CN112788468A - Earphone assembly and earphone head telescopic control method - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides an earphone assembly and an earphone head telescopic control method. The earphone body comprises an earphone shell and an earphone head, wherein the earphone shell is provided with an opening, the earphone head is movably connected to the opening, the earphone shell is provided with a contact, and the earphone bracket is provided with an electric conduction piece; the drive assembly is arranged in the earphone body and connected with the earphone head. The earphone body is arranged on the earphone support, and the driving component drives the earphone head to be far away from or close to the opening. The embodiment of the application provides earphone subassembly can pass through the drive assembly drive earphone head is kept away from or is close to the opening is guaranteeing on the basis of the nimble effective use of earphone subassembly, avoided the influence to user's ear comfort and hearing when the earphone body is worn for a long time.

Description

Earphone assembly and earphone head telescopic control method

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of electroacoustic conversion equipment, and particularly relates to an earphone assembly and an earphone head telescopic control method.

Background

In the related art, as the functional requirements of users on electronic devices are more and more diversified, the electronic devices are updated more and more frequently. Taking the earphone as an example, the wireless earphone has become the mainstream of the current earphone market due to its characteristics of portability, good use and fashion, and the occupancy of the wireless earphone in the market is gradually increased in addition to the cost reduction and the more mature technology of the wireless earphone.

In carrying out the present application, the applicant has found that there are at least the following problems in the prior art. Although the wireless earphone is convenient for the user to answer the call and can obtain simple and rapid audiovisual enjoyment, the user generally wears the wireless earphone for a long time in order to avoid frequently taking and placing the wireless earphone, namely the user wears the wireless earphone no matter whether the user answers the call or listens to music. Because wireless earphone is too inseparable with the laminating of user's ear when wearing for a long time, can cause the problem that user's ear is uncomfortable and hearing descends on the one hand, on the other hand can make the user be difficult to acquire the sound in the external environment because wireless earphone has better syllable-dividing effect, has brought certain risk for user's trip safety.

Disclosure of Invention

The present application is directed to a headset assembly that addresses at least one of the problems of the background art.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an earphone assembly, including:

the earphone comprises an earphone body and a control unit, wherein the earphone body comprises an earphone shell and an earphone head, an opening is formed in the earphone shell, the earphone head is movably connected to the opening, and a contact is arranged on the earphone shell;

the earphone comprises an earphone bracket, a power supply and a control circuit, wherein an electric conducting piece is arranged on the earphone bracket;

the driving assembly is arranged in the earphone body and is connected with the earphone head;

the earphone body is installed in the condition of earphone support, the electric conduction piece with the contact offsets, drive assembly drive the earphone head is kept away from or is close to the opening.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a headphone expansion control method, where the control method applied to the headphone assembly in the first aspect includes:

receiving a first input;

responding to the first input, and judging the state of the earphone body;

under the condition that the earphone body is in the sounding state, the driving assembly drives the earphone head to be far away from the opening.

In an embodiment of the present application, there is provided a headset assembly including a headset body, a headset holder, and a driving assembly. The embodiment of the application provides earphone subassembly can pass through the drive assembly drive earphone head is kept away from or is close to the opening is guaranteeing on the basis of the nimble effective use of earphone subassembly, avoided the influence to user's ear comfort and hearing when the earphone body is worn for a long time.

Additional aspects and advantages of the present application will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the present application.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present application will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of an earphone assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a split view of an earphone assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a headphone assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of portion B circled in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of portion A circled in FIG. 3;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of a headset body of a headset assembly according to an embodiment of the present application when not in use;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of a headset body of a headset assembly in use according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of the connection of an electronic control assembly and a drive assembly of a headset assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of the connection of an electronic control assembly and a drive assembly of a headset assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of the circled portion C of FIG. 9;

fig. 11 is an exploded view of an earphone assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of a drive assembly of a headset assembly according to an embodiment of the present application when the headset body is not in use;

fig. 13 is a schematic view of a drive assembly of a headset body of a headset assembly in use according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic diagram of a drive assembly of a headset assembly according to an embodiment of the present application when the headset body is not in use.

Reference numerals:

1-an earphone body; 11-earphone housing; 12-a headset head; 13-a contact; 131-a first contact; 132-a second contact; 2-a headset holder; 21-an electrical conducting member; 211 — a first protrusion; 212-a second projection; 22-a through hole; 3-an electronic control component; 31-a circuit board; 32-routing layer; 321-an open position; 4-a drive assembly; 41-a motor; 42-screw rod; 43-a telescopic support; 431-a telescopic rod; 432-a connecting portion; 433-a guide; 434-spring; 44-a transmission; 45-fixing the bracket; 451-guide bar.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present application, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present application and are not to be construed as limiting the present application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The features of the terms first and second in the description and in the claims of the present application may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of such features. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are therefore not to be considered limiting of the present application.

In the description of the present application, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.

An earphone assembly according to an embodiment of the present application is described below in conjunction with fig. 1-14.

As shown in fig. 1 to 9, there is provided according to some embodiments of the present application a headphone assembly, including:

earphone body 1, earphone support 2 and drive assembly 4.

Earphone body 1 includes earphone casing 11 and earphone head 12, the opening has on the earphone casing 11, earphone head 12 is close to the opening sets up, specifically can earphone head 12 swing joint in the opening, be provided with contact 13 on the earphone casing 11, earphone support 2 is used for the fixed stay earphone body 1, be provided with electric conduction spare 21 on earphone support 2, drive assembly 4 with earphone head 12 is connected.

When the earphone body 1 is mounted on the earphone holder 2, the electric conduction member 21 abuts against the contact 13, and the driving unit 4 drives the earphone head 12 to move away from or close to the opening. Specifically, the earphone body 1 may be a wired earphone or a Wireless earphone, such as a TWS (True Wireless Stereo) earphone, and the earphone assembly may further include an electronic control assembly 3, where the electronic control assembly 3 is electrically connected to the contact 13, the electronic control assembly 3 and the driving assembly 4 may both be disposed in the earphone body 1, and the electronic control assembly 3 may determine the state of the earphone body 1. When a user wears the earphone body 1 for a long time, if the electric control component 3 judges that the earphone body 1 is in a use state, the driving component 4 can drive the earphone head 12 to be away from the opening, that is, the earphone head 12 is close to and attached to the ear of the user, at this time, the earphone body 1 can sound normally, and good acoustic experience is provided for the user, as shown in fig. 7; if the judgement is gone into to automatically controlled subassembly 3 earphone body 1 is in unused state, drive assembly 4 can drive earphone head 12 is close to the opening, namely earphone head 12 keeps away from user's ear, at this moment earphone body 1 can not cause the extrusion to user's ear, has avoided on the one hand earphone body 1 is to the influence of user's ear comfort and hearing, and on the other hand has guaranteed that the user obtains the smoothness nature of sound in the external environment, is favorable to user's trip safety, as shown in fig. 6. In addition, the earphone body 1 can be used as a general earphone without using the earphone holder 2.

The embodiment of the application provides earphone component has including earphone casing 11 and earphone head 12 earphone body 1, drive assembly 4 with earphone head 12 is connected, drive assembly 4 drive earphone head 12 is kept away from or is close to the opening is guaranteeing on the basis of the nimble effective use of earphone component, avoided earphone body 1 is to the influence of user's ear comfort and hearing when wearing for a long time.

Alternatively, referring to fig. 8, 9 and 11, the electronic control assembly 3 is disposed in the earphone body 1, the electronic control assembly 3 includes a circuit board 31 and a wiring layer 32 connected to the circuit board 31, and the contacts 13 are connected to the wiring layer 32;

when the earphone body 1 is mounted on the earphone holder 2, the electric conducting piece 21 abuts against the contact 13, and the circuit of the electric control component 3 is conducted and drives the earphone head 12 to be far away from or close to the opening through the driving component 4.

Specifically, the wiring layer 32 may be an FPC (flexible printed circuit) or an electric wire, the circuit Board 31 is fixed in the earphone body 1, the wiring layer 32 may be connected to the circuit Board 31 through a BTB (Board to Board) or a ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) dome connector, the wiring layer 32 may be attached to the inner side of the earphone housing 11 and extend along the earphone housing 11, and the contacts 13 are connected to the wiring layer 32. The circuit for making the electrical conducting member 21 abut against the contact 13 and conducting the electronic control component 3 may specifically be that the contact 13 is a pressure switch contact, and the contact 13 is pressed when the electrical conducting member 21 abuts against the contact 13, so that the contact 13 can conduct the electronic control component 3; or the contacts 13 are located at two sides of the cut-off position of the wiring layer 32, when the electrical conducting member 21 abuts against the contacts 13, the electrical control component 3 can be conducted through the electrical conducting member 21, and the flexible control of the electrical control component 3 on the driving component 4 is realized.

Optionally, a bluetooth component may be disposed on the circuit board 31, where the bluetooth component may specifically be a bluetooth chip, and the bluetooth component is configured to determine a state of the earphone body 1;

the state of the earphone body 1 comprises a sounding state and a non-sounding state, the earphone body 1 is mounted on the earphone support 2, and the Bluetooth module judges that the earphone body 1 is in the sounding state, namely after the earphone body 1 starts sounding, the electric control module 3 drives the earphone head 12 to be away from the opening through the driving module 4, namely the earphone head 12 is close to and attached to the ear of a user, and at the moment, the earphone body 1 can normally sound, so that good acoustic experience is provided for the user; earphone body 1 install in earphone support 2 just bluetooth subassembly is judged under earphone body 1 is in the condition of not sound production state, also namely earphone body 1 finishes after the sound production, automatically controlled subassembly 3 passes through drive assembly 4 drive earphone head 12 is close to the opening, also namely user's ear is kept away from to earphone head 12, at this moment earphone body 1 can not cause the extrusion to user's ear, has avoided on the one hand earphone body 1 is to the influence of user's ear comfort and hearing, and on the other hand has guaranteed that the user acquires the smooth and easy nature of sound in the external environment.

Optionally, the sounding state of the earphone body 1 may include a voice call state, a music playing state, a video playing state, and the like, that is, a terminal such as a mobile phone and the like is required to communicate with the earphone body 1, and at this time, a control component such as a main board and the like on the terminal such as the mobile phone and the like may also realize the judgment of the state of the earphone body 1.

In addition, drive assembly 4 drive earphone head 12 is kept away from or is close to the opening also can be in before earphone body 1 sound production or before finishing the sound production, for example when earphone body 1 is used for putting through the phone, between the phone is put through to the phone, automatically controlled subassembly 3 alright with pass through drive assembly 4 drive earphone head 12 is kept away from the opening, that is to say earphone head 12 is close to user's ear and laminates with the ear, provides good acoustics experience for the user when earphone body 1 normally sounds.

Optionally, the contacts 13 include a first contact 131 and a second contact 132, the routing layer 32 has an open position 321, the first contact 131 is disposed on one end of the routing layer 32 near the open position 321, and the second contact 132 is disposed on the other end of the routing layer 32 near the open position 321;

when the earphone body 1 is mounted on the earphone holder 2, one end of the electrical conductor 21 abuts against the first contact 131, and the other end of the electrical conductor 21 abuts against the second contact 132.

Specifically, referring to fig. 8 to 10, the electrically conductive member 21 is provided with a first protrusion 211 and a second protrusion 212, and the first contact 131 and the second contact 132 are both integrally formed with the wiring layer 32, for example, the first contact 131 and the second contact 132 are both contacts exposed outside the insulating layer on the wiring layer 32; when the earphone body 1 is mounted on the earphone holder 2, the first protrusion 211 abuts against the first contact 131, and the second protrusion 212 abuts against the second contact 132.

Specifically, the electrical conductor 21 may be a metal sheet or pogo pin connector, and the first protrusion 211 and the second protrusion 212 formed on the electrical conductor 21 are communicated with each other, as shown in fig. 10. After the first protrusion 211 abuts against the first contact 131 and the second protrusion 212 abuts against the second contact 132, the off position 321 on the wiring layer 32 can be conducted through the electrical conducting member 21, so that a complete path of the wiring layer 32 is ensured, and the electronic control assembly 3 can flexibly control the driving assembly 4.

Alternatively, referring to fig. 1 and 2, the earphone holder 2 has an inverted U-shape.

Specifically, earphone body 1 install in under the condition of earphone holder 2, for the convenience of earphone holder 2 places, earphone holder 2 can be hung on user's ear after the font of falling U, also can for earphone holder 2 provides stable support, earphone head 12 keeps away from or is close to during the opening, earphone holder 2 can guarantee earphone body 1's position is stable.

Alternatively, referring to fig. 2 to 4, the earphone holder 2 has a through hole 22 formed therein, and the electrical conductive member 21 is disposed on an inner wall of the through hole 22, as shown in fig. 3 and 4; the earphone body 1 is inserted into and matched with the through hole 22, as shown in fig. 1.

Specifically, for the convenience of the wearing of earphone body 1 and the improvement of compact structure nature, earphone body 1 generally is cylindricly, specifically can be earphone casing 11 includes interconnect's cylindric ear section and cylindric ear handle section of going into, the opening can set up in this tip of going into the ear section, should go into the ear section can with through-hole 22 cooperation of pegging graft is guaranteeing electric conduction piece 21 with on the basis of contact 13 butt, can give earphone body 1 provides stable support.

Optionally, referring to fig. 12 to 14, the driving assembly 4 includes a motor 41, a screw rod 42, and a telescopic bracket 43, the motor 41 is electrically connected to the wiring layer 32, the screw rod 42 is coaxially fixed to an output shaft of the motor 41, one end of the telescopic bracket 43 is sleeved on the screw rod 42, and the other end of the telescopic bracket 43 is connected to the earphone head 12.

Specifically, the one end of telescopic bracket 43 can overlap locate on the screw rod 42 and with screw rod 42 screw-thread fit, circuit board 31 passes through wiring layer 32 starts under the pivoted condition of motor 41, motor 41 can drive screw rod 42 coaxial rotation, and screw rod 42 only takes place circumferential direction and does not take place axial displacement, because telescopic bracket 43 with screw rod 42 screw-thread fit, also make telescopic bracket 43 follow screw rod 42's axial displacement, and then telescopic bracket 43 can drive earphone head 12 removes, realizes earphone head 12 keeps away from or is close to the opening. In addition, the driving assembly 4 may further include a transmission 44, the transmission 44 is disposed between the motor 41 and the screw rod 42, and the transmission 44 may adjust an output rotation speed of the motor 41, so as to ensure stability of rotation of the screw rod 42.

Optionally, referring to fig. 14, the driving assembly 4 further includes a fixing bracket 45, and both ends of the screw rod 42 are connected to the fixing bracket 45.

Specifically, when the user frequently uses the earphone assembly, the screw rod 42 needs to be frequently rotated, in order to avoid the screw rod 42 from shifting during the rotation process, a fixing hole may be disposed on the fixing bracket 45, two ends of the screw rod 42 are connected to the fixing holes of the fixing bracket 45, the screw rod 42 may rotate relative to the fixing bracket 45, but the fixing hole may limit the axial shifting and the inclination of the screw rod 42, and ensure the stability of the rotation of the screw rod 42.

Specifically, referring to fig. 14, the telescopic bracket 43 includes a telescopic rod 431 and a connecting portion 432 fixed to the telescopic rod 431, the telescopic rod 431 is connected to the earphone head 12, the connecting portion 432 is sleeved on the screw rod 42 and is in threaded fit with the screw rod 42, the connecting portion 432 can be perpendicular to the telescopic rod 431, the telescopic rod 431 can be arranged in parallel with the screw rod 42, and the compactness of the driving assembly 4 is increased.

Optionally, the fixed bracket 45 is connected with a guide bar 451, the telescopic bracket 43 further includes a guide portion 433, and the guide portion 433 is sleeved on the guide bar 451.

Specifically, the guide portion 433 may be a protrusion extending from the telescopic rod 431, the number of the guide portion 433 may be one, when the guide portion 433 is sleeved on the guide rod 451, since the guide rod 451 is fixed on the fixing bracket 45, that is, the guide rod 451 is fixed, the telescopic rod 431 may drive the guide portion 433 to slide along the guide rod 451 during the moving process, and the guide rod 451 may provide a moving track for the telescopic rod 431; in order to improve the accuracy and stability of the moving track of the telescopic rod 431, the number of the guide parts 433 may be two, and a spring 434 sleeved on the guide rod 451 may be further disposed between the two guide parts 433, where the spring 434 may play a role in buffering when the telescopic bracket 43 moves up and down.

In addition, the earphone subassembly that this application embodiment provided passes through automatically controlled subassembly 3 and drive assembly 4 can be right earphone head 12 carries out flexible regulation, and by on the adjustment mechanism that earphone head 12, automatically controlled subassembly 3 and drive assembly 4 are constituteed can be used to intelligence wearing products such as intelligent glasses, intelligent wrist-watch equally, for example stretch out the watch crown from the dial plate of intelligent wrist-watch when intelligent wrist-watch need use the watch crown, and in the dial plate of retrieving intelligent wrist-watch with the watch crown when intelligent wrist-watch need not use the watch crown to improve the structural simplicity and the outward appearance aesthetic feeling of intelligent wrist-watch.

The embodiment of the application also provides an earphone head stretching control method of the earphone assembly, and the control method is applied to the earphone assembly.

Specifically, the method for controlling the expansion and contraction of the earphone head of the earphone assembly comprises the following steps:

s101, receiving a first input;

s102, responding to the first input, and judging the state of the earphone body;

s103, under the condition that the earphone body is in a sounding state, the driving assembly drives the earphone head to be far away from the opening.

Specifically, first input includes the earphone body install in earphone support just electric conduction spare with the contact offsets, the state of earphone body includes vocal state and not vocal state.

The embodiment of the application provides the flexible control method of earphone head passes through the drive assembly drive the earphone head is kept away from or is close to the opening is guaranteeing on the basis of the nimble effective use of earphone assembly, avoided the influence to user's ear comfort and hearing when the earphone body is worn for a long time, improved user's use and experienced.

In the description herein, reference to the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the application. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

While embodiments of the present application have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the application, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims (10)

1. An earphone assembly, comprising:

the earphone comprises an earphone body and a control unit, wherein the earphone body comprises an earphone shell and an earphone head, an opening is formed in the earphone shell, the earphone head is movably connected to the opening, and a contact is arranged on the earphone shell;

the earphone comprises an earphone bracket, a power supply and a control circuit, wherein an electric conducting piece is arranged on the earphone bracket;

the driving assembly is arranged in the earphone body and is connected with the earphone head;

the earphone body is installed in the condition of earphone support, the electric conduction piece with the contact offsets, drive assembly drive the earphone head is kept away from or is close to the opening.

2. The headset assembly of claim 1, further comprising an electrical control assembly electrically connected to the contacts, the electrical control assembly disposed within the headset body, the electrical control assembly including a circuit board and a routing layer connected to the circuit board, the contacts connected to the routing layer;

the earphone body is installed in under the condition of earphone support, the electric conduction piece with the contact offsets, the circuit of automatically controlled subassembly switches on and passes through drive assembly drive the earphone head is kept away from or is close to the opening.

3. The headset assembly according to claim 2, wherein the circuit board is provided with a bluetooth assembly, and the bluetooth assembly is used for judging the state of the headset body;

the state of earphone body includes vocal state and vocal state not, the earphone body install in under the earphone support and the condition that is in vocal state, automatically controlled subassembly passes through the drive assembly drive the earphone head is kept away from the opening, the earphone body install in under the earphone support and the condition that is in vocal state not, automatically controlled subassembly passes through the drive assembly drive the earphone head is close to the opening.

4. The headset assembly of claim 2, wherein the contacts include a first contact and a second contact, the wiring layer having an open position thereon, the first contact being disposed on one end of the wiring layer proximate the open position, the second contact being disposed on the other end of the wiring layer proximate the open position;

the earphone body is installed in the condition of earphone support, the one end of electric conduction piece with first contact butt, the other end of electric conduction piece with the second contact butt.

5. The earphone assembly of claim 1 wherein the earphone holder has a through hole, the electrical conductor is disposed on an inner wall of the through hole, and the earphone body is inserted into the through hole.

6. The earphone assembly according to claim 2, wherein the driving assembly comprises a motor, a screw rod and a telescopic bracket, the motor is electrically connected with the wiring layer, the screw rod is coaxially fixed with an output shaft of the motor, one end of the telescopic bracket is sleeved on the screw rod, and the other end of the telescopic bracket is connected with the earphone head.

7. The earphone assembly of claim 6 wherein the drive assembly further comprises a fixed bracket to which the two ends of the threaded rod are attached.

8. The earphone assembly of claim 7 wherein the telescopic bracket comprises a telescopic rod and a connecting portion fixed to the telescopic rod, the telescopic rod is connected to the earphone head, and the connecting portion is sleeved on the screw and is in threaded engagement with the screw.

9. The earphone assembly of claim 7 wherein the fixed bracket is coupled to a guide bar, and the telescoping bracket further comprises a guide portion that is received on the guide bar.

10. A headphone expansion control method, applied to the headphone assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising:

receiving a first input;

responding to the first input, and judging the state of the earphone body;

under the condition that the earphone body is in the sounding state, the driving assembly drives the earphone head to be far away from the opening.

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