Sound transducer acoustic back cavity system
View Patent ↗An apparatus including a housing member and an airflow spreader. The housing member includes an acoustic back cavity for a sound transducer and at least two second cavities in the housing member spaced from the acoustic back cavity. The airflow spreader is connected to the housing member. The airflow spreader includes a conduit system connecting the acoustic back cavity directly with each of the at least two second cavities through the airflow spreader.
1. An apparatus comprising:
a housing member comprising an acoustic back cavity system for a sound transducer, wherein the acoustic back cavity system comprises a plurality of air cavities in the housing member, wherein at least two of the air cavities are spaced from one another; and
an airflow spreader connected to the housing member, wherein the airflow spreader comprises a conduit system providing a sequence of connections such that the acoustic back cavity system is connected to the conduit system in such a way that the at least two air cavities are acoustically connected to the sound transducer through the airflow spreader, and wherein the conduit system acoustically connects the at least two air cavities to one another.
2. The apparatus as in claim 1 , further comprising a speaker connected to the housing member adjacent the acoustic back cavity system, where the speaker forms the sound transducer.
3. The apparatus as in claim 1 , where the at least two air cavities comprise at least two air cavities which comprise different electronic circuitry therein.
4. The apparatus as in claim 1 , where the at least two air cavities are each substantially sealed except for an aperture into the conduit system of the airflow spreader.
5. The apparatus as in claim 1 , where the airflow spreader comprises two panels sealingly connected to each other with an air chamber therebetween as part of the conduit system, and holes through one of the panels into respective ones of the at least two air cavities.
6. The apparatus as in claim 5 , where a first one of the panels comprises a printed wiring board of the apparatus.
7. The apparatus as in claim 5 , where a second one of the panels comprises a user interface frame member, where the user interface frame member holds a user interface of the apparatus.
8. The apparatus as in claim 5 , where one of the panels comprises a user interface frame member, where the user interface frame member holds a user interface of the apparatus.
9. The apparatus as in claim 5 , where the air chamber connects multiple ones of the at least two air cavities.
10. The apparatus as in claim 5 , where the air chamber comprises multiple conduits connecting the at least two air cavities.
11. The apparatus as in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of air cavities comprise a first air cavity and a plurality of additional air cavities spaced from the first air cavity, and wherein the conduit system is connected to the first air cavity and the additional air cavities such that the first air cavity is acoustically connected to each of the additional air cavities.
12. The apparatus as in claim 1 , where the at least two cavities are coupled by the conduit system of the airflow spreader to achieve a desired fundamental low frequency extension for the sound transducer.
13. The apparatus as in claim 1 , further comprising dampening material at a hole from the at least one of the at least two air cavities to the conduit system of the airflow spreader.
14. The apparatus as in claim 1 , where the conduit system directly connects at least a first air cavity of the at least two air cavities directly with each of one or more additional air cavities of the at least two air cavities through the airflow spreader.
15. An apparatus comprising:
a sound transducer;
a housing having the sound transducer connected thereto; and
an acoustic back cavity system comprising a main back cavity in the housing coupled with the sound transducer and a plurality of spaced additional cavities in the housing connected with the main back cavity by a substantially closed air conduit system, wherein the air conduit system comprises a plurality of conduits providing a sequence of connections such that the main back cavity is acoustically connected to all of the plurality of the spaced additional cavities, wherein each of the spaced additional cavities is connected by a conduit to at least one further additional cavity.
16. The apparatus as in claim 15 , where the air conduit system comprises two panels sealingly connected to each other with an air chamber therebetween as part of the air conduit system, and holes through one of the panels into respective ones of the main back cavity and the additional cavities.
17. The apparatus as in claim 16 , where a first one of the panels comprises a printed wiring board of the apparatus.
18. The apparatus as in claim 16 , where a second one of the panels comprises a user interface frame member, where the user interface frame member holds a user interface of the apparatus.
19. The apparatus as in claim 16 , where one of the panels comprises a user interface frame member, where the user interface frame member holds a user interface of the apparatus.
20. A method comprising:
providing a housing member with an acoustic back cavity system for a sound transducer wherein the acoustic back cavity system comprises a plurality of air cavities, at least two of which are spaced from one another; and
connecting an airflow spreader to the housing member to provide an air conduit system comprising an arrangement of conduits acoustically connecting each of the plurality of air cavities through the airflow spreader, wherein each of the cavities is connected to at least two other cavities by conduits.