US 12,470,857 B2
Microphone switch for playback device
Thomas Mueller, Boston, MA (US); Riley Stenstrom, Los Angeles, CA (US); Charles LaColla, Woodland Hills, CA (US); and Andres Huertas, Melville, NY (US)
Assigned to Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
Filed by Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/469,748.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/377,103, filed on Sep. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0107214 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04R 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/08 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A playback device comprising:
a housing;
one or more microphones housed within the housing; and
a switch assembly configured to enable and disable the one or more microphones, the switch assembly comprising
a slider cage positioned inside the housing and coupled to the housing,
an electrical actuator, and
a sliding switch sub-assembly configured to slide laterally between a first position and a second position along a path constrained by the slider cage, the sliding switch sub-assembly including an actuator portion that extends through an opening in the housing to an exterior of the playback device and a spring that converts lateral motion of the sliding switch sub-assembly between the first and second positions into vertical motion that activates the electrical actuator to enable the one or more microphones when the sliding switch sub-assembly is in the first position and deactivates the electrical actuator to disable the one or more microphones when the sliding switch sub-assembly is in the second position.