Earphone adapter

• US 8,007,321 B1
• Filed: 10/06/2010
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Chi, Ming-Chia
• Primary Examiner(s): Gushi; Ross
• Application Number:
  US12/898,722
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 439/638, 439/527, 439/528, 439/531, 439/574, 439/575, 248/682, 248/686, 248/689
• US Class Current: 439/638
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/72 Means for accommodating flexible lead within the holder
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/58 Contacts spaced along longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/06 Intermediate parts for linking two coupling parts, e.g. adapter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/94

Abstract

An earphone adapter for being fastened to a cable includes a plug part, a socket part connecting with the plug part and a shell enclosing inner ends of the plug part and the socket part. Several portions of an outer surface of the shell protrude outward to form two first fastening blocks spaced from each other, and a second fastening block located between the two first fastening blocks. A bottom of each first fastening block is concaved inward to form a first fastening groove passing through a side thereof adjacent to the second fastening block. A top of the second fastening block is concaved inward to form a second fastening groove. A substantial middle portion of the cable is placed in the second fastening groove with two ends thereof being clipped in the first fastening grooves along two ends of the second fastening groove, respectively.

Claims

1. An earphone adapter for being fastened to a cable, comprising:

a plug part;

a socket part connecting with the plug part; and

a shell enclosing an inner end of the plug part and an inner end of the socket part with outer ends of the plug part and the socket part exposed from two ends thereof, several portions of an outer surface of the shell protruding outward to form two first fastening blocks spaced from each other, and a second fastening block located between the two first fastening blocks, a bottom of each first fastening block being concaved inward to form a first fastening groove passing through a side thereof adjacent to the second fastening block, a top of the second fastening block being concaved inward to form a second fastening groove passing through two ends thereof, a substantial middle portion of the cable being placed in the second fastening groove with two ends thereof being clipped in the first fastening grooves along two ends of the second fastening groove, respectively.

2. The earphone adapter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two first fastening blocks are inclined inverted fan-shaped and have two first convex arced surfaces adjacent to the two ends of the second fastening block, the first convex arced surface of each first fastening block is concaved inward to form the first fastening groove.

3. The earphone adapter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second fastening block is of a semi-elliptical shape and has a second convex arced surface at the top thereof, the second convex arced surface is concaved inward to form the second fastening groove.