Headphone

Details Headphone Headphone

1975-09-15

1977-01-25

Cooper, William C.

179180, 179182R, H04R 120

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040052788

ABSTRACT:
The headphone preferably comprises a toroidal seal ring which rests against or surrounds the user's ear and is constituted of a soft, yielding, and preferably elastic material. The seal ring, with the headphone positioned on the head of a user, forms a coupling space between an active diaphragm, actuated by an electroacoustic transducer, and the auditory canal of the user's ear. This coupling space is substantially sealed from the exterior of the headphone, and is formed with at least one opening and preferably several openings each receiving a respective passive oscillatory diaphragm having a definite self-resonance. Each passive diaphragm is associated with a sound path leading therefrom to the open air, to the back side of the active transducer diaphragm, or to acoustically effective cavities. Respective acoustic frictional resistances are associated with each passive diaphragm. The arrangement of the passive diaphragms relative to the active transducer diaphragm may take various forms. The headphone principle is usable with so-called quadrophonic headphones, as well as under the chin headphones and headphones provided with artificial reverberation means such as coil springs.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3418437 (1968-12-01), Hoffmann
patent: 3798392 (1974-03-01), Martin et al.
patent: 3798393 (1974-03-01), Gorike

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