Miniature electroacoustic transducer and assembling method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9549262-B2
Application number	US-201214379835-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2012
Priority date	Feb 20, 2012
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

A miniature electroacoustic transducer includes: a metal shell, having the shape of a barrel with one open end; a vibrating system, including a vibrating diaphragm and a voice coil; and a magnetic circuit system, including a concentrating flux plate, a magnet and a magnetic yoke that are sequentially combined together. The magnetic circuit system is formed with a magnetic gap corresponding to the voice coil; the vibrating system and the magnetic circuit system are fixedly installed in the barrel-shaped shell; the components in the structure are further modularized, maximizing the magnet under the same product dimension and effectively improving the product sensitivity. An assembling method of the electroacoustic transducer includes: a. providing a barrel-shaped metal shell with one open end; b. putting a pre-assembled vibrating system into the shell; c. putting a pre-assembled magnetic circuit system into the shell; and d. fixedly assembling the shell with the magnetic yoke.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A miniature electroacoustic transducer, comprising:
a shell comprising a metal part, bent at a transition region, defining a bottom of the shell and a sidewall of the shell, the metal part having a first thickness between a first inner surface of the bottom of the shell and an outer surface of the bottom of shell and a second thickness, less than the first thickness, between a second inner surface of the bottom of the shell and the outer surface of the bottom of the shell;
a vibrating system, comprising a vibrating diaphragm and a voice coil; and
a magnetic circuit system, comprising a concentrating flux plate, a magnet and a magnetic yoke,
wherein
the magnetic circuit system has a magnetic gap corresponding to the voice coil,
the vibrating system and the magnetic circuit system are fixedly installed in the shell,
the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell is closer to the sidewall of the shell than the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell,
the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell is connected to the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell by a trench sidewall, and
the trench sidewall, the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell and the sidewall of the bottom of the shell define a transition trench proximate to the sidewall of the shell.

2. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom of the shell has an opening defined therein for sound output.

3. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first support between the vibrating system and the bottom of the shell.

4. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a second support between the vibrating system and the magnetic circuit system.

5. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a positioning step for fixing the magnetic circuit system on the second support.

6. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the shell and the concentrating flux plate are fixedly combined together by a seaming of the sidewall of the shell.

7. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the vibrating system further comprises a centering pad through which the voice coil is electrically connected with an external circuit of the miniature electroacoustic transducer.

8. A method of assembling a miniature electroacoustic transducer, the method comprising:
placing a vibrating system comprising a vibrating diaphragm and a voice coil into a shell comprising a metal part, bent at a transition region, defining a bottom of the shell and a sidewall of the shell, the metal part having a first thickness between a first inner surface of the bottom of the shell and an outer surface of the bottom of shell and a second thickness, less than the first thickness, between a second inner surface of the bottom of the shell and the outer surface of the bottom of the shell;
placing a magnetic circuit system comprising a concentrating flux plate, a magnet and a magnetic yoke into the shell; and
fixedly assembling the shell with the magnetic yoke,
wherein the metal part is bent such that the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell is closer to the sidewall of the shell than the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell, the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell is connected to the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell by a trench sidewall, and the trench sidewall, the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell and the sidewall of the bottom of the shell define a transition trench proximate to the sidewall of the shell.

9. The method of assembling the miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 8 , further comprising:
coupling a first support with the vibrating system before the vibrating system is placed into the shell such that the first support is arranged between the vibrating system and the bottom of the shell after the vibrating system is is placed into the shell.

10. The method of assembling the miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 9 , further comprising:
assembling the vibrating diaphragm by:
coupling a spherical top portion with a centering pad;
coupling a loop-bending portion with the first support; and
coupling the spherical top portion with the loop-bending portion,

wherein the centering pad is arranged on a voice coil side of the vibrating diaphragm and the voice coil.

11. The method of assembling the miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 10 , wherein
the magnetic circuit system is assembled before the magnetic system is placed into the shell.

12. The method of assembling the miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 11 , further comprising:
coupling a second support with the magnetic circuit system before the magnetic circuit system is placed into the shell such that the second support is arranged between the vibrating system and the magnetic circuit system.

13. The method of assembling the miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 12 , further comprising:
assembling the magnetic circuit system by:
coupling an external concentrating flux plate with the second support;
coupling an internal concentrating flux plate and an internal magnet with the magnetic yoke; and

coupling the previously coupled external concentrating flux plate and second support with an external magnet, and with the previously coupled internal concentrating flux plate, internal magnet and magnetic yoke.

14. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the shell is barrel-shaped.

15. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the sidewall of the shell at least partially defines an opening opposite the bottom of the shell.

16. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell is parallel to the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell.

17. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the sidewall has a third thickness between an inner surface of the sidewall of the shell and an outer surface of the sidewall of the shell, and the third thickness is equal to the first thickness.

18. The miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 1 , wherein
the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell has a length in a first direction perpendicular to the sidewall of the shell, and
the second inner surface of the shell has a second length in the first direction less than the first length.

19. The miniature transducer according to claim 1 , wherein
the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell extends from the trench sidewall to the sidewall of the shell, and
the trench sidewall is substantially orthogonal to the second inner surface of the bottom of the shell.

20. The method of assembling miniature electroacoustic transducer according to claim 8 , further comprising:
bending the metal part at the transition region to cause the first inner surface of the bottom of the shell to be perpendicular to the sidewall of the shell.

Assignees

• Wang Ze
• Ge Lianshan
• Liu Chunfa
• Goertek Inc

Inventors

• Wang Ze
• Ge Lianshan
• Liu Chunfa

Classifications

• H04R1/021

  incorporating only one transducer · CPC title

• H04R1/06

  Arranging circuit leads; Relieving strain on circuit leads · CPC title

• H04R2209/024

  Manufacturing aspects of the magnetic circuit of loudspeaker or microphone transducers · CPC title

• 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

• H04R9/025 Primary

  Magnetic circuit · CPC title