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US 10,760,579 B2Granted
Speaker fan system and method
AssigneeBroan-NuTone LLC
InventorsDaniel L. Karst, Benjamin Thorpe Puffer, Brent Elliott Coffey
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Abstract
A ventilation assembly includes a main housing comprising a first housing wall and a second housing wall, a fan assembly disposed within the main housing, the fan assembly including a fan, and an acoustic device disposed between said first and second housing walls, the acoustic device having a first distal portion, a second distal portion and an intermediate portion extending between the first distal portion and the second distal portion, the first distal portion being relatively wider than the intermediate portion.
Claims19
A ventilation assembly, comprising:
- a main housing comprising a first housing wall and a second housing wall;
- a fan assembly disposed within the main housing, the fan assembly including a fan;
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- an acoustic device comprising an acoustic device housing having a first distal portion, a second distal portion and an intermediate portion extending between the first distal portion and the second distal portion and connecting the first distal portion to the second distal portion, the first distal portion being wider than the intermediate portion and the second distal portion being wider than the intermediate portion such that the acoustic device defines a generally U-shaped configuration;
- wherein the acoustic device is configured to be disposed between said first and second housing walls and adjacent to a fan opening such that the intermediate portion of the acoustic device housing is disposed adjacent to the fan opening and the first and second distal portions of the acoustic device housing are disposed to extend partially around opposing sides of the fan opening such that the acoustic device housing does not block the fan opening.
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A ventilation assembly, comprising:
- a main housing comprising a first housing wall and a second housing wall;
- a fan assembly disposed within the main housing, the fan assembly including a fan;
- a motor mount plate between the first housing wall and the second housing wall, a fan opening defined in the motor mount plate;
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- an acoustic device comprising an acoustic device housing having a first distal portion, a second distal portion and an intermediate portion extending between the first distal portion and the second distal portion and connecting the first distal portion to the second distal portion, the first distal portion being wider than the intermediate portion and the second distal portion being wider than the intermediate portion such that the acoustic device defines a generally U-shaped configuration;
- wherein the intermediate portion of the acoustic device housing is disposed adjacent to the fan opening and the first and second distal portions of the acoustic device housing are disposed to extend partially around opposing sides of the fan opening such that the acoustic device housing does not block the fan opening.
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A ventilation assembly, comprising:
- a main housing comprising a first housing wall and a second housing wall;
- a fan assembly disposed within the main housing, the fan assembly including a fan;
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- an acoustic device comprising an acoustic device housing having a first distal portion, a second distal portion and an intermediate portion extending between the first distal portion and the second distal portion and connecting the first distal portion to the second distal portion, the acoustic device defining a generally U-shaped configuration;
- wherein the acoustic device is configured to be disposed adjacent to a fan opening disposed between the first and second housing walls such that the intermediate portion of the acoustic device housing is disposed adjacent to the fan opening and the first and second distal portions of the acoustic device housing are disposed to extend partially around opposing sides of the fan opening such that the acoustic device housing does not block the fan opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.