IP Library Granted Patent US 10,959,000
Granted Patent B2
US 10,959,000 · App. 16/378,112 · Granted Mar 23, 2021

Electronic device including a speaker assembly

Inventors: Yongjun Je (Seoul, KR); Youngin Ko (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04R1/028H04R1/025H04R1/2811H04R1/2857H04R2499/15
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Patent No.
US 10,959,000
App. No.
16/378,112
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an electronic device. In an embodiment, the electronic device may include a body, a display combined with the front of the body, and a speaker assembly embedded on at least one side of the body, wherein the speaker assembly may include a casing configured to form an external appearance and a speaker unit combined with the casing and configured to have at least part of an element of the speaker assembly exposed to an outside of the casing.

Claims (25)

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a body;

a display in front of the body;

a speaker assembly disposed inside the body of the electronic device,

the speaker assembly including:

a speaker unit;

a frame in which the speaker unit is disposed;

a casing having an internal space including a resonant region, wherein a side of the casing is removed corresponding to a shape of the frame to receive the frame, and the frame is disposed at the removed side of the casing and exposed to the outside of the casing; and

a magnet exposed to the outside of the casing and having a first flat surface, a second flat surface opposite to the first flat surface, a third flat surface between the first flat surface and the second flat surface and a fourth flat surface opposite to the third flat surface between the first flat surface and the second flat surface,

wherein the removed side of the casing is contoured so that at least two flat surfaces of the magnet face the contoured side of the casing and at least two flat surfaces of the magnet do not face the contoured side of the casing.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the removed side of the casing is contoured so that at least two sides of the frame face the contoured side of the casing and at least two sides of the frame do not face the contoured side of the casing.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein a distance between the at least two flat surfaces of the magnet not facing the contoured side of the casing is substantially the same as a thickness of the speaker assembly.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the speaker unit, the frame, and the magnet form a single unit that is attachable and detachable from the removed side of the casing.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the frame is disposed along a center axis of the casing.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the frame is disposed offset from a center axis of the casing.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the removed side of the casing includes at least one hole that communicates with the internal space of the casing, and the frame abuts the at least one hole allowing the speaker unit to communicate with the at least one hole.

8. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the at least one hole of the casing comprises two holes and the two holes at disposed on the removed side of the casing such that two sides of the frame are disposed on the two holes, respectively, and the speaker unit communicates with the two holes of the casing.

9. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the at least one hole at the removed side of the casing is in communication with the resonant region of the casing.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the casing further comprises a spread hole and the spread hole is in communication with the at least one hole at the removed side of the casing.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein communication between the at least one hole of the casing and the spread hole of the casing passes through the resonant region of the casing.

12. The electronic device of claim 11 , wherein the casing further comprises at least one wall within the internal space of the casing and the at least one wall forms a path where the at least one hole at the removed side of the casing communicates with the spread hole of the case.

13. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the casing is formed by combining a first casing part with a second casing part.

14. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the speaker assembly is downwardly placed at the bottom of the body of the electronic device.

15. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the speaker assembly further comprises a cushion, wherein the cushion is disposed at an outer surface of the casing of the speaker assembly.

16. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the speaker assembly abuts two inner surfaces of the body of the electronic device with the cushion there between.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 17, 2025
From: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
To: INNOTV LABS, LLC
Reel/Frame 074008/0768 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2019
From: JE, YONGJUN; KO, YOUNGIN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 048822/0820 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2014-0014385 · Feb 7, 2014 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16013738 · Jun 20, 2018
Continuation 14614021 · Feb 4, 2015
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