Apple Inc.

Ethan Larry Huwe

Glenn K Trainer

Craig Matthew Stanley

Jason C Della Rosa

Sean Thomas McIntosh

Erik L Wang

John H Sheerin

Samuel G Parker

Scott Charles Grinker

Simon K Porter

Molly J Anderson

Christopher J Stringer

Benjamin A Cousins

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Matthew D Hill

Brian R Twehues

Dave Pakula

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Brad G Boozer

Phillip Qian

Dustin A Hatfield

Michael B Minerbi

Mei Zhang

Shota Aoyagi

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Jun Qi

Esge Brandt Andersen

Rong Liu

Daniel Ray Bloom

Jason Joseph LeBlanc

Daniel Max Strongwater

Kathleen A Bergeron

Mitchell R Lerner

Robert D Zupke

Ali N Ergun

Javier Mendez

Jason Brinsfield

Thanh Phong Hua

Meiting Wu

David J Feathers

Prathamesh R Bhagwat

Todd P Marco

Yi-Fang D Tsai

Kyle Tse

Timothy E Emmott

Patrick W Sheppard

Mattia Pascolini

Ruben Caballero

Victor H Yin

Edward Siahaan

Jerzy S Guterman

Joachim S Hammerschmidt

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Carlo Di Nallo

Lee M Panecki

Richard Hung Dinh

Michael B Nussbaum

Yuta Kuboyama

Kirill Kalinichev

Nathan P Bosscher

Jarrett B Lagler

Claudio Notarangelo

Rex Price

Ethan W Juhnke

Charles L Greenlee

Martin Kuster

Sean J Docherty

Eric X Zhou

Haochuan Sang

Kevin R Richardson

Julia C Canning

Mohammad Soroush Ghahri Sarabi

Jacob A Pfitsch

Shawn G Fink

Ryan M Buck

Cole A McCaughan

Yupin Sun

Pengchuan Wang

Sean T Bong

Susheel Teja Gogineni

Katherine I Pregler

Samantha K Young

Connor R Duke

Headphone eartips with internal support components and methods for making the same are provided. Different support components may provide specific amounts and types of additional rigidity at specific portions of an exterior surface of an outer eartip body that may be expected to interface with specific portions of an ear canal geometry when an eartip subassembly is positioned within the ear canal, such that the eartip subassembly may conform to the various shapes of the ear canal while maintaining an acoustic seal.

Headphone eartips with internal support components for outer eartip bodies

Embodiments describe an eartip including an eartip body having an attachment end and an interfacing end opposite from the attachment end. The eartip body can include an inner eartip body having a sidewall extending between the interfacing end and the attachment end, the sidewall defining a channel and having a first thickness near the attachment end and a second thickness different from the first thickness at the interfacing end. The eartip can also include an attachment structure coupled to the inner eartip body at the attachment end, the attachment structure having an inner surface and an outer surface. The attachment structure can include an upper region interfacing with the sidewall and defining discrete through-holes, a lower region below the upper region where the inner surface defines a plurality of recesses positioned around the lower region, and a mesh extending across the channel and into the upper region.

Bistable hinge for portable wireless listening device case

A low-profile earbud is disclosed that sits securely within an ear of a user. The earbud includes a protruding portion that passes through a channel defined by the tragus and anti-tragus of the ear. In some embodiments, the protruding portion can take the form of a cable configured to supply power and transfer data to the earbud. In some embodiments, the protruding portion can provide additional space for electrical components and sensors supporting the earbud.

In-ear headphone

A voice-controlled electronic device that includes a device housing having a longitudinal axis bisecting opposing top and bottom surfaces and a side surface extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The device can further include one or more microphones disposed within the device housing and distributed radially around the longitudinal axis; a processor configured to execute computer instructions stored in a computer-readable memory for interacting with a user and processing voice commands received by the one or more microphones and first transducer and second transducers configured to generate sound waves within different frequency ranges.

Voice-controlled electronic device

The disclosed technology relates to a battery utilizing an indicator to orient an unopposed portion of a cathode or anode with respect to a battery can, and a tag to generate an electromagnetic field to mitigate or eliminate an electromagnetic field generated by the unopposed portion of the cathode or anode. The battery includes a wound set of layers including a cathode, an anode, and a separator; a can housing the wound set of layers; a lid disposed atop of the can to enclose the wound set of layers within the can; and a tag coupled to the lid. An unopposed portion of the cathode or anode generates a first electromagnetic field. The tag generates a second electromagnetic field to oppose the first electromagnetic field.

System and method for reducing electrical interference of a battery cell

Eartips for coupling via wireform attachment mechanisms

A voice-controlled electronic device that includes an axisymmetric device housing having a longitudinal axis bisecting opposing top and bottom surfaces and a side surface extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The device can further include a plurality of microphones disposed within the device housing and distributed radially around the longitudinal axis; a processor configured to execute computer instructions stored in a computer-readable memory for interacting with a user and processing voice commands received by the plurality of microphones and first and second transducers configured to generate sound waves within different frequency ranges.

A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.

Identification of cushioning members in personal audio devices

An acoustic mesh comprising a first portion that is acoustically closed; and a second portion that surrounds the first portion and is acoustically open, wherein a surface area of the second portion is at least one percent a total surface area of the acoustic mesh.

Windscreen mesh

This disclosure relates to speakers and more specifically to an array speaker for distributing music uniformly across a room. A number of audio drivers can be radially distributed within a speaker housing so that an output of the drivers is distributed evenly throughout the room. In some embodiments, the exit geometry of the audio drivers can be configured to bounce off a surface supporting the array speaker to improve the distribution of music throughout the room. The array speaker can include a number of vibration isolation elements distributed within a housing of the array speaker. The vibration isolation elements can be configured reduce the strength of forces generated by a subwoofer of the array speaker.

Audio driver and power supply unit architecture

A portable acoustic device comprising: a device housing that defines an internal cavity, the device housing comprising a speaker housing portion and a stem portion extending away from the speaker housing portion; a first acoustic port formed through a wall of the speaker housing; an audio driver disposed within the speaker housing portion and aligned to emit sound through the acoustic first port; a battery disposed within the speaker housing portion and positioned an opposite side of the audio driver than the acoustic port; an antenna disposed in the stem; a user input region disposed along the stem; and a system in a chip disposed in the stem, the system in a chip comprising: a processor that controls operation of the portable wireless acoustic device, charging circuitry, an accelerometer, a wireless communication controller, support components for the antenna and support components for the user input region.

Wireless listening device

Growing community of inventors

Davis, CA, United States of America

Ethan Larry Huwe