Earphone

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12506997-B2
Application number	US-202318476276-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2023
Priority date	Jul 29, 2020
Publication date	Dec 23, 2025
Grant date	Dec 23, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone may include a hook-shaped component, a connecting component, and a holding component. When the earphone is in a wearing state, the hook-shaped component may be configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user. The holding component may be configured to contact a front side of the ear. The connecting component may be configured to connect the hook-shaped component and the holding component and extend from the head to an outside of the head to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to provide the holding component with a pressing force on the front side of the ear.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An earphone, comprising: a holding component and an ear hook, the ear hook including a hook-shaped component, wherein when the earphone is in a wearing state,
the hook-shaped component is configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user, and the holding component is configured to connect to the ear hook and contact a front side of the ear, wherein the holding component includes a housing and a transducer, the housing is provided with a sound outlet on an inner side surface towards an auricle of the ear for guiding a sound generated by the transducer out of the housing and to an ear canal of the user, and a distance between a projection point of a center of the sound outlet on a sagittal plane and a projection point of a midpoint of an upper boundary of the inner side surface on the sagittal plane is in a range of 10.0 mm to 15.2 mm.

2 . The earphone of claim 1 , wherein in the wearing state, a distance between the projection point of the center of the sound outlet in the sagittal plane and a projection point of a center of an ear canal opening of the ear canal on the sagittal plane is in a range of 2.2 mm to 3.8 mm.

3 . The earphone of claim 2 , wherein in the wearing state, a distance between the projection point of the midpoint of the upper boundary of the inner side surface on the sagittal plane and the projection point of the center of the ear canal opening on the sagittal plane is in a range of 12 mm to 18 mm.

4 . The earphone of claim 1 , wherein in the wearing state, a distance between the projection point of the center of the sound outlet on the sagittal plane and a projection point of a ⅓ point of a lower boundary of the inner side surface on the sagittal plane is in a range of 3.5 mm to 5.6 mm.

5 . The earphone of claim 4 , wherein in the wearing state, a distance between the projection point of the ⅓ point of the lower boundary of the inner side surface on the sagittal plane and the projection point of the center of the ear canal opening on the sagittal plane is in a range of 1.7 mm to 2.7 mm.

6 . The earphone of claim 1 , wherein in the wearing state, a distance between the center of the sound outlet and an upper vertex of the ear hook is in a range of 22.5 mm to 34.5 mm.

7 . The earphone of claim 6 , wherein in the wearing state, a ratio of the distance between the center of the sound outlet and the upper vertex of the ear hook to a distance between an upper boundary and a lower boundary of the inner side surface is between 1.2 and 2.2.

8 . The earphone of claim 6 , wherein in the wearing state, a distance between a projection point of the center of the sound outlet on a sagittal plane and a projection point of the upper vertex of the ear hook on the sagittal plane is in a range of 18 mm to 30 mm.

9 . The earphone of claim 6 , wherein in the wearing state, a ratio of the distance between the center of the sound outlet and the upper vertex of the ear hook to a distance from the center of the sound outlet to an upper side surface of the holding component is in a range of 1.94 to 2.93.

10 . The earphone of claim 1 , the ear hook further comprises:
a connecting component configured to connect the hook-shaped component and the holding component and extend from the head along a coronal axis of the user towards an outside of the head to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to provide the holding component with a pressing force on the front side of the ear.

11 . The earphone of claim 10 , wherein in a direction from a first connection point between the hook-shaped component and the connecting component to a free end of the hook-shaped component,
the hook-shaped component is bent toward the rear side of the ear to form a first contact point with the rear side of the ear, and the holding component forms a second contact point with the front side of the ear, wherein a distance between the first contact point and the second contact point along an extending direction of the connecting component in a natural state is smaller than that in a wearing state to provide the holding component with the pressing force on the front side of the ear.

12 . The earphone of claim 11 , wherein the hook-shaped component further forms a third contact point with the rear side of the ear, the third contact point being located between the first connection point and the first contact point and being closer to the first connection point, wherein
a distance between projections of the first contact point and the third contact point on a reference plane perpendicular to the extending direction of the connecting component in the natural state is smaller than that in the wearing state.

13 . The earphone of claim 10 , wherein in a direction from a first connection point between the hook-shaped component and the connecting component to a free end of the hook-shaped component, the hook-shaped component is bent toward the head to form a first contact point and a second contact point with the head, wherein
the first contact point is located between the second contact point and the first connection point, so that the hook-shaped component forms a lever structure with the first contact point as a fulcrum; and a force directed to the outside of the head and provided by the head at the second contact point causes a force directed to the head at the first connection point by the lever structure to provide the holding component with the pressing force on the front side of the ear through the connecting component.

14 . The earphone of claim 1 , wherein an elastic metal wire is arranged inside the hook-shaped component, the elastic metal wire has a major axis direction and a minor axis direction orthogonal to each other on a cross section of the elastic metal wire, and a size of the elastic metal wire in the major axis direction is greater than a size of the elastic metal wire in the minor axis direction.

15 . The earphone of claim 14 , wherein the elastic metal wire is in a shape of an arc in the minor axis direction, and a ratio of a height of the arc to the size of the elastic metal wire in the major axis direction is within a range of 0.1-0.4.

16 . The earphone of claim 10 , wherein in the wearing state, the connecting component is connected to a lower edge of the holding component.

17 . The earphone of claim 10 , wherein the holding component has a thickness direction, a length direction, and a height direction orthogonal to each other, the thickness direction is configured as a direction in which the holding component is close to or away from the ear in the wearing state, and the height direction is configured as a direction in which the holding component is close to or away from a top of the user's head in the wearing state, wherein
in a natural state, and viewed from a side of the earphone facing the top of the user's head in the wearing state, the holding component is at least spaced apart from a section of the hook-shaped component close to the connecting component in the thickness direction; and the connecting component is arranged in a shape of an arc and connected between the holding component and the hook-shaped component.

18 . The earphone of claim 17 , wherein in the thickness direction, a minimum distance between the section of the hook-shaped component close to the connecting component and the holding component is greater than 0 and smaller than or equal to 5 mm.

19 . The earphone of claim 17 , wherein
edges of the section of the hook-shaped component close to t

Assignees

• Shenzhen Shokz Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zheng Zeying
• Xu Jiang
• Wang Yonggen
• Zhang Haofeng
• Lai Gan
• Wang Chong
• Wang Liwei
• Han Ruixin
• Zhang Lei
• Fu Junjiang
• Li Yongjian
• Zhao Tao
• Tong Peigeng
• Xie Guolin
• Wu Duoduo
• Ji Ao
• Qi Xin

Classifications

• H04R1/1066

  Constructional aspects of the interconnection between earpiece and earpiece support (earpiece support for monophonic headphones H04R1/105; earpiece support for stereophonic headphones H04R5/0335) · CPC title

• H04R1/1008

  Earpieces of the supra-aural or circum-aural type · CPC title

• H04R1/023

  Screens for loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R9/06

  Loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R9/046

  Construction · CPC title