CN1812632B - Supporting member for auricle and earphone with the same - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a support member for auricles and earphones that can have a good wearing feeling and can be worn without loosening or falling off. The built-in earphone (11) includes an outer cover (22) in which a speaker unit (12) is built in, and an auricle support member (32) attached to the outer cover (22) to prevent it from falling off the auricle. The support member (32) for the auricle has: a mounting base (33) detachably mounted on the outer cover (22), protruding from the mounting base (33), and the concha of the auricle and the antihelix. The pinna locking part (38) that the groove part elastically contacts ensures that the built-in earphone (11) is kept in the pinna through the pinna locking part (38).

Description

Auricle support member and earphone with auricle support member

technical field

The present invention relates to an auricle support member for supporting an internal earphone in an auricle, and an internal earphone having the auricle support member.

Background technique

First, as a prior art, FIG. 11 shows an external perspective view of a sealed built-in earphone disclosed in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-341784), and it will be described.

According to this, the built-in earphone 1 of the prior art has the housing 2 as the earphone main body with a built-in speaker unit not shown in the figure, the cylindrical earplug 3 protruding from the front side of the housing 2 and inserted into the external auditory canal, and the opening on the front end side. The part 4 is foldably attached to the plug cover 5 made of rubber material on the earplug 3 , and the connecting cord 7 is led out from the outer cover 2 to the outside through the cord holding part 6 .

Generally, the plug cap 5 has a cylindrical mounting portion 5 a fitted into the earplug 3 , and a protruding foldable sleeve 5 b extending from the front end side to the base end side of the mounting portion 5 a.

Therefore, when the built-in earphone 1 is installed in the auricle, the sleeve 5b of the plug cap 5 is elastically deformed along the inner surface of the external auditory canal, and since the contact portion is sealed, the sound from the outside is blocked, and the sound from the inside is not disturbed. Leakage, can get good bass range reproduction.

However, since the shape and size of the external auditory canal of the user who wears the outer cover 2 of the built-in earphone 1 varies from person to person, the connection cord 7 may easily fall off from the auricle side just by touching the connection cord 7 .

In order to prevent this from happening, the sleeve 5b of the plug cap 5 can be formed with a size slightly larger than the average size of the user's external auditory canal to generate sufficient adhesion between the external auditory canal, but if this is done, it will give the user Constriction, pain for the user when worn for a long time, so it is not ideal.

Contents of the invention

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to support the built-in earphone in the pinna of the auricle so that it has a good wearing feeling and does not accidentally fall off.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the support member for auricle of the present invention is a support member for auricle for supporting a built-in earphone in the auricle, and is characterized in that it has an attachment base installed on the outer cover of the speaker unit in which the above-mentioned built-in earphone is housed. , an auricle locking part protruding from a part of the installation base, and arranged near the antitragus when the outer cover is installed in the external auditory canal of the auricle, and in elastic contact with the groove between the concha side and the antihelix side.

In this way, the support member for the auricle has an installation base installed on the cover of the speaker unit with built-in earphones, protrudes from a part of the installation base, and is arranged near the antitragus when the cover is installed in the external auditory canal of the auricle. The auricle locking part elastically contacts the groove between the concha side and the antihelix side. With this structure, the built-in earphone can be ensured to be supported in the auricle through the auricle locking part.

As a more preferable aspect, the microphone disposed near the lips of the wearer of the built-in earphone is supported by an arm member on the attachment base.

With this configuration, the built-in earphone can be used as a headphone with a microphone by supporting the microphone disposed near the lip of the wearer of the built-in earphone on the attachment base by using the arm member.

In addition, the present invention may also include a built-in earphone having the above-mentioned member for supporting the auricle. Thereby, even if a pulling force is applied to the connection cord, it is possible to obtain a built-in earphone that does not inadvertently come off from the auricle.

In a more preferred embodiment, the outer cover has an earplug inserted into the external auditory canal, and a cap made of an elastic material that contacts the external auditory canal with elastic deformation is provided on the earplug.

According to this, the above-mentioned outer cover has earplugs inserted into the external auditory canal, and a plug cover made of elastic material is provided on the above-mentioned earplugs to contact the above-mentioned external auditory canal with elastic deformation. With this structure, in addition to being able to block external sounds and prevent internal sounds, Leakage, also has good low-range reproduction. Furthermore, the effect of the plug cap is that the retaining force of the auricle support member with respect to the auricle can be further ensured.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the basic structure of the built-in earphone of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the built-in earphone viewed from the decorative member side.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the appearance of the built-in earphone.

Fig. 4(a) is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between the built-in earphone and the auricle, and Fig. 4(b) is a schematic diagram showing a state in which the above-mentioned built-in earphone is attached to the auricle.

5( a ) to ( c ) are explanatory diagrams showing examples of different ring sizes of the auricle locking portion of the auricle support member.

Fig. 6 is an explanatory view showing the replacement state of the auricle support member shown in Figs. 5(a) to (c) with respect to the cover.

Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a detailed structure of an auricle support member.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the built-in earphone having the auricle support member shown in Fig. 7 .

FIG. 9( a ) is a side view showing a case where the built-in earphone is set as a headphone type with a microphone, and FIG. 9( b ) is a front view thereof.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing a usage state of the headphone-type built-in earphone shown in FIG. 9 .

Fig. 11 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a conventional airtight built-in earphone.

Detailed ways

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 10 , but the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

As shown in the exploded perspective view of FIG. 1 , the built-in earphone 11 of the present invention has, as a basic structure, an outer cover 22 in which a speaker unit 12 is housed, and an auricle support member 32 to which the outer cover 22 is attached.

In the built-in earphone 11 , as the speaker unit 12 , an electroacoustic transducer including a vibrating plate not shown and a fixed pole for driving the vibrating plate is used.

The outer cover 22 has a cylindrical first cover 23 covering the sound output side of the speaker unit 12, and a cylindrical second cover 27 covering the back side of the speaker unit 12, and the speaker unit 12 is built in these covers 23, 27. Inside.

Since it is used as a built-in earphone, as shown in FIG. 4 , the outer cover 22 is formed to be inserted into the external auditory canal side of the auricle 61 and held between the tragus 62 and the antitragus 63 .

In such an internal earphone 11 , the first cover 23 has a cylindrical earplug 24 inserted into the external auditory canal. Moreover, the second cover 27 has an internal space 28 for accommodating the speaker unit 12 which is opened on the front end side (lower side in FIG. 1 ), and is provided with a fixed decorative member on the rear end side (upper side in FIG. 1 ). 42 locking holes 29.

In this example, speaker unit 12 has package 15 made of an elastic material attached to its outer peripheral surface, and is housed in internal space 28 of second cover 27 through package 15 . The decorative member 42 has a cover plate 43 formed in a disk shape. On the back side of the cover plate 43, a fixing member 44 forcibly fitted into the locking hole 29 of the second cover 27 is provided.

The auricle support member 32 is formed of elastic materials such as elastically deformable elastomer rubber and silicone rubber, and has a mounting base 33 detachably mounted on the second cover 27 and a part of the mounting base 33. The auricle locking part 38 protrudes to the side.

The attachment base 33 has a cylindrical shape, has a storage space 34 opened on the front end side thereof, and accommodates the second cover 27 in the storage space 34 . Further, a through hole 36 for guiding the fixing member 44 of the cover plate 43 to the locking hole 29 of the second cover 27 is formed on the rear end surface 35 of the attachment sleeve 33 .

By inserting the second cover 27 into the above-mentioned storage space 34, the installation base 33 is installed on the outer cover 22, but as the fixing method, the inner diameter of the storage space 34 can be made slightly smaller than the outer diameter of the second cover 27, and the second cover 27 is forcibly fitted into the above-mentioned storage space 34, and after the second cover 27 is inserted into the storage space 34, the installation base 33 is fixed on the outer cover 22 by the fixing member 44 of the cover plate 43.

The auricle locking portion 38 is preferably formed in an annular shape connected by a top end portion 38a drawn from two opposing positions on the cylindrical outer peripheral surface 37 of the attachment base portion 33 approximately along the tangential direction thereof. It is formed by bending the ends of each arm with a prescribed curvature.

By accommodating the speaker unit 12 in the outer cover 22 composed of the first cover 23 and the second cover 27, and installing the support member 32 for the auricle on the second cover 27 side of the outer cover 22, the decorative member 42, that is, the cover plate 43 is forcibly fitted into the locking hole 29 of the second cover 27, and the assembly of the built-in earphone 11 is completed.

FIG. 2 shows a side view of the built-in earphone 11 assembled as above, viewed from the decorative member 42 side, and FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of its appearance. As shown in FIG. 2 , a cord holder 17 is provided on the attachment base 33 of the auricle support member 32 , and the connection cord 18 is drawn out from the cord holder 17 .

Moreover, as shown in FIG. 3 , as in the prior art example described in FIG. 11 , a plug cap having a sleeve 53 made of a soft rubber elastic body is attached to the earplug 24 provided in the first cover 23 . 52.

In Fig. 4 (a), (b), respectively show the state before the built-in earphone 11 is worn in the pinna 61, and the state after putting it on, in Fig. 4 (a) showing the whole pinna 61, 61a is the helix, 62 is the tragus, 63 is the antitragus, 64 is the gap between the screens, 65 is the concha, 66 is the antihelix inside the helix 61a, 67 is the groove between the concha 65 and the antihelix 66 department.

Here, the positional relationship between the cord holding portion 17 and the auricle locking portion 38 will be described. When the cord holding part 17 is arranged along the interscreen slit 64 of the auricle 61, the auricle locking part 38 is arranged near the antitragus 63, and its tip part 38a enters between the concha 65 and the antihelix 66. The groove portion 67 is in elastic contact with the inner surface of the anti-helix 66 , thereby determining the positional relationship between the cord holding portion 17 and the pinna locking portion 38 .

As shown in Fig. 5 (a)-(c), because the support member 32 for pinna can be disassembled with respect to the outer cover 22 of built-in earphone 11, so can respectively prepare the annular dimension of pinna locking part 38 to fit for example The sizes of the large, medium, and small auricle support members 32 a to 32 c are as shown in FIG. 6 , and the auricle support members 32 can be replaced with other sizes with respect to the outer cover 22 as needed.

In this way, as shown in FIG. 7, when the support members 32a to 32c for the auricle can be replaced on the outer cover 22, by inserting the slit 17a in the cord holding part 17 along its longitudinal direction, the auricle is supported along with the auricle. In order to replace the member 32, as shown in FIG.

Fig. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing another modified example of the auricle support member 32, Fig. 9(a) is a side view, and Fig. 9(b) is a front view. Since this modification uses the built-in earphone as a headphone with a microphone, an arm 39 is extended from the mounting base 33 of the support member 32 for the auricle, and the microphone 40 is supported at the end of the arm 39 .

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 10 , according to this modification, the auricle locking portion 38 of the auricle support member 32 is in elastic contact with the groove portion 67 between the concha 65 side and the anti-helix 66 side. , so it can be used as a headset with a microphone (earphone on the head) that can prevent falling off and allow the lip 60 of the user 59 to face the microphone 40.

The built-in earphone 11 of the present invention is used by inserting the earplug 24 of the housing 22 incorporating the speaker unit 12 into the external auditory canal of the auricle 61 . At this time, as shown in FIG. 4 , it is preferable to provide the cord holder 17 for connecting the cord 18 along the intertruncal fissure 64 of the auricle 61 so that the cover 22 is held between the tragus 62 and the antitragus 63 .

In this way, since the auricle locking portion 38 of the auricle support member 32 is disposed near the antitragus 63, the top end portion 38a of the auricle locking portion 38 is in contact with the groove portion 67 between the concha 65 and the antihelix 66. The elastic contact ensures that the outer cover 22 is fixed in the auricle 61 . Therefore, even if an accidental pulling force is applied to the connection cord 18 by the addition and subtraction of force, it is possible to prevent the built-in earphone 11 from coming off.

In addition, since the auricle locking portion 38 can be elastically deformed freely, even if the shape of the auricle 61 differs from person to person, the difference can be canceled out, and the tip portion 38 a is always in contact with the groove portion 67 . Moreover, since the support member 32 for the auricle can be taken out from the outer cover 22, as shown in FIG. The auricle support member 32 whose shape best suits the shape of the user's auricle is carefully selected.

And, as shown in FIG. 3, by installing the plug cap 52 made of rubber elastic body on the earplug 24, making its sleeve 53 tightly attached to the inner peripheral surface of the external auditory canal, it is possible to prevent internal sound while isolating external sound. Leakage, good reproduction of the low range. Furthermore, the plug cap 52 and the auricle support member 32 together contribute to holding the built-in earphone 11 in the auricle 61 .

The present invention has been described above based on the illustrated examples, but its specific structure is not limited thereto. For example, the outer cover 22 may also not have the earplugs 24 .

In addition, for the support member 32 for the auricle, unevenness is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the auricle locking part 38 to further reduce the contact point with the auricle, which can improve the wearing feeling. The ring portion of the stop portion 38 is formed in a corrugated shape, or in a pantograph shape. Furthermore, the auricle locking portion 38 does not necessarily have to be ring-shaped, and may be an arm-shape protruding sideways from a part of the mounting base 33 .

Claims (2)

1. built-in earphone comprises: interior dress loudspeaker unit (12) and be installed on tragus (62) and antitragus (63) between outer cover (22) and the auricle that is used for above-mentioned outer cover (22) is supported on above-mentioned privileged site of privileged site with support component (32),

Above-mentioned outer cover (22) has the earplug (24) that is inserted in the external auditory meatus, and above-mentioned earplug (24) is provided with the gag (52) of following strain and contacting with above-mentioned external auditory meatus, elastomeric material constitutes,

Above-mentioned auricle has the installation base portion (33) that is installed on removably on the above-mentioned outer cover (22) with support component (32),

Auricle fastener (38) forms with flexible cord maintaining part (17),

Said auricle fastener (38) is given prominence in the form of a ring from the part of above-mentioned installation base portion (33) and is arranged on the above-mentioned installation base portion (33);, above-mentioned outer cover is configured in when being installed in above-mentioned privileged site near the antitragus (63); The top ends of ring-type (38a) is with respect to ditch portion (67) Elastic Contact between concha auriculae (65) and the anthelix (66)

The connection flexible cord (18) that said flexible cord maintaining part (17) is drawn along crack (64) guiding between the screen of auricle (61) from above-mentioned loudspeaker unit (12) also exports to the outside.

2. the built-in earphone of claim 1 record is characterized in that, goes up the other microphone (40) of lip that is supporting the wearer who is configured in above-mentioned built-in earphone through arm member (39) with the installation base portion (33) of support component (32) at above-mentioned auricle.

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