Patent ID: 8886263

Claim:
An incoming/outgoing-talk unit for a mobile telephone, the incoming/outgoing-talk unit arranged for attaching to an ear having a base and an auricle that includes an inner side to collect incoming sound into an external auditory meatus and that includes an outer side opposite the inner side, the incoming/outgoing-talk unit comprising: a pair of temples for a right ear and a left ear, respectively, each having an ear-hook unit, a cartilage conduction vibration unit within at least one of the ear-hook units that makes direct contact with ear cartilage in a state where the hook unit is hooked to the ear so as to cause cartilage conduction from the cartilage conduction vibration unit to outer side of the cartilage of the base of the ear, an outgoing-talk unit, and a unit for performing short-range wireless communication with the mobile telephone, wherein the cartilage conduction vibration unit causes cartilage conduction to the outer side of the cartilage of the base of the ear by means of direct contact of the cartilage conduction vibration unit to the outer side of the cartilage of the base of the ear without an audio source on the inner side of the auricle in a state where the ear-hook unit is hooked to the outer side of the base of the ear without crushing the auricle.