Acoustic card
AssigneeApple Corporate Technologies, Inc.
InventorBenjamin A. Pines
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Abstract
An acoustic card having a permanent magnet and a reed switch. The acoustic card includes a first flap, a second flap, and a sound generator attached to said second flap. The acoustic card is divided by a fold into two halves, such as the first flap and the second flap, is unfolded in an opened position and folded in a closed position. The sound generator attached to the second flap includes a printed circuit board, a sound card containing a controller and a memory storing audio sound data, and the reed switch. A permanent magnet attached to the first flap does not directly contact the reed switch attached to the second flap. The permanent magnet moves away from the reed switch to activate the sound generator to produce audio sound and moves towards the reed switch to deactivate the sound generator.
Claims21
An acoustic card, comprising:
- a first flap and a second flap joined together along a fold that accommodates rotation of the first flap relative to the second flap between a closed position and unfolded in an open position;
- an electrically powered sound generator;
- a speaker driven by said sound generator to broadcast audio messages;
- a reed switch attached to said second flap, to actuate said sound generator to drive said speaker;
- and
- a magnet attached to said first flap, being moved to a position that is operatively disposed adjacent to said reed switch to turn off said sound generator when said first flap and said second flap of said acoustic card are in said closed position.
An acoustic card having a sound generator, comprising:
- said acoustic card having a first flap and a second flap, moving between a closed position and an open position;
- a reed switch attached to said second flap;
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- a magnet attached to said first flap, operatively influencing said reed switch and interrupting emanation of sound from the sound generator by traveling to a location disposed adjacent to said reed switch when said acoustic card is in the closed position.
A process in an acoustic card having a sound generator, comprising the steps of:
- providing a magnet attached to a first flap of said acoustic card, disposed adjacent to a reed switch when said acoustic card is in a closed position;
- providing said reed switch attached to a second flap;
- moving said acoustic card to said closed position for turning off said sound generator and to an open position for turning on said sound generator;
- moving said magnet toward said reed switch when said acoustic card moves to said closed position;
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- moving said magnet away from said reed switch when said acoustic card moves to said open position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.