JP2007097006A - Earphone and headphone for plural persons - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an earphone and a headphone enabling a plurality of persons to simultaneously listen to music or sounds all together with the portable audio system without being irritated by outside noises. <P>SOLUTION: The earphone and the headphone are configured so that they are branched into earphone or headphones for a plurality of persons. Thus, the plurality of persons can simultaneously listen to music or sounds with the same portable audio device without being irritated by outside noises. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an earphone and headphones capable of listening to music and sound from a portable audio by a plurality of people.

  Small portable electronic devices, that is, portable audio devices having a music playback function or a voice playback function have appeared. IPOD (manufactured by Apple) and network walkman (manufactured by Sony) that are music playback devices with hard disks, iPOD shuffle (manufactured by Apple) and network walkman (manufactured by Sony) with memory-mounted music playback devices, This is a representative example of the above portable audio. Furthermore, a cellular phone with a music playback device is a typical example of the portable audio.

The earphones or headphones used for these portable audios are for one person. Therefore, it was basically impossible for couples to listen to the same song. When two people listened to music or voice from the same portable audio, it was necessary to put one earphone on each ear and listen to music or voice. In this case, in order to listen to music or sound with one ear, the sound quality of the stereo effect music is impaired, and further, external noise comes in from the other ear without the earphone. It was impossible for people to hear good music at the same time. Furthermore, it was impossible for three or more people to listen to music or voice using earphones from the same portable audio.

In view of the above-described situation, the earphones branched into plural earphones or plural people so as to solve various problems that the conventional technology could not solve and allow plural people to listen to music or voice from portable audio By adopting a headphone that is branched into minutes, it is possible to provide an earphone or headphone that allows multiple people to listen to music or voice simultaneously from a single portable audio.

In order to achieve the above object, the configuration of the earphone and the headphone employed by the present invention is an earphone and a headphone branched into a plurality of earphones or headphone.

Since there is a difference between individuals in listening to the volume, a volume controller for each individual may be provided. This volume adjuster can be used for each individual volume control before the branch from the portable audio terminal to the multi-person earphone or headphone. After branching to the earphone or the headphone, each personal volume controller may be provided.

Alternatively, there may be a case where only one volume adjuster is provided for the volume from the portable audio before or after branching from the portable audio terminal to the earphones or headphones for a plurality of people. In this case, it is not possible to individually adjust the volume of each person, but it is possible to simultaneously increase or decrease the volume for a plurality of people.

Alternatively, it may be a simple multi-person earphone or headphone having only a branching point to the multi-person earphone or headphone. For the volume adjustment at this time, a portable audio volume controller may be used. Furthermore, each earphone or headphone is detachable, and when one person uses it, it may be composed of only one earphone or headphone. In other words, each earphone or headphone can be configured only for the number of people to be used by making each earphone or headphone removable.

  The present invention makes it possible for a plurality of people to listen to music or voice from the same portable audio at the same time without being affected by external noise.

The embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  1, FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are diagrams for explaining the configuration of an earphone or headphone for a plurality of persons according to the present invention. FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 show two persons as an example. Similarly, three or more earphones or three or more persons can listen to sound and music from one portable audio. Headphones may be added to the multi-person earphone or headphone configuration of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, multiple earphones or headphones are added to the multiple-person earphone or headphone configuration of the present invention. According to the present invention, a plurality of people can listen to voice and music from one portable audio.

In FIG. 2, as in FIG. 1, the earphones or headphones for the plural persons are the earphones or headphones for the plural persons of the present invention so that the plural persons can listen to sound and music from one portable audio. Has been added to the configuration. Furthermore, a volume adjuster (12 in FIG. 2) is added to adjust the volume for a plurality of people. This volume adjuster may or may not be provided with voice and music playback, fast forward, skip function, and other functions. Furthermore, a portable audio power switch may be added. In some cases, 12 in FIG. 2 may be only a portable audio power switch, not a volume controller. Further, a volume adjuster (14 and 15 in FIG. 2) for adjusting the volume of each one is added. This volume adjuster may or may not be provided with voice and music playback, fast forward, skip function, and other functions. Furthermore, a portable audio power switch may be added. In some cases, one or both of 14 and 15 in FIG. 2 may be only a portable audio power switch rather than a volume adjuster. Further, any or all of 12, 14, and 15 in FIG. 2 may not be added. A configuration without all of 12, 14, and 15 in FIG. 2 is the same as FIG. Further, in FIG. 2, 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9 are integrated, and similarly, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10 are also integrated, and 12 or 11 and one or both via a plug. May be connected in a detachable manner. An example of the configuration diagram at this time is shown in FIG.

As described above, the feature of the configuration of the present invention is that the earphones or headphones for a plurality of persons are added to the configuration of the earphones or headphones for a plurality of persons of the present invention. Any part of the configuration may or may not include a portable audio power switch, volume controller, voice and music playback, fast forward, skip function, and other function switches.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the earphone or headphones for multiple persons in this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the structure of the earphone or headphones for multiple persons in this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the structure of the earphone or headphones for multiple persons in this Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

1, 2 --- Earphones or headphones for one ear of one person, 3,4-Earphones or headphones for one ear of the other person 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17 --- Lead wire in earphone or headphone, 11 --- Plug to connect to portable audio, 12, 14, 15 --- Audio and music playback, fast forward, skip function and other functions added Optional volume control or power switch, 18, 19 --- Plug

Claims (4)

An earphone or a headphone for portable audio, characterized in that it is branched into earphones or headphones for a plurality of people. The earphone or headphone according to claim 1, wherein the earphone or headphone is a multi-person earphone or headphone, each of which is provided with an audio output adjuster. The earphone or headphone according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the earphone or headphone is a multi-person earphone or headphone, and each earphone or headphone is detachable via a plug. 4. The earphone or headphone according to claim 1, which is a two-person earphone or headphone.

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