IP Library Granted Patent US 12,185,045
Granted Patent B2
US 12,185,045 · App. 17/816,019 · Granted Dec 31, 2024

Microphone with low noise and high Q value

Inventors: Wenbing Zhou (Shenzhen, CN); Yujia Huang (Shenzhen, CN); Yongshuai Yuan (Shenzhen, CN); Wenjun Deng (Shenzhen, CN); Xin Qi (Shenzhen, CN); Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
H04R1/083H04R1/04H04R1/2807H04R17/02H04R2460/13
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Patent No.
US 12,185,045
App. No.
17/816,019
Granted
Dec 31, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure may provide a microphone. The microphone may include: a shell structure and a vibration pickup portion, wherein the vibration pickup portion may generate vibration in response to vibration of the shell structure; the vibration transmission portion may be configured to transmit the vibration generated by the vibration pickup portion; and an acoustic-electric conversion component configured to receive the vibration transmitted by the vibration transmission portion to generate an electrical signal, wherein the vibration transmission portion and at least a portion of vibration pickup portion may form a vacuum cavity, and the acoustic-electric conversion component may be located in the vacuum cavity.

Claims (36)

1. A microphone, comprising:

a shell structure;

a vibration pickup portion, wherein the vibration pickup portion generates vibration in response to vibration of the shell structure, the vibration pickup portion comprises a first vibration pickup portion, a second vibration pickup portion, and a third vibration pickup portion, a rigidity of the first vibration pickup portion and a rigidity of the second vibration pickup portion is greater than a rigidity of the third vibration pickup portion, the first vibration pickup portion and the second vibration pickup portion is arranged opposite to each other from up to down;

a vibration transmission portion, wherein the vibration transmission portion having a tubular structure being arranged between the first vibration pickup portion and the second vibration pickup portion, the vibration transmission portion, the first vibration pickup portion, and the second vibration pickup portion form a vacuum cavity, the third vibration pickup portion is connected between the vibration transmission portion and an inner wall of the shell structure; and

an acoustic-electric conversion component configured to receive the vibration transmitted by the vibration transmission portion to generate an electrical signal;

and

the acoustic-electric conversion component is located in the vacuum cavity.

2. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein a vacuum degree in the vacuum cavity is smaller than 100 Pa.

3. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein

the vibration pickup portion and the shell structure form at least one acoustic cavity, the at least one acoustic cavity comprising a first acoustic cavity; and

the shell structure comprises at least one hole portion, the at least one hole portion is located at a side wall of the shell structure corresponding to the first acoustic cavity, and the at least one hole portion connects the first acoustic cavity with outside, wherein

the vibration pickup portion generates the vibration in response to the external sound signal transmitted through the at least one hole portion; and

the acoustic-electric conversion component receives the vibration of the vibration pickup portion to generate the electrical signal.

4. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein Young's modulus of the first vibration pickup portion and Young's modulus of the second vibration pickup portion are greater than 50 GPa.

5. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein the acoustic-electric conversion component includes a cantilever beam structure, one end of the cantilever beam structure is connected to an inner wall of the vibration transmission portion, and another end of the cantilever beam structure is suspended in the vacuum cavity, wherein

the cantilever beam structure deforms based on a vibration signal to convert the vibration signal into an electrical signal.

6. The microphone of claim 5 , wherein

the cantilever beam structure comprises a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, a second electrode layer, an elastic layer, and a base layer;

the first electrode layer, the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode layer are arranged from top to bottom;

the elastic layer is located on an upper surface of the first electrode layer or a lower surface of the second electrode layer, and

the base layer is located on an upper surface or a lower surface of the elastic layer.

7. The microphone of claim 5 , wherein the cantilever beam structure comprises at least one elastic layer, an electrode layer, and a piezoelectric layer;

the at least one elastic layer is located on a surface of the electrode layer;

the electrode layer comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein

the first electrode is bent into a first comb-like structure;

the second electrode is bent into a second comb-like structure;

the first comb-like structure and the second comb-like structure are cooperated to form the electrode layer;

the electrode layer is located on an upper surface or a lower surface of the piezoelectric layer; and

the first comb-like structure and the second comb-like structure extend along a length direction of the cantilever beam structure.

8. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein the acoustic-electric conversion component comprises a first cantilever beam structure and a second cantilever beam structure, the first cantilever beam structure and the second cantilever beam structure are arranged opposite to each other, and the first cantilever beam structure and the second cantilever beam structure have a first gap, wherein

the first gap between the first cantilever beam structure and the second cantilever beam structure changes based on a vibration signal to convert the vibration signal into an electrical signal.

9. The microphone of claim 8 , wherein one end of the first cantilever beam structure and the second cantilever beam structure corresponding to the acoustic-electric conversion component is connected to an inner wall of a peripheral side of the vibration transmission portion, and another end of the first cantilever beam structure and the second cantilever beam structure is suspended in the vacuum cavity.

10. The microphone of claim 8 , wherein a rigidity of the first cantilever beam structure is different from a rigidity of the second cantilever beam structure.

11. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein the microphone comprises at least one film structure, the at least one film structure being located on an upper surface or a lower surface of the acoustic-electric conversion component.

12. The microphone of claim 11 , wherein the at least one film structure wholly or partially covers the upper surface or the lower surface of the acoustic-electric conversion component.

13. The microphone of claim 1 , wherein the microphone comprises at least one supporting structure, one end of the at least one supporting structure is connected to the first vibration pickup portion of the vibration pickup portion, another end of the at least one supporting structure is connected to the second vibration pickup portion of the vibration pickup portion, and a free end of the acoustic-electric conversion component and the supporting structure have a second gap.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2022
From: ZHOU, WENBING; HUANG, YUJIA; YUAN, YONGSHUAI; DENG, WENJUN; QI, XIN; LIAO, FENGYUN
To: SHENZHEN VOXTECH CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 061597/0726 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 31, 2022
From: SHENZHEN VOXTECH CO., LTD.
To: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 061597/0819 →
Continuity (2)
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