EP0521329A1 - Appareil pour sourds adapté pour être supporté entièrement par l'oreille et méthode de production - Google Patents

Appareil pour sourds adapté pour être supporté entièrement par l'oreille et méthode de production Download PDF

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EP0521329A1
EP0521329A1 EP92110065A EP92110065A EP0521329A1 EP 0521329 A1 EP0521329 A1 EP 0521329A1 EP 92110065 A EP92110065 A EP 92110065A EP 92110065 A EP92110065 A EP 92110065A EP 0521329 A1 EP0521329 A1 EP 0521329A1
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faceplate
hearing aid
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support body
housing
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Christof Härtl
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Sivantos GmbH
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Siemens AG
Siemens Audioligische Technik GmbH
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/609—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of circuitry
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/602—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of batteries
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/603—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of mechanical or electronic switches or control elements

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  • the present invention relates to a hearing aid which can be worn in the ear, comprising a housing which is closed by a faceplate with a mounting opening penetrating it and which contains an amplifier.
  • the invention further relates to a method for producing such in-the-ear hearing aids, housing shells which are individually adapted to an ear of the respective hearing aid user being produced in a separate method section.
  • an in-the-ear hearing aid and a method for producing in-the-ear hearing aids are known.
  • individual housing shells are made using an ear impression (otoplastic).
  • faceplates of the same type are produced.
  • An individual housing shell is provided with a faceplate e.g. tightly closed by gluing.
  • a hearing aid amplifier assembly which is prefabricated as an installation kit, is inserted in an opening (hollow) on the inside of the faceplate.
  • the installation kit is arranged on a support, the shape of which corresponds to the shape of the cavity on the faceplate.
  • the carrier is rigid and larger than the opening for the battery drawer, which is enclosed by the carrier.
  • the carrier or the insert can only be arranged on the inside of the cavity before the housing shell with the faceplate is matched to the ear. This cavity serves as an assembly opening and encloses the opening for the battery drawer.
  • the invention is based on the object of specifying a hearing aid of the type mentioned at the outset and a method for its production, which above all is intended to improve the interchangeability of the amplifier or amplifier parts.
  • the amplifier is designed as a built-in assembly kit.
  • the installation kit comprises two flexibly interconnected support bodies and can be inserted into the hearing aid housing from the outside through an assembly opening of the faceplate (detachable) and held detachably (replaceable) therein. This makes it easy to replace the amplifier or its parts.
  • the amplifier which is designed as a mounting kit, is particularly easy to install and replace because two modules are arranged on flexibly connected rigid support bodies and are detachably held on the faceplate adjacent to the mounting opening.
  • the supporting bodies are each slidably arranged in a holding device.
  • Each support body can be inserted into the respective holding device from the mounting opening with eye contact and can be pulled out of the respective holding device when the amplifier (installation kit) is replaced, although the individually made housing shell is firmly closed with a faceplate that is produced as standard.
  • the mounting opening has a further configuration on all cover plates the invention always the same Bestanotelle the holding device.
  • These components of the holding device on the faceplate correspond to components of the holding device on the support bodies.
  • All installation kits are of identical design at least with regard to the holding device and the support body.
  • the installation kits can have different electrical data and can be used in accordance with the audiological data (audiogram) of the respective hearing aid user or can be replaced when the audiogram changes.
  • FIG. 1 shows a housing shell 1 which is individually adapted to an ear of a respective hearing device user and which is firmly closed by a faceplate 2 which is prefabricated as standard to form an individual hearing device housing 3.
  • the faceplate has a mounting opening 4 with a recess 5, which is connected by an opening 6 on the outside of the faceplate 2.
  • Other faceplates of this type can be manufactured as parts that are identical to one another.
  • the hearing aid housing 3 is equipped with an installation kit 7 which comprises a support body 8 and a support body 9.
  • the two rigid support bodies 8 and 9 are flexibly connected to one another by a conductor foil 10.
  • the support body 8 contains an actuator 11 which is electrically connected to the conductor foil 10 and can serve, for example, as a volume control.
  • the support body 9 is used in this embodiment as a support for a hearing aid microphone 24.
  • the assembly formed from the second support body 9 and the microphone 24 is concealed under the faceplate 2 in the recess 5 so that the opening 6 in the faceplate 2 and a Opening 12 in the support body 9 are arranged one above the other.
  • the opening 6 in the faceplate 2 is designed as a sound entry opening.
  • FIG. 3 shows the faceplate 2 with an installation kit 7 arranged thereon separately.
  • the support body 8 or the flexible conductor film 10 attached to it and / or the support body 9 can also include further components 13 which are required to form a complete hearing aid amplifier.
  • the support body 8 is detachably held on or in the assembly opening 4 (see FIG. 1) in such a way that the assembly opening 4 is reduced in size by the support body 8, that is to say partially closed.
  • the two support bodies 8 and 9 are designed and inserted in the mounting opening 4 or the recess 5 such that a space 16 for receiving a hearing aid battery (not shown) is created between two facing end faces 14 and 15.
  • the installation kit 7 is shown separately in FIG. 4 and is connected via electrical conductors 17 and 18 to a receiver 19 which has a vibration-absorbing casing 20 and a tube piece 21 for sound transmission.
  • Each contact means 22 and 23 can be designed as an electrically conductive metallic spring.
  • FIG. 5 the installation kit 7 according to FIG. 3 is shown exploded with the actuator 11, the support body 8 and with the contact means 22 arranged on its end face 14.
  • the end face 14 on the support body 8 is opposite the end face 15 on the support body 9, which has the contact means 23 for contacting the hearing aid battery.
  • the carrying body 9 has an opening 12 for receiving the hearing aid microphone 24.
  • the two Carrier bodies 8 and 9 are flexibly and electrically connected to one another by a bendable printed circuit, for example by the flexible conductor foil 10.
  • the conductor film 10 can be deformed in a substantially U-shaped manner, in particular in the region of the free space 16 which is provided for receiving the hearing aid battery.
  • the conductor foil 10 can be stiffened in certain areas 41 to 44 by rigid components.
  • the rigid and insulating components 42 and 43 prevent unwanted contact with the contact means 22 and 23.
  • the U-shaped conductor foil 10 can be bent at its end 25 so that it can be soldered to terminals 26 on the hearing aid microphone 24 .
  • An assembly kit 7 constructed and manufactured in this way can be easily inserted into the mounting opening 4 of the housing 1 and detachably fastened.
  • the receiver 19 is first inserted through the mounting opening 4 into the housing shell 1 and inserted into the lower region in a manner known per se. Then the assembly assigned to the supporting body 9 is inserted into the recess 5 in the faceplate 2.
  • the assembly held on the support body 8 is then also releasably arranged on the faceplate 2 at the mounting opening 4 (for example by pushing it into a holding device) such that the mounting opening is partially closed, the mounting body 8 forming part of the surface of the faceplate 2 .
  • the section of the faceplate 2 shown in FIG. 6 shows a plan view of the support bodies 8 and 9, as can be seen on the underside 27 of the faceplate, ie on the side of the faceplate 2 facing the interior of the housing 3. Between the two support bodies 8 and 9 shows the free space 16 for receiving a hearing aid battery.
  • the battery space 16 can be closed by a battery drawer, not shown, which can be hung in pins 28 and 29.
  • the pin 28 is arranged on the faceplate 2 and the pin 29 on the support body 8. However, it is also possible to reduce the support body 8 to such an extent that the pins 28 and 29 are designed as an axle fastened on both sides in the faceplate 2.
  • the faceplate 2 is shown cut in the area of the free space 16 with a view of the support body 9.
  • the contact means 23 is shown, which has a resilient tongue 30.
  • Components of a holding device according to the invention are also shown.
  • the support body 9 has projections 31 and 32 which engage projections 33 and 34 arranged offset therefrom in the recess 5 of the faceplate 2 (cf. also FIG. 6).
  • the support body 9 is designed as an assembly which can be inserted into the recess 5.
  • FIG. 8 shows a section through the faceplate 2 with the support body 8 held therein, on which the contact means 22 arranged on the end face 14 located behind it is shown.
  • the support body 8 has depressions 36 and 37 which engage in projections 38 and 39 on the faceplate.
  • the projections 38, 39 and the depressions 36, 37 are corresponding components of a further holding device according to the invention, with which the support body 8 is slidably and releasably held on the faceplate 2, in particular in the assembly opening 4.
  • the components of the two holding devices on the support bodies 8 and 9 cf. also the corresponding reference numerals in FIG. 6. All components of each holding device have sections arranged parallel to one another, along which the supporting bodies 8 and 9 slide along when inserted. To install and remove the installation kit 7, the supporting bodies 8 and 9 are only moved in the direction of the double arrow 40 in FIG. 6.
  • FIG. 9 shows an at least partially bendable printed circuit board (flexible film 10) in a top view and in a stretched representation.
  • the dotted areas 41 to 45 can be rigid.
  • the area 41 is connected to the support body 9 and the area 44 to the support body 8 during the manufacture of the installation kit 7.
  • the rigid area 45 as a so-called cantilever, can also accommodate components of the hearing aid amplifier and e.g. be self-supporting in the hearing aid housing 3.

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EP1973376A1 (fr) * 2007-03-20 2008-09-24 Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH Dispositif d'écoute doté d'un module de réglage du volume sonore amovible
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WO1999027755A1 (fr) * 1997-11-24 1999-06-03 Nhas National Hearing Aids Systems Prothese auditive
AU746161B2 (en) * 1997-11-24 2002-04-18 Bernafon Australia Pty. Ltd. Hearing aid
EP1973376A1 (fr) * 2007-03-20 2008-09-24 Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH Dispositif d'écoute doté d'un module de réglage du volume sonore amovible
US8831259B2 (en) 2008-09-18 2014-09-09 Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd. Hearing aid faceplate arrangement

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