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US 5,497,427 AGranted
Headphone
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKoji Nageno
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Abstract
A headphone in which a housing containing a drive unit is provided with a window hole formed therein and the window hole is covered with a diaphragm providing acoustic transmissibility therethrough.
Claims1
A headphone comprising:
- a housing;
- a drive unit contained in said housing;
- a first window hole formed in said housing;
- a first diaphragm attached to said drive unit and covering said first window hole, whereby acoustic transmissibility between an inside space of said housing and an outside space thereof is provided, wherein said inside space of said housing is divided by partition means including said drive unit and said first diaphragm into a front chamber having a sound emitting opening and a rear chamber and wherein a section of said housing enclosing said front chamber has a second window hole formed therein connecting the front chamber with an exterior of said housing, a second diaphragm covering said second window hole;
- and
- said second window hole being operatively provided with a lid member for opening and shutting said second window hole, whereby said second window hole can be shut by a user of said headphone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.