CN101159993A - Hearing device and earpiece - Google Patents
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Abstract
This invention relates to a hearing device and earpiece therefore. The hearing device comprises a BTE unit for converting and processing sound to an electrical signal and a tubular element communicating the electrical signal to an earpiece. The earpiece comprises a canal element providing a tight fit of the earpiece in an ear canal, and a speaker element rotate-ably mounted in the canal element.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to auditory prosthesis,, and relate to the earplug of auditory prosthesis as hard of hearing formula (BTE) hearing aids.In this article, earplug can be inner ear type element or the member that uses in hearing aids, and earplug can have or not have loud speaker.
Background technology
As No. 2005/0244026 disclosed content of U.S. Patent application, usually the present situation of hearing aids technology comprises: insert the outside (being sometimes referred to as cartilage portion) of duct and be connected to the malleable ear plug of BTE device by the tubulose Connection Element.Malleable ear plug can comprise the recipient that is installed on the earplug, hearing aids loud speaker just, thus sound is incorporated in the duct.Such structure is well-known duct-type recipient (RITE) hearing aids.Alternatively, BTE comprises recipient, and sound is introduced into tubular connector, and tubular connector is given earplug with transmission sound.
Malleable ear plug can additionally comprise pore, thereby open ear structure is provided, and has therefore weakened stifled ear effect, but has reduced to occur simultaneously the gain of allowing of audio feedback greatly.Therefore, malleable ear plug is particularly suitable for the not serious hearing aid user use of impaired hearing.
Further, United States Patent (USP) the 5th, 606 discloses BTE and the dark hybrid hearing aids of duct (CIC) for No. 621, and wherein earplug is a CIC formula element, and makes the shape in the duct, thereby contacts the bony region of duct by this way.Can avoid stifled ear effect by the bony region of CIC formula element being inserted dearly duct, still keep high-gain simultaneously, because can freely spread out of from duct by the sound of organizing (rather than earhole) to be delivered to duct.Therefore, the hybrid hearing aids of this BTE/CIC is that the user that hearing is badly damaged provides convenience.
In addition, U.S. Patent application discloses the hybrid hearing aids of another kind of BTE/CIC No. 2004/0010181, and it comprises the connector that is used for the sound handled from the loud speaker transmission of processor to the CIC part of BTE part.Connector is connected to BTE or CIC part separably, thereby and is designed to go deep into the sclerotin part that duct contacts duct.Therefore, thus connector must have enough rigidity allow connector be used to or insert or shift out the CIC part from user's duct.
United States Patent (USP) the 5th, 606, No. 621 and U.S. Patent application have mainly been described closed system No. 2004/0010181, the system that promptly when it is positioned at the perimeter of duct, can cause serious stifled ear effect, this is that sound is enclosed in this space and causes because sound is transmitted to the remaining space between the earplug of eardrum and closed system by tissue.Therefore, the purpose of hearing aids is that sound is not sent to the sclerotin part of duct, thereby has avoided stifled ear effect with the penetrale of CIC partial fixing at sclerotin part or duct in these U.S. patent documents.Yet as if for the user, the sclerotin that is inserted into duct is partly quite felt bad.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, target of the present invention provides the button of the exterior section that is used to insert duct, and it realizes the gain enough big to the user.
The concrete advantage of the present invention relates to the fact: earplug shows as Open architecture for the user, therefore avoids stifled ear effect, remains on simultaneously and firmly fixes earplug in the duct.
The concrete advantage of the present invention relates to the earplug shaped design for reducing the diameter of pore, suppresses stifled ear effect simultaneously, and therefore guarantees high-gain.
Above target, advantage and feature and other numerous targets, advantage and feature will obviously be found out from following detailed description, and realize by auditory prosthesis according to a first aspect of the invention, auditory prosthesis comprises the BTE unit and the tube element that is suitable for described electrical signal transfer is given earplug that is suitable for sound is changed and is treated to the signal of telecommunication, wherein said earplug comprises the friction tight duct element that is suitable for providing described earplug in duct, and is rotatably installed in the speaker element in the described duct element.
Term " auditory prosthesis " should be interpreted as hearing aids in this article, as having BTE formula hearing aids, hearing devices or the assist type hearing prosthesis of duct-type recipient scheme (recipient is the universal word that is used for the loud speaker of auditory prosthesis technology).
By speaker element rotatably is installed in the duct element, can makes the user of hearing aids adjust earplug, thereby obtain best fit the user with respect to tube element and BTE unit.
Loud speaker is suitable for receiving the signal of telecommunication and is converted into acoustic pressure in the duct, thereby improves user's hearing.
According to a first aspect of the invention, earplug can comprise and extends axially the pore that passes duct.Pore advantageously makes remaining space between ear-drum and the duct element and the acoustic pressure balance between the external environment condition, has therefore eliminated the stifled ear effect that the user of auditory prosthesis feels.
According to a first aspect of the invention, the duct element can comprise and is used to make described speaker element to be engaged to the engaging device of described duct element.Engaging device can be the whole part of duct element, perhaps can be installed in independently in the duct element.Term " interlock " should be understood to separable engagement in this article, by or two parts of locking together.
According to a first aspect of the invention, speaker element can comprise and is suitable for protecting speaker element to prevent the ear wax filter that earwax enters.Alternatively or additionally, engaging device can comprise and is suitable for further protecting speaker element to prevent the disposable ear wax filter that earwax enters.When ear wax filter is stopped up, can advantageously replace disposable ear wax filter.Earplug with outside disposable ear wax filter and inner ear wax filter has improved ability that the user has significantly to guarantee the operation of auditory prosthesis.That is to say, when the user feels that sound quality descends, can change disposable ear wax filter and the auditory prosthesis earplug with new disposable ear wax filter on probation.Obviously, if the user feels that still sound quality descends, the user can further check the ear wax filter in the loud speaker.
According to a first aspect of the invention, the duct element can comprise the axial bore that is used to accept described speaker element, the axial length of described endoporus is between the 3-12 millimeter, as scope between 3-6 millimeter, 6-9 millimeter, 9-12 millimeter or 4-11 millimeter, 5-10 millimeter, 7-8 millimeter, or its combination in any.In fact the axial length of endoporus represents the axial length of duct element, that is to say that endoporus runs through the entire length extension of duct element.
According to a first aspect of the invention, the axial length of pore is shorter than the axial length of endoporus.Advantageously guaranteed to adopt less hole diameter to realize identical result by the axial length that reduces pore.Therefore, can in the BTE unit, use bigger gain.Thereby the duct element can comprise proximal end face, and it substantially extends on the plane perpendicular to described duct, also comprises the distal surface towards eardrum, and it substantially extends on a plurality of planes perpendicular to described duct.Term " far-end " and " near-end " should be understood to the unit with respect to BTE in this article.
According to a first aspect of the invention, the duct element may further include the rope of extracting that stretches out from partial parallel at least in the proximal end face of tube element.Extract rope and provide the device of extracting earplug from ear safely, promptly do not need tractive element independently for the user.
According to a first aspect of the invention, speaker element further comprises the hole that is used to accept soft member, and it is suitable for supporting described earplug in described duct.Flexible member or ear handle are suitable for the surface in abutting connection with external ear.
According to a first aspect of the invention, the duct element can utilize the Rapid Manufacturing Technology manufacturing, makes or the laminated solid mass manufacturing as stereosopic printing manufacturing, selective laser sintering, shape deposition.By utilizing SLA greatly to simplify assembling at different clients, and different clients' difference can be combined in any one earplug.
Above-mentioned target, advantage and feature and numerous other targets, advantage and feature will obviously be found out from following detailed description, and realize by earplug according to a second aspect of the invention, earplug is used to be connected to the BTE unit, the BTE unit is suitable for by tube element the signal of telecommunication is changed and be treated to sound, tube element is suitable for giving described earplug with described electrical signal transfer, wherein said earplug comprises the friction tight duct element that is suitable for providing described earplug in duct, and is rotatably installed in the speaker element in the described duct element.
According to a second aspect of the invention, earplug can comprise any feature of auditory prosthesis according to a first aspect of the invention.
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With reference to the accompanying drawings, by the illustrative and the non-limiting description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, will understand above-mentioned and other target of the present invention, feature and advantage better.
Fig. 1 is the perspective view according to the auditory prosthesis of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the decomposition view according to the auditory prosthesis earplug of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 is the end view according to the auditory prosthesis earplug of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 4 is the cutaway view according to the auditory prosthesis earplug of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 5 is the perspective view according to the auditory prosthesis earplug of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 6 is the end view according to the auditory prosthesis earplug of second embodiment of the invention.
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Following different embodiment are described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and accompanying drawing shows how to implement the present invention in the mode of explanation.Be to be understood that and use other embodiment, and can make the modification of 26S Proteasome Structure and Function and do not depart from the scope of the present invention.
Fig. 1 represents the auditory prosthesis according to first embodiment of the invention, and its integral body is with Reference numeral 10 expressions.Auditory prosthesis 10 comprises that the sound of conversion 12 records in the BTE unit reaches the BTE unit 12 of handling described sound according to concrete hearing loss, and the electrical signal transfer that will handle is given the connector 14 of earplug 16.Earplug 16 is suitable for inserting in user's duct, and the electrical signal conversion echo that will handle is pressed.
Fig. 2 is the decomposition view about the part of the earplug 16 of Fig. 1 and connector 14.Earplug 16 comprises the loud speaker 20 that is connected to connector 14, and the electrical signal conversion that loud speaker 20 is suitable for representing the sound of having handled is the acoustic pressure that will offer auditory prosthesis user's duct.The friction tight O shape ring 22 that is used to provide between loud speaker 20 and the duct element 24 can be provided loud speaker 20.The duct outside that duct element 24 inserts the user of auditory prosthesis 10.
Therefore, to endoporus 34, insert loud speaker 20 from the proximal end face 26 of duct element 24, and insert fastener element 32 as independent component from the distal surface 28 of duct element 24, wherein the bump 30 on the loud speaker 20 enters fastener element 32 interlocks mutual with it.If fastener element 32 is whole parts of duct element 24, insert loud speaker 20 simply from distal surface 28, wherein the bump 30 on the loud speaker 20 enters fastener element 32 interlocks mutual with it.
In addition, earplug 16 comprises disposable second ear wax filter 40, thereby when the user feels auditory prosthesis 10 decreased performance, can be by removing second ear wax filter 40 simply and inserting new ear wax filter 40 and replace ear wax filter 40.This function has advantage especially, and hearing is corrected the expert or hearing aids retail trader just can carry out preliminary test to the service behaviour of auditory prosthesis 10 because the user can not need to call on.
Earplug 16 further comprises the pore 42 that the sound pressure variations that allows in the external auditory meatus that sound causes tissue and the cartilage by the user propagates into duct, thereby has greatly reduced the stifled ear effect that the user feels.The diameter of pore 42 and length are determined according to the required gain of the concrete hearing loss of compensation.But, if shorten the axial length of pore 42, then can use less diameter, thereby reach required effect, for example stifled ear and gain.
Fig. 3 is the end view of earplug, and earplug has the loud speaker 20 that inserts endoporus 34 and be snapped to fastener element 32.Second ear wax filter 40 is expressed as inserts fastener element 32.Earplug 16 among Fig. 3 has represented to extract rope 44, and earplug according to second embodiment of the invention shown in Figure 4 does not have the rope of extracting.
Fig. 5 is the profile according to the duct element 24 of first embodiment of the invention, and wherein fastener element 32 inserts endoporus 34, and second ear wax filter 40 is inserted fastener element 32.According to the first embodiment of the present invention, the axial length of endoporus 34 is 8 millimeters.But the axial length of endoporus 34 can be in the scope of 3-12 millimeter, as scope between 3-6 millimeter, 6-9 millimeter, 9-12 millimeter or 4-11 millimeter, 5-10 millimeter, 7-8 millimeter, or its combination in any.In fact the axial length of endoporus represents the axial length of duct element, that is to say that endoporus runs through the entire length extension of duct element 24.
The axial length of endoporus 34 is bigger than the axial length of pore 42.With reference to figure 2,, can reduce the diameter of pore 42 as mentioned above by reducing the axial length of pore 42.According to first embodiment of the invention, the axial length of pore 42 is 5.5 millimeters.Yet the length of pore 42 can be in the scope of 2-9 millimeter, as scope between 2-4 millimeter, 4-6 millimeter, 6-9 millimeter or 3-8 millimeter, 4-7 millimeter, 5-6 millimeter, or its combination in any.
Fig. 6 is the perspective view according to the duct element 24 of first embodiment of the invention, and wherein second ear wax filter 40 is inserted fastener element 32.
Claims (14)
1. auditory prosthesis, comprise: the BTE unit and the tube element that is suitable for described electrical signal transfer is given earplug that are suitable for sound is changed and is treated to the signal of telecommunication, wherein said earplug comprises the friction tight duct element that is suitable for providing described earplug in duct, and is rotatably installed in the speaker element in the described duct element.
2. auditory prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said duct element comprises the engaging device that is used for described speaker element is engaged to described duct element.
3. auditory prosthesis according to claim 2, wherein said engaging device are the whole parts of duct element.
4. auditory prosthesis according to claim 2, wherein said engaging device is arranged separately in the duct element.
5. according to the arbitrary described auditory prosthesis of claim 1-3, wherein said speaker element comprises ear wax filter.
6. according to the arbitrary described auditory prosthesis of claim 1-4, wherein said engaging device comprises disposable ear wax filter.
7. auditory prosthesis according to claim 5, wherein said earplug further comprise the pore that passes described duct element extension.
8. auditory prosthesis according to claim 6, wherein said duct element comprises the axial bore that is used to accept described speaker element, the axial length of described endoporus is in the scope of 3-12 millimeter, as scope between 3-6 millimeter, 6-9 millimeter, 9-12 millimeter or 4-11 millimeter, 5-10 millimeter, 7-8 millimeter, or its combination in any.
9. auditory prosthesis according to claim 7, the axial length of wherein said pore is shorter than the axial length of described axial bore.
10. auditory prosthesis according to claim 8, wherein said duct element comprises proximal end face, it substantially extends on the plane perpendicular to described duct, also comprises the distal surface towards eardrum, and it substantially extends on a plurality of planes perpendicular to described duct.
11. auditory prosthesis according to claim 9, wherein said duct element further comprise the rope of extracting that stretches out from partial parallel at least in the proximal end face of tube element.
12. auditory prosthesis according to claim 10, wherein said speaker element further comprises the hole that is used to accept soft member, and it is suitable for supporting described earplug in described duct.
13. auditory prosthesis according to claim 11, wherein said duct element utilizes the Rapid Manufacturing Technology manufacturing.
14. be used to be connected to the earplug of BTE unit, the BTE unit is suitable for by tube element the signal of telecommunication is changed and be treated to sound, tube element is suitable for giving described earplug with described electrical signal transfer, wherein said earplug comprises the friction tight duct element that is suitable for providing described earplug in duct, and is rotatably installed in the speaker element in the described duct element.
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