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Patent No.:

US 6463161 B1

Date of Patent:

Oct. 08, 2002

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2001

Electroacoustic transducer having contact holding means for spring contacts for the electrical connection of the transducer

Applicant:

Inventors:

Erich Klein, Himberg, AT;

Heinz Nierlich, Vienna, AT;

Thomas Pauser, Vienna, AT;

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:

Edward W. Goodman

Primary Examiner:

Huyen Le

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

H04R 1/00 ;

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

H04R 1/00 ;

Abstract

In an electroacoustic transducer ( ) having a hollow cylindrical magnet system ( ) and a contact holding assembly ( ), retained in an inner zone ( ), for holding spring contacts ( ), the contact holding assembly ( ) includes two preferably identical contact holding elements ( ) which adjoin one another along two identically shaped bounding surfaces ( ), and each contact holding element ( ) has a holding chamber ( ) which opens towards its bounding surface ( ), each holding chamber ( ) accommodating a spring contact ( ) inserted into the holding chamber ( ) from the side of the bounding surface ( ).

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