Headset
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTomohiro Ito, Ikuo Shinohara
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Abstract
A headset of the present invention includes: a housing 10 worn on one auricle of a wearer; an arm 41 having a predetermined length, one end side of which is accommodated in the housing and the other end side of which is pulled out of a hole 13a of the housing to the outside, accommodated in the housing by adjusting the length pulled out of the hole 13a of the housing to the outside; and a microphone attached to the arm 41. When the headset is being used, the end of the arm 41 comes close to the wearer's mouth by pulling the arm 41 out of the housing 10. When the microphone need not be used, the arm 41 is stored in the housing 10 so as not to protrude from the housing 10.
Claims12
A headset, comprising:
- a housing worn on one of wearer's auricles;
- a driver unit which is accommodated in said housing and outputs a sound corresponding to a provided sound signal;
- an arm having a predetermined length and two ends comprising a first end and a second end, the first end of the arm being accommodated in the housing and the second end being pulled out of a hole of the housing to the outside, an arm portion being exposed upon the second end being pulled out of the hole of the housing, a length of the arm portion being adjusted by pulling the second end out of the hole of the housing;
- and
- a microphone attached to said arm;
- wherein an arm-attaching member, to which the first end of said arm is attached inside said housing, capable of turning with respect to said housing is provided;
- said arm is wound along the approximately outermost peripheral part in said housing by the turning of the arm-attaching member;
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- said arm-attaching member is connected to said housing side through a take-up spring, and said arm is wound into the housing by the turning of said arm-attaching member with the resilient force of said take-up spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.