Patent ID: 7400875

Claim:
A holder for a small-sized acoustic element, which holds the small-sized acoustic element inside a casing of a portable communication apparatus, with a holed surface of the small-sized acoustic element for introducing or emitting sound being opposed to a back side of a front surface or a rear surface of the casing of the portable communication apparatus, the portable communication apparatus having at least one of an input operation section and a display screen in the front surface and having a side-surface sound hole in a side surface adjacent to the front surface, the holder for the small-sized acoustic element comprising: a cylindrical portion for holding an outer peripheral surface of the small-sized acoustic element; elastic connector portions provided at one end of the cylindrical portion, which conductively contact the board electrodes; an inwardly directed flange provided at an other end of the cylindrical portion, which is formed of an annular rubber-like elastic member adapted to be engaged with the holed surface of the small-sized acoustic element; a groove-shaped sound hole provided at an inside end of the cylindrical portion, whose one end is open in an inner peripheral surface of the inwardly directed flange and whose an outside end is open in an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion, thus communicating with both the holed surface of the small-sized acoustic element and the side-surface sound hole of the casing.