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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2024
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stuart M. Nevill, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Andrew M. Hulva, Gilroy, CA (US);
Scott P. Porter, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 7/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transducer assembly comprising: a laterally offset arrangement of different size transducers, the different size transducers comprising at least a first transducer having a diaphragm of a first size arranged in a first direction and a pair of transducers each having a diaphragm of a second size arranged in a second direction to output sound when driven by respective audio signals, and wherein a force produced by the first transducer is cancelled by a sum of forces produced by the pair of transducers when the transduces are driven by the audio signals.