Headphone Pillow

Abstract

An ergonomic pillow for greatly increasing comfort and ability to lie on a pillow while using an ear covering or inserted audio device. It has a cutout section to accommodate one half of a pair of conventional headphones with the over-the-head band. It has an optional insert that matingly conforms to and completely fills the cutout section to convert the pillow to a standard configuration. Within the insert are a pair of removable nesting inserts sized for earphones or earbuds. The pillow will make resting ear-down possible with an audio listening device. The pillow offers increased comfort and neck support for one wearing audio listening devices and the additional benefit of external sound reduction.

1 . An earphone pillow comprising:
 a generally cuboid compressible foam body having rounded corners, a top planar face, a bottom face, a thickness, a lower side, and upper side, a width and a length, said length lying along the linear axis of said pillow;   an oval orifice having a major width and a minor width, said oval orifice extending through the entire thickness of said pillow, perpendicular to said top and said bottom pillow faces, said orifice;   a linear trough extending from said orifice to said lower side of said pillow, said trough having two parallel side walls that reside along its entirety and reside generally perpendicular to said top planar face, wherein said trough has a depth that is less than said thickness of said pillow, and a width that is less than said minor width of said oval orifice;   a web section below said linear trough preventing said pillow from separating away from said linear axis of said pillow   a pillow insert conformed for full frictional engagement about all surfaces of said oval orifice and said linear trough;   wherein said pillow and said pillow inserts are made of an viscoelastic compressible foam.   
     
     
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         6 . The earphone pillow of  claim 1  further comprising:
 a circular void formed in said pillow insert; and 
 an earphone insert, said earphone insert correspondingly sized for mating frictional engagement with all surfaces of said void. 
 
     
     
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         9 . The earphone pillow of  claim 6  further comprising:
 an opening formed in said earphone insert; 
 an earbud plug, said earbud plug correspondingly sized for mating frictional engagement with all surfaces of said opening. 
 
     
     
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