Hello Direct, Inc.

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Michael T Wise

Eric K Maxon

Susan J Britto

Jeff Jones

John Harry Magnasco

Peter O Schmidt

Joseph Myatt

Samuel Hall

A shoulder strap is provided with raceway provisions for medical tubing. The shoulder strap has opposite ends provided with male and female side-squeeze buckles. The raceway provisions are formed by an inner leaf and outer leaf which fold and fasten together for safely enclosing the medical tubing. The medical tubing extends between a nose piece and a connector end, wherein excess length of the medical tubing is usually coiled up in coils near the connector end. The shoulder strap further includes tubing traps which safely secure the coils. The tubing trap can be formed from snaps, buttons and/or hook-and-pile fastener material. The inner and outer leaves of the shoulder strap can be formed of any suitable material, such as that used in book bags except also provided with foam (cushion) cores.

Shoulder strap with raceway for medical tubing

A headset has one or two earpieces, an adjustable microphone boom, and a means for securing the headset to the user. The earpiece includes a speaker element for generating sound and a sound funneling device for funneling sound from the speaker element to an ear canal of the user. The sound funneling device rests within a concha and at the entrance of the ear canal for funneling sound and for stabilizing the earpiece against an ear of the user. In the preferred embodiment, the sound funneling device includes a first end which is open-ended and facing the speaker element, and a second end which includes one or more apertures and rests at the entrance of the ear canal. The first end has a circumference which is larger than a circumference of the second end which focuses the sound from the speaker element to the ear canal. A speaker cushion is configured to fit around the speaker element and the sound funneling device and preferably provides a means for coupling the speaker element to the sound funneling device. The speaker cushion is compressible to facilitate positioning the second end of the sound funneling device against the concha of the user's ear. A small speaker is mounted inside the speaker element. The headset is preferably secured to the user by a headband. The earpiece is coupled to the headband by a ball and socket joint integrally formed as part of the earpiece. The ball and socket design enables the earpiece to be easily maneuvered against the ear.

Headset with movable earphones

Headset with moveable earphones

Automatic answering machine pick-up device

A cordless telephone headset and remotely controlled telephone handset pick-up device for use in conjunction with an existing corded telephone set. A mechanical lift arm of the pick-up device, driven by an electric motor with a slip clutch, lifts the handset away from the corded telephone cradle, placing the telephone handset in an off-hook position. The handset is lowered back onto the cradle by the mechanical lift arm, returning the telephone set to an on-hook position. The mechanical lift arm is activated and deactivated in response to a radio signal indicative of the lowering and raising of the microphone boom of the cordless headset. The slip clutch provides sufficient force to gently and reliably raise and lower the telephone handset without causing misalignment between the handset and the cradle and without causing damage. As the handset is gently lowered over the hook switch, the motor drives the lift arm downward beyond a point at which the handset is expected to be lowered into the cradle, ensuring that the telephone is reliably placed on-hook, while the slip clutch limits the amount of force that can be applied to the telephone set. The telephone set rests upon a platform coupled to the lift-arm, providing a unitary structure for the telephone set and handset pick-up device which aids in maintaining proper alignment of the handset to the cradle by preventing the lift arm from forcing the pick-up device out alignment.

Automatic answering pick-up device

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Los Altos Hills, CA, United States of America

Michael T Wise