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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.:

US 10433043 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2018

In-ear listening device

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

M. Evans Hankey, San Fancisco, CA (US);

Emery A. Sanford, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher D. Prest, San Francisco, CA (US);

Way Chet Lim, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Primary Examiner:

Sunita Joshi

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04M 1/05 (2006.01); H04M 1/60 (2006.01); H01R 13/62 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H05K 1/14 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1025 (2013.01); H01R 13/6205 (2013.01); H02J 7/0042 (2013.01); H02J 7/0052 (2013.01); H04M 1/05 (2013.01); H04M 1/6066 (2013.01); H04R 1/105 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04W 52/0274 (2013.01); H04M 1/0262 (2013.01); H04M 1/0274 (2013.01); H04M 1/0277 (2013.01); H04M 1/6058 (2013.01); H04M 2250/02 (2013.01); H04R 2201/105 (2013.01); H04R 2201/107 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01); H04R 2420/09 (2013.01); H05K 1/147 (2013.01); H05K 1/189 (2013.01); Y02D 70/00 (2018.01); Y02D 70/142 (2018.01); Y02D 70/144 (2018.01); Y02D 70/23 (2018.01);
Abstract

An in-ear hearing device having an ear interfacing portion integrally formed with an elongated stem portion, wherein the ear interfacing portion extends away from the elongated stem portion; a first acoustic port formed in the ear interfacing portion; a speaker disposed in the ear interfacing portion and aligned to emit sound from the acoustic port; a plurality of electrical contacts disposed at an end of the stem portion, the plurality of electrical contacts including first and second contacts; a second acoustic port formed at the end of the elongated stem portion between the first and second contacts; a microphone disposed in the stem portion; and a channel that fluidically couples the microphone to the second acoustic port.

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