Earphone

• US 8,447,060 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2011
• Issued: 05/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comaxtech International Limited
• Original Assignee: Comaxtech International Limited
• Inventors: Huang, Cheng-Houng
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TUAN DUC
• Application Number:
  US13/051,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20110293130A1
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 381/370, 381/380, 381/322, 381/328, 381/329, 181/129, 181/130, 181/135, 379/430, 455/575.1, 455/575.2
• US Class Current: 381/380
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1091 Details not provided for in groups H04R1/1008 - H04R1/1083

Abstract

An earphone comprises a trumpet unit, a hollow shield, and a guide sound tube: the shield is hollow to receive the trumpet, has a sound chamber and an opening, and the opening inclines an acute angle from the trumpet unit; the guide sound tube is disposed at the opening with an end communicating with the sound chamber and another end extending to the opening. The earphone is capable of presenting the high and low pitches completely and providing a better sound quality by way of the acute angle between the opening and the trumpet unit.

Claims

1. An earphone comprising:

a trumpet unit being utilized to transmit sound wave outward;

a hollow shield further comprising an upper shield portion and a lower shield portion, wherein the lower shield portion is joined to the upper shield portion to receive the trumpet unit, and there is a sound chamber disposed in the lower shield portion facing the trumpet unit;

a guide sound tube with an opening extending outward the lower shield portion, inclining an acute angle denoted by θ

with respect to the trumpet unit, and communicating with the sound chamber;

an ear cushion being detachably joined to the guide sound tube with an inclination to the guide sound tube;

wherein, the ear cushion is plugged to an ear canal to admit the sound wave into the ear canal and block foreign noise, the shield is inserted in an ear nest next to the ear canal to locate and support the earphone, and the sound wave enters the ear canal straight along the ear cushion via the sound chamber and the guide sound tube.

2. The earphone as defined in claim 1, wherein said upper shield portion has a circular shape, and said lower shield portion has an inverted triangle shape.

3. The earphone as defined in claim 1, wherein said trumpet unit is sandwiched between the upper and lower shield portions and communicates with the sound chamber.

4. The earphone as defined in claim 1, wherein the acute angle is between 60°

˜

70°

.

5. The earphone as defined in claim 1, wherein an axis passes between the upper and lower shield portions and passes through a central point of said trumpet unit, and a horizontal distance along the axis and a vertical distance perpendicular to the axis are measured from the central position of the trumpet unit to a center of said opening respectively.

6. The earphone as defined in claim 5, wherein said horizontal distance is 5 mm±

1 mm and said vertical distance is 8 mm±

1 mm.

7. The earphone as defined in claim 1, wherein the ear cushion is made of silica gel or soft rubber.