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Granted Patent B2
US 9,055,369 · App. 13/025,182 · Granted Jun 9, 2015

Earphone

Inventor: Bill Yang (Taipei, TW)
Assignee: Cotron Corporation
H04R1/26H04R1/24H04R1/10H04R1/1033
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Patent No.
US 9,055,369
App. No.
13/025,182
Granted
Jun 9, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An earphone including a housing, a bracket, a first speaker unit and a second speaker unit is provided. The bracket disposed inside the housing includes a front plate, a first tube portion, a second tube portion and at least one connecting portion. The first tube portion is connected to the front plate. The second tube portion is separated from the first tube portion. The first tube portion is between the front plate and the second tube portion. The connecting portion connects the first tube portion and the second tube portion. The front plate has a central hole and surrounding holes. The second accommodating space is communicated to a main audio-output path of the housing through the surrounding holes. The first speaker unit is disposed in a first accommodating space of the first tube portion. The second speaker unit is disposed in a second accommodating space of the second tube portion.

Claims (13)

1. An earphone, comprising:

a housing, having a front housing and a rear housing, wherein the front housing is assembled to the rear housing, and the front housing has a main audio-output path;

a bracket, disposed in the housing, wherein the bracket comprising:

a front plate, having a central hole and a plurality of surrounding holes around the central hole;

a first tube portion, connected to the front plate and has a first accommodating space, wherein the first accommodating space is connected to the main audio-output path via the central hole;

a second tube portion, separated from the first tube portion and has a second accommodating space, wherein the first tube portion is between the front plate and the second tube portion, and the second accommodating space is connected to the main audio-output path via the surrounding holes;

at least one connecting portion, connecting the first tube portion and the second tube portion;

a first speaker unit, disposed in the first accommodating space;

a second speaker unit, disposed in the second accommodating space; and

a plurality of conductive wires, wherein the first speaker unit has two first input terminals and two first output terminals, each of the first input terminals is electrically connected to one of the first output terminals, the second speaker unit has two second input terminals, two second output terminals and two connection terminals, each of the second input terminals is electrically connected to one of the second output terminals and one of the connection terminals, each of the second input terminals is electrically connected to an external audio source via one of the conductive wires, each of the second output terminals is electrically connected to a second coil of the second speaker unit via one of the conductive wires, each of the connection terminals is electrically connected to one of the first input terminals via one of the conductive wires, each of the first output terminals is electrically connected to a first coil of the first speaker unit via one of the conductive wires.

2. The earphone of claim 1 , wherein an inner wall of the second tube portion has a wire trench.

3. The earphone of claim 1 , wherein the housing has a wire hole.

4. The earphone of claim 1 , wherein an output audio frequency of the first speaker unit is higher than an output audio frequency of the second speaker unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2011
From: YANG, BILL
To: COTRON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025791/0299 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 99134100 A · Oct 6, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120087532A1 · Apr 12, 2012