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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7949127 | Headset A headset (1. 10. 30) e.g. for use in connection with wireless communication. The housing may be constructed as two shells (2, 3) which may be opened and closed so that all mechanical parts may be concealed on the housing when the headset (1, 10, 30... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940924 | Reversible behind-the-head mounted personal audio set with pivoting earphone A behind-the-head mounted personal audio set that allows a mono-aural personal audio device to be worn in either a wearer's left or right ear without the need to remove or detach individual components of the personal audio sent and mount is disclosed. In a disclosed... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7907721 | Headset with auxiliary input jacks(s) for cell phone and/or other devices Headsets are used in variety of applications to facilitate one- or two-way audio communications between users and/or devices. The present inventor recognized that conventional headsets lack means for successfully integrating more than one audio source, despite their... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7778410 | Personal audio listening device A personal audio listening device is adapted to be worn on a user's ear, and includes a housing, a pivotal knob, and an ear hook member. The housing has a surface and a hollow portion, and defines a first axis and a second axis. The pivotal knob is pivotally mounted... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7747003 | Wireless headset apparatus and methods A wireless headphone device has a first elongate portion having first and second opposite ends with an attachment interface at the first end, the first portion comprising an on-board power supply and a transceiver with functional circuitry, and a second elongate por... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7684560 | Earset An earset including a main housing with a microphone and an ear speaker mounted therein; a cover rotatably connected to the main housing and rotating along a first hinge axis to expose or close the ear speaker, the ear speaker being exposed with rotation of the cove... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680267 | Headset with a retractable speaker portion An earbud headset, a handset including the same, and methods of operating the headset and handset are provided. In one embodiment, an earbud headset includes a speaker portion that is retractable into and extendable from a base portion, thereby allowing for a thin p... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7668308 | In-the-ear headset and headphone enhancements Various embodiments of active headsets and/or headphones, including in-the-ear devices with boom microphones, are presented with, among other things, power-saving features, cell-phone functions, and automated activation and deactivation. Various novel methods and re... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646863 | Movement powered headset An apparatus and method are provided for advantageously powering a headset without a power cable. In one example, a headset includes a processor, an acoustic transducer, and a kinetic energy converter operably coupled to a power cell for powering the headset, the ki... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646864 | Foot-actuated call answer-end apparatus A telephone headset system having a network interface device, a head set including a headphone and a microphone, and a foot operated, hands free call answering and call ending element. The network interface device, headset, and call answering and call ending element... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7620173 | Headset with integrated boom clip A headset having an integrated boom clip for attaching the headset to an object. The headset includes a bottom enclosure, a hinge system coupled to the bottom enclosure, and a boom coupled to the hinge system. The bottom enclosure, boom and hinge system are configur... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616760 | Headset for use with a communication and/or multimedia device A headset is proposed for use with a communication and/or multimedia device, said headset comprising an interface for receiving input data, a processing unit for processing said input data to generate audio output signals, a speaker for outputting said audio output ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613292 | Adjustable earpiece An adjustable earpiece for a communications headset includes a hook, an arm to displaceably connect to the hook, a hinge to connect to the arm and to the communications headset, and a connection mechanism to adjustably prevent relative displacement of the arm and th... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7590233 | User configurable headset for monaural and binaural modes A headset is described that can be user-configured to be used in either monaural or binaural modes. The headset may include a first speaker for one ear, and a second speaker in an earpiece inserted in the headset body. The earpiece may be retractable, and upon remov... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7548617 | Bluetooth earphone This invention relates to Bluetooth earphone. Existing Bluetooth earphones have some problems: users must wear the earphone to use it, so that the user will feel uncomfortable if the user uses the earphone for a long time. In order to solve these problems, this inve... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7542563 | Retractable headset for an audio playback system An improved headset system for an audio playback system is provided. The headset system is integrated into the audio playback system and comprises a headset, a cord compartment, and a cord retractor. The headset comprises an earbud that is operable to provide audio ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542564 | Headset with integral hook A monaural headset (one speaker) having a hook structure for holding the headset on the ear of a wearer, with the hook structure able to be stored on the headset housing or in a channel feature of the headset housing, when the headset is not in use. ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7532718 | Headphone receiver apparatus for use with low power transmitters A headphone receiver apparatus for use with low power transmitters includes a pair of headphone speaker enclosures connected by a headband. An antenna element in the form of a spring steel band or a plastic cable/antenna band where one of the conductors is utilized ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7515706 | Headset with retractable cord for portable devices with automatic switching capability A headset with retractable cord for portable devices with automatic switching capability system, comprising an electronic device, a headset, a cord extending between the electronic device and the headset, and a retracting assembly for retracting the cord into a coil... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7508932 | Cell phone holder headband A cell phone holder headband (1), when placed on the users had, enables the phone to stay in a normal talking position without having to hold it there with one hand. The cell phone is fit into an elastic band (7) that is looped through a plastic plate ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7447308 | Low-noise transmitting receiving earset A low-noise transmitting receiving earset includes a housing covered with a grille, a speaker mounted inside the housing adjacent to the grille and facing the back side of the housing, a first microphone mounted in the hub of the grille and facing the front side of ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7436952 | Earset microphone An earset microphone includes an earpiece having a wedge portion wherein the wedge portion is positioned between a back side of the ear and a scalp to secure the earpiece in a selected position. A mounting bracket is positioned within the wedge portion. A boom is se... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7406172 | Reversible behind-the-head mounted personal audio set with pivoting earphone A behind-the-head mounted personal audio set that allows a mono-aural personal audio device to be worn in either a wearer's left or right ear without the need to remove or detach individual components of the personal audio sent and mount is disclosed. In a disclosed... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406180 | Headphone with behind-the-head headband There is provided a headphone with a behind-the-head headband comprising at least one transducer and a behind-the-head headband for receiving the transducer. The behind-the-head headband further comprises first and second contact locations for resting against a temp... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400914 | Wireless headphones with connector socket Wireless headphones operated by a storage battery and having a connector socket for the insertion of a charge plug of an electric connection into a power pack. The headphones further have at least one miniature loudspeaker, audio electronics, a reception part, and c... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391862 | Communication unit Communication unit comprising a house in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has an ear hook for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to th... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391863 | Method and system for an interchangeable headset module resistant to moisture infiltration A headset assembly includes a moisture-proof and temperature resistant headset module. The headset module is sealed against moisture and is constructed from materials that are durable and can withstand constant use, physical abuse, and rapid swings in temperature an... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388960 | Multimedia speaker headphone A multimedia speaker headphone has a headband, two ear-covers and a control and transmission device. The ear-covers are mounted pivotally on the headband and each ear-cover has an earphone speaker and an audio speaker. The control and transmission device has a contr... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7373182 | Wireless mobile phone including a headset A wireless mobile phone is provided with an input-output interface and an output interface. The input-output interface may be employed singularly to facilitate removable attachment of a telephony headset to the phone to receive at least telephony audio signals from ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369671 | Switching structures for hearing aid A hearing aid is provided with a a programmable, signal processing circuit electrically connecting an input system to an output system, a magnetic field sensor, and a selection circuit connected to the magnetic sensor. The selection circuit may be adapted to control... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366298 | Headset A headset (1, 10, 30) e.g. for use in connection with wireless communication by means of Bluetooth technology in connection with mobile telephones, PSTN telephones and the like, which comprises a housing (2, 3, 11, 28) with a transducer (5, 12, 27 | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356156 | Wireless headset with rotatable speaker housing In a headset (100, 200) for receiving infrared or radio signals and transforming them into an audio transmission in the audible range, the headset essentially comprises a base housing (101), one continuous or two individually guided supporting bands ( | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356362 | Headset structure with built-in audio source A headset having a built-in audio source and cable management mechanism is disclosed herein. The headset is composed of two loop-style earpieces and a cable connecting the two earpieces. One earpiece has a built-in audio source such as a MP3 player, an AM/FM receive... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352859 | Audio earpiece for wideband telephone handsets A method of manufacturing a telephony earpiece is provided. The method includes providing a speaker diaphragm and constraining the speaker diaphragm using a cap to provide a thin cavity between the cap and the diaphragm. The first resonance peak of the diaphragm/cav... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353041 | Mobile wireless communications device having improved RF immunity of audio transducers to electromagnetic interference (EMI) A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and having radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor operative with each other. Audio circuitry is carried by the circuit board and an audio transducer assembly,... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351065 | Method and electronic device connector with band and angle encoding Disclosed is a connector including two mating sleeves, at least one of which having a plurality of first conductive contacts, a second mating sleeve configured to be rotatably joined to the first mating sleeve and also configured to support circuitry. The connector ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349546 | System and method for identifying a headset type in an electrical device A system and method are presented for identifying, in an electrical device having an audio interface port, a headset type. The system includes a microcontroller logic unit with an output, connected to a test network, to supply a test voltage. The test network also i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349004 | Mobile telephone handset A mobile telephone handset comprising a radio telecommunications interface for wirelessly transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from a mobile telecommunications network is disclosed. The handset comprises first and second audio loudspeakers positioned to o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349547 | Noise masking communications apparatus A communications headset with a movable microphone boom that extends to different distances from the mouth, where the movement of the boom operates electrical, mechanical or acoustic means to adjust the transmit and/or receive sensitivity of the headset. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340284 | Device for connecting ear-microphone to mobile phone through interface connector thereof Disclosed is a device for connecting an ear-microphone to a mobile phone through an interface connector of the mobile phone. The phone includes a codec which has hands-free-kit audio transmission and reception terminals connected to the interface connector. A contro... | 03/04/2008 |
