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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
David Mulvey, San Diego, CA (US);
David Mulvey, San Diego, CA (US);
Sperian Hearing Protection, LLC, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An earbud coupling has a rear portion forming an earbud mount () that easily attaches to a hemispherical earbud (), and has a front portion forming an in-ear mount () that can be pressed into a person's ear canal to hold the coupling to the person while blocking environmental noise. The earbud mount includes a tapered elastomeric sleeve () with an internal groove () at its rear end. The earbud mount rear end can be expanded to fit around the periphery of the earbud front end to securely attach to the earbud. A plurality of different in-ear mounts or tips can be provided that each can be attached to the front end of the earbud mount, including an in-ear mount () that consists of a single integral elastomeric member with at least one flange (). The earbud mount and in-ear mount can be connected by a shaft () with pair of projections () on one of the mounts that is inserted into a hole () with slots () of the other one and turned.