Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Loudspeaker and microphone device
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Application No.: US15382572Application Date: 2016-12-16
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Publication No.: US10939191B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Lars Goller , Nikolaj Conradsen Vejen
- Applicant: Bang & Olufsen A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Struer
- Assignee: Bang & Olufsen A/S
- Current Assignee: Bang & Olufsen A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Struer
- Agency: The Law Offices of Eric W. Peterson
- Priority: DKPA201500810 20151216
- Main IPC: H04R1/02
- IPC: H04R1/02 ; H04M3/56 ; H04M1/03 ; H04R5/02 ; H04R5/027 ; H04R1/26 ; H04M1/62

Abstract:
A device for radiating sound energy into the surroundings and receiving sound energy from the surroundings, where the device comprises a housing having a top portion, a side portion and a bottom portion wherein a loudspeaker unit is provided in the top portion configured to generate sound energy in the surroundings of the device and where the housing is further provided with a microphone having an inlet portion, where the microphone is configured to receive sound energy from a sound reception region that is in acoustic communication with said surroundings of the device, wherein the sound reception region is provided adjacent the bottom portion of the housing, such that the inlet portion of the microphone faces away from the top portion of the device. In an embodiment the sound reception region is partially bounded by an inclined surface portion at the outer circumferential edge portion of the bottom portion, where the inclined surface portion preferably forms an angle α less than 45 degrees with the bottom portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170180836A1 Loudspeaker and Microphone Device Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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