Patent ID: 8577073

Claim:
A loudspeaker module, comprising: a housing including a plurality of side walls and a cover plate positioned over a top surface of the plurality of side walls, a bottom of the housing remaining open; a driver mounting plate is secured to the plurality of side walls and divides the housing into an upper compartment and a lower compartment, wherein the upper compartment is defined by an upper surface of the driver mounting plate, the plurality of side walls and the cover plate, and the lower compartment is defined by a lower surface of the driver mounting plate and the plurality of side walls, the bottom of the housing remaining open to be ultimately closed off when the loudspeaker module is mounted to a supporting surface; at least one of the plurality of side walls including an aperture linking the lower compartment to an external environment surrounding the housing; a driver mounted to the driver mounting plate, the driver being positioned to fire into the lower compartment of the housing; a mounting bracket secured to the at least one of the plurality of side walls including an aperture, the mounting bracket including a mounting bracket aperture shaped and dimensioned for alignment with the aperture within the at least one of the plurality of side walls; wherein the housing includes four lateral side walls and four corner side walls, the four corner side walls are positioned between, and connected to, respective lateral side walls, and wherein each of the four corner side walls includes the aperture.