Invention Grant
- Patent Title: In-ear listening device
-
Application No.: US16183533Application Date: 2018-11-07
-
Publication No.: US10433043B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: M. Evans Hankey , Emery A. Sanford , Christopher D. Prest , Way Chet Lim
- Applicant: APPLE INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04R1/10
- IPC: H04R1/10 ; H04M1/05 ; H04M1/60 ; H01R13/62 ; H04M1/02 ; H04W52/02 ; H02J7/00 ; H05K1/14 ; H05K1/18

Abstract:
An in-ear hearing device having an ear interfacing portion integrally formed with an elongated stem portion, wherein the ear interfacing portion extends away from the elongated stem portion; a first acoustic port formed in the ear interfacing portion; a speaker disposed in the ear interfacing portion and aligned to emit sound from the acoustic port; a plurality of electrical contacts disposed at an end of the stem portion, the plurality of electrical contacts including first and second contacts; a second acoustic port formed at the end of the elongated stem portion between the first and second contacts; a microphone disposed in the stem portion; and a channel that fluidically couples the microphone to the second acoustic port.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190090045A1 HEADSET CONNECTOR Public/Granted day:2019-03-21
Information query