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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:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Jimmy Jen, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jimmy Jen, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1033 (2013.01); H04R 1/105 (2013.01); H04R 1/1058 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 2201/023 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract
An earphone keeper having a jack clip to attach to an audio jack, several earphone clips to attach to respective speaker housings of a pair of earphones, and securement features that releasably couple the earphone clips to the jack clip, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes a magnet in the jack clip to magnetically attract soft magnetic inserts in the earphone clips such that the speaker housings are releasably retained at the audio jack and cable portions of the earphones resist tangling. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.