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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.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1993
Xinxin Wang, Woodridge, IL (US);
Jingfang Wu, Woodridge, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
An earring compatible telephone handset receiver (20) having a side sound outlet (22) and a center sound outlet (24) located on the receiver's front surface. A selection switch (38) is used to determine either the side sound outlet (22), the center sound outlet (24), or both of the side and center sound outlets (22 and 24) to be active for transmitting sound. When the side sound outlet (22) is active and aligned with the user's ear canal (202), the receiver (20) is kept away from the user's ear lobe (206) and the attached earring (204) to accommodate uses wearing earrings. When the center sound outlet (24) is active, the receiver (20) can be used in its normal way to accommodate users without earrings.