Apple Inc.

Michael B Minerbi

Daniel Ray Bloom

Dustin A Hatfield

Eugene Antony Whang

Edward Siahaan

Lee M Panecki

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Ethan Larry Huwe

Prathamesh R Bhagwat

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Jason Joseph LeBlanc

Sean Thomas McIntosh

Kathleen A Bergeron

Yuta Kuboyama

Robert D Zupke

Ali N Ergun

Todd P Marco

Esge Brandt Andersen

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Benjamin A Cousins

Scott Charles Grinker

Phillip Qian

Miikka Olavi Tikander

Brian R Twehues

Jarrett B Lagler

Edwin J Corona Aparicio

Tsu-Hui Lin

Mei Zhang

Martin Kuster

Eric X Zhou

Sean J Docherty

Julia C Canning

Kyle Tse

Haochuan Sang

Axit H Patel

Ryan M Buck

Mohammad Soroush Ghahri Sarabi

Casey L Baran

Pengchuan Wang

Kitty Yung

Sean T Bong

Tyler A Green

Krithika Elangovan

Trang Fisher

Sarah Gysbers

Michael Burello

Matthew Zaverl

Ben Shaffer

Christopher A Sandieson

Jason J Leblanc

This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that enhance user comfort and improve user control of the headphones are discussed. Various sensor configurations and electronic component positions are also discussed. User convenience features that include detachable cushions and automatically detecting the donning and doffing of headphones are also discussed.

Headphones with a curved mesh headband

An earphone comprising: a device housing that defines an internal cavity within the device housing; an acoustic port formed through a wall of the device housing and having an opening at an exterior surface of the device housing; an audio driver disposed within the device housing and aligned to emit sound through the acoustic port; and a mesh disposed within the acoustic port and having an outer periphery spaced apart from the device housing wall, wherein the mesh forms a portion of an exterior surface of the earphone that is recessed from the opening at the exterior surface of the device housing.

Wireless listening device

Support structure for earpiece cushion

A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.

Identification of cushioning members in personal audio devices

A portable acoustic device comprising: a device housing that defines an internal cavity, the device housing comprising a speaker housing portion and a stem portion extending away from the speaker housing portion; a first acoustic port formed through a wall of the speaker housing; an audio driver disposed within the speaker housing portion and aligned to emit sound through the acoustic first port; a battery disposed within the speaker housing portion and positioned an opposite side of the audio driver than the acoustic port; an antenna disposed in the stem; a user input region disposed along the stem; and a system in a chip disposed in the stem, the system in a chip comprising: a processor that controls operation of the portable wireless acoustic device, charging circuitry, an accelerometer, a wireless communication controller, support components for the antenna and support components for the user input region.

A wireless earphone comprising a housing that defines an interior cavity having an inner surface and an outer surface; an opening extending through the housing from the inner surface to the outer surface; and a mesh assembly disposed over the opening and comprising a permanent assembly coupled to the housing and a replaceable assembly removably coupled to the permanent assembly and comprising a mesh.

Replaceable mesh in portable electronic devices

A headphone earcup including a frame defining a cavity dimensioned to surround an ear of a user; a damping component coupled to the frame and encircling the cavity; a wrap component that covers the damping component and defines a continuous acoustic opening around the cavity to acoustically connect the cavity to the damping component; and a cosmetic component that covers the wrap component and the continuous acoustic opening.

Headphone earcup structure

Earpiece with cushion retention

Headphones with on-head detection

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Michael B Minerbi