Patent ID: 7991180

Claim:
Earphone apparatus comprising a first earphone and a second earphone, each of said first and second earphones including a housing, which is sized and shaped so as to house therein an electrical component and be insertable in a user's ear, and an elongate body, which extends downwardly from a corresponding one of said housings of said first and second earphones; and distinguishing means for distinguishing said first earphone from said second earphone by the touch of a user, said distinguishing means being provided on only one of said first and second earphones, said distinguishing means being fixedly provided on said one of said first and second earphones and including a rib projecting laterally outwardly from said elongate body of said one of said first and second earphones, said rib having a point at one end thereof and being fixedly attached at an opposite end thereof to said elongate body of said one of said first and second earphones.