Patent ID: 7072482

Claim:
A microphone, comprising: a housing defining an inner volume and including a first exterior surface with an aperture leading to said inner volume; a transducing assembly dividing said inner volume into a front volume and a rear volume, said transducing assembly for converting sound into an electrical signal; and a plate coupled to said first exterior surface of said housing and including a primary flat wall generally parallel to and spaced away from said first exterior surface, said primary flat wall including a sound inlet port, said plate defining a passageway between said sound inlet port and said aperture for transmitting said sound to said front volume in said housing, said sound inlet port being an opening in said primary flat wall of said plate, being coplanar with an external surface of said primary flat wall and being offset from said aperture in said first exterior surface, said passageway being the only sound path leading through said plate and into said inner volume within said housing.