Bone conduction speaker and earphone

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11310601-B2
Application number	US-202017078276-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 23, 2020
Priority date	Jun 15, 2018
Publication date	Apr 19, 2022
Grant date	Apr 19, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a bone conduction speaker. The bone conduction speaker may include a driving device and a panel. The driving device may be configured to generate a driving force, and the driving force is located in a straight line. The panel may be transmissibly connected to the driving device. The panel may be configured to conduct sound. A region through which the panel interacting with the user's body may have a normal line. The normal line may not be parallel to that straight line.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bone conduction speaker, comprising:
at least two driving devices configured to generate at least two driving forces, wherein a resultant force composed of the at least two driving forces generated by each driving device is located in a straight line; and
a panel transmissibly connected to the at least two driving devices, wherein the panel is configured to conduct sound, wherein a region through which the panel interacting with a user's body has a normal line, and wherein the normal line is not parallel to that straight line.

2. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein the straight line has a positive direction pointing out of the bone conduction speaker via the panel, wherein the normal line has a positive direction pointing out of the bone conduction speaker, and wherein an angle between the two lines in the positive direction is an acute angle.

3. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein each one of the at least two driving devices comprises a coil and a magnetic system, an axis of the coil and an axis of the magnetic system are not parallel to the normal line, and wherein the axis is perpendicular to at least one of a radial plane of the coil and a radial plane of the magnetic system.

4. The bone conduction speaker of claim 3 , wherein, the bone conduction speaker further comprises a housing, and wherein
the housing is connected to the panel via a connection medium; or
the housing and the panel are integrally formed.

5. The bone conduction speaker of claim 4 , wherein
the coil is connected to at least one of the panel and the housing through a first transmissible path, and wherein
the magnetic system is connected to at least one of the panel and the housing through a second transmission path.

6. The bone conduction speaker of claim 5 , wherein the first transmission path comprises a connection component, and the second transmission path comprises a vibration transmission sheet, and wherein a stiffness of the connection component is higher than a stiffness of the vibration transmission sheet.

7. The bone conduction speaker of claim 6 , wherein the stiffness of a component on the first transmission path or the second transmission path is positively correlated with the elastic modulus and thickness of the component and negatively correlated with the surface area of the component.

8. The bone conduction speaker of claim 6 , wherein a stiffener is provided on the connection component, the stiffener is a facade or a support rod, and wherein one side of the connection component is shorter than the other side so that the axis of the coil is not parallel to the normal line.

9. The bone conduction speaker of claim 6 , wherein the connection component is a hollow cylinder, one end surface of the hollow cylinder is connected to one end surface of the coil, and wherein
the other end surface of the hollow cylinder is connected to at least one of the panel and the housing.

10. The bone conduction speaker of claim 6 , wherein the connection component is a group of connecting rods, one end of each connecting rod is connected to one end surface of the coil, and the other end of each connecting rod is connected to at least one of the panel and the housing, and wherein each connecting rod is distributed circumferentially around the coil.

11. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein the resultant force has a component in at least one of a first quadrant and a third quadrant of an xoy plane coordinate system, and wherein,
an origin o of the xoy plane coordinate system is located on a contact surface of the bone conduction speaker with the user's body, an x axis is parallel to a human coronal axis, an y axis is parallel to a human sagittal axis, a positive direction of the x axis is toward an outside of the user's body, and a positive direction of the y axis is toward a front of the user's body.

12. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein a straight line where the first driving force generated by the first driving device is located is parallel to the normal line, and a straight line where the second driving force generated by the second driving device is located is perpendicular to the normal line.

13. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein an area of the panel is in a range from 20 mm 2 to 1000 mm 2 , and wherein
a length of a side length of the panel is in a range from 5 mm to 40 mm, or 18 mm to 25 mm, or 11 to 18 mm.

14. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein an angle is formed between the straight line where the resultant force is located and the normal line, wherein the angle is a value between 5° and 80°, or a value between 15° and 70°, or a value between 25° and 50°, or a value between 25° and 40°, or a value between 28° and 35°, or a value between 27° and 32°, or a value between 30° and 35°, or a value between 25° and 60°, or a value between 28° and 50°, or a value between 30° and 39°, or a value between 31° and 38°, or a value between 32° and 37°, or a value between 33° and 36°, or a value between 33° and 35.8°, or a value between 33.5° and 35°.

15. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein the angle between the straight line where the resultant force is located and the normal line is 26°±0.2, 27°±0.2, 28°±0.2, 29°±0.2, 30°±0.2, 31°±0.2, 32°±0.2, 33°±0.2, 34°±0.2, 34.2°±0.2, 35°±0.2, 35.8°±0.2, 36°±0.2, 37°±0.2, or 38°±0.2.

16. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein the region through which the panel interacting with a user's body is a plane.

17. The bone conduction speaker of claim 1 , wherein the region through which the panel interacting with a user's body is a quasi-plane, wherein the normal line of the region is an average normal line of the region, wherein the average normal line is represented by:

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the quasi-plane is a plane that the angle between the normal line of a point within at least 50% of the plane and the average normal line is less than a predetermined threshold, the predetermined threshold is less than 10°.

18. A method for setting a bone conduction speaker, comprising:
making a panel transmissibly connected to at least two driving

Assignees

• Shenzhen Shokz Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zheng Jinbo
• Zhang Lei
• Liao Fengyun
• Qi Xin

Classifications

• H04R31/00

  Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of transducers or diaphragms therefor {(manufacture of microstructural arrangements of deformable or non-deformable structures in general B81C1/00182)} · CPC title

• H04R1/10

  Earpieces; Attachments therefor {; Earphones; Monophonic headphones (H04R1/28 takes precedence; stereophonic headphones H04R5/033)} · CPC title

• H04R25/604

  of acoustic or vibrational transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/2803

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R2460/13

  Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers · CPC title