| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 381378000 | Single band | 42 |
| 20080298622 | Headphones with Detachable Headband - A pair of earphones designed to be worn in or on the ear of a user, comprising at least one element for connecting a headband; a pair of ear clips or ear buds comprising a removably-attached headband; and a kit comprising (i) a pair of earphones designed to be worn in or on the ear of a user, comprising at least one element for connecting a headband; and (ii) a headband designed to be connected to said pair of earphones is provided. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090022352 | EARBUD KEEPER - An ear-mounted audio device keeper includes a retainer, having has first and second ends, and a clip assembly at the first end, the clip assembly securable to an ear-mounted audio device. Each clip assembly can at least partially encircle and be secured to the ear-mounted audio device. The retainer can include a flexible but not stiff leash or a flexible, resilient headband. Some examples comprise a clip assembly at both the first and second ends, each clip assembly securable to an ear-mounted audio device, such as an earbud earphone. The audio device keeper can be used to maintain control over earbud earphones with the leash placed on one side of the user's neck and audio wires are placed on the other side of the user's neck. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090052716 | Ear Speaker Device - The ear speaker device includes a mount section that is provided with ear-hook sections, and rotation sections that rotate speaker movable sections with respect to the mount section. Tubular ducts are positioned more inside than the ear-hook sections in a natural state. When the ear speaker device is mounted, the speaker movable sections are rotated to the most outside positions. Then, the ear-hook sections are brought into contact with auricle base upper sections, respectively, and the speaker movable sections are rotated inwardly. In this manner, the tubular ducts can be positioned in the vicinity of the external acoustic meatus openings, respectively, of the listener without interfering with auricles and the like. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090103762 | HEADPHONES - There is provided headphones that include a pair of left and right earcups, an audio signal processing unit contained in the earcups, a headband connecting the left and right earcups respectively through a hanger, and a cord to supply a signal to the audio signal processing unit. In the headphones, a connection portion between the hanger and the headband is configured as an extension and contraction unit having a multistage structure including a small-diameter hollow member able to be taken in and out of a large-diameter hollow member, a part of the cord contained in the extension and contraction unit is spirally wound so as to be extended and contracted, nodes are placed respectively between the headband and the extension and contraction unit and between the hanger and the extension and contraction unit, and the respective nodes have a through-hole allowing penetration of the cord. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090196453 | ERGONOMIC BEHIND-THE-HEAD PERSONAL AUDIO SET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A behind-the-head personal audio set for a personal audio device is disclosed. The personal audio set has a headband portion sized to grasp the crown area of the wearer's head while aligning at least one ear cup adjacent to the wearer's ear. The headband portion defines a longitudinal, substantially horizontal, axis that substantially intersects the center of the ear cup. In disclosed preferred embodiments, the ear cup defines an ear engaging plane and the preferred geometry of this ear engaging plane with respect the headband portion's longitudinal axis and an axis of symmetry are also disclosed. Preferably, the headband portion and ear cup portion are integrally molded and ear loops are over-molded, or dual molded, thereto. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090285435 | Headphones - Headphones include a head harness and two ear pieces provided to respective ends of the head harness. Each ear piece is movably coupled to the head harness by a ball and socket arrangement structured to allow spherical articulation of each ear piece with respect to the head harness. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100046782 | HEADPHONE - There is provided a headphone including a headband having flexibility; a slider having flexibility with the headband attached at one end, and a headphone unit attached at the other end; a slide groove, arranged at an end of the headband or the one end of the slider, for guiding a circling movement of the slider with respect to the headband; and a slider guide, having rigidity higher than the headband and the slider, for holding the one end of the slider at the end of the headband so that one surface of the slider facing one surface of the headband circling moves with respect to the one surface of the headband while being engaged to the slide groove. A headphone that can be thinned while suppressing lowering of the attachment property is provided. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100189303 | Personal Audio Set With Adjustable Force Mechanisms - A personal audio device including a flexible headband is disclosed. The flexible headband includes a left and right headband portion. The headband has a longitudinal centerline which occupies a substantially single plane. The personal audio device also includes a left earphone, which is secured to a first end of the left headband portion, and a right earphone, which is secured to a first end of the right headband portion. A connector portion connects a second end of the left headband portion with a second end of the right headband portion. The connector portion is linearly adjustable, which enables a distance between the left headband portion and right headband portion to be variable. A change in the distance causes an inversely proportional change in bent compression force applied by a left earphone and applied by the right earphone. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100296684 | HEADSET - A headset has first and second connectors and first and second earphones. A first electrical pathway extends from a first contact point associated with the first connector to a first contact point associated with said second connector, a second electrical pathway extends from a second contact point associated with the first connector to a second contact point associated with the second connector, and a third electrical pathway extends from a third contact point associated with the first connector to a third contact point associated with the second connector. One or both earphones are connected between the first pathway and the third pathway and neither the first earphone nor the second earphone is connected between the first pathway and the second pathway. The first and second earphones may be mounted at fixed angles such that the earphones project rearwardly and outwardly over, in spaced relation to, and approximately parallel to, ears of a user. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110007928 | Headphone - In a headphone having a headband and two speaker units respectively pivotally mounted on the two distal ends of the headband, each speaker unit includes a speaker eccentrically positioned therein, an ear cushion covered on the front side of the speaker and having an eccentric opening, and a soft front covering the ear cushion and defining with the eccentric opening a sound chamber for enhancing the sound produced by the speaker and having sound holes for output of sound from the sound chamber to the user's ear. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110051976 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes a headband, a pivot joint, and an ear cup. The pivot joint includes a first rod that is coupled rotatably to the headband and that defines a first axis, a second rod that defines a second axis, and an intermediate rod that interconnects the first and second rods. The pivot joint is rotatable relative to the headband about the first axis. The ear cup is coupled rotatably to the second rod of the pivot joint, and is rotatable relative to the pivot joint about the second axis. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110103635 | HEADPHONE - There are provided headphone which can provide a relatively small storage space when being carried around and which can prevent an unexpected breakage of the headphone. A headphone | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110116674 | HEADPHONE - A headphone capable of preventing inadvertent damage is disclosed. The headphone includes a C-shaped headband, a strip-shaped arm portion, a sound emitting portion supported by the arm portion, a first connecting section, and a torsion-coil spring | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110188696 | Headphone - A headphone including a headband, an ear cup attached to the headband, a baffle plate fixed to the ear cup and having a rib wall at its periphery, an ear pad engaged with the baffle plate, and a gas permeable buffer between the ear cup and the baffle plate, wherein the buffer and the rib wall prevent a reduction in volume of a front air chamber caused by lateral pressure. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120093351 | COMBINED HEADPHONE SET AND PORTABLE SPEAKER ASSEMBLY - A combined headphone set including a speaker assembly. The headphone set includes a headband having a speaker headphone on opposing ends of the headband. Each of the speaker headphones includes an exterior speaker for public listening and an interior speaker for personal listening by the user. One of the speaker headphones includes switching means for listening to the interior speaker or to the exterior speaker or to the interior and exterior speakers simultaneously from each of the speaker headphones. Each of the speaker headphones includes an audio signal wire connected from an output jack of an audio device to the speaker headphones. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120288131 | HEADPHONE WITH A HEADBAND - A headphone with a headband is provided where the headband is adapted to ensure contact between an earpad and the head or ear of the user, and with: a speaker unit; an outer frame comprising a proximal perimeter with two first pivotal hinge points at diametrically opposed positions with respect to the speaker; a middle frame, having a proximal and a distal perimeter, hinged for pivotal movement with respect to the outer frame about a first axis defined by a line through the two first hinge points, and where the middle frame comprises second pivotal hinge points at diametrically opposed positions with respect to the speaker; and an inner frame having a proximal and a distal perimeter hinged for pivotal movement with respect to the middle frame, about a second axis defined by a line through the two second hinge points. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130039524 | HEADBAND WITH EAR BUDS - The present invention is a headband that includes a base headband with two sides that is worn around a user's head, a pair of ear buds that provide music and sound to the user that are inserted into the user's ears while the headband is in use and a pair of sound wires with a proximal end and a distal end that are in communication with the ear buds. The headband also includes a slot with a front that includes a dear window disposed on the front of the slot that holds an audio playing device such as an MP3 player and a pair of storage apertures disposed on the base headband to store the ear buds. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130083955 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes: a housing, a hanger, and a bracket accommodated in the housing. The hanger includes: a connecting portion formed in a ring-shape; and a pair of engagement portions opposite to each other in a radial direction of the connecting portion and supports the housing unit to allow the housing unit to rotate. The bracket includes: a flexible curved base; and a pair of protrusions protruding at both ends of the base portion in directions away from each other on an axis penetrating the both ends. The housing includes a pair of through holes at positions corresponding to the pair of engagement portions. The pair of protrusions is rotatably engaged with the pair of engagement portions through the pair of through holes. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130136293 | HEADPHONES WITH INTERCHANGEABLE DECOR STRIP - Audio headphones for personalizing a wearer's headphones by inserting a variety of interchangeable décor strips onto a headband of the headphones. The interchangeable décor strips may include many different designs, colors and materials. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130195308 | EAR WARMER - An adjustable ear warmer is disclosed. The ear warmer has a band and ear members coupled to the band. The band and the ear members are slidably coupled so that the band and the ear members can move relative to each other. In one embodiment, the ear warmer has headphones that are removably coupled to the ear members. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130195309 | EAR WARMER - An adjustable ear warmer is disclosed. The ear warmer has a band and ear portions coupled to the band. The band and the ear portions are slideably coupled so that the band and the ear portions can move relative to each other. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130243236 | WIRELESS HEADPHONE JEWELRY - The present invention is directed to wireless headphone devices adapted to be worn as jewelry when in a storage position. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130272560 | ADJUSTABLE AND CONVERTIBLE AUDIO HEADPHONES - A set of adjustable and convertible headphones includes a headband, an adjustment member, and an earpiece. The adjustment member is connected to the headband by a hinge; earpiece has a channel receiving the adjustment member and is slidably connected to the adjustment member. Rotation of the adjustment member with respect to the headband is spring-loaded in only one direction. The adjustment member and the earpiece in combination include a detent mechanism for resisting sliding movement of the earpiece with respect to the adjustment member. The adjustment member may be completely removed from the channel, thereby disconnecting the earpiece from the headband. The earpiece may then be replaced by another ear covering (e.g., an earmuff, an ear protector, etc.) as desired. The replacement ear covering may include an audio speaker, for example an audio/earmuff combination earpiece. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20140140562 | EARPHONE WINDING STRUCTURE - An earphone winding structure includes: a first cap, a second cap, a connection portion, a signal line and a winding component. The winding component is located at the first cap, and includes a body, a shaft and a housing. The housing is connected to the shaft and bent into an opening state or a closing state with the shaft as the center. When the housing is bent into the opening state, the shaft is exposed and is used for winding the signal line, and when the housing is bent into the closing state, the housing covers the body and the signal line. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140153766 | EARPHONE SINGLE-SHAFT STRUCTURE - An earphone single-shaft structure includes a head strip, a cap body, and a single-shaft component. The single-shaft component is located at a housing of the cap body and connected to the head strip. The single-shaft component includes a body, a rotating shaft, a shaft hole, a pivot area and swinging areas. When the head strip rotates for a first angle about the pivot area, two ends of the head strip are located on one side of each swinging area, so that the cap body rotates in a first direction, and when the head strip rotates for a second angle about the pivot area, the two ends of the head strip are located on the other side of each swinging area, so that the cap body rotates in a second direction. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140193021 | One-Piece Headband For A Bluetooth Headset - A headset for use with electronic communications devices such as a cellular telephone and which includes a unitary, one-piece headband that includes a hair comb. The one-piece headband also includes a volume control and an on/off switch and an aerial wire intertwined with the teeth of the comb. Earbuds are also attached to the one-piece headband to be integral and unitary therewith. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140205129 | HEADBAND FOR PERSONAL SPEAKERS - An assembly for holding a personal speaker relative to a user's ear. A headband assembly can include a band, a sleeve attached to an end of the band, and an arm moveably secured to the sleeve. The sleeve can include a pair of laterally opposed detent channels, and the arm can include a pair of spring-loaded bearings. Each spring-loaded bearing can engage one of the laterally opposed detent channels. The headband assembly can be adjusted by moving the arm relative to the sleeve. An arm of the headband assembly can be pivotally secured to a yoke by a magnetic pivot arrangement. The magnetic pivot arrangement can include a groove, a protrusion, and magnetic elements. A yoke can be pivotally secured to a housing by housing pivot arrangement. The housing pivot arrangement can include a pin extending from the yoke and a collar retained in the housing. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140205130 | HEADBAND FOR PERSONAL SPEAKERS - An assembly for holding a personal speaker relative to a user's ear. A headband assembly can include a band, a sleeve attached to an end of the band, and an arm moveably secured to the sleeve. The sleeve can include a pair of laterally opposed detent channels, and the arm can include a pair of spring-loaded bearings. Each spring-loaded bearing can engage one of the laterally opposed detent channels. The headband assembly can be adjusted by moving the arm relative to the sleeve. An arm of the headband assembly can be pivotally secured to a yoke by a magnetic pivot arrangement. The magnetic pivot arrangement can include a groove, a protrusion, and magnetic elements. A yoke can be pivotally secured to a housing by housing pivot arrangement. The housing pivot arrangement can include a pin extending from the yoke and a collar retained in the housing. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140254855 | Ear Speaker Device - The ear speaker device includes a mount section that is provided with ear-hook sections, and rotation sections that rotate speaker movable sections with respect to the mount section. Tubular ducts are positioned more inside than the ear-hook sections in a natural state. When the ear speaker device is mounted, the speaker movable sections are rotated to the most outside positions. Then, the ear-hook sections are brought into contact with auricle base upper sections, respectively, and the speaker movable sections are rotated inwardly. In this manner, the tubular ducts can be positioned in the vicinity of the external acoustic meatus openings, respectively, of the listener without interfering with auricles and the like. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140270313 | EARPHONE FOLDING DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY THEREOF - An earphone folding device and assembly thereof is provided, and includes a first head strap, a second head strap, a connecting base, a pivoting shaft, an elastic member and a button. When the elastic member is in a status of release, the elastic member is abutted against the button, so that the engaging portion is fastened with the engaging block, and the first head strap and the second head strap are positioned in a coaxial position. When the pressing portion is pressed, the elastic member is in a status of compression, so that the engaging portion is detached from the engaging block, and the second head strap is rotated about the pivoting shaft so that the first head strap and the second head strap are positioned in a parallel position. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140348371 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes a pair of acoustic reproduction units, a supporting member connecting the pair of acoustic reproduction units, and a soft member configured to be rotatable relative to the supporting member and arranged on the side opposite to the head of a person wearing the headphone. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150030193 | CIRCUMAURAL EARPHONE AND DECORATING STRAP THEREOF - A circumaural earphone and a decorating strap thereof are provided. The circumaural earphone includes two earphone cups, a main strap, a decorating strap, a photosensitive switch, a power supplier and a light emitter. Two ends of the main strap are connected with the two earphone cups. Two ends of the decorating strap are detachably connected with the two earphone cups or the main strap. The photosensitive switch is disposed in one of the two earphone cups, the main strap or the decorating strap. The power supplier is disposed in one of the two earphone cups, the main strap or the decorating strap. The light emitter is disposed in the decorating strap and electrically connected with the power supplier through the photosensitive switch. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150063623 | HEADPHONE DEVICE - A simple structure that is easy to store is to be formed, and portability of the structure is to be increased. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150086059 | Interchangeable Wearing Modes for a Headset - A headset system for interchangeable wearing styles is disclosed. A retention element is detachably coupled to an earpiece, allowing the headset to interchange between a headband, ear loop and neckband wearing style. The retention element comprises a security element that prevents rotation of the earpiece when coupled, providing a stable and ergonomic wearing experience. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150139472 | HEADPHONES WITH REMOVABLE HEADBAND PAD - A mono-body set of headphones having a fixed length of headband between ear pads is provided. Although the distance between the ear pads is fixed, the fit of the headphones can be adjusted to the head of the user by coupling or decoupling a removable/insertable headphone pad. More particularly, a pad is provided that can be mated with, or removed from, the headband of the headphones, thus raising or lowering the lower surface of the headband relative to the crown of the user's head, in order to change the position of the ear pads relative to the user's ears. The mono-body headphones are, preferably, flexible and durable, permitting the headphones to be straightened, twisted or bent without breaking. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20160050486 | HEADBAND COVER FOR A HEADBAND OF A HEADPHONE - The present disclosure generally relates to a headband cover for a headphone. In one embodiment, a headphone comprises a headband having an interchangeable headband cover folded around the headband of the headphone. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160088383 | HEADSETS WITH EXTERNAL SPEAKERS WITH PREDETERMINED SHAPES AND DESIGNS - Disclosed herein is a headset, comprising a headband-like component, one or two external ear pieces, and one or more external speakers. The headband-like component comprises a first end and a second end. Each ear piece of the one or two external ear pieces covers one ear of a user and is connected to one of the first end and second end of the headband-like component. Each external speaker of the one or more external speakers has a predetermined design and each external speaker is mounted on the headband-like component. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160100237 | Integrated Personal Electronic Device - An integrated personal electronic device designed to be worn around the back of the head and is supported by resilient elastomeric material which surrounds a ductile wire forming a headband. The headband contains a series of adjustable sinusoidal bends. An electronic signal processor in the form of a small lightweight nodule fits at the back of the head in the occipital region. Earphones are located on either side and at the forward ends of the headband supported by ear surrounds. The ear surrounds fit between the ear and head. The nodule is worn in the occipital region of the head. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160112788 | EARPHONE ASSEMBLY AND HEAD STRAP THEREOF - A head strap includes a head band and a pair of holders. The pair of holders are connected to two ends of the head band. Each of the pair of holders includes a receiving portion. The receiving portion defines a receiving cavity with a cutout. The disclosure also provides an earphone assembly. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160127819 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes: a headband; a pair of housing support portions, one and the other of which are provided at one and the other ends of the headband, respectively; a pair of rotational shafts, one and the other of which rotatably connect one and the other of the pair of housing support portions to the headband, respectively; a pair of housings, one and the other of which are provided on one and the other of the pair of housing support portions, respectively, wherein, in a folded state of the housing support portions as a result of a rotation, the pair of housings are disposed in positions contained within an area inside an arc formed by the headband and the housing support portions in an opened state of the housing support portions, and are located side by side without crossing each other; and a pair of ear pads. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160142826 | VOICE COIL UNIT, ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER, AND HEADPHONE SET - A voice coil unit for a dynamic electro-acoustic transducer is disposed in a magnetic circuit, outputs acoustic waves through driving of a diaphragm in response to digital signals, and includes coils that are each composed of a multi-strand wire and receive different digital signals. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160192065 | HEADPHONE AND ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC ADJUSTING METHOD - [Object] To make it possible to improve an acoustic characteristic. | 06-30-2016 |
