Patent ID: 6690808
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
A personal earphone assembly, comprising:a. a flexible, elongate tube having opposed, open ends; b. a central lumen through said tube; c. a central aperture in said tube; d. a first earphone disposed at a first open end of said tube; e. a first wire, a distal end of said first wire being connected to said first earphone and passing from said first earphone into said tube's first open end, through said lumen of said tube and out through said central aperture, a proximal end of said first wire including means for connecting said first wire to a signal source; and, f. a first memory wire, disposed along a length of said tube near said first end, said first memory wire being bendable into a desired static position, wherein upon bending said first memory wire, said length of said tube near said first end adopts a similar static position.