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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Inventors:
Ryan Ott, Stamford, CT (US);
Daniel I. Radin, Stamford, CT (US);
Effrosini A. Karayiannis, St. Louis, MO (US);
Kent Jopling, Tulsa, OK (US);
Torry Xu, Shenzhen, CN;
Assignee:
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/105 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1066 (2013.01); H04R 5/0335 (2013.01); H04R 2201/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A headphone apparatus includes a neckband having a first arm and a second arm joined by a central portion therebetween. The first and second arms each have a flexible section proximal to the central portion, the flexible sections including a memory material for dynamically creating and maintaining a desired shape of the neckband. The headphone apparatus further includes first and second earbuds connected to the neckband.