Earphone

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10244302-B2
Application number	US-201615746393-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2016
Priority date	Jul 22, 2015
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

An earphone, comprising an earphone housing and a loudspeaker unit accommodated in the earphone housing, the loudspeaker unit dividing a cavity formed by the earphone housing into an earphone front sound cavity and an earphone rear sound cavity; wherein the earphone further comprises a tuning mechanism; wherein a rear sound cavity audio hole is provided on the loudspeaker unit rear sound cavity, and the loudspeaker unit rear sound cavity is in communication with the earphone rear sound cavity through the rear sound cavity audio hole; the tuning mechanism is provided between the rear sound cavity audio hole and the housing, and the tuning mechanism is used to adjust the size of the rear sound cavity audio hole of the loudspeaker unit. The present application allows for individual adjustment of the sound quality of the earphone in accordance with a middle and low frequency requirements of different users.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An earphone, comprising an earphone housing and a loudspeaker unit accommodated in the earphone housing, the loudspeaker unit dividing a cavity formed by the earphone housing into an earphone front sound cavity and an earphone rear sound cavity,
wherein the earphone further comprises a tuning mechanism;
wherein a rear sound cavity audio hole is provided on a loudspeaker unit rear sound cavity, and the loudspeaker unit rear sound cavity is in communication with the earphone rear sound cavity through the rear sound cavity audio hole;
wherein the tuning mechanism is provided between the rear sound cavity audio hole and the earphone housing, and the tuning mechanism is used to adjust a size of the rear sound cavity audio hole of the loudspeaker unit;
wherein the loudspeaker unit comprises a unit housing and a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system accommodated in the unit housing;
the magnetic circuit system comprises a magnetic conductive yoke, a magnet located at a center of the magnetic conductive yoke, and a washer located at a side of the magnet away from the magnetic conductive yoke;
through-holes, positions of which correspond to each other, are respectively disposed on the magnetic conductive yoke, the magnet and the washer, and the loudspeaker unit rear sound cavity is in communication with the earphone rear sound cavity through the through-holes;
the tuning mechanism comprises a tuning unit, a tuning knob and a connecting rod; and
the tuning unit is disposed in the through-hole of the magnetic conductive yoke, the tuning knob is adaptively connected to the tuning unit, and the connecting rod is fixed between the earphone housing and the tuning knob.

2. The earphone according to claim 1 , wherein the earphone housing comprises an earphone front housing and an earphone rear housing which is adaptively connected to the earphone front housing; and
wherein the earphone front sound cavity is formed by the earphone front housing and the loudspeaker unit, and the earphone rear sound cavity is formed by the earphone rear housing and the loudspeaker unit.

3. The earphone according to claim 2 , wherein the vibration system comprises a vibrating diaphragm, a voice coil fixed at one side of the vibrating diaphragm, and a reinforcing part located at a center of the vibrating diaphragm.

4. The earphone according to claim 1 , wherein a groove/protrusion is provided at one end of the connecting rod, the tuning knob is provided with a protrusion/groove corresponding to the groove/protrusion, the protrusion is locked in the groove; and
wherein the connecting rod is used for rotating the tuning knob and adjusting a relative position between the tuning knob and the tuning unit.

5. The earphone according to claim 1 , wherein the tuning unit is a disk provided with an arc-shaped tuning hole, and the tuning knob is a semi-circular disk rotatable around a center of the tuning unit; and
wherein the tuning knob is rotated on the tuning unit to adjust a degree of covering the arc-shaped tuning hole.

6. The earphone according to claim 5 , wherein a tuning network, a radian of which is in consistent with a radian of the arc-shaped tuning hole, is attached to the arc-shaped tuning hole.

7. The earphone according to claim 1 , further comprising an ear rubber sleeve; and
wherein the ear rubber sleeve is sleeved on a main sound output tube of the earphone front housing.

8. The earphone according to claim 1 , further comprising an earphone wire; and
wherein one end of the earphone wire is electrically connected to the loudspeaker unit, and the other end of the earphone wire is provided with an earphone plug.

Assignees

• Goertek Inc

Inventors

• Zhao Yanpeng
• Xie Ping
• Fang Xiaofei

Classifications

• H04R1/2849

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R9/06

  Loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R1/1075

  Mountings of transducers in earphones or headphones · CPC title

• H04R1/2842

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/1041 Primary

  Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements (switches in general H01H) · CPC title