Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Speaker cooling
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Application No.: US15235713Application Date: 2016-08-12
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Publication No.: US09730359B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Jonathon Reilly , Hilmar Lehnert
- Applicant: Sonos, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: H04R29/00
- IPC: H04R29/00 ; H05K7/20 ; G06F1/20 ; G06F3/16 ; H04R3/12 ; H04R3/04

Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for cooling one or more components of a playback device using speaker vibrations that result from playback of inaudible audio. Movement of air molecules arising from the speaker vibrations may disperse heat away from the one or more components of a playback device. In an example implementation, a playback device detects that playback of audible audio content via at least one speaker has stopped, and in response to the detection, plays inaudible audio content to cause the at least one speaker to vibrate thereby inducing air movement within the playback device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160353605A1 Speaker Cooling Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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