Sound output device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Akaike, Tetsu Sumii
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Abstract
It is intended to improve usability while securing functionality of a sound output device. There are provided: a neck band to be worn on a user's neck and having an insertion hole; a cable partially led out from the neck band; and an earphone connected to the cable. The cable can be drawn out from the neck band to both sides of the insertion hole, and a length of a portion on both sides of the insertion hole in the cable is changed by changing a position of an inserted portion of the cable in the insertion hole. Since a length of each portion of the cable positioned on both sides of the insertion hole is changed by changing a position of the inserted portion of the cable, it is possible to improve usability while securing functionality of the sound output device.
Claims16
A sound output device, comprising:
- a neck band wearable on a user neck, wherein
- the neck band includes:
- an intermediate unit that is one of curved or at least partially bent, wherein the intermediate unit includes a first end and a second end;
- a first arrangement unit at the first end of the intermediate unit;
- a second arrangement unit at the second end of the intermediate unit, wherein each of the first arrangement unit and the second arrangement unit comprises an internal structure;
- and
- an insertion hole in each of the first arrangement unit and the second arrangement unit, wherein
- the insertion hole includes a first portion and a second portion,
- the first portion extends in a specific direction, and
- the second portion is inclined with respect to the first portion;
- a cable partially led out from the neck band;
- and
- an earphone connected to the cable, wherein
- the cable is drawable from the neck band to both a first side of the insertion hole and a second side of the insertion hole, and
- a length of a portion of the cable on both the first side of the insertion hole and the second side of the insertion hole is changeable based on change of a position of an inserted portion of the cable in the insertion hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.