Headset and method for a headset

• US 6,396,935 B1
• Filed: 07/23/1998
• Issued: 05/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Veijo Sakari Makkonen
• Original Assignee: Veijo Sakari Makkonen
• Inventors: Makkonen, Veijo Sakari
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Ping
• Application Number:
  US09/117,038
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 381/373,374,375,381,333,74,309,370 379/430
• US Class Current: 381/334
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6033 for providing handsfree use or a loudspeaker mode in telephone sets arrangements for preventing acoustic echo H04M9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1025 Accumulators or arrangements for charging secondary cells per se H01M10/00; charging in general H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/105 Earpiece supports, e.g. ear hooks for stereophonic headphones H04R5/0335
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/107 Monophonic and stereophonic headphones with microphone for two-way hands free communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/109 Arrangements to adapt hands free headphones for use on both ears

Abstract

The present invention is a headset having a microphone and a speaker mounted on an essentially deformable boom. The deformable boom provides a selectively deformable ear loop portion that is adjustable to custom fit individual forms of an auricle of a user. The speaker is located near the ear canal opening to allow the user to hear surrounding sound. Communication interface is located within the boom for transmitting a voice signal. A transceiver is provided to be located within the boom or separately.

Claims

1. A headset having a microphone and a speaker comprising:

an essentially elongated boom, having a deformable structure, wherein the microphone is mounted at or closely adjacent to a first end of said elongated deformable boom and the speaker is mounted at or closely adjacent to another end of said elongated deformable boom and said speaker is arranged to be placed in a close proximity to an ear orifice and designed from the size and shape thereof such that the ear orifice does not become blocked by the speaker, whereby the user is allowed to listen also other surrounding voices by that ear,

said elongated deformable boom provides a selectively deformable ear loop portion which is adjusted to custom fit individual forms of an auricle of a user,

communication interface operationally connected to the microphone and the speaker for transmitting a voice signal, said communication interface being combined with transceiver terminal means or operationally connected to transceiver terminal, said transceiver terminal means being adapted to enable a voice signal traffic between said transceiver terminal means and at least one another terminal means.

2. A headset according to claim 1, wherein said combined communication interface means and transceiver terminal means are mounted in connection with said elongated deformable boom forming the headset wherein said transceiver terminal means are arranged to provide an air interface between said headset and said at least one another terminal means.

3. A headset according to claim 1, wherein said transceiver terminal means are mounted spaced to said elongated deformable boom forming the headset wherein an air interface is provided between said communication interface means included in said headset and said transceiver terminal means.

4. A headset according to claim 1 wherein said at least one another terminal means is an interface to a public switched telephone network.

5. A headset according to claim 1, wherein said elongated deformable boom is adjustable lengthwise.

6. A headset according to claim 1, wherein the frame structure of said deformable boom is comprised rubber material, plastic material, silicone material, or elastic material.

7. A headset according to claim 6, wherein the frame structure of the elongated deformable boom comprises a portion of metallic material or of plastic material in connection with said elastic material (elongated deformable).

8. A headset according to claim 1, further comprising an antenna arranged in connection with the frame structure of said deformable boom.

9. A headset according to claim 1, further comprising an energy source.

10. A method for making a headset including a microphone and a speaker, comprising steps of:

mounting an essentially elongated boom including the microphone disposed at or closely adjacent to a first end of said elongated deformable boom, and the speaker disposed at or closely adjacent to another end of said elongated deformable boom to extend around an auricle of a user such that said elongated deformable boom is selectively adjusted to custom fit individual forms of said auricle of the user so as to provide an ear loop, placing said speaker in a close proximity to the ear orifice such that the ear orifice does not become blocked by the speaker, whereby the user is allowed to listen also other surrounding voices by that ear, transmitting a voice signal through communicating interface means operationally connected to the microphone and the speaker, said communication interface means being combined with transceiver terminal means or operationally connected to transceiver terminal means, said transceiver terminal means enabling a voice signal traffic between said transceiver terminal means and at least one another terminal means.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein said combined communication interface means and transceiver terminal means are mounted in connection with said elongated deformable boom forming the headset and are providing an air interface between said headset and said at least one another terminal means.

12. A method according to claim 10, further comprising a step for adjusting the length of the elongated deformable boom.