EP0524423A1 - Appareil pour sourds adapté pour être supportés entièrement par l'oreille - Google Patents

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EP0524423A1
EP0524423A1 EP92110066A EP92110066A EP0524423A1 EP 0524423 A1 EP0524423 A1 EP 0524423A1 EP 92110066 A EP92110066 A EP 92110066A EP 92110066 A EP92110066 A EP 92110066A EP 0524423 A1 EP0524423 A1 EP 0524423A1
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Christof Härtl
Jochen Dr. Müller
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Sivantos 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
    • H04R25/65—Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture
    • 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
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2300/00—Orthogonal indexing scheme relating to electric switches, relays, selectors or emergency protective devices covered by H01H
    • H01H2300/004—Application hearing aid
    • 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
    • H04R25/65—Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture
    • H04R25/652—Ear tips; Ear moulds

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  • the invention relates to a hearing aid that can be worn in the ear, comprising a housing with a faceplate, which has a first opening for a battery compartment, to which a second opening is connected, into which a plate designed as a carrier for hearing aid components can be inserted.
  • the plate is approximately triangular.
  • An edge of this plate also forms an edge of the opening of the battery compartment and carries a battery contact spring arranged perpendicular to the plane of the plate (side wall of the battery compartment, which is designed as a spring).
  • This edge of the plate is opposite a corner of the plate, which is significantly rounded.
  • the rounded corner of the plate carries an adjusting element and is arranged adjacent to the tragus (ear cover) and anti-wear of an ear, which makes it difficult to actuate the adjusting element.
  • all the other edges of the plate have abutting surfaces which are perpendicular to the plane of the plate and correspond to other abutting surfaces on the faceplate. All butt surfaces have weakly shaped contours similar to a tongue and groove connection. A positive fit of the plate in the faceplate is thus only achieved in that the surface of the faceplate matches the level of the surface of the plate. However, the plate only remains in this intended position when a battery charger and / or a battery inserted into the battery compartment presses against the plate via the battery contact spring designed as a side wall of the battery compartment. Thereby the abutting surfaces are held together.
  • the abutting surfaces can come apart.
  • the plate can fall inside the hearing aid housing.
  • This and the necessary adjustment of the plate in the second opening can damage expensive hearing aid components, in particular if these work are carried out by the (inexperienced) hearing aid user himself.
  • the abutting abutting surfaces have already been glued together in a punctiform manner.
  • the person skilled in the art can only remove the small plate from the hearing aid for repair work on the hearing aid after the relatively large adhesive force has been overcome. This effort can in turn damage hearing aid components.
  • the handling of the known hearing aid is therefore difficult.
  • a hearing aid of the type mentioned in which a second opening connected to a first opening is formed as a recess on the inside of the faceplate.
  • This second opening designed as a recess, completely surrounds the first opening.
  • a mounting plate which can be inserted into the second opening (recess) completely fills this second opening and itself contains an opening which corresponds to the first opening. Due to the required size of the mounting plate, the known plate must be inserted into the second opening of the faceplate before the faceplate is fixed, e.g. by gluing, is connected to the housing. After such a connection between the housing and faceplate, the plate can no longer be removed from the hearing aid.
  • a hearing aid of the type mentioned in which a box and a volume control form a carriage.
  • the slide is perpendicular to the faceplate plane through a second opening into a free space insertable of the hearing aid, wherein the cover plate has a first opening, which is closed by a battery charger in the folded state and wherein a lateral extension of this first opening forms said second opening.
  • projections are provided at the edge of the second opening into the hearing device (ear cup), which have guide grooves.
  • its side walls are designed to be resilient and have locking lugs at their ends. This holding device for a sled is very expensive because of the resilient design of the side walls and because of the locking lugs.
  • the engaged slide can only be released from the locked position with a relatively large amount of force (similar to a point-like gluing).
  • the projections extending perpendicular to the plane of the faceplate into the hearing aid and running parallel to one another are a hindrance to service work and can therefore be easily damaged.
  • the object of the invention is to improve handling in a hearing device of the type mentioned, in particular the plate should be held securely even when the battery is removed from the battery compartment and yet be able to be removed from the hearing device without great effort.
  • the plate Due to the displaceable arrangement of the plate by means of the two holding devices, the plate can no longer fall into the hearing device housing as a result of a battery change. When the battery is removed, the plate can move within wide limits in the direction of the opening of the battery compartment without falling into the battery compartment, since it is secured against falling by the two holding devices.
  • at least one holding device is designed in such a way that when the plate is moved, a frictional force arises which is greater than the weight of the plate. This makes it possible to change the battery perform in any position of the hearing aid.
  • the surface of the plate can thus be held vertically without the plate being able to move automatically as a result of its own weight, including the weight of the hearing aid components mounted thereon.
  • deliberate displacements in the direction of a path running parallel to the plane of the faceplate are possible without great effort if the plate has to be removed from the hearing aid, for example in the event of a repair.
  • the two holding devices provided according to the invention can in principle be arranged at any desired locations on the plate and / or on the faceplate. It is also particularly advantageous in terms of saving space if the shape of the plate is adapted to the function of the holding device.
  • the plate is delimited by an edge which has two mutually parallel sections, on which components of the two holders are preferably formed in one piece.
  • the opening in the faceplate, which serves to receive the plate is additionally limited by an edge which has two sections arranged parallel to one another, on which components of the two holding devices are likewise preferably formed in one piece. A particularly advantageous and space-saving design of the two holding devices is thereby achieved.
  • the components of the holding devices which are arranged parallel to one another can have sliding surfaces which can be displaced relative to one another.
  • mutually parallel sliding surfaces can slide along the plate, on corresponding and parallel (and fixed) sliding surfaces on the opening of the faceplate.
  • These sliding surfaces according to the invention can be profiled such that only a (lateral) shift within the plane of the surface of the plate in the direction of the opening of the battery compartment is possible. So it can be a particularly effective one Holding device in the sense of the invention can be realized with simple and therefore inexpensive means.
  • FIG. 1 shows a hearing aid 1 with a housing 2 which can be worn in the concha of an ear.
  • the housing 2 is closed in a non-detachable manner by a faceplate 3 (for example by gluing), which is shown separately in FIG. 2 (top view of the hearing aid 1).
  • the faceplate 3 has a first opening 4 for a battery compartment 5 adjoining it below.
  • the first opening 4 is connected to a second opening 6 (FIG. 2).
  • a plate 7 can be inserted into the second opening 6, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3.
  • the tile 7 serves as a carrier for hearing aid components 8, which are arranged on a printed circuit board 9.
  • the plate 7 or the conductor plate 9 has a battery contact spring 10 which also forms a side wall of the battery compartment 5.
  • a further battery contact spring 11 opposite the battery contact spring 10 forms another side wall of the battery compartment 5.
  • a hearing aid microphone 12 is held on the faceplate 3 in a sound inlet opening 14 via a short tube 13.
  • An actuating element 21 (FIG. 3) and a depression 28 (FIGS. 3 and 4) and an edge 20 (FIGS. 3 and 4) are also shown on the plate 7 in FIG. 1.
  • the opening 6 is delimited by an edge 24 'on the faceplate 3 which has two sections 25' and 26 'arranged parallel to one another. On these sections 25 'and 26' there are projections 15 and 16 which form components of the two holding devices according to the invention.
  • the plate 7 is held displaceably in these two projections 15 and 16 arranged in parallel.
  • the plate 7 is displaceable over a distance which corresponds approximately to the distance marked by a double arrow 17. This distance 17 is selected to be greater than 10% and less than 90% of the space available in the first opening 4 for the displacement of the plate 7.
  • the available space in the first opening 4 is marked by the double arrow 18. This leaves enough freedom of movement for the insertion and removal of the plate 7 in or out of the hearing aid.
  • a dashed line 19 marks the boundary between the first opening 4 and the second opening 6. When the plate 7 is inserted into the opening 6, the boundary to the opening 4 is formed by the edge 20 of the plate 7.
  • the plate 7 is shown separately in FIG. 3 with the edge 20. On the surface (outside) of the plate 7 actuating elements 21 and 22 are arranged for adjustable hearing aid components.
  • the plate 7 is delimited by a further edge 24 which has two sections 25 and 26 arranged parallel to one another. These sections 25 and 26 have depressions 27 and 28 which form part of the two holding devices.
  • the components 15 and 16 and 27 and 28 of the two holding devices according to the invention are arranged parallel to one another. As a result, the plate 7 is held displaceably in the region of the path 17 without it falling, for example, into the hearing device housing 2.
  • At least one holding device is designed such that when the plate 7 is moved in the opening 6, a frictional force arises which is greater than the weight of the plate 7 including the hearing device components 8, 9, 21 and 22 arranged thereon. This can be caused, for example, by a roughened surface of the depressions 27 and / or 28, which are held in the projections 15 and 16 so that they can slide (slide).
  • the plate 7 is delimited by the edge 24, which, in connection with the edge 20, has an overall shape which approximately corresponds to the large Latin letter D (shown upside down).
  • a corresponding D-shape also has the opening 6 in the faceplate 3, compare the corresponding edge 24 'in connection with the dashed line 19 in FIG. 2.
  • the plate 7 has a bulge on the edge 24, which in one of the tragus (ear cover) and thus also the region 23 of the plate 7 which is arranged at a distance from the antitragus of an ear.
  • This area 23 serves to receive the actuating element 21 that can be adjusted with a finger.
  • This design of the plate 7 does not make the actuation of the adjusting element 21 difficult by the tragus or antitragus.
  • FIG. 4 is a special embodiment of the holding device according to the invention on a portion of the plate 7 and Faceplate 3 shown in more detail.
  • the plate 7 is held in the direction of the double arrow 17 in the faceplate 3.
  • a recess 28 is formed on section 26, which engages in a projection 16 on section 26 ′ of faceplate 3.
  • Another corresponding holding device is formed on the other side of the plate 7 at the portion 25 thereof by an indentation 27 arranged thereon, which engages in a projection (not shown in FIG. 2) on the portion 25 'of the faceplate 3.
  • Sliding surfaces 29 and 30 are shown on the recess 28, which are at an angle to one another and thus give the recess 28 a profile which corresponds in cross section to a triangle (dovetail).
  • Other designs of the projections and depressions are also possible.
  • FIG. 5 shows another faceplate 31 which has a first opening 4 and a second opening 6 with projections 15 and 16.
  • the first opening 4 for the battery compartment is also connected to a further (third) opening 32.
  • a further (second) plate 33 can be inserted, which is also designed as a carrier for hearing aid components.
  • the plate 33 has depressions 34 and 35 which engage in corresponding projections 36 and 37 at the opening 32 when the separately drawn plate 33 is inserted into the opening 32.
  • the recess 35 and the corresponding projection 37 are components of a holding device according to the invention, to which a further holding device according to the invention is arranged in parallel, which is formed from the components 34 and 35. This further improves the accessibility of hearing aid components in the event of a repair.
  • FIG. 6 shows the faceplate according to FIG. 2 with the inserted plate 7 according to FIG. 3.
  • a battery drawer (a cover) 34 in arranged in a known manner, which has a nose 35.
  • the nose 35 presses positively against the edge 20 of the plate 7 when immersed in the opening 4.
  • the plate 7 is secured against displacement when the opening 4 is closed.
  • the nose 35 on the battery drawer 34 thus forms a safety device with the edge 20 on the plate 7.

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