Communication device with combined electrical socket and microphone opening

Abstract

A communication device comprising a housing with a housing wall encapsulating a housing interior. A microphone is arranged in the housing interior and communicates via an audio passage with the outside of the housing. An electrical socket is adapted to receive an electrical plug through a socket opening, which is accessible from the outside of the housing. The audio passage comprises the socket opening.

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         12 . A communication device comprising:
 a housing with a housing wall encapsulating a housing interior,   a microphone arranged in the housing interior and communicating via an audio passage with the outside of the housing,   an electrical socket casing adapted to receive an electrical plug through a socket opening, which is accessible from the outside of the housing and wherein the casing has an interior passage which includes an electrical plug receiving opening and one or more through-going holes which forms a part of the audio passage and wherein the microphone is arranged to be in audio communication the interior passage but inside the housing so sound can reach the microphone through the casing and through said through-going holes.   
     
     
         13 . A communication device comprising:
 a housing with a housing wall encapsulating a housing interior,   a microphone arranged in the housing interior and communicating via an audio passage with the outside of the housing,   an electrical socket adapted to receive an electrical plug through a socket opening, which is accessible from the outside of the housing wherein the audio passage the socket opening and wherein the electrical socket includes a socket casing which surrounds the socket opening and which at least partly extends in the insertion direction of the electrical plug and wherein the socket casing includes one or more through-going holes which forms a part of the audio passage and wherein the microphone is arranged in a microphone boot which abuts the socket casing and has a sound opening, which faces the socket casing, so that it communicates with the through-going holes in the socket casing.   
     
     
         14 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , wherein the communication device is a wireless communication device and the electrical socket is adapted to be used for charging the communication device. 
     
     
         15 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , wherein the electrical socket comprises a socket casing, which surrounds the socket opening and which at least partly extends in the insertion direction of the electrical plug. 
     
     
         16 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , wherein the socket casing comprises one or more through-going holes, which forms a part of the audio passage. 
     
     
         17 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , wherein the microphone is arranged in a microphone boot, which abuts the socket casing and has a sound opening, which sound opening faces the socket casing, so that it communicates with the through-going holes in the socket casing. 
     
     
         18 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , wherein the communication device comprises an electrical plug, which is adapted to be removably inserted in the electrical socket, and which is provided with one or more latching protrusions, which are adapted to be received in the through-going holes in the socket casing, when the electrical plug is inserted in the electrical socket. 
     
     
         19 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , wherein the communication device comprises an electrical plug, which is adapted to be removably inserted in the electrical socket, and which is provided with one or more recesses, and where the through-going holes in the socket casing partly surrounds locking tongues, which are adapted to be received in the recesses in the electrical plug, when the latter is inserted in the electrical socket. 
     
     
         20 . A communication device according  claim 12 , wherein the communication device is a wireless communication device and the electrical socket is adapted to be used for charging the communication device. 
     
     
         21 . A communication device according to  claim 12 , further comprising a sound tube device with a first end and a second end, and where the sound tube device at the first end comprises a sound plug, which is adapted to be detachable inserted in the socket opening, and at the second end comprises a sound tube opening, and wherein the interior of the sound tube device forms a part of the audio passage. 
     
     
         22 . A method of detecting sound in a user-worn headset having a housing, defining an interior space, a microphone, and an electrical socket with an exterior opening, in the housing and thereby defining an interior of the socket opening, comprising the steps of, creating at least one through-going hole in the interior of the socket, said hole providing a passage between the interior of the socket with the interior of the housing; locating the microphone external to the socket interior, but within the interior of the housing, so that a plug can fill the socket interior space without contacting the microphone, but when the plug is not in the socket, an audio passage to the microphone through socket is created.