Bone conduction communications headset with hearing protection

摘要

A communications headset includes bone vibrating transducers supported over the temporal bones of a wearer in front of each ear and an earpiece. The earpieces, when not in use, are magnetically couplable to a transducer housing. Radio signals received by a wearer or vehicular mounted radio are processed by and distributed through a communications interface to both the transducers and the earpiece speakers. Ambient or external noises picked up by one or more microphones on each earpiece are processed to reduce ambient noises above a certain level.

主权项

1. A communications assembly including:
a) a bone vibrating transducer secured within a housing; b) an earpiece tethered to said housing for said bone vibrating transducer; c) a first manually releasable coupling member mounted on said housing; and d) a second manually releasable coupling member associated with said earpiece, such that said earpiece is manually releasably couplable to said housing by coupling said first manually releasable coupling member to said second manually releasable coupling member.