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the microphone comprises an encapsulated microphone chip mounted on a baseplate.

13. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the acoustic channel has a cross section of at least 200×200 μm.

14. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the acoustic channel has a cross section of at least 0.1 mm 2 distributed over one or more openings or partial channels.

15. The arrangement as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the microphone chip is a MEMS chip based on silicon.

16. The arrangement as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the microphone chip comprises a piezoelectric diaphragm.

17. The arrangement as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the microphone chip measures changes in capacitance of a diaphragm.

18. The arrangement as claimed in claim 12 , further comprising an integrated circuit component encapsulated alongside the microphone chip in the microphone.

19. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a seal, wherein the microphone is sealed with respect to the circuit carrier by the seal, the seal having at least one opening for the sound opening and/or the acoustic channel.

20. An arrangement comprising:

a circuit carrier that has an upwardly facing cutout;

a housed microphone, a mounting side of the housed microphone mounted on a top side of the circuit carrier, the housed microphone including solderable contacts on the mounting side and a sound entry opening facing the circuit carrier, wherein the sound entry opening is arranged above the cutout; and

an acoustic channel includes a first upward facing opening connected to the sound entry opening and a second upward facing opening, the first and second upward facing openings connected by a lateral acoustic channel portion, the lateral acoustic channel portion being bounded at lower and side surfaces by the circuit carrier and being bounded at an upper surface by a portion of the housed microphone.

21. The arrangement as claimed in claim 20 , further comprising a seal, wherein the microphone is sealed with respect to the circuit carrier by the seal, the seal having at least one opening for the sound opening and/or the acoustic channel.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 13, 2025
From: TDK CORPORATION
To: INVENSENSE, INC.
Reel/Frame 073080/0824 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2017
From: EPCOS AG
To: TDK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041264/0801 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 9, 2009
From: FEIERTAG, GREGOR; LEIDL, ANTON
To: EPCOS AG
Reel/Frame 023630/0833 →