Headphones

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12556859-B2
Application number	US-202418617606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2024
Priority date	Jun 24, 2022
Publication date	Feb 17, 2026
Grant date	Feb 17, 2026

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a headphone including a first acoustic wave generation structure, a second acoustic wave generation structure, an acoustic transmission structure, and a filtering structure. The first acoustic wave generation structure and the second acoustic wave generation structure respectively generate a first acoustic wave and a second acoustic wave. The acoustic transmission structure may be configured to transmit the first acoustic wave and the second acoustic wave to a spatial point outside the headphone. The first acoustic wave transmitted to the spatial point interferes with the second acoustic wave transmitted to the spatial point in a first frequency range, and the interference reduces an amplitude of the first acoustic wave in the first frequency range. The filtering structure may be configured to reduce an amplitude of an acoustic wave generated by the headphone in a second frequency range at the spatial point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A headphone, comprising:
a first acoustic wave generation structure and a second acoustic wave generation structure, wherein the first acoustic wave generation structure and the second acoustic wave generation structure respectively generate a first acoustic wave and a second acoustic wave, the first acoustic wave has a phase difference with the second acoustic wave, and the phase difference is within a range of 120°-240°; an acoustic transmission structure configured to transmit the first acoustic wave and the second acoustic wave to a spatial point outside the headphone, wherein the first acoustic wave transmitted to the spatial point interferes with the second acoustic wave transmitted to the spatial point in a first frequency range, and the interference reduces an amplitude of the first acoustic wave in the first frequency range; and a filtering structure configured to reduce an amplitude of an acoustic wave generated by the headphone in a second frequency range at the spatial point, wherein the first frequency range is smaller than the second frequency range.

2 . The headphone of claim 1 , wherein the filtering structure includes an acoustic absorbing structure configured to absorb an acoustic wave of the first acoustic wave and/or the second acoustic wave in the second frequency range.

3 . The headphone of claim 2 , wherein the acoustic absorbing structure is configured to absorb the acoustic wave of the second acoustic wave generated by the headphone in the second frequency range to reduce an amplitude of the acoustic wave in the second frequency range at the spatial point, wherein
a sound path distance from the second acoustic wave generation structure to an opening of an ear canal is greater than a sound path distance from the first acoustic wave generation structure to the opening of the ear canal.

4 . The headphone of claim 2 , wherein the acoustic transmission structure includes at least a housing and one or more sound guiding holes provided on the housing, and the acoustic absorbing structure includes at least one of a resistance-type acoustic absorbing structure or an impedance-type acoustic absorbing structure.

5 . The headphone of claim 4 , wherein the resistance-type acoustic absorbing structure includes at least one of a porous acoustic absorbing material or an acoustic gauze, an acoustic absorbing coefficient of the porous acoustic absorbing material in the second frequency range being greater than 0.3, or an acoustic resistance of the acoustic gauze being within a range of 10 Rayl-700 Rayl.

6 . The headphone of claim 5 , wherein the porous acoustic absorbing material or the acoustic gauze is affixed to an inner wall of the acoustic transmission structure or constitutes at least a portion of an inner wall of the acoustic transmission structure.

7 . The headphone of claim 4 , wherein the impedance-type acoustic absorbing structure includes a perforated plate structure, wherein the perforated plate structure includes one or more holes and one or more cavities, and the one or more cavities are acoustically connected to an interior of the acoustic transmission structure through the one or more holes.

8 . The headphone of claim 7 , wherein resonant frequencies of the one or more cavities are the same, or resonant frequencies of at least two of the one or more cavities are different.

9 . The headphone of claim 7 , wherein at least two of the one or more cavities are provided side by side along an extension direction of the acoustic transmission structure, or at least two of the one or more cavities are provided in series.

10 . The headphone of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the one or more cavities further includes a resistance-type acoustic absorbing structure, and the resistance-type acoustic absorbing structure includes at least one of a porous acoustic absorbing material or an acoustic gauze.

11 . The headphone of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the one or more cavities include a Helmholtz resonant cavity, and the perforated plate structure satisfies at least one of:
a diameter of each of the one or more holes being within a range of 1 mm-10 mm, an area of each of the one or more holes being within a range of 0.7 mm 2 -80 mm 2 , or a perforation rate of the perforated plate structure being within a range of 5%-80%.

12 . The headphone of claim 7 , a diameter of each of the one or more holes is less than 1 mm.

13 . The headphone of claim 7 , wherein a perforation rate of the perforated plate structure is within a range of 1%-5%.

14 . The headphone of claim 4 , wherein the impedance-type acoustic absorbing structure includes a ¼ wavelength resonance pipe structure, the ¼ wavelength resonance pipe structure includes one or more holes and one or more ¼ wavelength resonance pipes, and the one or more ¼ wavelength resonance pipes are acoustically connected to an interior of the acoustic transmission structure through the one or more holes.

15 . The headphone of claim 14 , wherein resonant frequencies of the one or more ¼ wavelength resonance pipes are the same, or resonant frequencies of at least two of the one or more ¼ wavelength resonance pipes are different.

16 . The headphone of claim 14 , wherein the ¼ wavelength resonance pipe structure is provided outside the acoustic transmission structure, and at least two of the one or more ¼ wavelength resonance pipes are provided side by side along an extension direction of the acoustic transmission structure.

17 . The headphone of claim 14 , wherein the ¼ wavelength resonance pipe structure is provided inside the acoustic transmission structure, wherein the one or more ¼ wavelength resonance pipes are provided around at least one of the one or more sound guiding holes.

18 . The headphone of claim 1 , wherein the second frequency range is within 1 kHz-10 kHz, and the second frequency range includes a resonant frequency value of the acoustic transmission structure.

19 . A headphone, comprising:
a first acoustic wave generation structure; an acoustic transmission structure configured to transmit a first acoustic wave generated by the first acoustic wave generation structure to a spatial point outside the headphone, wherein the first acoustic wave generates a resonance having a resonant frequency under an action of the acoustic transmission structure; and a filtering structure configured to absorb, in a target frequency range, the first acoustic wave transmitted through the acoustic transmission structure to reduce an amplitude of an acoustic wave generated by the headphone at the spatial point, wherein the target frequency range includes the resonant frequency, wherein the filtering structure includes a perforated plate structure.

20 . A headphone, comprising:
a loudspeaker; a housing, configured to accommodate the loudspeaker, including a first sound guiding hole and a second sound guiding hole acoustically connected with the loudspeaker, respectively, wherein the loudspeaker outputs acoustic waves with a phase difference through the first sound guiding hole and the second sound guiding hole; and a filtering structure, provided in an acoustic transmission structure between the first sound guiding hole or the second sound guiding hole and the housing loudspeaker, configured to absorb an acoustic wave in a target frequency range, wherein the target frequency range is in a range from 1 kHz to 10 kHz, wherein the filtering structure includes a perforated plate structure.

Assignees

• Shenzhen Shokz Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Lei
• Fu Junjiang
• Wang Zhen
• Liao Fengyun
• Qi Xin

Classifications

• H04R1/345

  for loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R1/2811

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/1075

  Mountings of transducers in earphones or headphones · CPC title

• H04R1/1008

  Earpieces of the supra-aural or circum-aural type · CPC title

• H04R2460/13

  Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers · CPC title