Bone conduction speaker and earphone
AssigneeShenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
InventorsJinbo Zheng, Fengyun Liao, Lei Zhang, Xin Qi
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a bone conduction speaker. The bone conduction speaker may include a driving device and a panel. The driving device may be configured to generate a driving force, and the driving force is located in a straight line. The panel may be transmissibly connected to the driving device. The panel may be configured to conduct sound. A region through which the panel interacting with the user's body may have a normal line. The normal line may not be parallel to that straight line.
Claims20
A bone conduction speaker, comprising a panel, a housing, and a driving device, wherein
- the driving device is configured to generate a driving force,
- the panel transmissibly connected to the driving device, all or part of the panel being configured to contact or abut a user's body to conduct sound,
- the panel and the housing form a cavity, the panel is one of sidewalls of the cavity, and the driving device is located in the cavity, and
- the driving force causes user's skins to produce deformations perpendicular to the user's skins and deformations parallel to the user's skins in a region, the region being a plane or a quasi-plane, the quasi-plane being a surface on which an angle between a normal line of any one point in at least 50% region of the surface and an average normal line of the surface is less than a predetermined threshold, and the predetermined threshold being less than 10°.
A bone conduction earphone, comprising a bone conduction speaker, the bone conduction speaker including a panel, a housing, and a driving device, wherein
- the driving device configured to generate a driving force,
- the panel transmissibly connected to the driving device, all or part of the panel being configured to contact or abut a user's body to conduct sound,
- the panel and the housing form a cavity, the panel is one of sidewalls of the cavity, and the driving device is located in the cavity, and
- the driving force causes user's skins to produce deformations perpendicular to the user's skins and deformations parallel to the user's skins in a region, the region being a plane or a quasi-plane, the quasi-plane being a surface on which an angle between a normal line of any one point in at least 50% region of the surface and an average normal line of the surface is less than a predetermined threshold, and the predetermined threshold being less than 10°.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.