US 12,294,828 B2
Wireless earphone
Yosuke Takubo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Audio-Technica Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/042,910
Filed by Audio-Technica Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/018929
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 24, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/054340, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-151488 (JP), filed on Sep. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0300515 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 11/06 (2006.01); G10K 11/16 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H03B 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/1075 (2013.01) [G10K 11/17823 (2018.01); G10K 11/17873 (2018.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3027 (2013.01); H04R 2201/107 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01); H04R 2460/01 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless earphone configured to be worn on an ear of a user, the wireless earphone comprising:
a driver unit;
a first microphone;
a second microphone; and
a housing that accommodates the driver unit, the first microphone, and the second microphone, wherein
the housing includes:
a first accommodating portion that accommodates the first microphone;
a second accommodating portion that accommodates the second microphone; and
a main body that is connected to each of the first accommodating portion and the second accommodating portion,
the first accommodating portion is projectingly provided from the main body and includes:
an opposing surface configured to oppose an antihelix of the user; and
a first sound pickup portion for sound pickup of the first microphone,
the second accommodating portion is projectingly provided from the main body in a direction different from a projecting direction of the first accommodating portion,
the first sound pickup portion is disposed on the opposing surface, and
a part of an outer edge of the first accommodating portion comes into contact with the antihelix in a worn state of the wireless earphone.