The DualSense controller’s diagrams can also be seen – and it confirms once more that it will contain a microphone, too.

The first patent was found on WIPO, and it’s about the PlayStation 5‘s dev kit. „As shown in FIG. 6, the electronic device 10 has a heat sink 30. The heat sink 30 is connected to the integrated circuit 11a (see FIG. 6) which is a heat source mounted on the circuit board 11 and receives heat from the integrated circuit 11a. The electronic device 10 has a plurality of cooling fans 15, and the heat sink 30 is cooled by receiving the airflow formed by the cooling fans 15. The heat sink 30 is one of the cooling target components described in the claims.

The bottom 31 is a vapour chamber. That is, the bottom portion 31 is, for example, a metal plate having a space in which a liquid that easily vaporizes is enclosed. The bottom portion 31 may be a metal plate (metal block) having no such space. The fins 32 are welded to the bottom portion 31 and are arranged in the direction along with the circuit board 11,” the abstract says.

In short: there are three fans on each side (the dev kit has that V-shaped gap in the middle), three to cool the power supply, and three to take care of AMD’s APU (advanced processing unit – putting the CPU and the variable clock Navi-based GPU on a single die). We have yet to see if the PlayStation 5’s retail version will use a vapour chamber – but seeing how the Xbox Series X has been confirmed to use such a solution, we might see it in Sony’s console as well.

The DualSense-related patent was also found on WIPO, and its abstract is easier to understand: „Many input devices used for game operations have a plurality of operation members such as an operation stick, a push button, a cross key (direction key), and a trigger button. Patent Document 1 discloses an input device having such an operation member and having a voice input function. This input device has a microphone array composed of a plurality of microphones. In Patent Document 1, adaptive beamforming processing is executed for a user’s uttered voice by using voice data obtained from a plurality of microphones.”

So the DualSense will have a microphone array, and the patent shows how it has to be built into the controller. There is no mentioning of the haptic feedback or the adaptive triggers, so this patent isn’t fully describing the DualSense, which might still have some functions kept as a secret. We might learn about those during The Future of Gaming, whenever it happens after it was delayed.

Both the PlayStation 5 and the DualSense controller will launch this Holiday season. Jim Ryan, the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, wants a global launch.

Source: WCCFTech, DualShockers

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