EAR-MOUNTED HEADPHONE AND EAR-MOUNTED EARPHONE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give rigidity to at least nearby speaker housing support portions even when ear-mounted arms are molded out of an elastomer resin material having flexibility.;SOLUTION: Ear-mounted headphones 10 have a pair of left and right earphone units 11L and 11R comprising a pair of left and right speaker housings 12L and 12R which reinforce sound to the left and right ears of a user, and a pair of left and right ear-mounted arms 16 and 16 where speaker housing support portions 16a and 16a supporting the pair of left and right speaker housings and U-shaped bent portions 16a and 16a mounted on the left and right ears of the user are integrally formed in left-right symmetrical relation. The pair of left and right ear-mounted arms 16 and 16 when molded out of the elastomer resin materials having flexibility have a pair of left and right metallic reinforcing plates 17L and 17R insert molded in the elastomer resin materials at least nearby the speaker housing support portions 16a and 16a.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT