Headset for fitting of an earpiece

• US 7,983,439 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2008
• Issued: 07/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bruckhoff & Apparatebau GmbH
• Original Assignee: Bruckner Apparatebau GmbH
• Inventors: Bruckhoff, Henning, Dijkstra, Evert
• Primary Examiner(s): Ensey; Brian
• Application Number:
  US12/285,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20090103765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 381/374, 381/375, 381/381, 379/428.01, 379/430, 379/431
• US Class Current: 381/381
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/105 Earpiece supports, e.g. ear hooks for stereophonic headphones H04R5/0335
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1058 Manufacture or assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/107 Monophonic and stereophonic headphones with microphone for two-way hands free communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/0213 Constructional details of earhooks, e.g. shape, material
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/02 adapted to be supported entirely by ear

Abstract

Headset for fitting an earpiece that has a lock housing in or on which a fixing device is provided. A flexurally rigid and elastic ear loop which forms a loop for accommodating the outer ear of a user, and one end of the ear loop is received longitudinally displaceable in the fixing device of the lock housing, and for adjusting the size of the loop is adjustably received in various length positions, creating a fixing effect. There is a control device for receiving and outputting electrical signals and a signal interface for receiving and/or outputting electrical signals to and/or from the control device.

Claims

1. Headset for fitting an earpiece, comprising:

a) a lock housing in or on which a fixing device is provided;

b) a flexurally rigid and elastic ear loop forming a loop for accommodating the outer ear of a user;

c) one end of the ear loop being received longitudinally displaceably in the fixing device of the lock housing and the one end being received adjustably in various length positions for adjusting the size of the loop and achieving a fixing effect;

d) a control device for receiving and outputting electrical signals;

e) a signal interface for receiving and/or outputting electrical signals to and/or from the control device; and

f) the end of the ear loop guided in front of the outer ear being longitudinally displaceable and transitions into a tensioning unit or tensioning wire extending out from the lock housing.

2. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) the end of the ear loop guided behind the outer ear is longitudinally displaceable and transitions into an adjustable retention unit that projects forward from the lock housing, is flexurally rigid, bendable, and free of restoring force in its bending positions, for positioning a functional device attached thereto, electrical signal lines running from the functional device through the retention unit and the ear loop to the control device in the lock housing.

3. Headset in accordance with claim 2, wherein:

a) the ear loop and the retention unit have substantially the same elasticity.

4. Headset in accordance with claim 2, wherein:

a) the ear loop and the retention unit are embodied as continuous loops.

6. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) the tensioning unit or tensioning wire extends rearward from the lock housing.

7. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) an earpiece is provided, the earpiece being configured for receiving electrical signals from the control device and for transmitting sound waves.

8. Headset in accordance with claim 7, wherein:

a) a housing earpiece is provided in the lock housing; and

b) the housing earpiece outputs sound waves to an acoustic tube which is attached to the lock housing and that is for being used in the auditory canal of the user.

9. Headset in accordance with claim 8, wherein:

a) the acoustic tube is exchangeably attached to the lock housing.

10. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) lines extend from the lock housing to an external earpiece that is to be attached to the concha or in the auditory canal.

11. Headset in accordance claim 1, wherein:

a) when attaching to the outer ear the ear loop runs rearward starting from the lock housing below its ear lobe, upward behind the outer ear, forward over the outer ear, and downward again in front of the outer ear back to the lock housing.

12. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) at least one output line extends from the lock housing to an external transmitter and/or receiver device.

13. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) a transmitter and/or receiver device is provided accommodated in or placed on the lock housing, and the transmitter and/or receiver device is for wireless signals and is connected to the control device.

14. Headset in accordance with claim 13, wherein:

a) the transmitter and/or receiver device is removably placed on the lock housing.

15. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) the ear loop is embodied as a bendable wire loop that holds its shape and has one or a plurality of individual wires or is produced from a rigid, elastic plastic or rubber material.

16. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) the fixing device is a clamping element.

17. Headset in accordance with claim 16, wherein:

a) the clamping element clamps the ear loop with a clamping force that can be overcome manually.

18. Headset in accordance with claim 17, wherein:

a) the clamping element has an eyelet through which the ear loop runs with clamping force being exerted.

19. Headset in accordance with claim 18, wherein:

a) the clamping element inclines under the effect of a bending movement exerted on the retention unit through the ear loop with the eyelet.

20. Headset in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

a) the fixing device can be fixed in a form fit by creating a screw connection.

5. Headset for fitting an earpiece, comprising:

a) a lock housing in or on which a fixing device is provided;

b) a flexurally rigid and elastic ear loop forming a loop for accommodating the outer ear of a user;

c) one end of the ear loop being received longitudinally displaceably in the fixing device of the lock housing and the one end being received adjustably in various length positions for adjusting the size of the loop and achieving a fixing effect;

d) a control device for receiving and outputting electrical signals;

e) a signal interface for receiving and/or outputting electrical signals to and/or from the control device;

f) an earpiece is provided, the earpiece being configured for receiving electrical signals from the control device and for transmitting sound waves; and

g) lines extend from the lock housing to an external earpiece that is to be attached to the concha or in the auditory canal.

21. Headset in accordance with claim 5, wherein:

a) the end of the ear loop guided in front of the outer ear is longitudinally displaceable and transitions into a tensioning unit or tensioning wire extending out from the lock housing.

22. Headset for fitting an earpiece, comprising:

a) a lock housing in or on which a fixing device is provided;

b) a flexurally rigid and elastic ear loop forming a loop for accommodating the outer ear of a user;

c) one end of the ear loop being received longitudinally displaceably in the fixing device of the lock housing and the one end being received adjustably in various length positions for adjusting the size of the loop and achieving a fixing effect;

d) a control device for receiving and outputting electrical signals;

e) a signal interface for receiving and/or outputting electrical signals to and/or from the control device;

f) a transmitter and/or receiver device is provided accommodated in or placed on the lock housing, and the transmitter and/or receiver device is for wireless signals and is connected to the control device; and

g) the transmitter and/or receiver device is removably placed on the lock housing.