EP0585485A1 - Prothèse auditive - Google Patents

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EP0585485A1
EP0585485A1 EP92115003A EP92115003A EP0585485A1 EP 0585485 A1 EP0585485 A1 EP 0585485A1 EP 92115003 A EP92115003 A EP 92115003A EP 92115003 A EP92115003 A EP 92115003A EP 0585485 A1 EP0585485 A1 EP 0585485A1
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Hans-Joachim Dipl.-Ing. Weiss
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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
    • H04R25/55—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception using an external connection, either wireless or wired
    • H04R25/558—Remote control, e.g. of amplification, frequency
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/61—Aspects relating to mechanical or electronic switches or control elements, e.g. functioning
    • 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
    • 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
    • H04R25/607—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of earhooks

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  • the invention relates to a hearing aid with a housing and electrical components arranged therein, such as a microphone, amplifier device, receiver, power source, switching, adjusting and / or regulating elements or the like.
  • the electrical contacts of the hearing aid components are connected by electrical lead wires to the spring contacts of the power source and to the connections of a printed circuit board which forms an electrical circuit.
  • Control elements such as actuators, potentiometers, switches, can be soldered either directly to the circuit board or by means of strands or flexible conductors to the circuit board or its conductor tracks.
  • DE-A-36 23 906 describes a hearing device, the components of which are contacted on the inside of the hearing device housing on at least one printed circuit board.
  • the printed circuit board itself is at least partially designed to be resilient, the components to be fastened being detachably held in contact between the resilient parts of the printed circuit board and a counterpart.
  • an elastic contact pad consisting of an elastic silicone mat with continuous, parallel embedded metal threads, so that when pressing the cushion, the upper ends of the metal threads, the contact pins of the components and the lower ends of the metal threads, the conductor tracks touch the circuit board. As a result, there is contact between the component and the circuit board.
  • EP-A-0 491 072 relates to a hearing aid device with at least one microphone, an amplifier device, a receiver and a power source and with further components designed as actuators, switches and / or control elements which are contacted on at least one printed circuit board inside the hearing device housing .
  • an anisotropic, electrically conductive plate, foil or mat-shaped body consisting of an electrically insulating matrix material with a uniformly distributed multitude of electrically conductive and perpendicular to the plates, foils - or mat-level fibers arranged.
  • the actuators and / or potentiometers and / or switches are arranged on the printed circuit board using the anisotropic body as a contact element.
  • This arrangement is intended to make the electrical connections between the components easier to assemble and without soldering operations, the components being easily exchangeably fastened and the structure of the switches and potentiometers themselves being simplified.
  • the intended anisotropic electrically conductive body is known from DE-B-26 52 683.
  • hearing aids for the hearing impaired with wireless remote control (EP-A-0 175 909) as well as remotely controllable, programmable hearing aid systems (DE-A-39 00 588) - consisting of a hearing aid with an amplifier contained therein and with a signal processing circuit, the transmission characteristics of which to any The point in time can be determined by a set of control parameters, and is also known from an external control device with a transmitter for the wireless transmission of control parameters to the hearing device and a receiving circuit arranged in the hearing device for recording the control parameters.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a hearing aid of the type mentioned at the outset with easy-to-assemble connections of the components, in particular of the operating elements, such as switches, potentiometers, actuators, solder connections being avoidable and the components being arranged in the hearing aid housing in an easily replaceable manner, and the hearing aid equipped with operating elements can be retrofitted with a remote control or can be implemented as a conventional control unit or as a remote-controlled hearing aid.
  • the operating elements such as switches, potentiometers, actuators, solder connections being avoidable and the components being arranged in the hearing aid housing in an easily replaceable manner
  • the hearing aid equipped with operating elements can be retrofitted with a remote control or can be implemented as a conventional control unit or as a remote-controlled hearing aid.
  • Control elements such as switches, adjusting elements, volume controls (potentiometers) or the like, are arranged on a printed circuit board via solderless plug connections or can be contacted by means of an anisotropic electrically conductive body against conductor tracks of the printed circuit board, the anisotropic body made of an electrically insulating matrix material with a distributed therein Variety of electrically conductive fibers or the like.
  • the hearing aid for remote control can be designed or converted in such a way that control elements which can be soldered or contacted without soldering can be exchanged or replaced by receiving modules (remote control or remote control receiving elements) via the plug connections or the anisotropic body.
  • control elements are mounted solderlessly in the hearing device housing.
  • the electrical operating or components can be assembled by means of plug connections.
  • the components have plug connections and are inserted with them into associated plug connections of the printed circuit board, so that, in addition to the holder, the components are also contacted.
  • the solderless assembly and electrical connection of the operating or components to a printed circuit board takes place by means of an anisotropic, electrically conductive body which is between the electrical connections of the operating or components and the Tapping the conductor tracks or directly the conductor tracks of a printed circuit board or a carrier of the conductor tracks is arranged in the hearing device. If a contact pressure is established between the components, the anisotropic body and the conductor tracks or conductor track connections, for example by means of a holding device or a screw connection, a conductive connection results from the conductor tracks via the aligned electrically conductive fibers of the anisotropic body to the electrical connections of the components. or controls.
  • the fibers embedded in the matrix material in the direction of the contact pressure enable an electrically conductive connection and pressure-sensitive electrical contact points are formed in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the plate-shaped body, for example, there are no conductive connections in the directions lying in the plane of the plate-shaped body; in this plane the matrix material forms a sufficiently high insulating resistance, so that a large number of electrical connections are possible in a small area.
  • the invention thus makes it possible for a hearing aid device initially equipped with conventional control elements to be retrofitted with a remote control at a later point in time. So far, the hearing aid wearer had to purchase another special hearing aid in which the remote control is a fixed part of the amplifier.
  • the hearing aid according to the invention is designed to be digitally programmable / adjustable and the operating elements e.g. Are connected to the amplifier via contact mats (anisotropic body)
  • a hearing aid acoustician can also upgrade a hearing aid device designed according to the invention by installing the remote control receiver modules by simply replacing (with the same volume requirement).
  • the remote control receiver modules then act on the amplifier device like the conventional control elements.
  • the remote control receiver modules are built into the hearing aid housing, which is compatible with the conventional controls.
  • the hearing aid according to FIGS. 1 to 3 consists of a housing 1, for example formed from housing shells 19, in which the electrical components, namely a microphone 2, an amplifier device 3, a receiver 4 and a power source / battery 5 are arranged.
  • the amplifier device 3 comprises electronic components which are known per se and are arranged in a circuit and are arranged in particular on a printed circuit board 10 and with the conductor tracks of which control elements can also be contacted.
  • conventional controls are provided, e.g. a so-called MTO switch 6 for switching on the hearing aid (microphone operation), for switching over to telephone operation and for switching off the hearing aid (O position).
  • the hearing aid device has control elements 7. These control elements are e.g. accessible via a cover flap 17 hinged to the housing 1. This protrudes from the housing 1 e.g. Actuator or switching means of a volume control / potentiometer 8 in the form of a wheel.
  • the electrical parts of the control elements are contacted with the amplifier circuit either via solderless, detachable connections such as plug connections 9 or via so-called contact mats of an anisotropic body 11, as shown in more detail in FIG. 15 are switching contacts of the MTO switch 6 and 16 are electrical connections of the volume control 8 to the amplifier device 3.
  • the hearing aid For wearing on the ear, the hearing aid has a carrying hook 18 at one end.
  • the conventional operating elements for remote control of the hearing aid are replaced by remote control receiver modules 12, 12 ', 12''and12''.
  • the hearing aids according to the invention can be manufactured by the manufacturer both as conventional operating devices or as remote-controlled hearing aids, with the structure remaining the same. There is also the option of retrofitting the devices if required.
  • the electronic remote control receiver modules can also be designed as transmitter and receiver components, as laser or photodiodes with associated electronic control and signal processing or as optoelectronically integrated chips.
  • control elements such as switches 6, control elements 7, potentiometers 8 are arranged in a frame 13 of the hearing aid so that they can be replaced without soldering, in such a way that the remote control receiving elements 12 or the like can be inserted into the spaces 14 of the control elements which can be plugged in or contacted without soldering.
  • the remote control receiving elements 12 are designed in the form of small receiver capsules and in the size of the operating elements to be replaced.
  • a remote control receiver module 12 with a plurality of contacts 27 is shown schematically in FIGS.
  • an anisotropic body 11 is located on the conductor tracks 21 Side of the circuit board 10 and there is provided a switching means 26 designed as a wiper, which can scan electrically conductive wiper taps 23 with its contact. Contacts 24 are guided through a contact plate 22 from the wiper taps 23, these contacts 24 abutting against the anisotropic body 11 in a conductive connection. In the switch position shown, there is a conductive connection to the conductor track 21 from the electrical contact of the switching means 26 via the metallic wiper tap 23, at a contact region 25 of the anisotropic body 11.
  • a support plate of the circuit board 10 is designated by 20.
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DE59206127T DE59206127D1 (de) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Hörhilfegerät
DK92115003.3T DK0585485T3 (da) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Høreapparat
EP92115003A EP0585485B1 (fr) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Prothèse auditive
AT92115003T ATE137380T1 (de) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Hörhilfegerät
JP5218689A JPH06311598A (ja) 1992-09-02 1993-09-02 補聴器

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EP0027496A1 (fr) * 1979-10-17 1981-04-29 Robert Bosch Gmbh Appareil aide-ouie avec une plaque conductrice comme support de traces conductrices ainsi que d'éléments et d'unités de construction électriques et mécaniques
DE3205686A1 (de) * 1982-02-17 1983-08-25 Robert Bosch Gmbh, 7000 Stuttgart Hoergeraet
DE3623906A1 (de) * 1986-07-15 1988-01-21 Siemens Ag Hoergeraet
CH668154A5 (en) * 1985-08-15 1988-11-30 Gfeller Ag Apparate Fabrik Fla Hearing aid with electroacoustic transducer - fits behind ear and has facility for plugging in range of operational mode elements
US4920570A (en) * 1987-12-18 1990-04-24 West Henry L Modular assistive listening system
WO1990008448A1 (fr) * 1989-01-11 1990-07-26 Tøpholm & Westermann APS Systeme programmable a telecommande pour appareils de correction auditive
EP0491072A1 (fr) * 1990-12-18 1992-06-24 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Prothèse auditive

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EP0027496A1 (fr) * 1979-10-17 1981-04-29 Robert Bosch Gmbh Appareil aide-ouie avec une plaque conductrice comme support de traces conductrices ainsi que d'éléments et d'unités de construction électriques et mécaniques
DE3205686A1 (de) * 1982-02-17 1983-08-25 Robert Bosch Gmbh, 7000 Stuttgart Hoergeraet
CH668154A5 (en) * 1985-08-15 1988-11-30 Gfeller Ag Apparate Fabrik Fla Hearing aid with electroacoustic transducer - fits behind ear and has facility for plugging in range of operational mode elements
DE3623906A1 (de) * 1986-07-15 1988-01-21 Siemens Ag Hoergeraet
US4920570A (en) * 1987-12-18 1990-04-24 West Henry L Modular assistive listening system
WO1990008448A1 (fr) * 1989-01-11 1990-07-26 Tøpholm & Westermann APS Systeme programmable a telecommande pour appareils de correction auditive
EP0491072A1 (fr) * 1990-12-18 1992-06-24 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Prothèse auditive

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