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EP1622419A1
EP1622419A1 EP04450156A EP04450156A EP1622419A1 EP 1622419 A1 EP1622419 A1 EP 1622419A1 EP 04450156 A EP04450156 A EP 04450156A EP 04450156 A EP04450156 A EP 04450156A EP 1622419 A1 EP1622419 A1 EP 1622419A1
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headphone
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Hugo Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Lenhard-Backhaus
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AKG Acoustics GmbH
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/10—Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones
    • H04R1/1058—Manufacture or assembly
    • H04R1/1066—Constructional aspects of the interconnection between earpiece and earpiece support
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/10—Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones
    • H04R1/1008—Earpieces of the supra-aural or circum-aural type
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R5/00—Stereophonic arrangements
    • H04R5/033—Headphones for stereophonic communication

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  • the invention concerns a headphone with at least one strap and two earphones.
  • Headphones used for a variety of purposes have long been known. On the one hand, they are used to permit secure receiving of acoustic information in noisy surroundings (aircraft, ships, land vehicles, sound recording studios, etc.); they are also used to permit excellent listening quality, especially of pieces of music during the occurrence of background noises, and are used in quiet surroundings to permit listening to music or language without the interference of persons in the surroundings.
  • a generic type of headphone has earphones made of a flexible, sound-damping material through which the outer ear is shielded from its surroundings and directly exposed to sound from one or more small loudspeakers accommodated in the interior of the earphone.
  • Another form of headphones are the plug-in earphones that were developed especially for portable playback devices for music and are used there: in this case, a button-like structure made of foam or the like is inserted into the auditory canal and the auditory canal is directly exposed to sound through a loudspeaker arranged in the button.
  • Earphones insertable into the auditory canal so-called button earphones
  • Headphones with earphones have straps that are adjustable in width and length and, depending on the equipment class, have different suspensions, all the way to complex gimbal suspensions. The latter have the advantage that, regardless of the shape of the head, each of the two earphones lies against the head so that it has no tendency to slide and lies against the head over almost its entire periphery with the same load so that the greatest wear comfort is achieved.
  • the aforementioned exceptional case has an adjustable strap, which lies against the head via a special support cushion and supports, on the ends of the strap on each side when wearing, a vertically running axis at a distance from the head on which the loudspeakers are arranged to pivot, which therefore expose not only the ear, but also the head, to sound from a certain distance and therefore ensure the best possible listening enjoyment.
  • the invention seeks to devise a remedy to this and to provide headphones that can be worn both in the usual position on the ear and also in the frequently desired position with a certain distance to the ear in comfortable fashion and producing acoustically satisfactory results in both positions.
  • this one component if it is brought into one position, causes the headphone to lie against the ear and in the other position ensures a certain distance of the headphone from the ear. Since, as explained above, the suspension of the earphone on the strap can sometimes be designed to be extremely complex, it is quite possible that more than one intermediate part is provided between the two parallel axes and that this varies its geometry as a complex intermediate part by differing movements and pivots. In this case it is only important that pivoting is possible in the position in which the two axes run parallel to each other.
  • Figure 1 shows a headphone as essentially described in the still unpublished European Patent Application No. 04450008.0.
  • An earphone 2 is fastened onto a length-adjustable strap 1 on both sides. Fastening occurs via a system of axes that permit a gimbal suspension of earphone 2 without having to provide the usual large-format semicircular straps that are common for such gimbal suspensions.
  • the gimbal suspension essentially consists of the axis of rotation K2 that runs roughly vertical during use of the headphone with the connection part 3 firmly mounted on its lower strap and the articulation around axis of rotation K1 arranged in the edge of the connection part 3 ( Figure 2).
  • the axes K1 and K2 intersect each other in the area of the inner plane of the earphone roughly at their center and thus produce a full-fledged gimbal suspension.
  • Another articulation directly on the end of strap 1 with the articulation axis A1 is provided in order to be able to collapse the headphones in a particularly compact state.
  • an articulation with articulation axis A2 is added to this headphone ( Figure 1) in which this articulation axis A2 runs on the end of the intermediate part 3, on the one hand, on this part, and on the other hand on the end of the articulation around axis K1 away from the earphone.
  • Positioning of the two axes in space then scarcely plays a role.
  • the two axes in the position of use of the headphone it is easily possible for the two axes in the position of use of the headphone to run in roughly the vertical direction, with a component situated between them insuring a certain distance relative to the head. It is also not necessary for the two axes to run parallel to each other in the "offset position", although this is advantageous in most cases, since in the contact position at least one of the two axes can be used for the gimbal suspension or otherwise.
  • This support can consist of a foam material or another material, for example, that of the earphones, and can be coated with a skin-friendly material (leather).

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EP04450156A 2004-07-28 2004-07-28 Kopfhörer Withdrawn EP1622419A1 (de)

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Cited By (5)

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EP1638364A2 (de) * 2004-09-17 2006-03-22 Kabushiki Kaisha Audio- Technica Kopfhörergerät
EP2096881A1 (de) * 2008-02-27 2009-09-02 Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus Kopfhöreraufhängung
EP2334097A1 (de) * 2008-10-02 2011-06-15 Pioneer Corporation Kopfhörer
WO2015096987A1 (de) * 2013-12-23 2015-07-02 Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. Kg Kopfhörer
EP3119108A1 (de) * 2015-07-16 2017-01-18 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Kopfhörer mit internem kardangelenk

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US1649551A (en) * 1926-03-19 1927-11-15 Amos C Smith Headband attachment
FR2637759A1 (fr) * 1989-01-12 1990-04-13 Cotron Corp Casque d'ecoute
US5293647A (en) * 1991-08-19 1994-03-15 Michael Mirmilshteyn Multi-adjustable headset
GB2299234A (en) * 1995-03-20 1996-09-25 Nicholas Paul Robinson 3D-Display Apparatus

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US1649551A (en) * 1926-03-19 1927-11-15 Amos C Smith Headband attachment
FR2637759A1 (fr) * 1989-01-12 1990-04-13 Cotron Corp Casque d'ecoute
US5293647A (en) * 1991-08-19 1994-03-15 Michael Mirmilshteyn Multi-adjustable headset
GB2299234A (en) * 1995-03-20 1996-09-25 Nicholas Paul Robinson 3D-Display Apparatus

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BHAVE S A ET AL: "An integratfd, vertical-drive, in-plane-sense microgyroscope", TRANSDUCERS, SOLID-STATE SENSORS, ACTUATORS AND MICROSYSTEMS, 12TH INNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON, 2003, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA,IEEE, vol. 1, 9 June 2003 (2003-06-09), pages 171 - 174, XP010646496, ISBN: 0-7803-7731-1 *

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1638364A2 (de) * 2004-09-17 2006-03-22 Kabushiki Kaisha Audio- Technica Kopfhörergerät
EP1638364A3 (de) * 2004-09-17 2008-02-20 Kabushiki Kaisha Audio- Technica Kopfhörergerät
EP2096881A1 (de) * 2008-02-27 2009-09-02 Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus Kopfhöreraufhängung
WO2009105795A1 (de) * 2008-02-27 2009-09-03 Hugo Lenhard-Backhaus Kopfhörer mit gelenkiger aufhängung der ohrmuscheln
EP2334097A1 (de) * 2008-10-02 2011-06-15 Pioneer Corporation Kopfhörer
EP2334097A4 (de) * 2008-10-02 2013-02-27 Pioneer Corp Kopfhörer
DE102013227088B4 (de) 2013-12-23 2021-11-04 Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. Kg Kopfhörer
CN105900450A (zh) * 2013-12-23 2016-08-24 森海塞尔电子股份有限及两合公司 头戴式受话器
US9930439B2 (en) 2013-12-23 2018-03-27 Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. Kg Headphone
CN105900450B (zh) * 2013-12-23 2019-03-29 森海塞尔电子股份有限及两合公司 头戴式受话器
WO2015096987A1 (de) * 2013-12-23 2015-07-02 Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. Kg Kopfhörer
EP3119108A1 (de) * 2015-07-16 2017-01-18 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Kopfhörer mit internem kardangelenk
US10667029B2 (en) 2015-07-16 2020-05-26 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Headset with internal gimbal
US11218790B2 (en) * 2015-07-16 2022-01-04 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Headset with internal gimbal
US20220095031A1 (en) * 2015-07-16 2022-03-24 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Headset with internal gimbal
US11683627B2 (en) * 2015-07-16 2023-06-20 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Headset with internal gimbal

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