CN210491158U

CN210491158U - Earphone shell, earphone and electronic device

Info

Publication number: CN210491158U
Application number: CN201922017565.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 胡鄢浩
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2019-11-20
Filing date: 2019-11-20
Publication date: 2020-05-08
Anticipated expiration: 2029-11-20

Abstract

The application discloses earphone shell includes body, flexible connectors and goes into ear. The body comprises a shell, and a connecting end is arranged on the shell; the flexible connecting piece is fixedly connected with the connecting end of the shell; go into ear and be connected with flexible connectors for go into ear and can produce the effort on flexible connectors under the effect of external force, make flexible connectors can take place deformation under the effect of external force, with the duct width that satisfies not unidimensional, and then can be suitable for more consumers. In addition, the application also provides an earphone adopting the earphone shell and an electronic device adopting the earphone, and the earphone and the electronic device also have the same effect. The application also provides an electronic device comprising the circuit board.

Description

Earphone shell, earphone and electronic device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of earphone technologies, and in particular, to an earphone shell, an earphone, and an electronic device.

Background

With the continuous improvement of the technological level and the living standard of people, people are no longer limited to satisfy the temperature saturation, and people begin to pursue high-quality life, but the goods are more and more selected. Electronic products on the market are also increasingly entering the daily lives of people. For example, earphones are a kind of electroacoustic device which is closely related to people's daily life and work. In-ear headphones (including shallow in-ear type and semi-in-ear type) are characterized in that the in-ear part is made of flexible material, and the non-in-ear part is made of rigid material. The non-ear-entering part is made of rigid materials, the angle of the non-ear-entering part is fixed, the ear canal angles of different users are different, and the user experience is not good after wearing the ear canal glasses. The phenomenon that the ears of a user are uncomfortable and even painful when the user wears the glasses for a long time is easily caused.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The application provides an earphone shell, an earphone and an electronic device.

The technical scheme adopted by the application is as follows: there is provided an earphone case comprising:

the body comprises a shell, and a connecting end is arranged on the shell;

the flexible connecting piece is fixedly connected with the connecting end of the shell;

go into the ear, with flexible connection spare connects, makes it can produce the effort under the effect of external force to go into the ear on the flexible connection spare, makes flexible connection spare can take place deformation under the effect of external force.

The application further provides an earphone, which comprises a sound generating part and the earphone shell, wherein the generating device is located in the shell of the earphone shell.

The application also provides an electronic device, which comprises a terminal device and the earphone, wherein the earphone is used for playing the sound emitted by the terminal device.

The utility model provides an earphone shell goes into and has set up flexible connectors between the shell of ear and body, and flexible connectors is connected with the link fixed connection of shell in the same place as the other end and go into the ear and be connected. The ear-in part can generate acting force on the flexible connecting piece under the action of external force, so that the flexible connecting piece deforms under the action of the external force. Structure more than adopting, on the one hand, the user is at the in-process that uses the earphone shell, because flexible connection spare's setting can make the flexibility take place self-adaptation deformation according to user's duct shape, and then makes the user wear with comfortable to satisfy not unidimensional duct width, and then can be suitable for more consumers. On the other hand, the flexible connecting piece is made of flexible materials, so that the ear product of the user cannot be strongly pressed, and the condition that the user is easy to suffer from earache after using for a long time is reduced.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a housing for a middle ear shell according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of an earphone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective exploded view of the earphone housing of FIG. 1;

fig. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating an earphone shell according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a connection structure between a rigid member and a flexible connection member of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of another embodiment of the present application showing the connection of the rigid member to the flexible linkage member of the earphone housing;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a connection structure of a rigid member and a flexible connection member of yet another embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic view of a connection structure between a rigid member and a flexible connection member of an earphone shell according to another embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the application and are not limiting of the application. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present application are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures. 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.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the application. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 provides an earphone shell 100 according to the present application. The earphone housing 100 and the sound generating device form an earphone 200 (as shown in fig. 2). The present application further provides an electronic apparatus (as shown in fig. 3), which includes a terminal device (not shown) and the earphone 200 as described above. The headset 200 is used to play audio information on the terminal device. The audio information includes songs, recordings, speech for conversation, broadcast audio, etc.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an earphone shell 100 according to an embodiment of the present application; fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an earphone 200 according to an embodiment of the present application. Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In particular, the electronic device may be any of various types of computer system equipment (only one modality shown by way of example in fig. 2) that is mobile or portable and performs wireless communications. In particular, the electronic apparatus may be a mobile phone or a smart phone (e.g., an iPhone (TM) based, Android (TM) based phone), a portable game device (e.g., Nintendo DS (TM), playstation portable (TM), game boy Advance (TM), iPhone (TM)), a laptop, a PDA, a portable internet device, a music player and a data storage device, other handheld devices and devices such as a headset, etc., and other wearable devices that require charging (e.g., a Head Mounted Device (HMD) such as an electronic bracelet, an electronic necklace, an electronic device or a smart watch).

The electronic device may also be any of a number of electronic devices including, but not limited to, cellular phones, smart phones, other wireless communication devices, personal digital assistants, audio players, other media players, music recorders, video recorders, other media recorders, radios, medical devices, vehicle transportation equipment, calculators, programmable remote controllers, pagers, laptop computers, desktop computers, printers, netbook computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Portable Multimedia Players (PMPs), moving Picture experts group (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2) Audio layer 3(MP3) players, portable medical devices, and digital cameras and combinations thereof.

In some cases, the electronic device may perform a variety of functions (e.g., playing music, displaying video, storing pictures, and receiving and sending telephone calls). The electronic device may be, for example, a cellular telephone, media player, other handheld device, wristwatch device, pendant device, earpiece device, or other compact portable device, if desired.

Specifically, the earphone housing 100 provided by the present application includes a body 10, a flexible connector 20 connected to the body 10, and an in-ear portion 30 connected to the flexible connector 20.

The body 10 includes a housing 12, a sound generating device 14 is disposed in the housing 12, and a connection end 121 is disposed on the housing 12 for connecting with the flexible connection member 20. The flexible connector 20 is fixedly connected to the connection end 121 of the housing 12. The ear-entering part 30 is connected with the flexible connecting piece 20, so that the ear-entering part 30 can generate acting force on the flexible connecting piece 20 under the action of external force, and further the flexible connecting piece 20 can generate self-adaptive deformation under the action of external force. On the one hand, the user is at the in-process that uses earphone shell 100, because flexible connection spare 20's setting, can make flexible connection spare 20 produce deformation under the effect of external force, specifically take place self-adaptation deformation according to user's ear canal shape, and then make the user wear more comfortablely to satisfy not unidimensional ear canal width, and then can be suitable for more consumers. On the other hand, the flexible connecting element 20 is made of flexible material, so that the ear product of the user can not be pressed strongly, and the situation that the ear of the user is uncomfortable and even the ear is painful when the user uses the ear product for a long time is improved.

In one embodiment, the earphone housing 100 further comprises a rigid member 40, the rigid member 40 is fixedly connected to an end of the flexible connecting element 20 away from the housing 12, and the ear insertion portion 30 is connected to the rigid member 40. It will be appreciated that the provision of the stiffening member enables better securing of the ear-receiving portion. And simultaneously, the external force transmitted by the ears of the user is convenient to transmit.

Alternatively, in one embodiment, the rigid member 40 and the flexible connecting member 20 are both cylindrical, and the length of the rigid member 40 is less than the length of the flexible connecting member 20, such that the rigid member 40 functions just as easily to be installed in the ear 30, and at the same time, transmits external force, and does not easily press against the user's ear due to the length of the rigid member 40 being too long.

Further, in one embodiment, the rigid member 40 has a diametric width that is greater than a diametric width of the flexible connection member 20. Wherein the rigid member 40 and the flexible connecting member 20 are provided with a sound channel for transmitting the sound emitted from the sound generating device 14. That is, the rigid part 40 and the flexible connection part 20 have hollow cavities. The hollow cavity is used to form a sound channel or cavity for transmitting sound emitted by the sound-generating device 14.

Referring to FIG. 4, further, in one embodiment, the flexible connecting member 20 and the rigid member 40 are connected at locations that form a snap-fit abutment 22. Specifically, a first catch 222 is formed on the flexible connecting element 20, a second catch 224 is formed on the rigid element 40, and the first catch 222 and the second catch 224 are engaged with each other, so that the flexible connecting element 20 and the rigid element 40 are connected more firmly. Further, in another embodiment, the connection between the flexible connector 20 and the body 10 also forms a third snap 226 that engages with each other. Thereby enabling the rigid member 40, the flexible connecting member 20 and the body 10 to be connected into a firm integral body.

In other embodiments, the rigid member 40 and the flexible connection member 20 may be cylindrical in shape. In other embodiments, the rigid member 40 and the flexible connection member 20 may be configured as an elliptical cylinder, a square cylinder, a tapered cylinder, or the like. The above-described structures of the rigid member 40 and the flexible connecting member 20 are merely exemplary, and the structures of the rigid member 40 and the flexible connecting member 20 may have other shapes.

Referring to fig. 5, in particular, rigid element 40 has a rectangular shape in side view. The rigid member 40 is fixedly connected to the flexible connector 20 to form a first stepped portion 50. The first step portion 50 includes a first bearing surface 52, a first side surface 54 and a second bearing surface 56 sequentially connected from top to bottom. The number of the first step portions 50 may be two, two first step portions 50 are disposed on the same side, and the two first step portions 50 are located at two ends of the rigid member 40. When the ear insertion portion 30 is engaged with the rigid member 40, the first bearing surface 52 and the second bearing surface 56 respectively closely engage with the ear insertion portion 30, and the first side surface 54 is used for limiting the movement of the ear insertion portion 30 in a direction perpendicular to the first side surface 54, so as to prevent the ear insertion portion 30 from falling off the rigid member 40.

Referring to fig. 6, in another embodiment, a first step portion 60 is disposed at an upper end of the rigid member 40 on a side where the rigid member 40 is fixedly connected to the flexible connecting member 20, and the first step portion 60 includes a first bearing surface 61, a first side surface 62 and a second bearing surface 63 which are sequentially connected from top to bottom. The rigid member 40 and the flexible connecting member 20 are fixedly connected to form a second step portion 66, and the second step portion 66 includes a second side surface 67 and a third bearing surface 68 which are sequentially connected from top to bottom. The second side surface 67 is connected with the second bearing surface 63, and the second bearing surface 63 is higher than the second side surface 67. The number of the first step portions 60 may be two, two first step portions 60 are disposed on the same side, and the two first step portions 60 are located at two ends of the rigid member 40. When the ear insertion part 30 is engaged with the rigid member 40, the first bearing surface 61, the second bearing surface 63, and the third bearing surface 68 are respectively tightly engaged with the ear insertion part 30, and the first side surface 62 and the second side surface 67 are used for limiting the movement of the ear insertion part 30 in a direction perpendicular to the first side surface 62 and the second side surface 67, so as to prevent the ear insertion part 30 from falling off the rigid member 40.

Referring to fig. 7, in one embodiment, the rigid element 40 is fixedly connected to the flexible connecting element 20 to form a first step portion 70. The first step portion 70 includes a first bearing surface 72, a first side surface 76 and a second bearing surface 78 sequentially connected from top to bottom. The first bearing surface 72 and the first side surface 76 have an arc-shaped surface 74, and the arc-shaped surface 74 has a guiding function when being inserted into the ear 30 and the rigid member 40. The number of the first step portions 70 may be two, two first step portions 70 are disposed on the same side, and the two first step portions 70 are located at two ends of the rigid member 40. When the ear insertion portion 30 is engaged with the rigid member 40, the first bearing surface 72 and the second bearing surface 78 are respectively tightly engaged with the ear insertion portion 30, and the first side surface 76 is used for limiting the movement of the ear insertion portion 30 in a direction perpendicular to the first side surface 76, so as to prevent the ear insertion portion 30 from falling off the rigid member 40.

Referring to fig. 8, in another embodiment, one side of the rigid element 40 is fixedly connected to the flexible connecting element 20 to form a first step 80. The other side of the rigid member 40 is an arc-shaped surface 88, and the arc-shaped surface 88 has a guiding function when being inserted into the ear 30 and the rigid member 40. The first step portion 80 includes a first bearing surface 82, a first side surface 84 and a second bearing surface 86 sequentially connected from top to bottom. Portions of the arcuate faces 88 form the first bearing surface 82. The number of the first step portions 80 may be two, two first step portions 80 are disposed on the same side, and the two first step portions 80 are located at two ends of the rigid member 40. When the ear insertion portion 30 is engaged with the rigid member 40, the first bearing surface 82 and the second bearing surface 86 respectively tightly engage with the ear insertion portion 30, and the first side surface 82 is used for limiting the movement of the ear insertion portion 30 in a direction perpendicular to the first side surface 82, so as to prevent the ear insertion portion 30 from falling off the flexible connecting member 20.

The flexible connecting member 20 has a diameter width gradually decreasing from one end connected to the rigid member 40 to the other end connected to the connection end 121. In another embodiment, the diameter width of the flexible connecting element 20 may gradually increase from the end connected with the rigid element 40 to the other end connected with the connecting end 121.

The flexible connecting member 20 and the rigid member 40 are integrally formed by two-shot injection molding. The flexible connecting member 20 and the rigid member 40 are made of different materials, and specifically, the two-shot injection molding process is a molding process in which two different materials are injected into the same set of mold, so that an injected part is formed by the two materials. That is, the present application adopts a two-shot injection molding process to inject two different materials for forming the flexible connecting element 20 and the rigid element 40 into the same set of mold, so as to integrally mold the flexible connecting element 20 and the rigid element 40. By adopting the mode, the integrated forming of two materials with different hardness can be realized, so that the attractiveness and assembly performance of the product are improved.

The flexible connector 20 is made of TPU material. The TPU material is short for "Thermoplastic Urethane" and is referred to as Thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer. The TPU is a high molecular material formed by jointly reacting and polymerizing diisocyanate molecules such as diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) or Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI), etc., and macromolecular polyol and low-molecular polyol (chain extender). The TPU has the characteristics of excellent high tension, high tensile force, toughness and aging resistance, and is a mature environment-friendly material. The TPU also has the characteristics of high strength, good toughness, wear resistance, cold resistance, oil resistance, water resistance, aging resistance, weather resistance and the like which are incomparable with other plastic materials, and simultaneously has a plurality of excellent functions of high waterproofness and moisture permeability, wind resistance, cold resistance, antibiosis, mildew resistance, warm keeping, ultraviolet resistance, energy release and the like.

The flexible connector 20 HAs a durometer ranging between 0 and 95 degrees shore (HA). It will be appreciated that the flexible connector 20 may be made of a material having a durometer in the range of 0 degrees to 95 degrees shore (HA). The flexible connector 20 has a hardness, for example, 10 degrees shore, 20 degrees shore, 30 degrees shore, 40 degrees shore, 50 degrees shore, 60 degrees shore, 70 degrees shore, 80 degrees shore, 90 degrees shore. The flexible connector 20 may be made of silicone. The flexible connector 20 may also be made of soft rubber. In this way, the earphone shell 100 of the present application can make the flexible connecting element 20 produce adaptive deformation under the external force when worn, so as to satisfy the ear canal widths of different sizes, and further can be suitable for more consumers.

Optionally, in an embodiment, the hardness of the portion of the ear insertion portion 30 connected to the rigid member 40 is greater than a predetermined value, that is, the hardness of the portion of the ear insertion portion 30 connected to the rigid member 40 is greater than the hardness of other portions of the ear insertion portion 30. In one embodiment, for example, the portion of the ear insertion portion 30 connected to the rigid member 40 is also rigid, and with the above structure, the connection between the ear insertion portion 30 and the rigid member 40 is rigid and rigid, and is less likely to fall off.

In other embodiments, the ear insertion portion 30 and the flexible connector 20 can be made of the same hardness material. Such as TPU material, silicone rubber or soft rubber, etc. It will be appreciated that the material used for the ear insertion portion 30 may be less rigid than the material used for the flexible connector 20. In this way, the earphone shell 100 of the present application can make the flexible connecting element 20 produce adaptive deformation under the external force when worn, so as to satisfy the ear canal widths of different sizes, and further can be suitable for more consumers.

The thickness of the flexible connector 20 is in the range of 0.1mm to 1.8 mm. The thickness of the flexible connector 20 is, for example, 0.2mm, 0.3mm, 0.4mm, 0.5mm, 0.6mm, 0.8mm, 0.9mm, 1.0mm, 1.1mm, 1.2mm, 1.3mm, 1.4mm, 1.5mm, 1.6mm, 1.7 mm. In this way, the flexible connecting part 20 of this application not only can guarantee structural strength, but also can produce self-adaptive deformation under the effect of external force by flexible connecting part 20 to satisfy not unidimensional duct width, and then can be suitable for more consumers.

The present application provides an earphone shell 100 comprising a body 10, a flexible connector 20, and an ear inlet 30. The body 10 comprises a shell 12 and a sound generating device arranged in the shell 12, wherein a connecting end 121 is formed on the shell 12; the flexible connecting piece 20 is fixedly connected with the connecting end 121 of the shell 12; go into ear 30 and be connected with flexible connectors 20 for go into ear 30 and can produce the effort on flexible connectors 20 under the effect of external force, make flexible connectors 20 can produce self-adaptation deformation under the effect of external force, with the duct width that satisfies different sizes, and then can be suitable for more consumers. In addition, the present application also provides an earphone 200 using the earphone shell 100 and an electronic device using the earphone, which have the same effects.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating embodiments of the present application and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by the contents of the specification and the drawings of the present application or are directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are also included in the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An earphone shell, comprising:

the body comprises a shell, and a connecting end is arranged on the shell;

2. The earphone house of claim 1, comprising a rigid member fixedly connected to an end of the flexible connector remote from the housing, wherein the ear-in portion is connected to the rigid member.

3. The earphone shell of claim 2, wherein the rigid member and the flexible connector are both cylindrical, the length of the rigid member is less than the length of the flexible connector, and the diameter width of the rigid member is greater than the diameter width of the flexible connector.

4. The earphone house of claim 3, wherein the flexible connector has a diameter width that gradually decreases from one end connected to the rigid member to the other end connected to the connection end.

5. The earphone house of claim 2, wherein the flexible connection member and the rigid member are integrally formed by two-shot injection molding.

6. The earphone house of claim 2, wherein the hardness of the portion of the ear insert connected to the rigid member is greater than a predetermined value.

7. The earphone shell according to claim 5, wherein the flexible connection member is provided with snap-fit catches at positions where the flexible connection member is connected to the rigid member.

8. The earphone shell of any of claims 1-7, wherein the flexible connector HAs a hardness ranging from 0 degrees to 95 degrees shore (HA).

9. Earphone shell according to any of claims 1-7, wherein the thickness of the flexible connection is in the range of 0.1mm to 1.8 mm.

10. An earphone, characterized by comprising: a sound generating device and a headset housing according to any of the claims 1-9, the sound generating device being located inside a housing of the headset housing.

11. An electronic apparatus, comprising a terminal device and the headset of claim 10, the headset being configured to play audio information on the terminal device.