WO2013087758A1 - Écouteur intra-auriculaire - Google Patents
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- WO2013087758A1 WO2013087758A1 PCT/EP2012/075359 EP2012075359W WO2013087758A1 WO 2013087758 A1 WO2013087758 A1 WO 2013087758A1 EP 2012075359 W EP2012075359 W EP 2012075359W WO 2013087758 A1 WO2013087758 A1 WO 2013087758A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
- H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
- H04R1/10—Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones
- H04R1/1016—Earpieces of the intra-aural type
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- the present invention relates to an ear canal earphone.
- In-ear earphones and ear canal phones are well known.
- No. 7,681, 577 B2 shows an ear pad for an ear canal earphone.
- the ear cushion has a circular opening in the interior for receiving a sound guide unit.
- the outer contour of the ear cushion is not circular symmetrical, but designed elliptical.
- an in-ear earpiece or earpiece earphone with a diaphragm, a first volume in front of the diaphragm and a sound guide unit for guiding sound generated by the diaphragm into an ear canal of a user is provided.
- the sound guiding unit has an essentially elliptical or oval inner cross-section.
- the acoustic mass of the sound guide can be reduced. This is advantageous with regard to the frequency response of the listener, since it can be shifted toward higher frequencies.
- the outer contour of the sound guide unit is designed substantially elliptical or oval.
- An elliptical exterior The sound guide unit allows a better introduction of the sound guide unit into an ear canal of a user, since the ear canal of a user is typically elliptical in cross section.
- the in-ear earpiece or ear canal earphone has an ear pad with a continuous opening with a substantially elliptical or oval cross section for receiving the sound guide unit.
- the outer contour or the outer cross section of the ear cushion is designed substantially elliptical.
- the invention relates to the idea of reducing the cross section of the sound guide in order to reduce the acoustic mass of a sound guide unit of the ear canal listener and to improve the height reproduction by making the cross section elliptical.
- the reduction of the acoustic mass of the sound guide unit is particularly advantageous with regard to an extension of the high frequency response.
- An ear canal handset is a handset that is at least partially inserted into an ear canal.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional view of an in-ear receiver according to a first embodiment
- FIG. 3 shows a graph for illustrating the influence of the mass of the sound guide on the frequency response of the listener
- FIG. 5B each show a perspective view of an ear cushion according to a third embodiment
- FIG. 6 is a graph illustrating a frequency response of an in-ear earphone according to an embodiment of the invention.
- the in-ear handset 10 is designed in particular as an ear-canal handset.
- the in-ear earphone 10 has a membrane 1 1, a volume 12 in front of the membrane and a sound guide unit 13.
- the in-ear earphone 10 has a housing with a first end 10a and a second end 10b.
- the sound guide unit 13 has a first end 13a and a second end 13b, wherein the first end 13a of the sound guide unit 13 is adjacent to the volume 12 in front of the diaphragm 11.
- the second end 13b of the sound guide unit 13 is configured to be at least partially inserted into an ear canal of a listener.
- the second end 13b of the sound guide unit 13 is the ear-side end of the handset.
- an ear cushion 20 may be provided around the sound guide unit 13.
- the ear pad is used for improved comfort and improved acoustic sealing of the second end 13b of the sound guide unit in an ear canal of a user.
- the sound guide unit 13 serves to guide the sound emitted by the membrane into an ear canal of a user.
- the sound guide unit is designed as a tubular element with an elliptical or oval inner cross section.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of a frequency response of an in-ear receiver according to the first exemplary embodiment of FIG. 1.
- the frequency response without sound guide is shown in phantom and the frequency response with sound guide is shown as a solid line.
- the sound guidance unit of an in-ear listener should basically meet three different criteria. In terms of comfort for The user should have as much space as possible between the sound guide unit and the ear canal of the user so that an ear cushion can be placed there. With regard to a good acoustic seal as much space between the sound guide unit and the ear canal should be provided to provide the elastic ear cushion. Furthermore, the sound guide unit should have a large cross section with regard to a reduction of the acoustic mass of the sound guide unit.
- this contradiction of the first two requirements with respect to the third requirement is solved by making the inner cross section of the sound guide unit substantially elliptical in order to reduce the acoustic mass of the sound guide unit and sufficient space between the sound guide unit and the ear canal of the user, for example for an earpads to let.
- FIG. 3 shows a graph for illustrating a frequency response of in-ear listeners with different acoustic masses.
- the acoustic mass of the sound conduction unit has been reduced.
- the reduction of the acoustic mass of the sound guide unit was achieved in that the inner cross section of the sound guide unit is configured substantially elliptical.
- the cross section of the sound guide unit and thus the maximum inner diameter of the sound guide unit is limited by the geometry of a normal ear canal of a user, the desired comfort, the required acoustic seal and the necessary wall thicknesses of the components.
- To further reduce the acoustic mass is proposed according to the invention not to use a round cross-section, but an elliptical or oval cross section or an inner cross section.
- an elliptical or oval cross-section By using an elliptical or oval cross-section, a doubling of the open area and thus a significant reduction of the acoustic mass can be achieved.
- the sound guide unit of the in-ear earphone according to the invention has a non-circular cross section and preferably an elliptical cross section.
- the outer contour of the sound guide unit or the outer area of the sound guide unit can be elliptical.
- An elliptical configuration of the outer contour The sound-conducting unit does not have to be disadvantageous in terms of the wearing comfort of the in-ear listener, since an external ear canal of a user is typically elliptical in cross-section.
- FIGS. 4A to 4C show various schematic perspective views of a sound guide unit according to the invention.
- the sound guide unit according to the third embodiment has an inside elliptical or oval cross-section.
- the sound guide unit can also have an elliptical cross section on the outside.
- the sound guide unit 13 has an elliptical inner cross section 13c and optionally an elliptical outer cross section 13d.
- Figures 5A and 5B respectively show schematic perspective views of an ear pad for an in-ear earpiece or an ear-canal earphone according to the invention.
- the ear cushion 20 has an opening 21 in the middle, which serves to receive a sound guide unit 13.
- the cross-section of the opening 21 is preferably configured elliptical, so that the cross-section 21 can be adapted or adapted to an elliptical outer cross-section of a sound guide unit.
- the outer contour 22 of the ear cushion can also have an elliptical cross section.
- the outer cross section of the ear cushion 20 may also have a circular cross section.
- a position of a raised frequency range in the frequency response illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3 is determined by the size of the volume 12 in front of the diaphragm 11.
- a maximum inner diameter of the sound guide unit is determined by the boundary conditions described above.
- the size of the volume 12 in front of the membrane 11 is dependent on the diameter of the membrane 11. With a small diameter of the membrane 1 1, it is easier to keep this volume small and thus move the increase to higher frequencies. For larger diameters of the membrane 1 1, the resulting larger volume 12 in front of the membrane must be compensated by a smaller acoustic mass of the sound guide unit.
- Fig. 6 shows a graph of two frequency responses.
- the frequency response shown in dashed lines corresponds to an in-ear earphone with a smaller volume 12 in front of the diaphragm.
- the continuous frequency response corresponds to a frequency response of an in-ear listener with a larger volume 12 in front of the membrane 1 first
- According to the invention can be achieved by reducing the acoustic mass of the sound guide unit to the same extent as an increase in the volume of approximately the same frequency response. According to the invention this is achieved by a sound guide unit with an elliptical inner cross section.
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Abstract
L'invention prévoit un écouteur intra-auriculaire avec une membrane (11), un premier volume (12) devant la membrane et une unité de guidage du son (13) pour guider dans un canal auriculaire d'un utilisateur le son produit par la membrane (11). L'unité de guidage du son (13) comprend une section interne de forme sensiblement elliptique.
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WO2009018114A1 (fr) * | 2007-07-31 | 2009-02-05 | Burton Technologies, Llc | Adaptateur intra-auriculaire pour des écouteurs boutons |
DE102008062371A1 (de) | 2007-12-17 | 2009-08-13 | Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. Kg | Hörer und elektrodynamischer Wandler |
US7681577B2 (en) | 2006-10-23 | 2010-03-23 | Klipsch, Llc | Ear tip |
DE202011002165U1 (de) * | 2010-08-16 | 2011-05-19 | Bose Corporation, Mass. | Ohrstück-Positionierung und -halterung |
US20110176700A1 (en) * | 2009-05-13 | 2011-07-21 | Junichi Hashimoto | Earphone device and earphone device main body |
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WO1999051058A1 (fr) * | 1998-03-30 | 1999-10-07 | Hearing Components, Inc. | Ensemble gaine jetable pour dispositif acoustique et recipient pour cette gaine |
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US7681577B2 (en) | 2006-10-23 | 2010-03-23 | Klipsch, Llc | Ear tip |
WO2008157557A1 (fr) * | 2007-06-17 | 2008-12-24 | Personics Holdings Inc. | Système d'oreillette écouteur |
WO2009018114A1 (fr) * | 2007-07-31 | 2009-02-05 | Burton Technologies, Llc | Adaptateur intra-auriculaire pour des écouteurs boutons |
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