Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Earphone device, sound tube forming a part of earphone device and sound generating apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 耳机装置,声管形成耳机装置和发声装置的一部分
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Application No.: US12491390Application Date: 2009-06-25
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Publication No.: US08090134B2Publication Date: 2012-01-03
- Inventor: Souichi Takigawa , Yoshikatsu Matsubara , Tsuneyasu Demukai
- Applicant: Souichi Takigawa , Yoshikatsu Matsubara , Tsuneyasu Demukai
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu-Shi
- Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
- Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu-Shi
- Agency: Dickstein Shapiro LLP
- Priority: JP2008-233299 20080911
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00

Abstract:
An insert earphone device includes an electro-acoustic device, an inserting body, a sound tube connected between the electro-acoustic device and the inserting body and an active valve unit provided on the sound tube, the sound tube is formed with a sound propagation path open at both ends thereof to the electro-acoustic device and the inserting body and an external sound entrance open at both end thereof to environment and the sound propagation path, and the active valve unit is formed of electroactive polymer and responsive to voltage supplied through a cable so as to close and open the external sound entrance; when a user wishes to hear external sound, the user changes the polarity of voltage so that the active valve unit is deformed for conducting the environment to the sound propagation path, whereby the user hears the external sound without removing the earphone device from the ear.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100061582A1 EARPHONE DEVICE, SOUND TUBE FORMING A PART OF EARPHONE DEVICE AND SOUND GENERATING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-03-11
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