US 11,641,540 B2Granted

Ear-fitting headphone attachment apparatus

AssigneeD Squared Ventures

InventorsHarry Duane Romo, David Hagopian

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Abstract

Ear-fitting headphone attachment apparatus, systems that utilize the aforementioned attachment apparatus, and methods of its manufacture and use. In one aspect, an attachment apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes a coiled wire having an interference dimension. The coiled wire includes an attachment point for the attachment of a decorative item. In another embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes an extruded or injection molded tube of material. A pair of wires wraps around the tube of material in opposite direction, the pair of wires residing around an outside perimeter of the tube of material and entering into the tube of material where it exits at a bottom portion of the tube of material. In yet another embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes a woven textile having a crosshatch pattern associated therewith. In yet another embodiment, the attachment apparatus includes thin metal strips that collectively have a crosshatch pattern associated therewith.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An attachment apparatus for attachment to a cylindrical housing located on an ear-fitting headphone, the attachment apparatus comprising:

an elastomeric sleeve, the elastomeric sleeve comprising a cylindrical shape having a cylindrical cavity disposed within the cylindrical shape, the cylindrical cavity comprising a diameter, the diameter of the cylindrical cavity being greater than a diameter of the cylindrical housing located on the ear-fitting headphone;
a compression clamp disposed external to the elastomeric sleeve, the compression clamp comprising a hinge and a fastening mechanism, wherein the compression clamp is configured to compress the cylindrical shape of the elastomeric sleeve when the compression clamp is locked within a closed position, the compression of the cylindrical shape securely attaching the attachment apparatus to the cylindrical housing located on the ear-fitting headphone, the compression clamp comprising a C-shaped clamp with the hinge residing on a diametrically opposed side of the compression clamp from the fastening mechanism, the fastening mechanism comprising a plurality of interdigitated extensions, at least a portion of the plurality of interdigitated extensions comprising a rod portion as well as an end portion, the end portion comprising a spherical shape having a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the rod portion, the end portion being configured to interlock with another end portion of another interdigitated extension;
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an attachment point located on the compression clamp for attachment of decorative items thereto.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/061,234Filed 1 Oct 2020 · us provisional application
Priority: 2 Oct 2019
Published: US 2021/0105551 A18 Apr 2021
Granted: 2 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04R 1/105
Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones: earpiece supports, e.g. ear hooks
H04R 1/028
Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein: associated with devices performing functions other than acoustics, e.g. electric candles
H04R 1/1016
Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones: earpieces of the intra-aural type
H04R 1/1066
Manufacture or assembly: constructional aspects of the interconnection between earpiece and earpiece support