Speaker module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017289672-A1
Application number	US-201415507981-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 5, 2014
Priority date	Sep 1, 2014
Publication date	Oct 5, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed is a speaker module comprising a housing in which a speaker unit is accommodated; the interior cavity of the module is divided into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity by the speaker unit; a sound absorbing material is provided in the rear acoustic cavity; the rear acoustic cavity is provided with a partition member for isolating the sound absorbing material and the speaker unit; the entire rear acoustic cavity is divided into a filled region and a non-filled region by the partition member; the sound absorbing material is located in the filled region; the material of the sound absorbing material is foaming material; and the sound absorbing material is formed by foaming the foaming material and fills the filled region. The speaker module provided by the present invention has good acoustic performance, high production efficiency, low production costs and good uniformity of product.

First claim

1 . A speaker module, comprising a housing in which a speaker unit is accommodated, wherein the speaker unit comprises a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system, an interior cavity of the speaker module is divided into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity by the speaker unit, and a sound absorbing material is provided in the rear acoustic cavity, wherein a partition member for isolating the sound absorbing material from the speaker unit is provided in the rear acoustic cavity, the rear acoustic cavity is divided into a filled region and a non-filled region by the partition member; the sound absorbing material is located in the filled region, the sound absorbing material is made of foaming material, the sound absorbing material is formed by foaming the foaming material, and the sound absorbing material fills up the filled region.

2 . The speaker module according to claim 1 , wherein the partition member is provided with a hole which allows airflow to flow between the filled region and the non-filled region.

3 . The speaker module according to claim 2 , wherein the partition member has a netted structure.

4 . The speaker module according to claim 1 , wherein the foaming material is PU, DWT, or melamine.

5 . The speaker module according to claim 4 , wherein the foaming material is foamed through heating process, ultrasonic process or infrared radiation process to form the sound absorbing material.

6 . The speaker module according to claim 1 , wherein the housing comprises a first housing, a second housing, and a third housing which are combined together, the rear acoustic cavity is defined by the speaker unit, the second housing and the third housing, and the partition member is vertically provided between the second housing and the third housing.

7 . The speaker module according to claim 6 , wherein a cross section of the filled region has a Chinese character “ ”-like shape, that is, a height of a middle part of the cross section is higher than heights of both sides of the cross section; the sound absorbing material has a shape corresponding to that of the filled region, and the sound absorbing material fills up the filled region.

8 . The speaker module according to claim 7 , wherein the magnetic circuit system comprises a yoke fixed on the second housing, an inner magnet and an inner washer are sequentially arranged at a middle part of an interior side of the yoke, an outer magnet and an outer washer are sequentially arranged at an edge part of the interior side of the yoke, a locating recess formed by material removal is provided at one side of the outer washer closer to the second housing, an interior wall of the second housing is provided with a locating boss at a position opposite to the locating recess, and the locating boss is coupled with the locating recess.

9 . The speaker module according to claim 1 , wherein the housing comprises a first housing and a second housing which are combined together, the rear acoustic cavity is defined by the speaker unit, the first housing and the second housing, and the partition member is vertically provided between the first housing and the second housing.

10 . The speaker module according to claim 9 , wherein grooves respectively extending upwardly and downwardly are provided at an upper end and a lower end of the filled region, respectively, each of the grooves is a triangular groove which has a relatively wide opening and a sharp bottom, the sound absorbing material has a shape corresponding to that of the filled region, and the sound absorbing material fills up all of the grooves.

11 . The speaker module according to claim 1 , wherein the foaming material is solid material, and the rear acoustic cavity is sealed after the foaming material is placed in the filled region.

12 . The speaker module according to claim 1 , wherein the foaming material is liquid material, and the foaming material is injected into the filled region through an injecting hole of the rear acoustic cavity after the rear acoustic cavity is sealed.

Assignees

• Goertek Inc

Inventors

• Yang Xinfeng
• Xu Tongyan
• Ji Pengcheng

Classifications

• H04R1/22 Primary

  for obtaining desired frequency characteristic only  {(circuit for combining transducers having different responses H04R3/00; for hearing aids H04R25/407)} · CPC title

• H04R1/025

  Arrangements for fixing loudspeaker transducers, e.g. in a box, furniture · CPC title

• H04R9/06

  Loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R1/2811 Primary

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R1/2819

  for loudspeaker transducers · CPC title