H04R 5/0335
Earpiece support
Official title: {Earpiece support, e.g. headbands or neckrests (for monophonic headphones H04R1/105)}
H04R5/0335 (Earpiece support) appears on 1,075 US grants and 1,268 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 1,075
- Published applications
- 1,268
- Assignees
- 413
- Inventors
- 2,031
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 4 |
| 2002 | 11 | 17 |
| 2003 | 5 | 13 |
| 2004 | 12 | 20 |
| 2005 | 10 | 19 |
| 2006 | 12 | 25 |
| 2007 | 14 | 25 |
| 2008 | 10 | 33 |
| 2009 | 7 | 25 |
| 2010 | 11 | 19 |
| 2011 | 12 | 17 |
| 2012 | 27 | 24 |
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| 2014 | 17 | 50 |
| 2015 | 33 | 40 |
| 2016 | 29 | 41 |
| 2017 | 41 | 77 |
| 2018 | 66 | 77 |
| 2019 | 71 | 72 |
| 2020 | 74 | 75 |
| 2021 | 71 | 124 |
| 2022 | 87 | 109 |
| 2023 | 85 | 94 |
| 2024 | 89 | 103 |
| 2025 | 81 | 83 |
| 2026 | 33 | 56 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Wearable device8 Sep 2026US 12,732,736 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Loudspeaker1 Sep 2026US 12,724,295 B2Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- Headphones11 Aug 2026US 12,707,181 B2Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- Acoustic output device and components thereof4 Aug 2026US 12,701,349 B2Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- System and method for providing sound in a headset4 Aug 2026US 12,701,362 B2Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Head-mounted device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255093 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Bone Conduction Headset with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Function13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238938 A1Mij Co., Ltd.
- Adaptable headset6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230737 A1Lenovo (United States) Inc.
- Audio equipment6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230753 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
- Transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation for peri-intervention inflammatory modulation30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216510 A1Aurenar, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Digital eyewear385US 9,010,929 B2Percept Technologies Inc · 2015
- Wearable computing device with behind-ear bone-conduction speaker267US 8,553,910 B12013
- Headphone device264US 5,018,599 ASony Corporation · 1991
- Wearable personal audio loop apparatus254US 6,091,832 AInterval Research Corporation · 2000
- Headphone apparatus for providing dynamic sound with vibrations and method therefor252US 6,603,863 B1Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2003