Directional microphone and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9301033-B2
Application number	US-201314051897-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2013
Priority date	May 29, 2013
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

A directional microphone and an operating method thereof include a first signal generator generating a first sound signal corresponding to a front sound coming through a front sound hole of the directional microphone. A second signal generator generates a second sound signal corresponding to a rear sound coming through a rear sound hole of the directional microphone. A phase delay controller delays a phase of the rear sound coming through the rear sound hole, and a signal processor synthesizes the first sound signal and the second sound signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A directional microphone, comprising:
a board having a front sound hole and a rear sound hole formed therein;
a case having an open side and being coupled with the board on the open side so as to define a space therein;
first and second Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) dies disposed on the board in the space of the case and converting sound sources coming through the respective holes into electric signals;
a sound insulating wall having a top bonded to the case and a bottom bonded to the board so as to separate the first MEMS die from the second MEMS die;
a filter disposed in the space in the case, a bottom of which faces the rear sound hole and parts of both sides of which are bonded to the board so as to delay a phase of a rear sound coming through the rear sound hole; and
an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) semiconductor chip disposed on the board, electrically connected to the first MEMS die and the second MEMS die, and synthesizing two electrical signals each generated by the first and second MEMS dies, respectively,
wherein a front sound coming through the front sound hole reaches the bottom of the first MEMS die, and the rear sound passing through the filter reaches a top of the second MEMS die.

2. The microphone according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second MEMS dies are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance.

3. The microphone according to claim 1 , wherein a bottom of the first MEMS die faces the front sound hole.

4. The microphone according to claim 1 , wherein the filter is made of a metal mesh or a fiber mesh.

5. The microphone according to claim 4 , wherein the filter delays the phase of the rear sound depending on a porosity of the mesh.

6. The microphone according to claim 1 , wherein the front and rear sound holes vertically penetrate through the board.

7. The microphone according to claim 1 , wherein the front sound hole vertically penetrates through the board, and wherein the rear sound hole passes through the board with a horizontally bent shape.

8. The microphone according to claim 1 , wherein a length of a bending path of the rear sound hole is adjusted based on a distance between the front sound hole and the rear sound hole.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Bse Co Ltd

Inventors

• Han Mi Su
• Kim Young Soo
• Kim Jeong Min
• Kim Jung Min
• Lee Myung Jin

Classifications

• H04R1/00 Primary

  Details of transducers, {loudspeakers or microphones} · CPC title

• H04R1/406 Primary

  microphones · CPC title

• H04R3/005

  for combining the signals of two or more microphones (specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407) · CPC title

• H04R19/005

  using semiconductor materials · CPC title

• H04R2499/13

  Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles · CPC title