IP Library Granted Patent US 10,362,380
Granted Patent B2
US 10,362,380 · App. 15/792,823 · Granted Jul 23, 2019

Headphone

Inventors: Masanori Ito (Osaka, JP); Takashi Ouchi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
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Patent No.
US 10,362,380
App. No.
15/792,823
Granted
Jul 23, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a headphone including a housing defining a back chamber on a back side of a speaker unit. A headphone includes a speaker unit and a housing defining an internal space provided on an acoustic emission side as a back side of the housed speaker unit and an air chamber provided separately from the internal space. The housing includes a first housing member provided with a first hole allowing communication between an exterior and the air chamber, a second housing member attached to the speaker unit and coupled to the first housing member to define the internal space and the air chamber, and a third housing member fixed with the third housing member being sandwiched between the first and second housing members and provided with a second hole allowing communication between the air chamber and the internal space.

Claims (34)

1. A headphone comprising:

a speaker unit; and

a housing defining an internal space provided on an acoustic emission side as a back side of the housed speaker unit and an air chamber provided separately from the internal space,

wherein the housing includes

a first housing member provided with a first hole allowing communication between an exterior and the air chamber,

a second housing member attached to the speaker unit and coupled to the first housing member to define the internal space and the air chamber, and

a third housing member fixed with the third housing member being sandwiched between the first and second housing members and provided with a second hole allowing communication between the air chamber and the internal space,

wherein the first housing member and the second housing member define an inner wall portion dividing the air chamber and the internal space from each other,

the third housing member is a substantially cubic member of which one side length is longer than a thickness dimension t 2 of the inner wall portion, and is provided with the second hole defining a through-hole having a longer entire length than the thickness dimension t 2 , and

the third housing member has a groove portion in which a cutout portion of the inner wall portion is fitted.

2. The headphone according to claim 1 , wherein

the housing further includes a fourth housing member fixed with the fourth housing member being sandwiched between the first and second housing members, and

instead of the first housing member, the fourth housing member is provided with the first hole allowing the communication between the exterior and the air chamber.

3. The headphone according to claim 2 , wherein

the first housing member and the second housing member define an outer wall portion dividing the exterior and the air chamber from each other, and

the fourth housing member is a substantially cubic member of which one side length is longer than a thickness dimension t 1 of the outer wall portion, and is provided with the first hole defining a through-hole having a longer entire length than the thickness dimension t 1 .

4. The headphone according to claim 3 , wherein

the fourth housing member has a groove portion in which a cutout portion of the outer wall portion is fitted.

5. The headphone according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an annular ear contact portion attached to the housing on the acoustic emission side of the speaker unit,

wherein the housing and the ear contact portion define a space on an inside of the ear contact portion, the space communicating with an inside of a listener's ear and communicating with the exterior through the air chamber and the internal space.

6. A headphone comprising:

a speaker unit; and

a housing defining an internal space provided on an acoustic emission side as a back side of the housed speaker unit and an air chamber provided separately from the internal space,

wherein the housing includes

a first housing member,

a second housing member attached to the speaker unit and coupled to the first housing member to define the internal space and the air chamber,

a third housing member fixed with the third housing member being sandwiched between the first and second housing members and provided with a second hole allowing communication between the air chamber and the internal space, and

a fourth housing member fixed with the fourth housing member being sandwiched between the first and second housing members and provided with a first hole allowing communication between an exterior and the air chamber.

7. The headphone according to claim 6 , wherein

the first housing member and the second housing member define an outer wall portion dividing the exterior and the air chamber from each other, and

the fourth housing member is a substantially cubic member of which one side length is longer than a thickness dimension t 1 of the outer wall portion, and is provided with the first hole defining a through-hole having a longer entire length than the thickness dimension t 1 .

8. The headphone according to claim 7 , wherein

the fourth housing member has a groove portion in which a cutout portion of the outer wall portion is fitted.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 9, 2022
From: ONKYO CORPORATION (ONKYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA D/B/A ONKYO CORPORATION)
To: ONKYO CORPORATION (ONKYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA D/B/A ONKYO CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 059356/0077 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 9, 2022
From: ONKYO CORPORATION (ONKYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA D/B/A ONKYO CORPORATION)
To: ONKYO HOME ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059356/0175 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2017
From: ITO, MASANORI; OUCHI, TAKASHI
To: ONKYO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043977/0878 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-211153 · Oct 28, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180124488A1 · May 3, 2018
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