US 9,031,273 B2Granted

Wearable computing device with behind-ear bone-conduction speaker

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsJianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, Leng Ooi

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Abstract

Apparatuses that provide a bone-conduction speaker arranged to be located behind the ear are described herein. An exemplary apparatus may include: (a) a glasses-style support structure comprising a front section and at least one side section; (b) at least one bone-conduction speaker; and (c) a member having a proximate end and a distal end, wherein the proximate end is attached to the at least one side section, and wherein the at least one bone-conduction speaker is attached to the member at or near the distal end; wherein the member is arranged on the at least one side section such that when the glasses-style support structure is worn the member: (a) extends to the anterior of the at least one side section and (b) locates the bone-conduction speaker posterior to an ear.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a glasses-style support structure comprising a front section and at least one side section;
at least one bone-conduction speaker;
and
a member having a proximate end and a distal end, wherein the proximate end is attached to the at least one side section, and wherein the at least one bone-conduction speaker is attached to the member at or near the distal end;
wherein the member is coupled to the at least one side section such that when the glasses-style support structure is worn the member:
(a) extends to the anterior of the at least one side section, (b) locates the bone-conduction speaker at a location posterior to an ear, and (c) exerts a force on the bone-conduction speaker towards the posterior surface of the ear;
wherein the proximate end of the member is coupled to the at least one side section at a coupling location such that when the glasses-style support structure is worn the coupling location is anterior to the location of the bone-conduction speaker.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/027,785Filed 16 Sep 2013 · continuation
Priority: 17 Nov 2011
Published: US 2014/0016800 A116 Jan 2014
Granted: 12 May 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

H04R 1/028
Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein: associated with devices performing functions other than acoustics, e.g. electric candles
G02B 27/02
Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups G02B1/00 - G02B26/00, G02B30/00: viewing or reading apparatus
G02C 11/06
Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof: hearing aids
G02C 11/10
Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof: electronic devices other than hearing aids