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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Go Igarashi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kohei Asada, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Nageno, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a sound output device worn on an ear of a listener and used, and having listening characteristics of an ambient sound in a wearing state. A sound output deviceincludes a sound generating portionthat generates a sound, a sound guiding portionthat takes in the sound generated in the sound generating portionfrom one end, and a holding portionthat holds the sound guiding portionin the vicinity of the other end. The holding portionis engaged with an intertragic notch, and supports the sound guiding portionsuch that a sound output hole of the other endof the sound guiding portionto face a depth side of an ear canal. Even in a state where the listener wears the sound output device, the sound output devicedoes not block an ear cavity of the listener, and the listener can listen to the ambient sound.