Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices inventions

20090279706 - Surround generation apparatus: A surround system includes a decoder that decodes an encoded audio data stream, a decorrelation unit that receives and decorrelates stereo signals decoded by the decoder so as to generate surround signals having a low-correlation component, an addition unit that adds high-correlation-component signals extracted from the stereo signals to the... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090279707 - Listener specific audio reproduction system: A system for use with an audio reproduction system that corrects for distortion caused by the system as well as any hearing impairment suffered a listener. Test signals are introduced into the input of the system to produce test sounds that are perceptible by the listener. Using a pushbutton, the... Agent: Otis Patent Law

20090279708 - Electronic stethoscope apparatus: An electronic stethoscope system that reduces cross-infection when examining a patient is provided. The electronic stethoscope system includes a handheld auscultation portion for picking up bodily sounds of a patient. The detected bodily sounds are transmitted to a base unit having a loudspeaker for broadcasting an audible representation of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090279709 - Signal processing device and signal processing method: A signal processing device includes: a filter processing unit configured to execute noise reduction operations by subjecting sound-collected signals from a sound-collecting unit to filtering processing based on preset filter properties and providing with signal properties for noise reduction; a noise-unreduced signal obtaining unit configured to obtain noise-unreduced signals obtained... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090279710 - Active noise reducing device: An active noise reducing device includes switchover frequency memory which stores a speaker having weaker influence of level drop or dips in gain characteristics of transmission from first speaker and second speaker both working as secondary noise generators to microphone working as a residual signal detector, and also stores a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090279711 - Ear cup: An ear cup for a hearing protection unit including an inner cup portion which defines a noise damping space facing towards the user. The ear cup further has an outer cup portion for accommodating electronics and/or a current source. The inner cup portion and the outer cup portion are separated... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090279712 - Microphone boom with adjustable wind noise suppression: A microphone boom cap includes a porous plastic portion adapted to cover a microphone boom first aperture. The microphone boom cap includes a non-porous plastic portion affixed to the porous plastic portion. The non-porous plastic portion is adapted to cover a microphone boom second aperture in a second use position,... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20090279713 - Multi-voltage headphone drive circuit: The present invention discloses a multi-voltage headphone driver circuit comprising: at least one operational amplifier having an output supplied to a headphone speaker, the operational amplifier receiving a first power supply as its high operation voltage; a charge pump receiving a second power supply to generate a negative voltage corresponding... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090279714 - Apparatus and method for localizing sound source in robot: An apparatus and method for localizing a sound source in a robot are provided. The apparatus includes a microphone unit implemented by one or more microphones, which picks up a sound from a three-dimensional space. The apparatus also includes a sound source localizer for determining a position of the sound... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090279715 - Method, medium, and apparatus for extracting target sound from mixed sound: A method, medium, and apparatus for extracting a target sound from a mixed sound. The method includes obtaining the mixed signal from a microphone array, generating a first signal which is emphasized and directed toward a target sound source, and a second signal which is suppressed and directed toward the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090279716 - Vibration generator for electronic device having speaker driver and counterweight: A vibration generator for a portable electronic device includes a speaker driver and a counterweight retained by a housing to form a closed assembly. When a communications transmission is received by the electronic device, an input force signal is transmitted to the speaker driver to apply a force at a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090279717 - Circuit module for a condenser microphone: A circuit module for a condenser microphone includes a first chip mounted on a mounting surface of a printed circuit board and including an impedance converter circuit for amplifying an electrical signal received from a capacitive sensor via a first conductive pattern on the mounting surface and for outputting an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090279718 - Audio recordation and reproduction spring clips: A method of releasably securing an article with an audio recording includes handling a binder clip having audio circuitry with recordation and playback capabilities. The binder clip includes a pair of actuating arms and a gripping portion. The audio circuitry is in the form other than that of a cell... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090279719 - Capacitive transducer circuit and method: A capacitive transducer circuit includes a capacitive transducer having first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes are biased by respective first and second bias voltages. An amplifier is connected to receive a first analog signal on an input terminal, the first analog signal being generated by the capacitive... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090279720 - Speaker: A speaker is disclosed. A speaker includes a fixing part (500) fastened to a base frame; a motion part (400) moved with respect to the fixing part by an electromagnetic force; a vibration plate (200) that vibrates in communication with the motion part; and an area enlargement part (202) provided... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090279721 - Speaker device: A speaker device includes first speaker units 2 and 5 and second speaker units 3 and 6 that are arranged symmetrically as viewed from a listening center axis X1-X2. The first speaker units 2 and 5 emit sounds in inward directions and reproduces at least the mid-range and above, and... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090279722 - Wireless headset device capable of providing balanced stereo and method thereof: A wireless headset device capable of providing balanced stereo. The wireless headset connects with a stereo output device for giving balanced sounds on both left and right channels. The wireless headset has an encoder/decoder module which decompresses a digital audio package received from a wireless transceiver device into a stereo... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20090279723 - Processing signals representative of sound based on the identity of an input element: Systems and techniques for processing signals representative of sound for conveyance to the auditory system of a subject based on the identity of an input device. In one implementation, a method includes identifying an input element to an audiological system that conveys sound information directly to a subject's auditory system,... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20090279724 - Method for operating a hearing device and microphone system for hearing device: A method for operating a hearing device, an associated microphone system comprising at least two omnidirectional microphones, and a hearing device are provided. The microphones emit microphone signals and are electrically interconnected with one another in order to form directional characteristics. A damping of the upper frequency range of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090279726 - Genetic algorithms with subjective input for hearing assistance devices: Disclosed herein, among other things, is an apparatus for fitting a hearing assistance device using a genetic algorithm. The apparatus includes a first population of a plurality of parent sets representing at least one device parameter. A first pair from the parent sets is presented with assistance of the hearing... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090279725 - Radio with hearing loss compensation: A radio receiving system to compensate for hearing loss comprises a receiver, a sound reproduction device, and a hearing loss compensator. The receiver is generally located in the cockpit of an aircraft. The receiver receives radio frequency transmissions and converts the transmissions into audio frequency electrical signals. The sound reproduction... Agent: Garmin International, Inc. Attn: Legal - Ip

20090279727 - Hearing aid housing apparatus: A hearing aid including an audio-processing device. The audio-processing device may be configured to receive a signal from a microphone and send the signal to a receiver. The hearing aid may include a hearing aid housing coupled to the audio-processing device. The hearing aid housing may have a body and... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20090279728 - Game controller with speaker: A game controller with speaker is disclosed. The game controller is applied in a personal computer or a TV game machine and includes a control command receiving unit, a control unit, a connector terminal and a speaker. The control command receiving unit is used for receiving a game control command... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090279729 - Dual-frequency coaxial earphones: A dual-frequency coaxial earphone includes a frame, a shared yoke, a high frequency speaker part, and a low frequency speaker part. The high frequency speaker part and the low frequency speaker part are coaxially arranged at inside and outside of the shared yoke, and are coaxial with a central opening... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090279730 - Shock-absorbing apparatus for a ribbon microphone housing: A ribbon microphone housing incorporates a shock-absorbing apparatus to reduce vibration to a ribbon for noise reduction and high-fidelity electric output signal generation. The ribbon for the ribbon microphone housing is typically made of a thin corrugated strip of aluminum. The shock-absorbing apparatus utilizes spring elements to suspend a ribbon... Agent: Invent Capture, LLC

20090279731 - Earphone: An earphone includes a housing, a reel mechanism, a speaker, and a transmission wire. The reel mechanism is pivotally disposed in the housing and has an accommodating space defined therein for accommodating the speaker. The transmission wire is wound on the reel mechanism. When the transmission wire is pulled or... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090279732 - Speaker assembly with directional adjustability: An improved audio speaker assembly is provided for directional adjustability of the woofer or driver. The assembly includes a housing comprising a baffle, a swivel, a swivel cup, and a retainer. The driver is mounted in the swivel. The swivel and swivel cup are mounted between the baffle and the... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20090279733 - Speaker assembly arrangement for a vehicle and method of mounting a speaker: A speaker assembly arrangement for a vehicle is provided that includes a speaker unit including a speaker cabinet defining a first volume and a body part of a vehicle including a hollow member defining a second volume. The speaker cabinet is acoustically coupled to the hollow member by a press-fit... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090274307 - Audio system: Disclosed is an audio system including a group of loudspeakers that form a sound field by delivering into a single space sound signals passed through respective ones of a plurality of sound signal channels. This audio system is comprised of two characteristic-variable equalizers that are cascaded to each other to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090274308 - Method and apparatus for processing a media signal: An apparatus for processing a media signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the media signal can be converted to a surround signal by using spatial information of the media signal. The present invention provides a method of processing a signal, the method comprising of extracting spatial information and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090274309 - Method and system for equalizing a loudspeaker in a room: A method and a system for equalizing one or more loudspeaker(s), e.g. a hi-fi system, positioned in a room in order to compensate sound reproduction from the loudspeaker for an influence of the room. The method includes measuring a listening position transfer function (L) from electrical input of the loudspeaker... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090274310 - System and method for dynamic sound delivery: A dynamic range manipulation system, for use for example in an audio playback system such as a two-way communication system, mobile telephone, MP3 player, and the like, obtains a measure of ambient noise at the playback location and adjusts the gain of the drive signal provided to the loudspeaker based... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090274312 - Detecting a loudspeaker configuration: A detecting circuit measures at least one response characteristic of an output channel in an electro-acoustic transducer system. A memory stores a plurality of equalizations, each equalization corresponding to a known electro-acoustic transducer system associated with at least one response characteristic stored in the memory. A processor in communication with... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090274311 - Multi-channel audio load box with selectable loading: An audio load box to test multiple audio channels using selectable loading for each channel. A resistive load is switched into the signal path of each audio channel before audio tests are conducted. The resistive load can be a single resistor or resistors in parallel. The multi-channel audio load box... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090274313 - Slotted waveguide acoustic output device and method: The present application is directed to an omnidirectional sound emitting device comprising an acoustic slotted waveguide array; and an acoustic source in communication with the acoustic slotted waveguide array. The device is configured to project an acoustic beam at distance up to about two nautical miles or more.... Agent: John Karl Buche Buche & Associates, P.C.

20090274314 - Method and apparatus for determining a degree of closure in hearing devices: A method for determining a degree of closure in a hearing device with at least one auditory canal microphone, at least one receiver and an associated hearing device apparatus is disclosed. The method is characterized by an in-situ measurement of a transmission function between the receiver and the auditory canal... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090274315 - Method and apparatus to reduce non-linear distortion: Techniques to reduce distortion in acoustic signals in mobile computing devices are described. For example, a mobile computing device may comprise a speaker operative to receive a first signal and output a second signal. The mobile computing device may further comprise a first microphone operative to receive the second signal... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090274316 - System and method for countering noise when operating an address system in a passenger transport: A system for countering ambient noise when operating an address system in at least one compartment of a passenger transport unit includes: (a) a noise control unit; and (b) at least one memory unit coupled with the noise control unit. The at least one memory unit stores noise characteristic information... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20090274317 - Headset: A method or apparatus to provide an improved headset. The headset includes at least one sensor. The headset further includes a configuration logic to configure the headset based on the position of the headset on the user's head.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090274318 - Audio conference device: A audio conference device capable of detecting a talker's direction exactly and collecting a sound emitted from this direction at a high signal S/N ratio is provided. A detecting beam generating portion 811 applies a delay-sum process to sound collecting signal SS104 to SS113 of microphones MIC104 to MIC113 that... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090274319 - Audio amplifier: An audio amplifier includes an amplifying circuit, a bias control circuit, and a decoupling device. The amplifying circuit amplifies an audio signal. The bias control circuit provides at least one bias voltage for the amplifying circuit according to a power down signal, in which the power down signal represents that... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090274320 - Noise canceling apparatus and noise canceling method: Disclosed herein is a noise canceling apparatus including: a microphone configured to pick up ambient sound as noise; a first signal generator configured to receive a signal from the microphone to generate a noise cancel signal that is inverted in phase to the signal received from the microphone and has... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090274321 - Audio amplifier and technique for power efficiency thereof: Some embodiments take the form of a vehicle audio amplifier comprising a plurality of amplifier stages and a controller. The amplifier stages are operatively coupled to each other and the amplifier stages include an input stage for receiving an audio signal and an output stage for driving at least one... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20090274322 - Volume control apparatus and method: A volume control apparatus and method is provided. The volume control apparatus includes an automatic gain controller and an equal loudness controller. The method includes steps of receiving an original sound signal by the automatic gain controller, adjusting the original sound signal by the automatic gain controller according to a... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090274323 - Volume controlled prental music belt: The present invention transmits sounds and/or music to an unborn baby in the mother's womb via a waist belt and speaker disposed within the belt, where the speaker connects to most audio devices via a universal audio plug. The waist belt can also be used to temporarily house/transport appropriate portable... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090274324 - Microphone unit and method of manufacturing the same: A microphone unit includes a substrate. The substrate includes a first face formed with a first recess, a second face opposite to the first face, and a through hole communicating the second face to a bottom part of the first recess. A diaphragm unit includes a diaphragm, and at least... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090274325 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations: Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a dental patch are disclosed herein. The patch assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded intra-orally on a tooth or oral tissue. The electronic and transducer assembly may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20090274326 - Synchronization of signals for multiple data sinks: A data source sends a synchronization signal and information to several data sinks that use the synchronization signal and a specified parameter to determine when to process the information. The data source and data sinks may comprise wireless nodes such as, for example, a wireless audio source that sends multi-channel... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090274327 - Circuit for operating a hearing device and hearing device: A circuit for operating a hearing device with a variable operating parameter is disclosed. A storage device for storing operating parameter settings in a starting situation as well as in a target situation and a control unit, which implements a matching of the operating parameter according to a setting of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090274328 - Apparatus and method for reducing interference effects in the case of a wireless data transmission in hearing device applications: An apparatus and a method are provided for reducing an interference input coupling caused by asymmetrically embodied field lines of at least one hearing device component into a receiving antenna of a wireless data transmission facility of a hearing device. The apparatus includes at least one first means arranged in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090274329 - Passive directional acoustical radiating: An acoustic apparatus, including an acoustic driver, acoustically coupled to a pipe to radiate acoustic energy into the pipe. The pipe includes an elongated opening along at least a portion of the length of the pipe through which acoustic energy is radiated to the environment. The radiating is characterized by... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090274330 - Microphone mount for a cabinet: A microphone mount for mounting a microphone adjacent a speaker housed in a cabinet is defined by an elongate body having gripping fingers on opposite ends. The body is extendable and an elastic cord housed in the body normally pulls the gripping fingers together so that the mount may be... Agent: Hancock Hughey LLP

20090274331 - Microphone device adapted to be worn on an ear: A microphone device includes an earpiece unit and a sound pickup unit. The earpiece unit includes a pliable ring part adapted for looping around an ear of a wearer and bendable to conform to the shape of the ear of the wearer. The sound pickup unit includes a boom component... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20090274332 - Miniaturized acoustic boom structure for reducing microphone wind noise and esd susceptibility: A miniaturized acoustic boom structure includes a microphone boom housing having a wind screen and a microphone pod configured to hold a microphone. The microphone pod has an outer surface secured to an inner surface of the microphone boom housing, an interior having one or more surfaces configured to form... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20090274333 - Electronic device with internal array microphone affixed to rear cover of display: An electronic device includes a display, a plurality of chambers, and a microphone array. The display includes a front cover and a rear cover affixed to the front cover. The plurality of chambers is formed on the rear cover. The microphone array includes a plurality of microphones disposed in the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090274334 - Mounting method and holder for smd microphone: A SMD microphone holder has an SMD microphone mounted within, and includes a cap body and cylindrical portion. The cap body is withstands a reflow temperature, and defines a cavity for mounting the SMD microphone therein. The cylindrical portion is formed with the cap body, and withstands a reflow temperature.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090274335 - Shoulder/neck supporting electronic application: A shoulder/neck supporting electronic appliance includes a wireless head set wherein the head set includes a supporting unit adapted for wearing on a user's collar from behind, a wireless audio device comprising a wireless transceiver supported by the supporting unit for receiving an audio signal, and a power source electrically... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090274336 - Enclosure and enclosure system for a speaker of an electronic device: The disclosure relates to a system for adjusting a response signal of a transducer of an electronic device is provided. The system comprises: a substrate, such as a printed circuit board (PCB), having a first side and a second side; a transducer making an electrical connection with the first side... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20090274337 - Speaker voice coil: The present invention is to provide a speaker voice coil having an improved productivity, a lightweight, a good response to vibration, and an elimination of a specified frequency. The speaker voice coil includes a plurality of coil main bodies connected in series each other, the coil main bodies each have... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090262945 - Stereo encoding device, stereo decoding device, and stereo encoding method: There is disclosed a stereo encoding device capable of accurately encoding a stereo signal at a low bit rate and suppressing delay in audio communication. The device performs monaural encoding in its first layer (110). In a second layer (120), a filtering unit (103) generates an LPC (Linear Predictive Coding)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090262947 - Apparatus and method for producing 3d audio in systems with closely spaced speakers: An audio processing circuit includes a crosstalk cancellation circuit that is advantageously simplified for use in audio devices that have closely-spaced speakers. In particular, crosstalk filtering as implemented in the circuit assumes that the external head-related contralateral filters are time-delayed and attenuated versions of the external, head-related ipsilateral filters. With... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090262946 - Augmented reality enhanced audio: A device and method for providing augmented reality enhanced audio. The device is portable and may include a location processing module capable of receiving location information and determining a location of the device in an environment, an orientation processing module capable of determining an orientation of the device at the... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20090262948 - Hearing aid and method for operating a hearing aid: The invention relates to a hearing aid comprising at least one signal processing device, at least one counter for detecting discreet events or operating processes, and at least one memory for storing the values or states of the counter, and the threshold values associated with each counter. The hearing aid... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090262949 - Multi-channel acoustic signal processing device: Provided is a multi-channel acoustic signal processing device by which loads of arithmetic operations are reduced. The multi-channel acoustic signal processing device (100) includes: a decorrelated signal generation unit (181), and a matrix operation unit (187) and a third arithmetic unit (186). The decorrelated signal generation unit (181) generates a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262950 - Multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation system and method: Techniques for multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation include adaptive filtering. An adaptive filter can use a lattice predictor of order M coupled to an adaptive LMS/Newton filter of length N, wherein M<N. The lattice predictor can provide decorrelation of the input to the LMS/Newton filter and can provide faster convergence for... Agent: Dr. William T. Ralston

20090262951 - Active noise control apparatus: An active noise control apparatus that controls by a control sound a noise which is output from a noise source, includes: a control sound generating section which inputs a control signal, and produce the control sound; a residual noise detecting section which detects, as a residual noise signal, a noise... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262952 - Earphone and headset: There is thus provided an earphone comprising a housing (20) for receiving an electroacoustic transducer, and an ear cushion unit (10) having an ear cushion material (11) and a first ring (1). The housing has a sealing ring (2) and a latching unit (21). The first ring (1) has a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090262953 - System including device for securing the states of electronic controls: A system comprises an audio processor adapted for communication with an audio source and a control cover. The audio processor may have a plurality of manual controls to adjust audio processing parameters based on selected states of the controls. The control cover may engage the audio processor to restrict movement... Agent: Robert P. Hart, Esq. Harman International Industries, Inc.

20090262954 - Audio signal adjusting method and device utilizing the same: An audio signal adjusting device is disclosed. The audio signal adjusting device for adjusting the amplitudes of digital audio signals received from a decoder that decodes the audio signals received from an antenna comprises a buffer, a signal abnormality detector and a fading processor. The buffer stores the digital audio... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090262955 - Electronic device and volume control method of electronic device: A problem of the invention is to provide an electronic device and a volume control method of the electronic device capable of automatically controlling the volume when TV broadcast viewing is started or when headphones are attached/removed. To view a broadcast received in a TV broadcast data reception section (100)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090262956 - Microphones with equal sensitivity: A microphone and a method for producing a microphone with a sensitivity stipulated within narrow limits. The microphone each has a microphone capsule and an amplifier. A network of passive components, preferably resistors, is allocated to the amplifier. The sensitivity of the microphone is measured and the passive components are... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090262957 - Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal: Accordingly, one of a plurality of preset information is selected using a plurality of preset metadata without user's setting on each object, whereby a level of an output channel of an object can be adjusted with ease.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262958 - Comb sense microphone: A miniature microphone, comprising a diaphragm, supported for displacement in response to acoustic waves, from which a plurality of projections extend; a plurality of projections extending from a surface; a body, supporting the surface to maintain the plurality of projections from the diaphragm and the plurality of projections from the... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090262959 - Method for manufacturing a loudspeaker having a voice coil assembly: A method for manufacturing a loudspeaker having a voice coil assembly includes the steps of: producing a flat voice coil; placing the voice coil into an injecting mold of a vibrating slab; forming a locating section to secure the voice coil; and assembling a loudspeaker by coupling the vibrating slab... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090262960 - Speaker: A speaker is disclosed. A speaker includes a fixing part (500) fastened to a base frame; a motion part moved (400) with respect to the fixing part by an electromagnetic force; a vibration plate (200) that vibrates in communication with the motion part; and a guide member (800) provided between... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090262961 - Vibrating system of panel form electrodynamic loudspeaker: The present invention discloses a vibrating system of flat-plate electrodynamic loudspeaker, which comprises a flat-plate vibrating plate and a voice coil mounted under the vibrating plate. The vibrating system is characterized in that the thickness of the vibrating plate within the voice coil is not more than ½ of that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090262962 - Audio apparatus: An audio apparatus inputs audio signals oriented toward a plurality of positions to speakers which output sound toward the respective positions with narrow directivity, including a table storage section which stores a table for registering the plurality of positions and volume information showing set sound levels of sounds directed toward... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090262963 - Audio reproduction apparatus: An audio reproduction apparatus for a vehicle wherein: a first speaker is installed on the right-hand side of a center position in front of a listener sitting on a right-side seat whereas a second speaker is installed on the left-hand side thereof; a third speaker is installed on the right-hand... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262964 - Hearing aid, expansion unit and method for manufacturing a hearing aid: A hearing aid includes a device housing to be worn outside an ear of a user and which co-acts with an in-the-ear part provided with a sound-emitting opening and which is intended and adapted to be received at least substantially in the ear of the user. The in-the-ear part is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090262965 - Method and hearing aid for changing the sequence of program positions: A method, hearing aid, and computer product for changing the sequence of program positions of hearing programs are provided. The program positions of the hearing programs have a predefinable sequence. Time periods, within which hearing programs are selected, are measured. A new sequence of the program positions is calculated taking... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090262966 - Component for a hearing aid and a method of making a component for a hearing aid: A hearing aid (8) comprises an inlet port (6), a sound tube (12) for conveying sound to the ear piece (13). The invention further provides a component for a hearing aid comprising a slab (26) having an exterior surface, which is super-hydrophobic. The component may be any one of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090262967 - Wearable speaker vest/jacket: A vest for a hearing impaired wearer has panels for covering areas of the wearer, removable sleeves, a wristwatch on one sleeve and speakers mounted to the respective panels for receiving signals to generate vibrations, the mounting of the speakers being adapted for transmitting vibrations to the wearer's body.... Agent: Notaro & Michalos P.C.

20090262968 - Electrical connector and method for manufacturing the same and condenser microphone: There is provided an electrical connector especially suitable for a condenser microphone, which connector is, though being small in size, provided with an electromagnetic wave shielding unit that is capable of easily being installed in the connector and is equivalent to an EMI core. The electrical connector includes a cylindrical... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090262969 - Hearing assistance apparatus: A hearing assistance device includes two transducers which react to a characteristic of an acoustic wave to capture data representative of the characteristic. The device is arranged so that each transducers is located adjacent a respective ear of a person wearing the device. A signal processor processes the data to... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090262970 - Headset having ferrite beads for improving antenna performance: A headset having ferrite beads for improving performance of an antenna provided within a cable is provided. The headset includes an ear jack, an ear jack Printed Circuit Board (PCB) connected to the ear jack, a speaker, and a cable having an antenna in which one end of the antenna... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090262971 - Speaker: An uncured fluid adhesive is charged into a groove surrounding the outer circumference of a voice coil so that the inner circumferential edge of a diaphragm is immersed in the adhesive. The cured adhesive securely bonds the diaphragm to the voice coil, and thus the diaphragm can be driven at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262972 - Speaker and device using this speaker: A speaker of the present invention includes a frame at which a magnetic circuit is mounted, a voice coil, an arched diaphragm, and an edge made of material different from that of the diaphragm. A part of the voice coil is disposed at a magnetic gap formed by the magnetic... Agent: Ratnerprestia