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Granted Patent B2
US 12,490,008 · App. 18/544,394 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Headphones

Inventors: Junjiang Fu (Shenzhen, CN); Yueqiang Wang (Shenzhen, CN); Chaojie Cui (Shenzhen, CN); Lei Zhong (Shenzhen, CN); Zhi Cai (Shenzhen, CN); Yingying Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Weihua Zhou (Shenzhen, CN); Piyou Cheng (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
H04R1/1016H04R1/1008H04R1/1041H04R1/105H04R1/1058H04R1/1075H04R1/22H04R1/2811H04R1/345H04R5/0335H04R9/025H04R9/045H04R9/06H04R2201/105H04R2400/11H04R2460/13
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Patent No.
US 12,490,008
App. No.
18/544,394
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure mainly relates to a headphone. The headphone may include a supporting assembly and a core module connected with the supporting assembly. The supporting assembly may be configured to support the core module to be worn at a wearing position. The core module may include a core housing, a transducer device, and a vibration panel. The transducer device may be provided in a accommodating cavity of the core housing, and the vibration panel may be connected with the transducer device and configured to transmit a mechanical vibration generated by the transducer device to a user.

Claims (23)

1 . A headphone, comprising:

a supporting assembly and a core module connected with the supporting assembly, wherein the supporting assembly is configured to support the core module to be worn at a wearing position, the core module includes a core housing, a transducer device, and a vibration panel, the transducer device is provided in a accommodating cavity of the core housing, and the vibration panel is connected with the transducer device and is configured to transmit a mechanical vibration generated by the transducer device to a user, wherein

in a wearing state and along a coronal axis of the user, a center of a side of the vibration panel facing the wearing position is closer to an outer ear canal of the user than a center of a side of the core housing facing the wearing position along a sagittal axis of the user.

2 . The headphone of claim 1 , wherein a center of the vibration panel projected orthogonally onto the core housing along a vibration direction of the transducer device coincides with a center of the transducer device projected orthogonally onto the core housing along the vibration direction, and the center of the transducer device projected orthogonally onto the core housing along the vibration direction does not coincide with a center of a side of the core housing facing the transducer device along the vibration direction.

3 . The headphone of claim 1 , wherein a center of the transducer device projected orthogonally onto the core housing along a vibration direction of the transducer device coincides with a center of a side of the core housing facing the transducer device along the vibration direction, and a center of the vibration panel projected orthogonally onto the core housing along the vibration direction does not coincide with the center of the transducer device projected orthogonally onto the core housing along the vibration direction.

4 . The headphone of claim 1 , wherein the headphone further comprises an adapter housing connecting the core housing and the supporting assembly, the adapter housing includes a cylinder sidewall disposed at a periphery of the core housing, an orthographic projection of the core housing and an orthographic projection of the cylinder sidewall on a reference plane perpendicular to a vibration direction of the transducer device respectively have a first center and a second center, and in the wearing state, the first center is closer to the outer ear canal of the ear of the user relative to the second center.

5 . The headphone of claim 4 , wherein the core housing rotates around a first axis relative to the adapter housing, the first center and the second center are provided at intervals along a direction where the first axis is located.

6 . The headphone of claim 5 , wherein the first center and the second center are on the first axis.

7 . The headphone of claim 5 , wherein the adapter housing rotates around a second axis relative to the supporting assembly, and the second axis crosses the first axis.

8 . The headphone of claim 4 , wherein the headphone further comprises a battery and a main board coupled to the transducer device, the adapter housing further includes a center plate coupled to an inner side of the cylinder sidewall and an outer housing buckled with the cylinder sidewall, the battery or the main board is provided between the outer housing and the center plate, and the core housing is disposed at a side of the center plate away from the outer housing.

9 . The headphone of claim 1 , wherein the supporting assembly is a header-beam assembly, the header-beam assembly is configured to wrap around a top of a head of the user and to allow the vibration panel to contact a cheek of the user, in the wearing state, the header-beam assembly and the top of the head form a first contacting point, the vibration panel and the cheek of the user form a second contacting point, and a spacing between the second contacting point and the first contacting point along the sagittal axis of the user is between 20 mm and 30 mm.

10 . The headphone of claim 9 , wherein the header-beam assembly includes an arcuate header-beam member and an adapter member, the arcuate header-beam member is configured to wrap around the top of the head of the user, the adapter member includes a first connecting section, an intermediate transition section, and a second connecting section, the intermediate transition section connects the first connecting section and the second connecting section, the first connecting section and the second connecting section are respectively bent relative to the intermediate transition section and extend along opposite directions, the first connecting section is connected with the arcuate header-beam member, and the second connecting section is connected with the adapter housing;

wherein viewed along the coronal axis of the user, the intermediate transition section is inclined relative to a vertical axis of the user.

11 . The headphone of claim 9 , wherein the spacing between the second contacting point and the first contacting point along the sagittal axis of the user is between 22 mm and 28 mm.

12 . The headphone of claim 9 , wherein the spacing between the second contacting point and the first contacting point along the sagittal axis of the user is 25 mm.

13 . The headphone of claim 10 , wherein the first connecting section is bent at an angle greater than or equal to 90° and less than 180° relative to the intermediate transition section.

14 . The headphone of claim 10 , wherein the second connecting section is bent at an angle greater than or equal to 90° and less than 180° relative to the intermediate transition section.

15 . The headphone of claim 10 , wherein in the wearing state and viewed along the coronal axis of the user, the first connecting section is parallel to the second connecting section, and a spacing between the first connecting section and the second connecting section is between 20 mm and 30 mm.

16 . The headphone of claim 10 , wherein the first connecting section and the second connecting section are respectively provided with a wiring cavity, the intermediate transition section is provided with an opening slot, the wiring cavity of the first connecting section and the wiring cavity of the second connecting section are in flow communication via the opening slot such that a wiring of the headphone extends from the core module to the arcuate header-beam member through the adapter member, the header-beam assembly further includes a sealing member embedded in the opening slot, and the sealing member covers the wiring.

17 . The headphone of claim 16 , wherein the adapter member is made of metal and the arcuate header-beam member is made of plastic.

18 . The headphone of claim 16 , wherein the first connecting section is capable of extending from or retracting into the arcuate header-beam member under an action of an external force.

19 . The headphone of claim 9 , wherein a pressing force of the core module applied on the cheek of the user is between 0.4 N and 0.8 N.

20 . The headphone of claim 19 , wherein the pressing force of the core module applied on the cheek of the user is between 0.5 N and 0.6 N.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2024
From: FU, JUNJIANG; WANG, YUEQIANG; CUI, CHAOJIE; ZHONG, LEI; CAI, ZHI; ZHANG, YINGYING; ZHOU, WEIHUA; CHENG, PIYOU
To: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202111232608.3 · Oct 22, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2022120667 · Sep 22, 2022
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