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US 10,194,233 B2Granted
Earphones and earbuds with physiologic sensors
AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorsSeth D. Burgett, Aaron Gorga, Effrosini A. Karayiannis
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Abstract
An earphone with a physiologic sensor includes a housing; a speaker in the housing; an enhancer comprising a body mounted on the housing and adapted to be secured in the ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear; and an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer, the enhancer having an aperture or window aligned with the optical physiologic sensor, so that the sensor can optically couple with the user's ear when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
Claims15
An earphone, comprising:
- a housing;
- a speaker in the housing;
- an enhancer comprising a body mounted on the housing and adapted to be secured in a user's ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear, the body having a front outer wall and adjoining side walls, the front outer wall spaced from the housing and the side walls contacting the housing;
- a sound tube projecting from and above the front outer wall of the body and adapted to fit in a user's ear canal;
- and
- an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer beneath the front outer wall of the body adjacent the sound tube, and at least one aperture in the front outer wall of the body adjacent the sound tube and aligned with the optical physiologic sensor, so that the optical physiologic sensor can optically couple with the user's ear external to the front outer wall when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
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An earphone, comprising:
- a housing;
- a speaker in the housing;
- an enhancer comprising a body mounted on the housing and adapted to be secured in a user's ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear, the body having a front outer wall and adjoining side walls, the front outer wall spaced from the housing and the side walls contacting the housing;
- a sound tube projecting from and above the front outer wall of the body and adapted to fit in a user's ear canal;
- and
- an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer beneath the front outer wall of the body adjacent the sound tube, and at least one window in the front outer wall of the body adjacent the sound tube and aligned with the optical physiologic sensor, so that the optical physiologic sensor can optically couple with the user's ear external to the front outer wall when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
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An earphone, comprising:
- a housing;
- a speaker in the housing;
- an enhancer comprising a body mounted on the housing and adapted to be secured in a user's ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear, the body having a front outer wall and adjoining side walls, the front outer wall spaced from the housing and the side walls contacting the housing;
- a sound tube projecting from and above the front outer wall of the body and adapted to fit in a user's ear canal;
- and
- an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer beneath the front outer wall of the body adjacent the sound tube, and a deformable pillow on the front outer wall of the body adjacent the sound tube and aligned with the optical physiologic sensor, the deformable pillow being transparent to optical wavelengths used by the optical physiologic sensor, the deformable pillow contacting and conforming to the user's ear, so that the optical physiologic sensor can optically couple with the user's ear external to the front outer wall when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.