EP0585485B1 - Prothèse auditive - Google Patents

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EP0585485B1
EP0585485B1 EP92115003A EP92115003A EP0585485B1 EP 0585485 B1 EP0585485 B1 EP 0585485B1 EP 92115003 A EP92115003 A EP 92115003A EP 92115003 A EP92115003 A EP 92115003A EP 0585485 B1 EP0585485 B1 EP 0585485B1
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Hans-Joachim Dipl.-Ing. Weiss
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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 device with a housing and electrical components arranged therein, such as e.g. a microphone, an amplifier device, a receiver, a power source, switching, adjusting and / or regulating elements, operating elements, such as Switches, adjusting elements, a volume control or potentiometer are arranged on a printed circuit board via solderless plug connections or can be contacted by means of an anisotropic electrically conductive body against printed conductors of the printed circuit board, the anisotropic body consisting of an electrically insulating matrix material with a large number of electrically conductive fibers distributed therein the contact is made.
  • the electrical contacts of the hearing aid components are connected by electrical lead wires to the spring contacts of the power source and to 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 circuit board itself is at least partially resilient, the components to be fastened being detachably held in contact between the resilient parts of the 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 plate, Fibers or mat-oriented 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 processes, the components being fastened in an easily replaceable manner 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.
  • CH-A-668 154 In order for a BTE device to be adaptable to different operating modes and uses by simply replacing a housing part, it is proposed in CH-A-668 154 that several electrical contacts are accessible via an opening in the hearing device housing and that different housing parts with corresponding mating contact pieces can be attached to them .
  • electrical connectors can be attached that connect the hearing aid to an external electroacoustic device, e.g. with a conference microphone, dictation machine, telephone, radio or television. It is also possible to couple the hearing aid to a second hearing aid for the second ear via a plug and a cable for cros or bicros operation.
  • an adapter part with electronics for wireless signal transmission by means of radio or ultrasonic waves can also be selected.
  • the adapter part can also be designed for wireless cros or bicros operation with a signal transmitter and / or signal receiver.
  • the housing opening for attaching the various adapters can also be closed by a blind cover to cover the contact pieces.
  • hearing aids for the hearing impaired with wireless remote control (EP-A-0 175 909) and remote-controlled, 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 can be determined at any time by a set of control parameters, and also an external control device with a transmitter for the wireless transmission of control parameters after the hearing aid and a receiving circuit arranged in the hearing aid for recording the control parameters - known.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a hearing aid of the type mentioned at the beginning with easy-to-assemble connections of the components, in particular of the operating elements, such as to create the switch, potentiometer or actuator, wherein solder connections can be avoided and the components can be easily replaced in the hearing aid housing, and the hearing aid equipped with operating elements can be designed as a conventional operating device and can be converted into a remote-controlled hearing aid.
  • the operating elements such as to create the switch, potentiometer or actuator
  • this object is achieved in a hearing aid of the type mentioned above in that the hearing aid can be converted from a manually operated device into a remote-controlled device by using the plug-in connections or the anisotropic body to contact the control elements without soldering by means of transmitter and receiver components and remote control elements are replaceable.
  • control elements are mounted solderlessly in the hearing device housing.
  • the assembly of the electrical Controls and components are made by 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 receiving modules 12, 12 ', 12 "or 12'".
  • the conventional switches, gain controls, Volume control or the like. by receiving modules, remote control or remote control receiving modules, sensors, transmitters or the like, in particular designed in the size of the control elements. exchanged.
  • 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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  1. Prothèse auditive, comportant un boîtier (1) et des composants électriques à l'intérieur du boîtier tels que par exemple, un microphone (2) , un dispositif amplificateur (3), un écouteur (4), une source de courant (5), des éléments de commutation (6), de réglage (7) et/ou de régulation (8), des éléments de commande tels que par exemple, un commutateur (6), des éléments de réglage (7), un bouton de réglage du volume ou un potentiomètre (8) étant disposés sur une carte imprimée (10) par l'intermédiaire de connecteurs (9) à fiches non brasés ou bien pouvant être mis en contact, au moyen d'un corps (11) anisotrope conducteur de l'électricité, avec les pistes conductrices de la carte imprimée, le corps anisotrope (11) consistant en un matériau électriquement isolant formant matrice dans lequel est répartie une pluralité de fibres conductrices de l'électricité, par l'intermédiaire desquelles s'établit le contact, caractérisé en ce que l'appareil de correction auditive peut être converti à partir d'un appareil à commande manuelle en un appareil à télécommande en remplaçant les éléments de commande (6 à 8), mis en contact sans brasage par l'intermédiaire des connecteurs (9) à fiches ou du corps anisotrope (11), par des composants émetteurs et récepteurs et par des éléments de télécommande (12).
  2. Prothèse auditive selon la revendication 1, dans lequel pour un équipement en tant qu'appareil d'aide auditive programmable et pouvant être commandé à distance, des éléments de commande tels que par exemple un commutateur à deux positions, un commutateur MTO (6), un élément de réglage d'amplification (7) ou un bouton de réglage du volume (8) peuvent être remplacés par des composants électroniques émetteurs et récepteurs tels que par exemple, des diodes laser ou des photodiodes à commande électronique et traitement de signaux associés, ou par des puces intégrées en optoélectronique.
  3. Prothèse auditive selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans laquelle les éléments de commande (6 à 8) sont placés sans brasage dans un cadre (13) de l'appareil d'aide auditive, et peuvent être remplaçés, de telle manière que les composants émetteurs et récepteurs et les éléments de télécommande (12) puissent être mis en place dans les espaces (14) des éléments de commande pouvant être enfichés ou mis en contact sans brasage.
  4. Prothèse auditive selon la revendication 3, dans laquelle les composants émetteurs et récepteurs et les éléments de télécommande (12) sont sous la forme de petites capsules réceptrices et aux dimensions des éléments de commande à remplacer.
  5. Prothèse auditive selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, dans laquelle il est prévu, en tant que composants émetteurs et récepteurs et en tant qu'éléments de télécommande (12), des composants récepteurs, des phototransistors, des bobines d'induction, des diodes réceptrices infrarouge, des cellules photoélectriques ou des antennes réceptrices.
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EP92115003A EP0585485B1 (fr) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Prothèse auditive
AT92115003T ATE137380T1 (de) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Hörhilfegerät
DE59206127T DE59206127D1 (de) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Hörhilfegerät
DK92115003.3T DK0585485T3 (da) 1992-09-02 1992-09-02 Høreapparat
JP5218689A JPH06311598A (ja) 1992-09-02 1993-09-02 補聴器

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