Wireless electronic device with retractable earphones

• US 7,512,417 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2006
• Issued: 03/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Miriam, Wang, Beniz
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, TUAN
• Application Number:
  US11/328,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20070161403A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,176 Days
• Field of Search: 455/557, 455/556.1, 455/575.1, 455/575.6, 455/66.1, 455/556.01, 455/569.1, 455/90.3, 379/420.02, 379/420.03, 379/420.04
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a wireless electronic device comprising a main body and an earphone assembly being retractably disposed in the main body with two ends provided at one side of the main body capable of being pulled outward and a cable portion between the two ends adapted to extend through the other side of the main body to form an enclosed loop. By utilizing this wireless electronic device, a user may put the loop of the earphone assembly on a hook of wall or on the neck for hanging the electronic device, and may also pull speakers respectively disposed at the ends of the earphone assembly out of the main body and put the speakers into the ears for listening.

Claims

1. A wireless electronic device comprising:

a main body, wherein the main body comprises;

two side grooves each having one end provided at the other side of the main body and the other end provided adjacent to one side of the main body by extending within the main body wherein one pair of ends of an earphone assembly pass the grooves to terminate at one side of the main body; and

two cavities each having one end attached to the other end of the corresponding groove and the other end terminated at one side of the main body wherein the cavities are adapted to receive the pair of ends of the earphone assembly; and

the earphone assembly further being retractably disposed in the main body with two ends provided at one side of the main body capable of being pulled outward and a cable portion between the two ends adapted to extend through the other side of the main body to form an enclosed loop, wherein the earphone assembly comprises;

a first cable having one end fastened in the main body and the other end extended beyond the main body, passed the other groove, and terminated at the other cavity;

a second cable having one end fastened in the main body and the other end extended beyond the main body, passed one groove, and terminated at one cavity;

a first speaker being retractably disposed in the other cavity and having one end attached to the other end of the first cable;

a second speaker being retractably disposed in one cavity and having one end attached to the other end of the second cable; and

a wheel assembly having one end movably disposed between two ends of the first cable and the other end movably disposed between two ends of the second cable so as to together with the cables and the main body form an enclosed loop.

2. The wireless electronic device of claim 1, wherein the wheel assembly comprises:

two plates;

a first axis having two ends provided at one side of the plates such that the first cable is adapted to pass one ends of the plates, pass a gap between the plates, wrap around the first axis, and leave one ends of the plates; and

a second axis having two ends provided at the other side of the plates such that the second cable is adapted to pass the other ends of the plates, pass the gap between the plates, wrap around the second axis, and leave the other ends of the plates.

3. The wireless electronic device of claim 1, wherein the main body further comprises a first upper hole and a second upper hole each provided adjacent the corresponding groove, and wherein the first and the second cables are adapted to pass the first and the second upper holes to extend a predetermined distance toward one side of the main body.

4. The wireless electronic device of claim 3, wherein the main body further comprises a circuit board including:

a first contact attached to one end of the first cable and adapted to transmit a first audio signal to the first cable; and

a second contact attached to one end of the second cable and adapted to transmit a second audio signal to the second cable.