Sony Corporation

Other

Tomomi Hamada

Tomohiro Ito

Rumi Nakano

Yoshiyuki Kakuta

Naotaka Tsunoda

Toru Toma

Keiko Ishikawa

Keiji Jinbo

Yoshie Aoki

The present invention aims to provide headphones having no headband in which left and right driver units are connected by a cord passed behind the neck, wherein the headphones will not slip off if hung on the shoulders when not being used and are intended to improve fashionableness; in headphoneshaving no headband in which left and right driver unitsL,R are connected by a cordpassed behind the neck, the middle part of this cord is inserted into a cylindrical belt, and also end memberswhich fix the cordand this cylindrical beltare provided at both ends of this cylindrical beltto form a belt-like strap portion; and further this cylindrical beltis provided with a print or decoration which is pliable and flexible when being bent, for example.

Headphone

Headphones

A mixing and discharge device is provided, in which contents are ejected from a pair of containers ( ) standing next to each other and are mixed and discharged outside of this device, by pressing down the discharge nozzles ( ) of said containers simultaneously with the manipulation of the thumb and a finger of the hand holding the containers. Said mixing and discharge device comprises an attachment ( ) to be fitted firmly around the top portion of the pair of said containers ( ), with respective discharge nozzles ( ) of the containers coming out of this attachment ( ); and a cap unit ( ) to be fitted detachably to the discharge nozzles ( ) and provided with a passage block ( ), which comprises a pair of step holes ( ) disposed in the areas near both sides, and into which the discharge nozzles ( ) are fitted tightly from underside, a discharge cylinder ( ) disposed at the center and on top of this cap unit ( ) to form a discharge port, and discharge passages ( ) for connecting this discharge port with the step holes ( ), wherein an actuating mechanism, with which to act a force to pull down the cap unit ( ) by the depressive operation of the manipulating plates ( ) in the lateral direction, is formed between a pair of manipulating plates ( ) hanging down from either one of the attachment ( ) or the cap unit ( ) and the portions facing these manipulating plates ( ) disposed on the other one of the attachment ( ) or the cap unit ( ). In this configuration, the portions with which to depress the discharge nozzles could have been displaced downward simply and stably. It has also been made possible to wash away the contents remaining in the discharge passage components.

Mixing and discharge device

In a neckband type headphone device there is provided a band onto which speaker units are connected at both ends thereof. These speaker units are worn on the left and right ears. The band has a shape wherein the area close to the connecting part between both speaker units forms a curve and passes on one of a position above and below the ears of the listener when it is wound in a circular shape and extended. The band is formed from an elastic material into a shape that presses down at the approximate center on the rear of the head of the listener.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomomi Hamada