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US 10,764,665 B2Granted
Microphone and sound pickup method
AssigneeJVCKENWOOD Corporation
InventorsToshiaki Nagai, Hiroshi Uchida, Kenji Ejima, Hisako Murata, Masaya Konishi
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Abstract
A microphone according to an embodiment includes: an ear chip including a cylindrical part with a hollow part formed therein, and a contact part disposed outside the cylindrical part and configured to come into contact with an inner wall surface of an ear canal; a cable lead out to a gap between the cylindrical part and the contact part; and a microphone element disposed in the hollow part and connected to the cable.
Claims9
A microphone comprising:
- an ear chip comprising a cylindrical part with a hollow part formed therein, a contact part disposed outside the cylindrical part and configured to come into contact with an inner wall surface of an ear canal, and an opening;
- a cable configured to pass through the opening;
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- a microphone element disposed in the hollow part and connected to the cable,
- wherein the contact part is formed as a flange part, the flange part being folded back while using a front-end side of the cylindrical part as a base part, and
- the cable passes through a gap between the contact part and the cylindrical part and is lead out to the outside of the cylindrical part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.