Patent ID: 7120268

Claim:
In a headphone provided with a housing portion including an electro-acoustic transducer therein and an arm-shaped guide portion supporting said housing portion, the headphone characterized in that: said arm-shaped guide portion has an approximately U-shaped bend, a supporting portion which is provided in the vicinity of one end of said bend and supports said housing portion, a projecting handle that extends from said supporting portion, and a pushing portion which is provided in the vicinity of the other end of said bend and resiliently pushes from behind the auricle of a listener toward said housing portion; and, a sound-outputting surface of said housing portion is disposed on the face side of a listener wearing the headphone to be approximately perpendicular to a plane transected by an entire the bend of said arm-shaped guide portion; wherein the housing portion is constructed and arranged to be accommodated in an earhole of the listener.