Harman International Industries, Inc.

Verto Medical Solutions, LLC

Effrosini A Karayiannis

Seth D Burgett

Aaron Gorga

Ryan Ott

Eric Sia

Daniel I Radin

Derek Campbell

Richard J Daniels

Feng Feng

Hyo Jin Kim

Yanyao He

Anna Grace Meyer

Jason Walker

Kent Jopling

Torry Xu

Rafal Mateusz Czaniecki

Jieyu Chen

Michael Bolster

Ely LaBerge

Michael Joseph Spenner

Jason Emde

Alex Hill

Grace Meyer

Kim Hyo Jin

Dan Radin

Headphone

A headphone apparatus includes a neckband having a first arm and a second arm joined by a central portion therebetween. The first and second arms each have a flexible section proximal to the central portion, the flexible sections including a memory material for dynamically creating and maintaining a desired shape of the neckband. The headphone apparatus further includes first and second earbuds connected to the neckband.

Headphone apparatus

Electronics case

In at least one embodiment, a headphone apparatus including an earbud is provided. The earbud includes a housing, a flexible skirt, and a flexible tip portion. The housing includes a loudspeaker positioned therein and at least a portion of the housing being arranged to be received in a user's concha. The flexible skirt is removably coupled to at least a portion of the housing to be at least partially received in an ear canal of the user. The flexible tip portion extends from the housing and the flexible tip portion is configured to be received in at least an antihelix of the user. The flexible tip portion includes an outer wall and a rib intersecting with the outer wall such that the outer wall applies a force against the rib in response to contact with an anti-helical fold of the user's ear.

Flex-fit ear tip for headphones

Headphones

An earphone with a physiologic sensor includes a housing; a speaker in the housing; an enhancer comprising a body mounted on the housing and adapted to be secured in the ear to acoustically couple the speaker to the user's ear; and an optical physiologic sensor disposed inside the enhancer, the enhancer having an aperture or window aligned with the optical physiologic sensor, so that the sensor can optically couple with the user's ear when the enhancer is secured in the user's ear.

Earphones and earbuds with physiologic sensors

Pair of headphones

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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Effrosini A Karayiannis