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US 2017/0013344 A1Published application
Earphone keeper
OwnerJimmy Jeninventor
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Abstract
An earphone keeper having a jack clip to attach to an audio jack, several earphone clips to attach to respective speaker housings of a pair of earphones, and securement features that releasably couple the earphone clips to the jack clip, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes a magnet in the jack clip to magnetically attract soft magnetic inserts in the earphone clips such that the speaker housings are releasably retained at the audio jack and cable portions of the earphones resist tangling. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims19
An earphone keeper, comprising:
- a jack clip having a jack clip wall around a jack channel, wherein the jack channel extends along a jack channel axis, wherein the jack clip includes a recess wall defining a recess;
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- a plurality of earphone clips, each earphone clip having an earphone clip wall around an earphone clip channel, wherein each earphone clip includes a protrusion having a protrusion wall, wherein the recess wall faces the protrusion wall when the protrusion is inserted into the recess.
An earphone keeper, comprising:
- a jack clip having a jack clip wall around a jack channel, and a magnet, wherein the jack channel extends along a jack channel axis, and wherein the magnet produces magnetic field lines;
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- a plurality of earphone clips, each earphone clip having an earphone clip wall around an earphone clip channel, and a magnetic insert, wherein the magnetic inserts are magnetically attracted to the magnet in the jack clip to releasably couple the earphone clips to the jack clip, and wherein the magnetic inserts are not attracted to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.