CN112911439B - Special bone conduction headset for tinnitus treatment capable of simultaneously stimulating mastoid process and auricle - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a bone conduction headset capable of simultaneously stimulating mastoid process and auricle. The invention comprises the following steps: a neck strap portion surrounding the rear side of the head of the user in a strap shape; an ear hanging part, one end of which is detachably assembled at two side ends of the neck band part, and an ear hanging groove for hanging on the ears of the user is formed; a first bone conduction portion provided on a seat portion, the seat portion being assembled in an installation groove formed on an inner side surface of the ear-hanging portion, the first bone conduction portion transmitting a sound to an auditory nerve in a bone conduction manner by mastoid bone located on a rear side of an auricle of the user; and a second bone conduction portion that is assembled to the seat portion so that one end thereof contacts the first bone conduction portion, and that is elastically adhered to the rear side of the auricle of the user to transmit sound to the auditory nerve in a bone conduction manner.
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Technical Field
The present invention relates to a bone conduction headset, and more particularly, to a bone conduction headset capable of transmitting vibration of sound by contact with mastoid and simultaneously transmitting vibration of sound by contact with auricle, thereby providing a tinnitus treatment sound source for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle and treating tinnitus.
Background
Typically, sound that can be heard by the human ear is typically transmitted in a fluctuating fashion. External sound enters through the outer ear of a human and vibrates the eardrum, and is transmitted to the brain by stimulating a plurality of cells through the inner ear inside the eardrum.
The frequency range of sound that humans can hear is about 20 to 20000Hz, and the frequency range of sound when humans talk to each other is about 500 to 2000Hz.
However, in the case of hearing impaired persons, it is possible that sound in all or a part of the frequency range cannot be heard in the frequency range of sound. Accordingly, recently, a bone conduction method for transmitting sound through vibration of the cranium is used.
The bone conduction method is a method of transmitting sound that vibrates the cranium to the cochlea and transmitting the sound to the brain through the auditory nerve, and omits a process of transmitting the vibration through the eardrum and 3 bones located inside the eardrum according to a sound recognition mechanism.
That is, by directly transmitting the acoustic vibration applied to the skin surface around the ear to the cochlea through the cranium, even for a person with abnormal hearing impairment in the eardrum or the auricular ossicles, the sound can be accurately heard by the bone conduction system formed through the skin as long as the cochlea and auditory nerve are normal.
On the other hand, in the case of an air conduction type headset, the use of the headset is blocked, and thus, the risk of occurrence of a safety accident is increased due to the inability to hear external noise or the like around the ear, and developed countries are restricted by law to wear the air conduction type headset and the headset used to block the ear, thereby listening to music or the like on a road.
In addition, recently, with the rapid popularization of digital audio and communication equipment, the increase rate of the noise hearing disorder of teenagers worldwide reaches more than 10% of the population, and the increase of the senile hearing disorder is also a social problem under the global aging trend, and as a solution, the reduction of the volume of a speaker and the reduction of the use time are proposed.
Therefore, the bone conduction headset is used by the average person so as not to block the ears, can receive the surrounding noise at the same time, can prevent a safety accident without directly affecting the eardrum, and can prevent hearing impairment by using the bone conduction principle.
Such bone conduction headphones transmit sound by vibrating bones around ears, and can be used not only by people with hearing impairment but also by people working in places where noise is severe.
Conventionally, since bone conduction headphones simply function to transmit sound, there has been a problem that it is difficult to realize various functions, and inconvenience to users is increased due to rigidity of members contacting with human bodies when worn for a long time
Patent document 1: KR10-1849041B1
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Problems to be solved
Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a bone conduction headset capable of simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle and treating tinnitus while simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle, which can simultaneously perform vibration of sound formed by mastoid and vibration of sound formed by auricle to improve sound receiving rate.
The technical objects to be achieved by the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned technical objects, and other technical objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains from the following description.
Solution to the problem
As a specific means for achieving the above object, a bone conduction headset for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a neck strap portion surrounding the rear side of the head of the user in a strap shape; an ear hanging part, one end of which is detachably assembled at two side ends of the neck band part, and an ear hanging groove for hanging on the ears of the user is formed; a first bone conduction portion provided on a seat portion, the seat portion being assembled in an installation groove formed on an inner side surface of the ear-hanging portion, the first bone conduction portion transmitting a sound to an auditory nerve in a bone conduction manner by mastoid bone located on a rear side of an auricle of the user; and a second bone conduction portion that is assembled to the seat portion so that one end thereof contacts the first bone conduction portion, and that is elastically adhered to the rear side of the auricle of the user to transmit sound to the auditory nerve in a bone conduction manner.
In this case, the neck band portion may include at least one inner band, and the inner band may be formed of a plate material having a prescribed length in which a width of the plate material gradually becomes narrower from a center of the length toward both side ends connected to the pair of ear-hanging portions.
In this case, a connection plate having an assembly hole formed therethrough may be provided at both ends of the inner tape with a connection portion having a smaller plate width than the inner tape, and a linear pressure groove extending toward the connection plate may be formed in a recessed manner.
In this case, the above-mentioned ear-hanging part may include: an ear hook body connected to both side ends of the neck band portion, the inner side surface of which is provided with an assembly groove to be assembled in a manner of being inserted in correspondence with the seat portion; an ear hook extending portion extending from the ear hook body toward the rear side in a curved shape; and a curved bending portion that bends from an end portion of the ear hook extension portion in a direction to gather both ends of the neck band portion toward the inside and then bends in a direction to spread toward the opposite side so as to have elastic force.
In this case, the ear hook portion may be provided with a flexible contact member formed of a flexible material on an outer surface of a lower end forming the ear hook groove, to be brought into contact with the skin of the user.
In this case, the seat portion may be provided with a cylindrical receiving tube for receiving the first bone conduction portion therein at the other end of the plate body, one end of the plate body may be coupled to the mounting groove, and the plate body may be disposed so as to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the inner surface of the ear-hanging portion.
In this case, the second bone conduction portion may include: a coupling tube having an inner hole, which is coupled to the seat portion to which the first bone conduction portion is mounted; a contact plate which expands toward the auricle side to come into elastic contact with the back side of the auricle of the user from the outer edge of the coupling tube; and a vibration transmission plate extending from the coupling tube toward the contact plate to transmit the vibration of the sound generated in the first bone conduction portion to the auricle.
In this case, the present invention may include an extension plate extending from an outer edge of the coupling tube toward a lower portion side of the mastoid process, and an inner side surface of the extension plate may be formed in an arc-shaped cross-section curved toward an outer side to enhance a wearing feeling by generating an adsorption force with the skin.
In this case, the vibration transmission plate may include: a receiving plate body circularly wound around the coupling pipe; and a transfer plate body branched from one end of the receiving plate body to a plurality of pieces and disposed on the contact plate.
In this case, the neck band portion may include a pair of light emitting diode parts on an inner side surface thereof, and when power is applied, brain wave coherent light is generated.
In this case, a control section having a tinnitus treatment program capable of treating tinnitus by periodically providing a treatment sound source to a tinnitus patient who perceives hearing sound without receiving external auditory stimulus may be further included.
ADVANTAGEOUS EFFECTS OF INVENTION
The preferred embodiments of the present invention as described above have the following effects.
When wearing the headphone, the sound hearing acceptance rate is improved by the bone conduction method of the multipath while reducing the load of the sound applied to the eardrum or middle ear by transmitting the sound to the auditory nerve by the bone conduction method formed by the first bone conduction portion corresponding to the mastoid process of the user and the cartilage of the auricle of the user, and the satisfaction of the user can be improved by hearing the sound with higher accuracy.
An effect of effectively treating tinnitus can be obtained by providing a tinnitus patient with a therapeutic sound source for tinnitus treatment.
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Fig. 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d are perspective views showing the appearance of a bone conduction headset for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a bone conduction headset showing simultaneous stimulation of mastoid and auricle according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing an inner band of a neck band portion of a bone conduction headset for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle, which is suitable for an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion of the rear of a bone conduction headset showing simultaneous stimulation of mastoid and auricle according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Part (a) of fig. 5 and part (b) of fig. 5 are an exploded perspective view and a cross-sectional view showing a first bone conduction portion of a bone conduction headset suitable for use in an embodiment of the present invention to simultaneously stimulate mastoid and auricle.
Fig. 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d are block diagrams showing a second bone conduction portion of a bone conduction headset suitable for use in the embodiment of the present invention for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle.
Fig. 7 is a state diagram of a bone conduction headset for stimulating mastoid and auricle while a user wears an embodiment of the present invention.
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Hereinafter, preferred embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can easily practice the present invention. However, in the course of explaining the construction principle of the preferred embodiment of the present invention in detail, in the case where it is judged that the detailed description of the related known functions or constructions is likely to unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.
Also, in all the drawings, the same reference numerals are used for portions that perform similar functions and roles.
Moreover, throughout the specification, when it is expressed that a certain portion is "connected" with other portions, this includes not only the case of "direct connection" but also the case of providing other devices therebetween to "indirect connection". Unless otherwise stated, the word "comprising" means that a certain component is included in the word, and that other components are not excluded.
As shown in fig. 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d, the bone conduction headset 100 for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle according to the embodiment of the present invention may include a neck band portion 10, an ear hanging portion 20, a first bone conduction portion 30 and a second bone conduction portion 40.
As shown in fig. 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d, the neck band portion 10 is a structure that is located in a substantially arc-shaped band shape and surrounds a rear neck portion that is the rear side of the head of the user.
Such neck band portion 10 may include an inner band 12 of a metal material to enhance structural rigidity, the inner band 12 being disposed inside a body of an outer material formed of rubber or synthetic resin and having elasticity.
The internal band formed of a heavy metal material can be built into the neck band 10 formed of a material having a small weight such as a resin or a synthetic resin, thereby ensuring structural rigidity while reducing the total weight of the neck band.
The inner band 12 may be formed of a metal plate material having a predetermined length in which the width of the plate material gradually narrows from the center of the length toward both side ends connected to the pair of ear-hanging portions 20.
In this case, by designing the inner band 12 built in the neck band portion 10 such that the width of the plate material at the center of the length is larger than the width of the plate material at both side ends, the user can grasp the center of gravity in a manner conforming to the size of the neck, and can easily perform a flexible wearing work of bending and deforming the neck band portion formed in a curve shape.
As shown in fig. 4, a connection plate 13 having an assembly hole 13a formed therethrough is provided at both ends of the inner tape 12 via connection portions 14 having a smaller plate width than the inner tape, and connected to the assembled portion provided in the ear hook portion 20 by an assembling method.
By forming a substantially straight pressure groove 14a recessed in one side surface of the connecting portion 14 so as to extend toward the connecting plate 13, fatigue failure and short circuit due to stress concentrated at the time of bending deformation of the connecting portion having a small width can be prevented.
A pair of light emitting diode members 15 may be provided on the inner side surface of the neck band portion 10, and when power is applied, brain wave coherent light is generated.
When the pair of light emitting diode members and the pair of left and right eyes of the user are in one-to-one correspondence with each other with the neck band portion 10 facing the front face side of the user, and then an external power is supplied to the pair of light emitting diode members 15 in a state where the user closes the eyes to generate light having a brain wave coherent modulation frequency band, the brain wave coherent modulation light is transmitted to the retina by the closed eyes of the user, whereby a stimulating effect can be obtained.
Preferably, the pair of light emitting diode members 15 are provided on the inner surface of the neck strap at predetermined intervals so as to correspond to the eyes of the user one by one.
As shown in fig. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d and 4, the ear-hanging portion 20 is detachably assembled at one end to both side ends of the neck band portion, and an ear-hanging groove for hanging on the ear of the user is formed, and the ear-hanging portion 20 may include: an ear hook body 21 connected to both side ends of the neck band portion 10, having an installation groove formed on an inner side surface thereof to be inserted into the seat portion 39, and having the first bone conduction portion 30 formed on the seat portion 39; and an ear hook extension 22 extending from the ear hook body 21 to the rear side in a substantially curved shape.
An operation button portion 25 having a plurality of buttons such as a volume button and a power button may be provided on the outer surface of the upper end of the ear hook body, and a dedicated button 26 for performing tinnitus treatment may be provided on one side of the operation button portion.
Further, a curved bending portion 23 may be provided at an end portion of the ear hook extension portion 22, and may be bent in a direction in which both ends of the neck band portion 10 are gathered toward the inside so as to have elastic force while exposing the microphone 24 for receiving external sounds, and then bent in a direction in which the two ends are spread toward the opposite sides.
The microphone 24 may employ a capacitor microphone such as an electrostatic microphone that employs a capacitor for generating electricity from a sound source so as to be able to receive the voice of a user for a telephone call purpose, or a micro-electromechanical system (Micro Electro Mechanics System) microphone that is manufactured by a semiconductor manufacturing method and is electrically and mechanically activated to capture ambient sound and perform a microphone function having a hearing aid function by noise cancellation.
In the process that the user wears the headset on the back neck by elastically expanding the neck band portion of the headset through the curved bending portion 23, the curved inner side surface of the curved bending portion is gently contacted with the skin of the back neck of the user and slides, so that the wearing feeling and the close contact feeling of the headset can be improved.
As shown in fig. 4, the ear-hanging portion 120 may be provided with a flexible contact member 27 on the outer surface of the lower end forming an ear-hanging groove, the flexible contact member 27 being formed of a flexible material such as silicone resin to contact the skin of the user, and the ear-hanging groove being attached to the ear of the user.
The flexible contact member 27 can improve the fitting force between the ear-hanging portion and the ear of the user when the headphone is worn, thereby improving the wearing feeling, and can minimize the vibration interference generated by the first and second bone conduction portions when the self-vibration is transmitted to the microphone 24 through the ear-hanging portion 20 made of a plastic molded product when the hearing aid function of the headphone is performed, thereby reducing the ringing.
For this purpose, the flexible contact member 27 preferably extends to an end of the curved bent portion 23 provided so as to expose the microphone to the outside.
In this way, the wearing feeling can be improved by the curved portion provided in the ear-hanging portion and the flexible contact member when wearing the headphone, and when the body is frequently moved in a state of wearing the headphone, the headphone is prevented from getting out or separating from the rear side of the user by being interlocked with the neck band portion.
As shown in fig. 2, the first bone conduction portion 30 is coupled to a seat portion 39, and the seat portion 39 is detachably assembled in correspondence with an attachment groove formed in an inner surface of the ear-hanging portion, and the vibration of the sound is bone-conducted by mastoid bone, which is a bone process located behind the auricle of the user, thereby transmitting the sound to the auditory nerve of the cochlea.
As shown in fig. 5 (a) and 5 (b), the first bone conduction portion 30 includes a cover-shaped housing 31a, which is assembled to the other side of the housing 31 having a substrate 32 provided on one side thereof, and includes a bobbin 35 in the housing, the bobbin 35 being connected to an upper end which is the other end of the coil-shaped voice coil 33, a lower end which is one end of the coil-shaped voice coil 33 being connected to the substrate 32, and the first bone conduction portion 30 includes a cylindrical magnet 34 provided on a lower surface which is an inner surface of the bobbin 35 so as to be positioned inside the coil-shaped voice coil.
An outer edge of a suspension leaf spring 36 is fixedly provided between the case 31 and the cover case 31a, an upper surface serving as an outer surface of the bobbin 35 is fixedly attached to a center of the suspension leaf spring 36, and an outer edge of a diaphragm 37 is fixedly provided, and the diaphragm 37 is a vibrating plate disposed on an upper portion of the suspension leaf spring.
Accordingly, when a signal received from the outside through the substrate or an electrical signal of sound is transmitted to the voice coil, the vibration action of the suspension leaf spring and the vibration action of the diaphragm due to the interaction between the voice coil and the magnet generate depletion vibration and play the sound, and the vibration of the sound can be transmitted to the auditory nerve through the mastoid process corresponding to the bone process behind the ear, so that the sound can be heard, instead of using the eardrum of the person.
Preferably, the seat 39 is provided with a cylindrical receiving pipe for receiving the cylindrical housing 31 therein at the other end of a plate body, the cylindrical housing 31 constitutes the first bone conduction portion 30, one end of the plate body is correspondingly coupled to a mounting groove formed on the inner side surface of the ear-hanging portion, and the plate body is disposed so as to be inclined at a predetermined angle (θ) with respect to the inner side surface of the ear-hanging portion.
The seat 39 may be formed of a rubber or resin material having elastic force.
In this case, the seat portion 39 accommodating the first bone conduction portion 30 elastically deforms the plate body inclined inward by a predetermined angle outward when the headphone is worn by a user, thereby generating an elastic restoring force, and improving the adhesion force between the first bone conduction portion provided in the seat portion and the mastoid, thereby improving the bone conduction efficiency by the mastoid.
As shown in fig. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d and 2, the second bone conduction portion 40 is detachably assembled to the seat portion 39 together with the first bone conduction portion 30, and is elastically adhered to the rear side of the auricle of the user, so that the vibration of the sound is bone-conducted by the cartilage of the auricle, thereby transmitting the sound to the auditory nerve of the cochlea.
Such a second bone conduction portion 40 may include: a coupling tube 41 having an inner hole 41a, which is coupled to the seat 39 to which the first bone conduction portion 30 is attached; a contact plate 43 which is expanded from the outer edge of the coupling tube 41 toward the auricle side to elastically contact with the back side of the auricle of the user; and a vibration transmission plate 44 extending from the coupling tube toward the contact plate to transmit the vibration of the sound generated in the first bone conduction portion 30 to the auricle.
As shown in fig. 6a, the second bone conduction portion 40 includes an extension plate 42 extending from the outer edge of the coupling tube toward the lower portion of the mastoid process, and the contact area with the skin of the user is widened, so that the inner surface 42a of the extension plate 42 contacting the skin of the user can be formed into an arc-shaped cross section curved toward the outside so that the wearing feeling can be improved by generating the adsorption force with the skin.
At the same time, the extension plate 42 may preferably be formed in a cross-sectional shape in which the thickness of the plate gradually decreases toward the outside so as to increase the adhesion force with the skin of the user when the headphone is worn.
The coupling tube 41 may be formed of a hollow cylindrical tube having a circular inner hole 41a, and the inner surface may be detachably coupled to an outer surface of a cylindrical receiving tube inserted into a seat portion in which the first bone conduction portion is received.
The inner hole 41a of the coupling tube 41 corresponding to the seat portion is open at one end, and on the contrary, a sealing surface is formed by blocking the other end of the inner hole 41a corresponding to the skin of the user, and the sealing surface is blocked so as not to allow sweat generated on the skin of the user or external substances to be mixed into the first bone conduction portion side of the cylindrical receiving tube received in the seat portion.
As shown in fig. 6a, the contact plate 42 is formed in a web shape having a wavy outer edge so as to be elastically contacted with the back side of the auricle of the user, but is not limited thereto, and may be formed in a substantially quadrangular plate shape having rounded outer corners as shown in fig. 6 b.
Further, the vibration transmission plate 44 is preferably made of a thin metal plate material having excellent vibration transmission rate and excellent machinability, for example, a material conforming to japanese stainless material standards (SUS).
As shown in fig. 6b, such a vibration transfer plate 44 may include: a receiving plate 44a, which is disposed around the main body of the coupling tube 41 in a substantially circular shape, and which receives the vibration of the sound generated in the first bone conduction portion 30; and a transmission plate 44b branched from one end of the receiving plate 44a and disposed on the main body of the contact plate 43.
Accordingly, the vibration of the sound generated in the first bone conduction portion 30 is transmitted to the auditory nerve through the cartilage of the auricle in elastic contact with the contact plate by passing the vibration transmission plate body of the vibration transmission plate to branch into a plurality of transmission plate bodies, so that the user can clearly hear the sound with a higher sound receiving rate, and the first bone conduction portion performs bone conduction of the vibration of the sound through the mastoid.
The vibration transmission plate 44 may be configured such that the coupling tube 41 and the contact plate 43 molded from a resin material such as silicone resin are buried in the interior so as not to be exposed to the outside during molding, but is not limited thereto, and may be exposed to one side surface so as to increase the receiving rate of the sound vibration generated in the first bone conduction portion and to increase the bone conduction rate for transmitting the sound vibration to the cartilage side behind the ear.
The headphone 100 of the embodiment of the present invention may further include a control section having a tinnitus treatment program capable of treating tinnitus by periodically providing a treatment sound source to a tinnitus patient who perceives hearing sound without receiving external auditory stimulus.
That is, the above-described headphone can play back the tinnitus treatment sound source stored in the memory of the control unit in the first bone conduction unit, and can transmit the played back sound source in a bone conduction manner through the mastoid process and auricle, and can listen to the sound source, thereby performing tinnitus treatment.
The headset is connected to the smart phone in a wireless manner, and the application program in the smart phone can play the tinnitus sound source stored in the server in the first bone conduction portion in a streaming manner.
In this case, a diagnostic program for diagnosing tinnitus of the user is set in the application program of the smart phone, and various types of tinnitus treatment information are provided, so that the tinnitus state is diagnosed for each user individually according to the diagnostic program, and the tinnitus treatment sound source is played and transmitted to the user in a manner conforming to the diagnosis, thereby effectively performing tinnitus treatment of the tinnitus patient.
The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and drawings, and various substitutions, modifications and changes can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention, which will be apparent to those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains.
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1. A bone conduction headset for simultaneously stimulating mastoid process and auricle is characterized in that,
comprising the following steps:
a neck strap portion surrounding the rear side of the head of the user in a strap shape;
an ear hanging part, one end of which is detachably assembled at two side ends of the neck band part, and an ear hanging groove for hanging on the ears of the user is formed;
a first bone conduction portion provided on a seat portion, the seat portion being assembled in an installation groove formed on an inner side surface of the ear-hanging portion, the first bone conduction portion transmitting a sound to an auditory nerve in a bone conduction manner by mastoid bone located on a rear side of an auricle of the user; and
a second bone conduction portion assembled to the seat portion so that one end thereof contacts the first bone conduction portion, and elastically adhered to the rear side of the auricle of the user to transmit sound to auditory nerve in a bone conduction manner,
the second bone conduction portion includes:
a coupling tube having an inner hole, which is coupled to the seat portion to which the first bone conduction portion is mounted;
a contact plate which expands toward the auricle side to come into elastic contact with the back side of the auricle of the user from the outer edge of the coupling tube; and
and a vibration transmission plate made of a metal material and extending from the coupling tube toward the contact plate to transmit the vibration of the sound generated in the first bone conduction portion to the auricle.
2. The bone conduction headset of claim 1, wherein the bone conduction headset is configured to simultaneously stimulate mastoid and auricle,
the seat is provided with a cylinder accommodating pipe for accommodating the first bone conduction part at the other end of the plate body, one end of the plate body is correspondingly combined with the mounting groove,
the plate body is disposed so as to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to an inner surface of the ear-hanging portion.
3. The bone conduction headset of claim 1, wherein the bone conduction headset is configured to simultaneously stimulate mastoid and auricle,
comprises an extension plate extending from the outer edge of the connecting tube to the lower part of the mastoid,
the inner side surface of the extension plate is curved to the outer side to form an arc-shaped section, so that the wearing sense is improved by generating adsorption force with the skin.
4. The bone conduction headset for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle of claim 1, wherein the vibration transmission plate comprises:
a receiving plate body circularly wound around the coupling pipe; and
and a transfer plate body branched from one end of the receiving plate body to a plurality of pieces and disposed on the contact plate.
5. The bone conduction headset for simultaneously stimulating mastoid and auricle of claim 1 wherein the neck band portion includes a pair of light emitting diode components on an inner side thereof for generating brain wave coherent light when power is applied thereto.
6. The bone conduction headset for simultaneous stimulation of mastoid and auricle according to claim 1, further comprising a control part having a tinnitus treatment program capable of treating tinnitus by periodically providing a treatment sound source to a tinnitus patient who perceives hearing sound without external auditory stimulation.
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