# US 10,369,057 B2 · Integrated wireless earbuds and earplugs > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,369,057 B2 - Document ID: US10369057B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/472,131 - Filed: 2017-03-28 - Published: 2017-11-09 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-28 - Assignees: Innate Devices, LLC - Applicants: Innate Devices, LLC - Inventors: Tyler Knudsen; Shaun Knudsen - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10369057B2 ## CPC - A61F 11/08: internal, e.g. earplugs - H04R 1/1016: {Earpieces of the intra-aural type} - H04R 1/1058: {Manufacture or assembly} - H04R 1/1083: {Reduction of ambient noise (active noise reduction per se G10K11/175; protective devices for the ear, e.g. providing acoustic protection A61F11/06)} - H04R 5/033: Headphones for stereophonic communication {(details thereof, e.g. relating to batteries, cables or control elements H04R1/10)} - A61F 11/085: {including an inner channel} - H04R 1/1025: Accumulators specially adapted for earpieces; Arrangements specially adapted for charging thereof - H04R 2201/103: Combination of monophonic or stereophonic headphones with audio players, e.g. integrated in the headphone - H04R 2420/07: Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) - H04R: LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) ## Abstract A wireless audio system suppresses exterior noise and directs desired sound into a user's ear canal. An audio system may include an earplug to create a seal in the interior of an ear canal. The earplug may include a ribbed exterior profile and can be flexible to create the seal. A speaker may be inserted within the earplug. A channel may extend through a body of the earplug to direct sound into a user's ear canal. A proximal opening may extend from the speaker to the channel of the earplug, and an audio wire may be connected to the speaker. The audio wire may connect to a wireless receiver, or other receiver, to allow audio data to pass through the wire and to the speaker, where it can be converted to audio that is passed directly into the ear canal of the user. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system, comprising: a first earplug adapted to fit within an ear canal of a user, the earplug comprising: an earplug body with a deformable exterior; and a channel passing longitudinally through the earplug with a first opening, a second opening, a plurality of grooves; a speaker; a housing maintaining the speaker, the housing comprising: a first portion for cupping a proximal end of the speaker; and a second portion comprising an elongated stem, wherein the stem is greater in length than the first portion, wherein the stem comprises a plurality of ridges configured to reversibly engage the channel, wherein the plurality of grooves complementary fit with the plurality of ridges, wherein the stem resides at least partially within the earplug body; and a wireless receiver for receiving audio data, wherein a wire extends from the wireless receiver to the speaker. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the earplug is adapted to provide at least a twenty-five decibel decrease to external sounds. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the earplug is adapted to receive the stem of the housing within the channel of the earplug. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The system of claim 3, wherein the stem comprises the plurality of ridges that frictionally engage the channel, wherein the channel comprises a deformable material that conforms to the stem. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the earplug is deformable and the housing is substantially rigid. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system recited in claim 1, wherein the earplug comprises a more rigid center and a more deformable exterior. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, further comprising a second earplug configured substantially identically relative to the first earplug. ### Claim 8 A system comprising: a first earplug adapted to fit within an ear canal of a user, the earplug comprising: an earplug body with a deformable exterior comprising a first material; and a channel passing longitudinally through the earplug with a first opening and a second opening with a plurality of grooves within the channel, the channel comprising a second material; a first speaker; a housing maintaining the speaker in the housing comprising: a stem extending distally from a body of the housing, wherein the stem is greater in length than the body of the housing, wherein the stem comprises a plurality of circumferential ridges and is configured to reversibly and complimentary fit with the plurality of grooves within the channel of the first earplug, wherein the channel conforms to the stem. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8 comprising a wireless receiver for receiving audio data from an audio device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the wireless receiver comprises a first wire extending from at least one end of the wireless receiver to the speaker, wherein the wireless receiver is configured to received audio data and relay it to the first speaker. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8 further comprising a second earplug configured substantially identically relative to the first earplug. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the wireless receiver comprises a second wire extending from the wireless receiver from an opposite end of the first wire, the second wire extending to a second speaker, wherein the wireless receiver is configured to receive the audio data and relay it to the second speaker. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the earplug is adapted to provide at least a twenty-five decibel decrease to external sounds. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the earplug is adapted to receive the stem of the housing within the channel of the earplug. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The system of claim 14, wherein the stem comprises a plurality of ridges that frictionally engage the channel. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein the earplug is interchangeable and reversibly fixed to the stem. ### Claim 17 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the earplug is deformable and the housing is substantially rigid. ### Claim 18 (depends on 8) The audio system recited in claim 8, wherein the earplug comprises a more rigid center and a more deformable exterior.