Patent ID: 8213665

Claim:
A headphone comprising: a headband; and a left housing and a right housing mounted to respective ends of the headband through respective hangers, each housing accommodating a drive unit, wherein sliders including hollow cylindrical members are mounted to the respective hangers, and are slidably supported at slidably supporting portions at the respective ends of the headband, and wherein a cord, disposed between the left and right housings and used to pass drive electric current to the drive unit in one of the housings, is spirally accommodated in the hollow cylindrical members making up the respective sliders so that the cord is capable of being stretched and compressed, wherein the sliders have draw-out grooves extending in an axial direction thereof, and the spirally accommodated cord is drawn out through the draw-out grooves, and wherein the headband has a holding groove, and wherein first end portions of the cord are drawn out from the draw-out grooves in the slidably supporting portions and are disposed in the holding groove of the headband.