<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE ep-patent-document PUBLIC "-//EPO//EP PATENT DOCUMENT 1.4//EN" "ep-patent-document-v1-4.dtd"><!-- Disclaimer: This ST.36 XML data has been generated from A2/A1 XML data enriched with the publication date of the A3 document - March 2013 - EPO - Directorate Publication - kbaumeister@epo.org --><ep-patent-document id="EP98302154A3" file="EP98302154NWA3.xml" lang="en" doc-number="0867893" date-publ="19990113" kind="A3" country="EP" status="N" dtd-version="ep-patent-document-v1-4"><SDOBI lang="en"><B000><eptags><B001EP>ATBECHDEDKESFRGBGRITLILUNLSEMCPTIESILTLVFIROMK..AL..............................</B001EP><B005EP>J</B005EP><B007EP>DIM360 (Ver 1.5  21 Nov 2005) -  1100000/0</B007EP></eptags></B000><B100><B110>0867893</B110><B120><B121>EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION</B121></B120><B130>A3</B130><B140><date>19990113</date></B140><B190>EP</B190></B100><B200><B210>98302154.4</B210><B220><date>19980323</date></B220><B250>en</B250><B251EP>en</B251EP><B260>en</B260></B200><B300><B310>73533/97  </B310><B320><date>19970326</date></B320><B330><ctry>JP</ctry></B330></B300><B400><B405><date>19990113</date><bnum>199902</bnum></B405><B430><date>19980930</date><bnum>199840</bnum></B430></B400><B500><B510><B516>6</B516><B511> 6H 01B  11/16   A</B511></B510><B540><B541>de</B541><B542>Anschlussleitung für Audio-Apparate</B542><B541>en</B541><B542>Connecting line for audio apparatus</B542><B541>fr</B541><B542>Ligne de raccordement pour appareils-audio</B542></B540><B590><B598>2</B598></B590></B500><B700><B710><B711><snm>Ascii Laboratories Inc</snm><iid>02478840</iid><irf>SNR05886EP</irf><adr><str>33-10, Yoyogi 4-chome,
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Nara</city><ctry>JP</ctry></adr></B721></B720><B740><B741><snm>Rackham, Stephen Neil</snm><iid>00035061</iid><adr><str>GILL JENNINGS &amp; EVERY,
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7 Eldon Street</str><city>London EC2M 7LH</city><ctry>GB</ctry></adr></B741></B740></B700><B800><B840><ctry>AT</ctry><ctry>BE</ctry><ctry>CH</ctry><ctry>DE</ctry><ctry>DK</ctry><ctry>ES</ctry><ctry>FI</ctry><ctry>FR</ctry><ctry>GB</ctry><ctry>GR</ctry><ctry>IE</ctry><ctry>IT</ctry><ctry>LI</ctry><ctry>LU</ctry><ctry>MC</ctry><ctry>NL</ctry><ctry>PT</ctry><ctry>SE</ctry></B840><B844EP><B845EP><ctry>AL</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>LT</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>LV</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>MK</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>RO</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>SI</ctry></B845EP></B844EP><B880><date>19990113</date><bnum>199902</bnum></B880></B800></SDOBI><abstract id="abst" lang="en"><p id="pa01" num="0001">A conductor (42a) of an audio pin cable is electrically and mechanically connected at both ends thereof to the terminals inside of pin plugs (41a, 45a). A vibration attenuating member such as a cross section-enlarging member (43a) is joined at the middle portion of the conductor (42a) . The conductor (42a) and the cross section-enlarging member (43a) are coated around the periphery with an insulating member (44a). When a longitudinal wave passes through the conductor (42a), the cross section-enlarging member (43a) attenuates the longitudinal vibration transmission through the audio pin cable, thus achieving reproduced sounds as close to the original sounds as possible.<img id="iaf01" file="imgaf001.tif" wi="160" he="53" img-content="drawing" img-format="tif" /></p></abstract><search-report-data id="srep" srep-office="EP" date-produced="" lang=""><doc-page id="srep0001" file="srep0001.tif" type="tif" orientation="portrait" he="297" wi="210" /></search-report-data></ep-patent-document>