Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ear pad and earphone using the same
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Application No.: US16615574Application Date: 2017-05-23
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Publication No.: US11039236B2Publication Date: 2021-06-15
- Inventor: Kohei Osugi , Kouji Oosugi , Takafumi Koshinaka
- Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd. , NEC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kawasaki; JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.,NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.,NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kawasaki; JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/019282 WO 20170523
- International Announcement: WO2018/216121 WO 20181129
- Main IPC: H04R1/02
- IPC: H04R1/02 ; H04R1/08 ; H04R1/10 ; G06F21/32

Abstract:
The accuracy of ear authentication is ensured over a range from an audible range to a non-audible range. An earphone includes a sound emitting unit, a sound collecting unit, a housing containing the sound emitting unit and the sound collecting unit, a sound hole formed inside the housing, the sound hole being configured to propagate an emitted sound to a predetermined direction and propagate a sound coming from the predetermined direction to the sound collecting unit, and an ear pad covering at least a part of the sound hole, in which an ear-pad side end face is configured so as not to project beyond a sound-hole side end face at least in the predetermined direction, the ear-pad side end face being an end face of the ear pad, the sound-hole side end face being an end face of the sound hole in the predetermined direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200092628A1 EAR PAD AND EARPHONE USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2020-03-19
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