Bose Corporation

Eric Matthew Wallace

Michael J Monahan

Ryan Christopher Silvestri

Kevin Paul Annunziato

Ian M Collier

Andrew D Dominijanni

David W Beverly

Christopher A Pare

Yang Liu

Paul Thomas Bender

George Chute

Jason Harlow

Nathan A Jeffery

Anand Parthasarathi

Kevin M Krauss

John J Breen

Michael Ting

Joshua Kevin Dryden

Shawn J Prevoir

Mitchell Joseph Silva

Stephen D Boyle

George E P Chute

Harsh Anilkant Mankodi

Mark R Bergeron

Michael Salame

Derek James Butland

Michael E Laude

Julie E Tierney

Roman Sapiejewski

David H Pitcher

Ryan C Struzik

Lei Cheng

David J Fustino

Agota F Fehervari

Daniel K Lee

Mihir D Shetye

Eric Douglas Curtiss

Han Zhang

Louis Gwo-chung Chen

Scott Perzanoski

Harry Kuh

Eric Huang

Zarif Farhana Mohd Aris

Kenny Ku

Louis Gwo-Chung Chen

An earpiece with structure for positioning and retaining the earpiece and with structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal to provide passive noise attenuation. The positioning and retaining structure engages features of the lateral surface of the ear. The structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal includes a conical structure.

Earpiece passive noise attenuating

An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.

Audio device

A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a user's ear and retains the earpiece in its position.

Earpiece positioning and retaining

A retaining member for an earphone includes an outer layer of a first material surrounding an inner core of a second material. The retaining member extends from the earphone, and is curved to generally match the shape the antihelix of a human ear. The second material is harder than the first material, providing a stiffness to the retaining member that causes it to apply an upward and backward force against the antihelix when the retaining member is bent to fit under the antihelix of a particular user's ear.

Headset

A headphone with a headband and at least one earcup. The at least one earcup is movably coupled to the headband by a joint that is structured to allow rotation of the earcup relative to the headband about two mutually perpendicular axes, and translation along one of these axes.

Headphone joint

The disclosure is related to compositions including viscoelastic materials. The compositions are suitable for use in earpieces such as in-ear earpieces.

Earpieces employing viscoelastic materials

The disclosure is related to materials that includes phase change materials. The materials are suitable for use in acoustical devices such as headphones.

Acoustaical devices employing phase change materials

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Andover, MA, United States of America

Eric Matthew Wallace