US 7,344,405 B2
Electro-acoustic transducer with holder
Toshiro Izuchi, Fukuoka (Japan); and Ryuji Awamura, Fukuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Hosiden Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 01, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/366,776.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-057456 (JP), filed on Mar. 02, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0199425 A1, Sep. 07, 2006
Int. Cl. H01R 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—500  [439/620.25] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electro-acoustic transducer with a holder comprising:
an electro-acoustic transducer having a plurality of terminal electrodes;
a block-shaped holder which has a plurality of faces and in which a housing chamber is formed having an opening on one of the faces and a bottom wall facing the opening, wherein the block-shaped holder houses said electro-acoustic transducer;
a plurality of connection electrodes provided on a surface of the bottom wall of said housing chamber and connected to said plurality of terminal electrodes, respectively;
a plurality of mounting electrodes provided on a first face and a second face of said plurality of faces of said holder in correspondence with said plurality of connection electrodes, respectively, wherein each of said first and second faces has a plurality of mounting electrodes adjoining a first edge of a respective face and a plurality of mounting electrodes adjoining a second edge of the respective face, and wherein the first edge is opposite the second edge; and
wiring portions provided on said holder, each for electrically connecting a mounting electrode on said first face with a corresponding one of said connection electrodes and to a corresponding one of said mounting electrodes on said second face.