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US 2006/0215868 A1Published application
Headphone apparatus and headphone system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsToru Okamura, Naoki Watanabe, Naotaka Tsunoda
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Abstract
An ear-hanger headphone apparatus includes ear hangers each having a predetermined shape, housings integrally attached to the ear hangers, respectively, and driver units attached to the housings swingably relative thereto so as to closely overlap with ear conches without clearance, respectively, when the headphone apparatus is worn.
Claims8
An ear-hanger headphone apparatus comprising:
- a chin band having a roughly U-shaped and flexible band-part positioned below a chin when wearing the headphone apparatus;
- housings attached to ends of the band part, respectively;
- driver units attached to the housings swingably relative thereto so as to closely overlap with ear conches without clearance when the driver units are pushed to the ear conches by the flexibility of the band part, respectively;
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- ear hangers, each having a predetermined shape, provided to the ends of the band part, respectively.
2 more elements
An ear-hanger headphone apparatus comprising:
- ear hangers each having a predetermined shape;
- housings integrally attached to the ear hangers, respectively;
- and
- driver units attached to the housings swingably relative thereto so as to closely overlap with ear conches without clearance, respectively, when the headphone apparatus is worn.
1 more element
A headphone system comprising:
- an ear-hanger headphone apparatus including a chin band having a roughly U-shaped and flexible band part positioned below a chin when wearing the headphone apparatus, housings attached to ends of the band part, respectively, driver units attached to the housings swingably relative thereto so as to closely overlap with ear conches without clearance when the driver units are pushed to the ear conches by the flexibility of the band part, respectively, and ear hangers, each having a predetermined shape, provided to the ends of the band part, respectively;
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- a relay transmitter for transmitting data by means of radio communications with the ear-hanger headphone apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.