Patent ID: 9686389
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04R

Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: an audio transducer, wherein the audio transducer is a receiver; an audio driver plate of the audio transducer, the audio driver plate having an ear-facing side and a non-ear-facing side; a rigid housing of the audio transducer, the rigid housing substantially circumferentially surrounding the audio driver plate without substantially covering the ear-facing side and non-ear-facing side of the audio driver plate; a front plate of the audio transducer, the front plate mounted on the ear-facing side of the audio driver plate and spaced apart from the audio driver plate; a fixing gasket affixed to the non-ear-facing side of the audio driver plate; and one or more acoustic leakage pathways formed between the front plate and the ear-facing portion of the audio transducer holding device when the front plate is compressed against the ear-facing portion of the audio transducer holding device, the one or more acoustic leakage pathways configured to allow audio passage from the audio transducer into an interior of the audio transducer holding device, wherein the front plate is adapted to be compressed against an ear-facing portion of an audio transducer holding device and the fixing gasket adapted to be compressed against a non-ear-facing portion of the audio transducer holding device, whereby the audio transducer is adapted to be held within the audio transducer holding device by compressive force on both the fixing gasket and the front plate.