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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
May. 15, 2020
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Andrew D. Dominijanni, Waltham, MA (US);
Nathan A. Jeffery, Boston, MA (US);
David W. Beverly, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Yang Liu, Sudbury, MA (US);
Christopher Pare, Franklin, MA (US);
Paul T. Bender, Framingham, MA (US);
Eric M. Wallace, Andover, MA (US);
George Chute, Milford, MA (US);
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.