Open-Ear Headphone with Energy-Directing Nozzle
OwnerRyan C. Struzik, Michael James Daley +1inventors
InventorsRyan C. Struzik, Michael James Daley, Joel Henry Miller
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Abstract
Aspects include open-ear headphones. In certain cases, an open-ear headphone includes: a body having: a first portion configured to pass over an outer side of at least one of an anti-helix, a helix, or a lobule of the outer ear, and a second portion configured to be located behind the outer ear; and an acoustic module coupled to the body and configured to be located at least in part in a cavum conchae of an outer ear of a user, the acoustic module having an acoustic transducer and a nozzle including a first sound-emitting opening, where the nozzle is an extension of the acoustic module that directs acoustic energy from the first sound-emitting opening toward an ear canal entrance of the user.
Claims20
An open-ear headphone, comprising:
- a body having:
- a first portion configured to pass over an outer side of at least one of an anti-helix, a helix, or a lobule of the outer ear, and
- a second portion configured to be located behind the outer ear;
- and
- an acoustic module coupled to the body and configured to be located at least in part in a cavum conchae of an outer ear of a user, the acoustic module having an acoustic transducer and a nozzle including a first sound-emitting opening,
- wherein the nozzle is an extension of the acoustic module that directs acoustic energy from the first sound-emitting opening toward an ear canal entrance of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.