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US 9,591,395 B2Granted
Earphones and earbuds with physiologic sensors
AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorsSeth D. Burgett, Aaron Gorga, Effrosini A. Karayiannis
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Abstract
An earphone with a physiologic sensor includes a housing; a speaker in the housing; an enhancer comprising a body mounted on the housing and adapted to be secured in the ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear; and an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer, the enhancer having an aperture or window aligned with the optical physiologic sensor, so that the sensor can optically couple with the user's ear when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
Claims14
An earphone, comprising:
- a housing terminating in a front portion;
- a speaker disposed in the front portion of the housing;
- an enhancer comprising a body having an opening for receiving the front portion of the housing and extending outwardly beyond the front portion, the enhancer adapted to be secured in a user's ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear, the body including at least one aperture disposed over the speaker along a central axis of the body;
- a sound tube projecting from the body offset from the central axis and adapted to fit in a user's ear canal;
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- an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer behind the at least one aperture and behind the speaker so that the optical physiologic sensor can optically couple with the user's ear when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
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An earphone, comprising:
- a housing terminating in a front portion;
- a speaker disposed in the front portion of the housing;
- an enhancer comprising a body having an opening for receiving the front portion of the housing and extending outwardly beyond the front portion, the enhancer adapted to be secured in a user's ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear, the body including at least one window disposed over the speaker along a central axis of the body;
- a sound tube projecting from the body offset from the central axis and adapted to fit in a user's ear canal;
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- an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer behind the at least one window and behind the speaker so that the optical physiologic sensor can optically couple with the user's ear when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.