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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin A. Shaffer, San Jose, CA (US);
Yohji Hamada, Wakayama, JP;
Vincenzo Vuono, Palermo, IT;
Eugene A. Whang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher I. Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A pair of headphones may include first and second ear cups that each contain one or more speakers. The speakers may emit audio through a sound-permeable warp knit spacer fabric that is coupled to each ear cup. The warp knit spacer fabric may include inner and outer fabric layers joined by a spacer layer. The outer fabric layer may have first and second regions with different fabric densities. The first region with the greater fabric density may be used to form a label such as an R-shape or L-shape to indicate which ear cup should cover the user's right ear and which ear cup should cover the user's left ear. The denser first region may have diamond-shaped openings of a first size and the less dense second region may have diamond-shaped openings of a second size that is greater than the first size.