Information handling system housing with integrated planar speaker
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsDuck-Soo Choi, Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Abstract
A portable information handling system glass ceramic housing has a cut out section at an opening and a speaker chamber cover disposed in the opening to integrate a speaker at a bottom front side of the housing. A speaker coil couples to the housing section to align with a speaker magnet coupled to the speaker chamber cover to generate audible sound in a speaker chamber defined when the housing section couples over the opening. A polymer material is disposed between the housing section and housing, and the housing section is cut out with an upward curve, so that audible sound is directed upwards from the housing and towards an end user of the information handling system.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing having a length, a width and a depth, the housing having a separate speaker section at a bottom front surface along the width;
- a processor disposed in the housing and operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information;
- an audio chipset disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the audio chipset operable to process the information to generate audio signals that play as audible sounds at a speaker;
- a speaker chamber cover coupled to the housing within an opening formed at the speaker section, the speaker section coupling over the speaker chamber cover to define a speaker chamber, the speaker section exposed as the housing outer surface;
- a first coil magnet coupled to the speaker chamber cover along the housing width;
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- a first speaker coil coupled to the speaker section along the width to align parallel with the first coil magnet when the speaker section couples to the housing, the first speaker coil interfaced with the audio chipset to receive the audio signals and covert the audio signals to audible sounds in cooperation with the first coil magnet and the speaker chamber.
A method for generating audible sounds at an information handling system faults, the method comprising:
- cutting a speaker section from a bottom front side of a glass housing to define a speaker opening;
- coupling a speaker chamber cover within the speaker opening to define a speaker chamber;
- coupling a speaker magnet to the speaker chamber cover within the speaker chamber;
- coupling a speaker coil to the speaker section;
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- coupling the speaker section to the housing over the speaker chamber to align the speaker coil and speaker magnet, the speaker section coupled at the cutting to act as the glass housing outer surface.
A speaker comprising:
- an information handling system housing having an opening at a bottom front side extending along at least half of a width of the information handling system housing;
- a speaker chamber cover sized to fit in the opening;
- a housing section sized to fit in the opening to enclose the speaker chamber cover and define a speaker chamber, the housing section coupling in the opening as an outer surface of the housing;
- a speaker magnet coupled to the speaker chamber cover and extending along substantially the width of the opening and speaker chamber cover;
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- a speaker coil coupled to the housing section to align with the speaker magnet when the housing section couples to the housing at the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.