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US 12,634,615 B2Granted
Cable assemblies for headphone devices
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorsRonald W. Roberts, Jr., Mark Gerlovin, Mark Viscusi
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Abstract
Headphone playback devices can include a cable assembly including a plurality of conductors extending between a first earpiece and a second earpiece. The cable assembly includes a jacket, a power conductor disposed within the jacket and coupled between a power source in the first earpiece and a wireless transceiver in the second earpiece. The cable assembly further includes a microphone conductor at least partially disposed within the jacket and coupled to a microphone in one of the earpieces. A shield is at least partially disposed between the power conductor and the microphone conductor to reduce electromagnetic interference between the two.
Claims20
A headphone device comprising:
- a first earpiece;
- a first audio transducer housed within the first earpiece;
- a second earpiece;
- a second audio transducer housed within the second earpiece;
- a plurality of electrical components including a wireless transceiver and a power source, a first subset of the plurality of electrical components being at least partially disposed in the first earpiece and a second subset of the plurality of electrical components being at least partially disposed in the second earpiece;
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- a cable assembly extending between the first earpiece and the second earpiece, the cable assembly comprising
- a plurality of conductors electrically connecting the first subset of the plurality of electrical components to the second subset of the plurality of electrical components,
- a jacket at least partially enclosing the plurality of conductors, and
- a first termination assembly disposed in the first earpiece, wherein the first termination assembly includes a flexible circuit board including a plurality of terminals electrically and mechanically connected to one or more of the plurality of conductors, wherein the plurality of terminals are arranged side-by-side on the flexible circuit board such that ends of the plurality of conductors mechanically connected to the plurality of terminals are aligned along a plane.
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A headphone device comprising:
- a housing including a first earpiece, a second earpiece, and a headband attached to the first earpiece and to the second earpiece;
- a power source at least partially disposed in the first earpiece;
- a wireless transceiver at least partially disposed in the second earpiece;
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- a cable assembly at least partially disposed in the housing and comprising
- a plurality of conductors at least partially disposed in and extending through the headband,
- a jacket at least partially enclosing the plurality of conductors,
- a first termination assembly disposed in the first earpiece, and
- a second termination assembly disposed in the second earpiece,
- wherein each of the first and second termination assemblies includes a flexible circuit board including
- a plurality of conductive traces, and
- a plurality of terminals coupled to the plurality of conductive traces and to one or more of the plurality of conductors,
- wherein the plurality of terminals are arranged side-by-side on the flexible circuit board such that ends of the plurality of conductors mechanically connected to the plurality of terminals are aligned along a plane.
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A headphone device comprising:
- a first earpiece;
- a first audio transducer housed within the first earpiece;
- a second earpiece;
- a second audio transducer housed within the second earpiece;
- a plurality of electrical components including a wireless transceiver and a power source, a first subset of the plurality of electrical components being at least partially disposed in the first earpiece and a second subset of the plurality of electrical components being at least partially disposed in the second earpiece;
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- a cable assembly extending between the first earpiece and the second earpiece, the cable assembly comprising
- a first termination assembly disposed in the first earpiece,
- a second termination assembly disposed in the second earpiece, and
- a plurality of conductors extending between the first termination assembly and the second termination assembly and electrically connecting the first subset of the plurality of electrical components to the second subset of the plurality of electrical components,
- wherein each of the first termination assembly and the second termination assembly includes a flexible circuit board including a plurality of conductive traces and a plurality of terminals coupled to the plurality of conductive traces,
- wherein the plurality of conductors are electrically and mechanically connected to the plurality of terminals, and
- wherein the plurality of terminals are arranged side-by-side on the flexible circuit board such that ends of the plurality of conductors mechanically connected to the plurality of terminals are aligned along a plane.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.