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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11511680 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2019

Interior component of a vehicle

Applicants:

Agc Glass Europe, Louvain-la-Neuve, BE;

International Automotive Components Group Gmbh, Duesseldorf, DE;

Inventors:

Marek Novotny, Namur, BE;

Carter Scott Cannon, Munich, DE;

Sung-Uk Kim, Grafing, DE;

Assignees:

AGC GLASS EUROPE, Louvain-la-Neuve, BE;

INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS GROUP GMBH, Duesseldorf, DE;

Attorney:

Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Oyesola C Ojo

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/34 (2006.01); H04R 7/12 (2006.01); H04R 17/00 (2006.01); F21V 33/00 (2006.01); H04R 31/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01); B60R 13/02 (2006.01); H04R 7/18 (2006.01); H04R 7/26 (2006.01); F21W 106/00 (2018.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 11/0223 (2013.01); B60R 13/0243 (2013.01); B60R 13/0262 (2013.01); H04R 1/025 (2013.01); H04R 1/345 (2013.01); H04R 7/125 (2013.01); H04R 7/18 (2013.01); H04R 7/26 (2013.01); H04R 17/00 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0007 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0021 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0029 (2013.01); B60R 2013/0287 (2013.01); F21V 33/0056 (2013.01); F21W 2106/00 (2018.01); H04R 31/003 (2013.01); H04R 2307/023 (2013.01); H04R 2307/025 (2013.01); H04R 2400/11 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

An interior component of a vehicle comprises a carrier having a front face directed toward a passenger compartment of the vehicle and an opposite rear face; a speaker including an at least partially transparent diaphragm and a transducer coupled to the diaphragm. Movement of the transducer causes vibration of the diaphragm to generate sound by vibration of the diaphragm, the diaphragm having a front face directed towards the passenger compartment and an opposite rear face. The carrier provides a support along at least part of the periphery of the diaphragm where the diaphragm is attached to the carrier where the front face and the rear face of the diaphragm are free of the carrier across a part of the diaphragm surface so that the diaphragm is suspended in the carrier of the interior component.

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