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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2008
Applicants:
James East, Kowloon Tong, HK;
Neil Simon Owen, Huntingdon, GB;
Inventors:
James East, Kowloon Tong, HK;
Neil Simon Owen, Huntingdon, GB;
Assignee:
NVF Tech Ltd., Cambridgeshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 17/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1066 (2013.01); H04R 17/00 (2013.01); H04R 5/0335 (2013.01);
Abstract
Audio apparatus comprising a housing and a piezoelectric transducer () mounted in the housing () so that the transducer is adjacent a user's pinna whereby the transducer excites vibration in the pinna to cause it to transmit an acoustic signal from the transducer to a user's inner ear characterised by comprising a coupler () coupling the transducer () to the housing () with the coupler () approximating to a simple support for the transducer ().