Patent ID: 7558398
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. Headphones having no headband in which left and right driver units are connected by a cord having a first part, a second part, and a third part, passed behind a neck, comprising; a belt-shaped strap portion in which the second part of said cord is inserted into a belt, said belt having a first end and a second end, the second part of the cord with the belt-shaped strap surrounding is thicker than the first part and the third part of the cord, and the belt having a first end member provided at said first end and a second end member provided at said second end of said belt, respectively, and connected to said cord and said belt, said end members separate from said left and right drivers, wherein each end member includes separate upper and lower members, protrusions to fix said cord and said belt are provided inside each of said end members, so that when the upper and lower members of said end member are fitted together, said cord and said belt are held to be fixed, and wherein the length of said belt is shorter than the length of said cord, and wherein the first part of the cord connects the left driver unit and the first end member, the third part of the cord connects the right driver unit and the second end member, and the first and third parts are exposed outside of the belt and outside the right and left driver units, wherein the thickened second part of the cord is a slip stopper to inhibit the headphones from slipping off a user when hung around the user's neck, and the thicker second part reduces the weight which the user feels on the user's neck.