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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Go Igarashi, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Nakagawa, Chiba, JP;
Naoki Shinmen, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsu Magariyachi, Kanagawa, JP;
Homare Kon, Tokyo, JP;
Koyuru Okimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Asada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a sound pickup device which is worn on an ear of a user and used. A sound pickup device includes: a sound pickup part; and a holding part that includes a sound transmission part and is configured to hold the sound pickup part in an ear canal of a user. The holding part includes a ring body having an opening portion that serves as the sound transmission part, and one or more arms each of which has one end coupled to the ring body and another end supporting the sound pickup part. The ring body is inserted into a cavum concha of the user and is locked in a vicinity of an intertragic notch. The holding part holds the sound pickup part so that a microphone hole is oriented to outside of the ear canal and the microphone hole is positioned on a farther side of an entrance of the ear canal.