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US 11,122,351 B2Granted
Open audio device
AssigneeBose Corporation
InventorRyan C. Struzik
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Abstract
An open audio device that includes an acoustic radiator that emits front-side acoustic radiation from its front side and emits rear-side acoustic radiation from its rear side, a front acoustic cavity that receives front-side acoustic radiation, a front transmission line that is acoustically coupled to the front acoustic cavity and comprises a first front sound-emitting opening, and a rear acoustic cavity that receives rear-side acoustic radiation and comprises at least a first rear sound-emitting opening.
Claims18
An open audio device, comprising:
- a housing;
- an acoustic radiator in the housing that emits front-side acoustic radiation from its front side and emits rear-side acoustic radiation from its rear side;
- a front acoustic cavity located at least in part in the housing that receives front-side acoustic radiation and defines a first front sound-emitting opening that is configured to be located anteriorly of a user's ear canal opening;
- a rear acoustic cavity located at least in part in the housing that receives rear-side acoustic radiation and defines at least a first rear sound-emitting opening and a separate second rear sound-emitting opening that is spaced from the first rear sound-emitting opening;
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- an elongated spout piece that is configured to be removably coupled to the housing such that it covers the first front sound-emitting opening and thereby lowers a resonance frequency of the front acoustic cavity, wherein the spout piece is configured to conduct sound from the first front sound-emitting opening to spout piece sound-emitting opening that is closer to the ear canal opening than is the first front sound-emitting opening, but is not in the ear canal opening, and wherein the spout piece is further configured to cover the second rear sound-emitting opening but not the first rear sound-emitting opening, and thereby lower a resonance frequency of the rear acoustic cavity.
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