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Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel K. Boothe, San Francisco, CA (US);

Martin E. Johnson, Los Gatos, CA (US);

David Sumberg, San Francisco, CA (US);

David A. Kalinowski, Davis, CA (US);

Peter V. Jupin, Copenhagen, DK;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/323 (2013.01);
Abstract

An output device that includes a housing, a first speaker driver that is integrated within the housing at a first location and is arranged to project sound into an ambient environment in a first direction, and a second speaker driver that is integrated within the housing at a second location that is different than the first location and is arranged to project sound into the ambient environment, where the first and second speaker drivers are integrated within the housing and share a common back volume within the housing.


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