Auricular (45) Patents (Class D24/173)
  • Patent number: 7464786
    Abstract: A hearing protection device insertable into an ear canal is provided, the device generally including a stem portion, a sound attenuating portion affixed to and extending at least partially over the stem portion, and a volume of space disposed between and delimited by the sound attenuating portion and the stem portion, where at least a part of the sound attenuating portion is collapsible into the volume of space during insertion of the hearing protection device into the ear canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Cabot Safety Intermediate Corporation
    Inventors: Robert N. Falco, Richard Knauer, Alan R. Seville
  • Patent number: 6105714
    Abstract: An arrangement in hearing protection devices, headphones and the like of the type comprising a frame (1) and plugs (2) arranged at both ends of the frame. Each of the plugs is pressed into contact with the orifice of the related auditory meatus and may also partly enter the passage. The frame (1) is provided with means (3) that contact the skull bone at the related ear for the purpose of dampening vibrations in the frame. Those means can be shaped like bent or enlarged portions of the frame adjacent to each end thereof, said portions being arranged, when the device is in use, to be held in pressure contact against the skull bone in the area of the respective ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: AB Kompositprodukter S.K.-F.M.
    Inventor: Mats Lindgren
  • Patent number: D504177
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Inventor: Onje Erfan
  • Patent number: D444237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Kinderlife Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Stone
  • Patent number: D469873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Natus Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Jessica Ash Warring, Alfred Christian Walton
  • Patent number: D473652
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Derek Ian Darley, Tadeusz Jurkiewicz, Rupert Christian Scheiner, Henry Hon Sang Tsui, Peter Kuster
  • Patent number: D473946
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Derek Ian Darley, Tadeusz Jurkiewicz, Rupert Christian Scheiner, Henry Hon Sang Tsui, Peter Kuster
  • Patent number: D497000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Rion Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Narisawa, Mikio Shiba
  • Patent number: D497001
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Rion Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Narisawa, Mikio Shiba
  • Patent number: D319501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Inventor: Willard L. Peterson
  • Patent number: D613459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Inventor: Marion Bywater
  • Patent number: D331114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Inventor: James W. Stacey
  • Patent number: D335349
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Handtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul C. Lyon, Lynn S. Alvord, Evan B. Campbell, Rex D. Bodrero, Ron Carter
  • Patent number: D350395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Inventor: Bo H.ang.kansson
  • Patent number: D369865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Argosy Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Newton
  • Patent number: D371606
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Inventor: Donald E. Doyle
  • Patent number: D378316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventor: Alan Eckel
  • Patent number: D408914
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: MDI Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Kimball, Thomas E. Devlin
  • Patent number: D410545
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: The University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Charles Cowan, Karyn Louise Galvin, Bich Dao Lu, Rodney Eric Millard
  • Patent number: D412987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: auric Horsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Borowsky, Edmund Lobbers, Theo Wesendahl
  • Patent number: D662843
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Unisyn Medical Technologies
    Inventors: James Ginther, John Timms, Steven Emil Dananay, G. Wayne Moore
  • Patent number: D417278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Eckstein Family Trust
    Inventor: Leo H. Eckstein, deceased
  • Patent number: D418134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Kay Elemetrics Corp.
    Inventor: Gregory Crump
  • Patent number: D419675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Grason-Stadler, Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Garcia
  • Patent number: D419676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Grason-Stadler, Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Garcia
  • Patent number: D420135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Resound Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Fretz, David Barnard
  • Patent number: D666514
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Dri-Mark Products
    Inventors: Dwight Haas, Mark Dobbs, Jeffrey Kelsoe
  • Patent number: D423103
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Inventor: Karen Green
  • Patent number: D760905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Gibson Innovations Belgium NV
    Inventor: Chenxi Lu
  • Patent number: D768860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Gibson Innovations Belgium NV
    Inventor: Chenxi Lu
  • Patent number: D776281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Henrik Fyrlund, Daniel Magnusson
  • Patent number: D778447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Peter John Russell, David Harte
  • Patent number: D797293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Nupur Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rohan Bansal, Joseph L. Priest, Brij Bansal, Ravinder K. Bansal
  • Patent number: D811599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Peter John Russell, David Harte
  • Patent number: D822644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Freebit AS
    Inventor: Vidar Sandanger
  • Patent number: D831832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Inventor: Benjamin S. Rappaport
  • Patent number: D841816
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SOSO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Bin Min, Jae-Yong Lee, Dae-Sik Keum
  • Patent number: D848400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Freebit AS
    Inventor: Vidar Sandanger
  • Patent number: D866767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITED
    Inventors: Henrik Fyrlund, Daniel Magnusson
  • Patent number: D874008
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Nuance Hearing Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Kotzer, Oran Bertelsen, Igor Gitelstain
  • Patent number: D877913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON MEDICAL A/S
    Inventor: Christian Lockenwitz
  • Patent number: D877914
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON MEDICAL A/S
    Inventor: Christian Lockenwitz
  • Patent number: D887556
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventor: Christian Lockenwitz
  • Patent number: D913501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Masatoshi Uzawa, Yoshimasa Maki
  • Patent number: D948057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NeoSensory, Inc.
    Inventor: Syed Rahman