Patent ID: 8965029
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A headphone adapted for wearing about a head of a user having an auricle projecting away from the user's head and having an outwardly projecting auricle surface area, the headphone comprising: a housing in a form of a tubular structure having a first opening, a second opening disposed opposite the first opening and a storage space in the interior thereof and disposed between the first and second openings; a driver unit provided within the storage space movably with respect to the housing; wherein, when the user dons the headphone, at least a portion of the driver unit contacts at least a section of the outwardly projecting auricle surface area of the user's auricle and, immediately thereafter, the entirety of the driver unit tilts and the at least portion of the driver unit in contact with the user's auricle moves, with resistance, inwardly into the storage space as the headphone moves over and around the auricle to subsequently contact the user's head and surround the auricle; and wherein the driver unit moves into the storage space of the housing in a resiliently biased manner from an extended state to a retracted state, the driver unit being in the extended state prior to the user donning the headphone, being in the retracted state when the driver unit is moved into the storage space of the housing and the headphone contacts the user's head and surrounds the auricle and being resiliently biased towards the extended state.