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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2023
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael J. Lombardi, South Barrington, IL (US);
Fuk Kiu Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joseph L. Allore, Mundelein, IL (US);
Meiling Zhang, Apex, NC (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present document describes techniques for a magnetically self-shielded speaker box for a mobile device. The speaker box described herein includes a thin metal enclosure, thereby reducing or eliminating plastic components from the exterior enclosure of the speaker box. The metal of the enclosure has a high magnetic permeability to prevent penetration of a magnetic field generated by the speaker transducer within the exterior enclosure. Also, the exterior enclosure includes at least two enclosure portions that are joined together with a continuous welded seam. Accordingly, the speaker box described herein is a thin-walled, fully metal, high-permeability enclosure resulting in a smaller, self-shielded solution that reduces both (i) the total physical volume of the speaker box for a given internal speaker back volume and (ii) the spacing requirements to adjacent voice-coil-motor auto-focus camera modules.