Michael J Monahan

US Patent:

6597792, Jul 22, 2003

Filed:

Jul 15, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/353425

Inventors:

Roman Sapiejewski - Boston MA
Michael J. Monahan - Franklin MA

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

G10K 1116

US Classification:

381 716, 381 74, 381371, 381372, 381 711

Abstract:

A headset has an earcup with front opening adjacent to an annular cushion formed with a plurality of openings facing the inside of the earcup that acoustically couples the earcup volume to the cushion volume. A driver is seated inside the earcup with a microphone adjacent to the driver. Active noise reducing circuitry intercouples the driver and microphone. An acoustic load that may comprise a wire mesh resistive cover and/or air mass adjacent the microphone is constructed and arranged to reduce the effect of resonances in the earcup volume.

US Patent:

7916888, Mar 29, 2011

Filed:

Jun 30, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/428057

Inventors:

Roman Sapiejewski - Boston MA, US
William W. Tice - Amherst NH, US
Jason M. Harlow - Watertown MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Allston MA, US
Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Pericles Nicholas Bakalos - Maynard MA, US
Michael J. Monahan - Franklin MA, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

H04R 25/00

US Classification:

381382, 381370, 381371, 381374

Abstract:

An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber including a reactive element and a resistive element in parallel, a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by an acoustic transducer, and a housing to support the apparatus from the concha of a wearer's ear and to extend the second acoustic chamber into the ear canal of the wearer's ear. A cushion includes a first material and a second material and is formed into a first region and a second region. The first region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the concha of a human ear. The second region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the ear canal of a human ear. The first and second regions together define an interior surface shaped to accommodate an earphone. The first material occupies a volume adjacent to the interior surface. The second material occupies a volume between the first material and the first and second outer surfaces.

US Patent:

D645458, Sep 20, 2011

Filed:

Feb 17, 2011

Appl. No.:

29/385662

Inventors:

Ryan C. Silvestri - Franklin MA, US
Eric M. Wallace - Chelmsford MA, US
Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Cambridge MA, US
Michael Monahan - Southborough MA, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

1401

US Classification:

D14223

US Patent:

D655693, Mar 13, 2012

Filed:

Feb 17, 2011

Appl. No.:

29/385663

Inventors:

Ryan C. Silvestri - Franklin MA, US
Eric M. Wallace - Chelmsford MA, US
Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Cambridge MA, US
Michael Monahan - Southborough MA, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

1401

US Classification:

D14223

US Patent:

8249287, Aug 21, 2012

Filed:

Aug 20, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/860531

Inventors:

Ryan C. Silvestri - Franklin MA, US
Eric M. Wallace - Chelmsford MA, US
Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Cambridge MA, US
Michael Monahan - Franklin MA, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

H04R 25/00

US Classification:

381380, 381370, 381374

Abstract:

A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a users ear and retains the earpiece in its position.

US Patent:

8254621, Aug 28, 2012

Filed:

Mar 7, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/413987

Inventors:

Ryan C. Silvestri - Franklin MA, US
Eric M. Wallace - Chelmsford MA, US
Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Cambridge MA, US
Michael Monahan - Southborough MA, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

H04R 25/00

US Classification:

381380, 381370, 381374

Abstract:

A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a users ear and retains the earpiece in its position.

US Patent:

8311253, Nov 13, 2012

Filed:

Aug 20, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/860573

Inventors:

Ryan C. Silvestri - Franklin MA, US
Eric M. Wallace - Chelmsfors MA, US
Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Cambridge MA, US
Michael Monahan - Franklin MA, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

H04R 25/00

US Classification:

381328, 381323, 381370, 381374, 381380, 381381, 181129, 181130

Abstract:

An earpiece. The earpiece includes an electronics module for wirelessly receiving incoming audio signals from an external source. The earpiece further includes a positioning and retaining structure comprising at least an outer leg and an inner leg, each of the outer leg and inner leg being attached at an attachment end to the body and attached at a joined end to each other. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure is substantially stiffer in one direction than in another. In its intended position, one of the two legs contacts the anti-helix at the rear of the concha, the joined end is under the anti-helix; a planar portion of the body contacts the concha; and a portion of the body is under the anti-tragus.

US Patent:

8355522, Jan 15, 2013

Filed:

Mar 7, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/041854

Inventors:

Kevin P. Annunziato - Medway MA, US
Ian M. Collier - Cambridge MA, US
Michael Monahan - Southborough MA, US
Roman Sapiejewski - Boston MA, US
William Tice - Nashua NH, US

Assignee:

Bose Corporation - Framingham MA

International Classification:

H04R 25/00

US Classification:

381371, 381380, 181129

Abstract:

A cushion includes a first material and a second material and is formed into a first region and a second region. The first region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the concha of a human ear. The second region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the ear canal of a human ear. The first and second regions together define an interior surface shaped to couple the cushion to acoustic elements of an earphone. The first material occupies a first volume adjacent to the interior surface. The second material occupies a second volume between the first material and the first and second outer surfaces. The first and second materials are of different hardnesses.