Patent ID: 8483418
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A system for picking-up a user's voice, comprising an earpiece to be worn at least partly in a user's ear canal, comprising a shell, an elongate C-shaped bow-like retention element attached to the shell for retaining the shell within a user's ear and an ear microphone oriented acoustically inwardly towards the user's ear canal for picking-up a user's voice, wherein the retention element is made of a material and has dimensions that enable the retention element to be brought into engagement with a user's concha by manual plastic deformation thereof by the user and being able to remain stable in a plastically deformed position holding the ear piece at least partly in the user's ear canal, said material being a wire core surrounded by a sleeve made of a plastics material and said dimensions comprising the wire core having a diameter of 0.6 to 1 mm.