US Patent 10003878 In-the-ear earphone, its variations and methods of wearing the earphone

An earphone includes an acoustic housing including an electroacoustic transducer and an opening, a wire connected to the electroacoustic transducer, a mounting part coupled to the acoustic housing through a cylindrical hinge and having a rotatable wire guide, and a bendable element connected to the mounting part near an axis of rotation of the wire guide. The wire is connected to the wire guide. The sound opening is opposite the axis of rotation. The bendable element and an outer portion of the wire guide in a first orientation are in the same plane as the axis of rotation and oriented in a generally opposite direction from the axis of rotation. The outer portion of the wire guide is oriented towards the sound opening. The outer portion of the wire guide and the bendable element are movable through at least 50 degrees from the first to a second orientation.