EP1224840A2 - Appareil de correction auditive implante dans l'oreille - Google Patents
Appareil de correction auditive implante dans l'oreilleInfo
- Publication number
- EP1224840A2 EP1224840A2 EP00982822A EP00982822A EP1224840A2 EP 1224840 A2 EP1224840 A2 EP 1224840A2 EP 00982822 A EP00982822 A EP 00982822A EP 00982822 A EP00982822 A EP 00982822A EP 1224840 A2 EP1224840 A2 EP 1224840A2
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- Prior art keywords
- housing
- actuator
- hearing aid
- implant according
- drive converter
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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
- H04R25/604—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of acoustic or vibrational transducers
- H04R25/606—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of acoustic or vibrational transducers acting directly on the eardrum, the ossicles or the skull, e.g. mastoid, tooth, maxillary or mandibular bone, or mechanically stimulating the cochlea, e.g. at the oval window
Definitions
- the present invention relates to an hearing aid implant mounted in the ear according to the preamble of claim 1 and a hearing aid implant according to that of claim 16.
- implants of the type mentioned are targeted at one or more of the organs mentioned mechanical vibrations are forced in accordance with the auditory signals received by a microphone arrangement in or outside the ear canal.
- Such implants are also used when there is damage to the inner ear: in this case, mechanical vibrations are applied to the oval window, compared to those with normal hearing, or if the frequency spectrum is changed. This is an attempt to compensate the inner ear damage as optimally as possible.
- people with normal hearing generally also wear an implant, especially if the application intervention is only minimal.
- audio signals from electrical audio sources could be fed directly as electrical signals to the individual and finally to the implant.
- desired hearing characteristics such as directional characteristics, can also be used with implants and ear-side microphones for normal hearing as well as hearing impaired, preferably adjustable in situ.
- No. 5,906,635 also proposes the provision of a permanent magnetic disk on an ossicle and its vibration excitation via a coil mounted in a contactless manner in its immediate area.
- These implants which act on organs in the middle ear, have the major disadvantage that they require extensive surgical interventions in the middle ear area itself and in the transition area from the outer ear to the middle ear, i.e. in the area of the eardrum, by means of which the respective areas are adapted to the specifically selected implant techniques , In many cases, switching from one implant technique to another is extremely problematic because the outer and middle ear areas had to be specifically adapted to the previously installed implant technique.
- the hearing aid implant of the above-mentioned type mounted in the ear in that the housing is fastened on the outer ear side of the eardrum area and the actuator has an end facing away from the housing and effective in the middle ear.
- the housing is mounted directly on the auditory canal wall or immediately adjacent to the tissue of the auditory canal wall.
- the electro-mechanical drive converter has an electrical input stage which is fixed to the housing.
- This has the advantage that electrical connecting lines from an acoustic-electrical converter not forming the subject of the invention, for example mounted outside the ear, are mechanically stationary. This avoids the alternating load problem for such extremely thin electrical feed lines, and thus also secondary acoustic interference signals caused by such mechanical vibrations.
- electrodynamic drive transducers can be used as electromechanical drive transducers, if appropriate for their size, in the preferred embodiment today the electromechanical drive transducer is designed as an electromagnetic or possibly as a piezoelectric drive transducer.
- the housing is preferably of tubular design and has an opening on at least one of its end faces, from which the actuator is led out to the middle ear.
- a coil arrangement is preferably provided stationary on the housing, and the actuator with a permanent magnet part is slidably mounted in the coil.
- Permanent magnet material can be used, for example, neodymium, which allows extremely strong permanent magnets to be built with a small construction volume, for example Nd-Fe-B material.
- the electrical supply lines are led to the implant or to its electromechanical drive transducer along the ear canal wall or in the tissue or bone adjacent to the ear canal.
- its actuator is mounted so as to be resiliently movable with respect to the housing.
- the housing in its aforementioned tubular configuration with the actuator guided from an end opening has a portion which tapers in diameter towards the aforementioned opening.
- the housing continues to be tubular, preferably as
- Body of rotation i.e. essentially cylindrical, possibly with continuous conical tapered parts.
- anchoring members such as ribs or knobs
- Body tissue or in bone material. 1 denotes the length of the implant in the transmission direction between the effective end of the actuator on the one hand and the end of the housing facing away from this end, this is preferably in the range:
- the maximum diameter of the housing D is preferably selected as follows:
- the hearing aid implant according to the invention itself is distinguished for achieving the above-mentioned object according to the wording of claim 16, with preferred embodiments according to claims 17 to 21.
- the invention is subsequently explained, for example, with reference to figures. Show it:
- FIG. 1 shows an implant according to the invention, partially sectioned and schematized, in a first preferred embodiment
- FIG. 2 in a representation analogous to that of FIG. 1, a further embodiment of an implant according to the invention
- FIGS. 1 and 2 yet another embodiment of an implant according to the invention
- FIG. 5 shows an implant according to the invention with anchoring organs for soft tissue
- FIG. 6 shows, analogously to FIG. 5, an implant according to the invention with anchoring organs for bone tissue; 7 shows a hearing aid implant installed in the ear according to the invention with terminal actuator coupling to the hammer;
- Fig. 8e another actuator guide and hammer coupling.
- the implant 10 has an essentially cylindrical housing 1 with an A axis.
- a relatively large-diameter section 3 is followed by strongly tapered actuator guide sections 5 via transition sections 7 tapering substantially in the shape of a truncated cone.
- the housing 1 is tubular and has a coaxial guide bore 9 for an actuator 11. The bore extends from one end
- Housing opening 12 practically through the entire housing 1.
- the rod-shaped actuator 11 is slidably mounted and is spring-loaded with respect to the housing 1 and according to FIG. 1 by means of a spring 14.
- the housing part 3 there is a coaxial with the axis A.
- Coil arrangement 16 installed, the magnetic field of which is operatively connected to a permanent magnet region 18 on the actuator 11. Electrical connections 20 are guided towards the outside against the end of the housing 1 remote from the opening 12.
- the protruding from the opening 12 end of the Actuator 11 is provided with a coupling device, as shown, a clip 22, for example if it is to be coupled to an ossicle in the middle ear.
- a biocompatible material such as titanium, platinum, tantalum, plastics such as polyethylene, hydroxylapatite, ceramics or glasses, is used as the material, in particular the housing parts to be embedded in or on the body tissue, as will be explained below.
- the aim is to minimize the stray field of the coil arrangement 16, for example by embedding the coil arrangement in a (not shown) jacket made of ferromagnetic material.
- the actuator it should be taken into account that it should transmit mechanical vibrations in the longitudinal direction with as little distortion as possible, so great rigidity is required in this direction.
- the actuator can be exposed to shear forces perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, which is why it should have a certain elasticity and a relatively high breaking strength in this direction.
- At least that part of the actuator that is exposed to body tissue should also be made from biocompatible material. Metals such as titanium, tantalum, nitinol, etc. are therefore most likely to be used as materials for the production of the actuator or of its parts.
- the Coil arrangement 16 is excited and the magnetic field concentrated in the area of axis A displaces actuator 11 via the permanent magnet section 18 into the corresponding vibrations.
- FIG. 7 denote:
- the actuator and possibly the provided reduced-diameter guide section 5, which faces the opening 12 according to FIG. 1, is passed through the eardrum area so that the end of the actuator 11 projects into the middle ear and there, as in FIG. 7 shown, for example, with one of the ossicles, preferably the
- Extension of the anvil 25, is operatively connected.
- the electrical supply lines 20, not shown in FIG. 7, are guided outside in the auditory canal along the wall thereof or embedded slightly deep into the tissue surrounding the auditory canal. Because of the low 1 for the actuator 11 according to FIG. 1, from the outer to the middle ear and the coupling of the actuator end there, for example to one of the ossicles, and furthermore the small-volume, longitudinally extended shaping of the implant housing with the drive, it is possible for the implant to be carried out with only slight invasive interventions install.
- FIG. 2 shows a further exemplary embodiment of an implant according to the invention, which differs only with respect to the arrangement of the spring 14a described with reference to FIG. 1.
- a spring 14 which - according to FIG. 1 - acts on one end of the actuator 11, according to FIG. 2, a spring 14a is provided acting along the actuator between the latter and the housing 1, in a specially recessed one in the housing part 3 Spring receiving chamber 29.
- FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of an implant according to the invention. This differs from that explained with reference to FIG. 1 only in that the permanent magnet section 18a of the actuator 11 has a larger diameter than, in particular, the actuator part led out of the opening 12 of the housing 1.
- the permanent magnet part 18a lies in a transmission chamber 31 adapted to its enlarged diameter in the housing part 3. This makes it possible, irrespective of the geometrical configuration of the actuator 11 guided outwards into the middle ear, to dimension the permanent magnet part 18a in accordance with the desired magnetic transmission conditions. 4 is on the housing 1 of the invention
- Implants not an electromagnetic drive, but a piezoelectric built in.
- the housing of the implant is shaped essentially the same, as has already been explained with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.
- the piezoelectric drive 33 is installed in the drive part 3 of the housing 1 and - as shown at 35 - directly coupled to the actuator 11.
- anchoring formations 35 for soft tissue or in FIG. 6 anchoring formations 37 for bone tissue are preferred on an implant 10 according to the invention, as was explained with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.
- FIGS. 8a to 8e show terminal sections of the tapered housing part 5 with the opening 12 from which the respective actuator 11 projects into the middle ear MO.
- the ear canal 21, eardrum 22, hammer 23, anvil 25 and stirrup 40 with an oval window 42 are also shown schematically here.
- the actuator 11 is guided coaxially out of the part 5, for example with a clip or in another known manner and way, with the hammer 23 coupled in motion, according to FIG. 8b with the anvil 25, while the actuator 11 according to FIG. 8c is bent at the end and is coupled in motion with the stirrup 40.
- FIGS. 8d and 8e it is easily possible to use the tapered end region
- the implant according to the invention is dimensioned in a preferred embodiment as follows:
- the length 1 between the coupling end 22 of the actuator 11 and this end of the housing 1 facing away from this is selected in the following range:
- Implant housing and middle ear side for anchoring the actuator at the intended location.
- the transmission of motion from the outer ear side housing to the middle ear side actuator end requires only a small opening through the eardrum area.
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