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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Justin D. Crosby, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel K. Boothe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Houtan R. Farahani, San Ramon, CA (US);
Edward T. Sweet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device having several speaker modules that are acoustically in-phase and mechanically out-of-phase is disclosed. Embodiments include a pair of speaker modules mounted at respective ends of a lateral link, and the lateral link may be supported relative to a housing of the electronic device. The speaker modules may receive a same audio signal, and the audio signal may drive a first voicecoil in a first direction and a second voicecoil in a second direction. Accordingly, the speaker modules may be driven in mechanically different directions by the same audio signal, such that reactive forces cancel and/or mechanical energy is dissipate in the lateral link between the speaker modules. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.