Plantronics, Inc.

Plantronis, Inc.

Gerald W Skulley

Christopher B Houghton

Robert V Davies

Olivier Beraut

Joseph G Stachula

Steve McPhilliamy

Christopher S Labak

Fred Italo Polito

Chris Labak

Stephen J McPhilliamy

Jon Lindholm

Jeffrey B Waffensmith

Christian Richard Trifilio

Thomas Arthur Tedham

Larry R Linville

Peter B Madson

Christine Gilbert

Todd Herlitz

Soohyun Ham

Robert J Bernardi

Matthew V Leyden

Fadhly Bey

Thomas G Skulley

Peter Langmar

Jeffrey T Haller

Roman M Duran

Andrew K Richardson

Steven McPhilliamy

Kevin A Sawyer

Eliot Kim

James Caruso

Michael D Perry

Benjamin G Rogowski

Brett A Herscher

Craig Meredith

Randy Fette

Earpiece and headband for a communications headset

Microphone boom for communications headset

Base cradle for a communications headset

Microphone boom for a communications headset

Base portion of a communications headset base cradle

Headband and speaker for communications headset

Control pod for communications headset

Communications headset

Headset body for a communications headset

A cushion for a headset earphone comprises a resilient ring having opposite input and output faces, and a through-opening defining an interior surface between the two faces. The input face has structure for acoustically coupling the opening to an output face of an audio speaker, and the output face is resiliently conformable to a lateral face of an external ear of a listener, thereby acoustically coupling the opening, and hence, the speaker, to the listener's ear. The interior surface of the cushion can be configured to effectively match the acoustical impedance at the output face of the speaker to the acoustical impedance at the entrance of the listener's ear. In one possible embodiment, the ring is formed of an elastomer filled with microcapsules containing a material capable of an endothermic phase changes at a constant temperature, such that the cushion more effectively conducts heat away from the ear, thereby providing long term listening comfort. In another embodiment, the through-opening is acoustically coupled to the output of the transducer with an acoustic plug such that the cushion is flexibly articulated about the plug relative to the speaker, thereby enabling the cushion to comply more easily to the listener's ear using lower contact forces between the cushion and the ear.

Comfortable earphone cushions

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Aptos, CA, United States of America

Gerald W Skulley