EP2109331B1 - Hörgerät mit einer Sturzsicherung - Google Patents

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EP2109331B1
EP2109331B1 EP09155837A EP09155837A EP2109331B1 EP 2109331 B1 EP2109331 B1 EP 2109331B1 EP 09155837 A EP09155837 A EP 09155837A EP 09155837 A EP09155837 A EP 09155837A EP 2109331 B1 EP2109331 B1 EP 2109331B1
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Leep Foong Chew
Chow Lan Stella Yap
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    • 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
    • H04R25/30—Monitoring or testing of hearing aids, e.g. functioning, settings, battery power
    • H04R25/305—Self-monitoring or self-testing
    • 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
    • H04R2225/39—Aspects relating to automatic logging of sound environment parameters and the performance of the hearing aid during use, e.g. histogram logging, or of user selected programs or settings in the hearing aid, e.g. usage logging

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  • the invention relates to a hearing aid with a fall protection.
  • Hearing aids for the hard of hearing are usually worn on the ear. When putting on the hearing aid or when removing the hearing aid, it can easily happen that the hearing aid falls to the ground. This can happen even if the hearing aid sits insecurely on the ear and thereby loosens itself.
  • Hearing aids include sensitive electronics that can be damaged when hitting the ground.
  • the current settings can change when the hearing aid is hit. This can be done both by a mechanical adjustment of the controller on the hearing aid, as well as by a direct action of the impact acceleration on the electronics of the hearing aid.
  • the hearing aid Of interest may be all settings and functions of the hearing aid or the signal processing device of the hearing aid. Examples are the volume, the classification parameters for the classification of the prevailing noise environment into different classes, the sound environment currently being classified, the parameters of the noise reduction, the parameters of the directional processing of microphone signals (directionality), the active signal processing program (hearing program ), or the parameters of a wireless or other data connection of the hearing aid with external devices, eg Telephone, mobile phone, consumer electronics, remote control, programming device or household electronics.
  • external devices eg Telephone, mobile phone, consumer electronics, remote control, programming device or household electronics.
  • the parameters of learnable or self-learning settings of the hearing aid are of particular importance Interest. These are settings that the hearing aid has "learned" itself on the basis of past user inputs or the parameters that the hearing aid has learned on the basis of past user inputs in order to be able to make settings on its own basis.
  • the parameters can be different in each case in different frequency bands or in different level levels, wherein the hearing device can also have determined user needs in relation to such dependencies by past user inputs and can base it on self-adjusting settings.
  • An example of this is the adjustment of the volume, which the hearing device can adapt itself automatically according to the user wishes determined from past inputs.
  • Another example is the adjustment of the volume in connection with the respectively classified noise environment, eg the self-raising or lowering of the volume by the hearing aid when classifying certain noise environments according to past entries of the user.
  • the aforementioned structural measures provide for a higher weight of the hearing aid and for a more complex and thus more expensive production of the hearing aid.
  • the adjustment controls must be designed so that they are not impacted by the impact force can be adjusted. This has the disadvantage that this makes the change of the device setting by hand difficult.
  • the publication DE 10 2006 028 682 A1 discloses a hearing aid with sensor structure.
  • the sensor structure may be suitable, inter alia, for measuring accelerations. It serves to record environmental conditions in order to automatically control the hearing aid as a function thereof.
  • the controller can be a directional characteristic (directionality), or a turn on / off function, or affect the volume.
  • the automatically controlled variables in common is that it is the usual operating settings of the hearing aid in trouble-free operating conditions.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a hearing aid that provides protection against changing the settings of the hearing aid in a simple manner.
  • an acceleration sensor which triggers an automatic storage of the current settings of the hearing aid in the event of a sudden acceleration via an electronic circuit, it is possible to restore the settings in a simple manner after a strike of the hearing aid from the memory. A change of the settings by an impact is made in this way by the invention reversed immediately after the impact.
  • the acceleration sensor can be any type of sensor that directly or indirectly draws a conclusion to a jerky acceleration or a strike of the hearing aid on an object can measure.
  • a particularly effective acceleration sensor is a three-axis acceleration sensor that can measure accelerations in the direction of three axes aligned perpendicular to each other.
  • Such sensors find e.g. their application for securing mobile hard drives.
  • the company Hitachi uses such sensors, for example, in at least some drives of the brand Microdrive under the name "Extra Sensory Protection”.
  • the acceleration sensor can also be designed in the form of a microphone which is provided anyway on the hearing aid. If the microphone measures a volume level or a noise frequency spectrum which is characteristic of a blow of the hearing aid, this represents an indirect measurement of a jerky acceleration.
  • FIG. 1 shows a hearing aid 1 with a volume control 2, a programming socket 3, a program button 4 with on / off function, a battery compartment 5 and a microphone 10. Not visible from the outside in the hearing aid 1, an acceleration sensor 6, an electrical circuit 7 and a memory 8 arranged.
  • the acceleration sensor 6 is designed in the form of a 3-axis acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration of the hearing device 1 in the direction of 3 mutually perpendicular axes 9. Of the Acceleration sensor 6 sends signals for the respectively measured acceleration to the electrical circuit 7 by means of an electronic line. Based on these signals, the electrical circuit 7 determines a sudden acceleration of the hearing device 1.
  • the electric circuit 7 is only active when the amount of measured acceleration a predetermined threshold exceeds.
  • the threshold value represents the limit between ordinary accelerations and accelerations caused by the impact of the hearing aid 1.
  • the electrical circuit 7 When the electrical circuit 7 detects a sudden acceleration of the hearing aid 1, it stores the respective current settings in the memory 8 connected to the circuit 7. The storage takes place so fast that the fall could not cause any adjustment of the setting.
  • the circuit 7 it is also possible for the circuit 7 to periodically save (e.g., every 10th of a second) the current settings in the memory 8 and, in the event of a fall after the crash, restore the last settings saved prior to the fall. In this way, a particularly secure storage of the settings is possible, even if the electrical circuit 7 should work comparatively slowly.
  • the electrical circuit 7 can also fall back on measured by the microphone 10 noise.
  • the microphone 10 noise By hitting the hearing aid on a hard Subject takes the microphone 10 a loud noise with a characteristic spectrum.
  • the spectrum depends on the nature of the housing of the hearing aid 1, but usually covers - as most bang - a wide frequency spectrum.
  • the noise also differs in its loudness and in particular in the course of the volume of other sounds, e.g. generated by the application of the hearing aid 1.
  • the impact sound will be comparatively loud and short. In this way, the acceleration can be detected by the impact indirectly through the microphone 10 safely. In this sense, the microphone 10 is operated as an impact sensor.
  • the impact can be detected with particular certainty.
  • the volume control 2 and / or the program key 4 may also be designed in the form of electronic buttons.
  • the fall protection electronic circuit 7 can be both a separate circuit and a circuit integrated in the rest of the hearing aid electronics.
  • the memory 8 may e.g. be in the form of an EEPROM memory.
  • An exemplary embodiment of the invention summarizes a hearing aid with a fall protection comprising an acceleration sensor, an electrical Circuit and a memory.
  • the acceleration sensor generates an electrical signal in response to an acceleration of the hearing aid. This signal is transmitted to the electrical circuit, which determines a jerky acceleration of the hearing aid.
  • the electrical circuit secures the current settings of the hearing aid in the memory. The settings can be reconstructed from the memory after the fall of the hearing aid, so that as a result, a change in the settings of the hearing aid is prevented.

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