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US6456721:
Headset with bone conduction speaker and microphone
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Fukuda, Mikio; Tokyo, Japan
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| Assignee: |
Temco Japan Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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| Published / Filed: |
2002-09-24
/ 1999-06-23
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| Application Number: |
US1999000338552
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
H04R 1/00;
H04R 1/10;
H04R 5/033;
IPC-7:
H04R 25/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
H04R1/10M2; T04R5/033H; T04R201/107; T04R460/13;
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| U.S. Class: |
381/380;
381/378;
381/151;
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| Field of Search: |
381/151,326,370,375,380,FOR 130
600/025
607/056
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| Abstract: |
A headset with both a bone conduction speaker (1) and a microphone (2) is: excellent in fittingness to a wearer's head; free from any feeling of physical disorder; comfortable in use for a long period of time; and, substantially free from howling produced between the bone conduction speaker (1) and the microphone (2), and has its headband (3) run round the back part and the top part of the head. The headband (3) has its opposite ends carry a pair of head pads (5) held in abutting contact with opposite sides of the head. At least one of the head pads (5) carries both the bone conduction speaker (1) and the microphone (2).
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Browdy and Neimark ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Kuntz, Curtis; Ni, Suhan
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A headset adapted for use on a head of a user so as to position a speaker and microphone spaced apart from an ear of the user, comprising:
- an elastic headband capable of running round both a back part or a top part of the head of the user, said headband being provided with opposite end portions;
- a pair of head pads carried by said opposite end portions of said headband having a linear portion with a side wall adapted to be held in abutting contact with opposite side parts of the head of the user by the headband;
- a bone conduction speaker and a microphone both of which are carried by at least one of said head pads spaced apart laterally from the ear of the user;
- wherein said speaker directly engages the head of the user;
- wherein said bone conduction speaker is mounted on a front end portion of a speaker mounting arm extending from said head pad;
- wherein said speaker mounting arm is rotatably mounted on said head pad in a plane through the speaker mounting arm the head pad and the bone conduction speaker.
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