US 12,088,989 B2
Earphone
Zeying Zheng, Shenzhen (CN); Jiang Xu, Shenzhen (CN); Yonggen Wang, Shenzhen (CN); Haofeng Zhang, Shenzhen (CN); Gan Lai, Shenzhen (CN); Chong Wang, Shenzhen (CN); Liwei Wang, Shenzhen (CN); Ruixin Han, Shenzhen (CN); Lei Zhang, Shenzhen (CN); and Junjiang Fu, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/646,492.
Application 17/646,492 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/CN2021/109154, filed on Jul. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010743396.4 (CN), filed on Jul. 29, 2020; and application No. 202011328519.4 (CN), filed on Nov. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0124428 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 9/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/105 (2013.01) [H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1066 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01); H04R 9/06 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An earphone, comprising: a hook-shaped component and a holding component, wherein when the earphone is in a wearing state,
the hook-shaped component is configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user, wherein an elastic metal wire is arranged inside the hook-shaped component, the elastic metal wire has a major axis direction and a minor axis direction orthogonal to each other on a cross section of the elastic metal wire, and a size of the elastic metal wire in the major axis direction is greater than a size of the elastic metal wire in the minor axis direction, and
the holding component is configured to contact a front side of the ear to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to clamp the ear the user, wherein the holding component includes a core housing configured to accommodate a core for converting an electrical signal into a vibration signal, a bottom wall of the core housing away from the ear is configured with a flexible touch circuit board including a touch part, the touch part is configured to receive touch operations, and a ratio of an area of the touch part of the flexible touch circuit board to an area of the bottom wall of the core housing is greater than 70%.