EP2355549A1 - Dispositif de guidage pour un dispositif auditif - Google Patents

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EP2355549A1
EP2355549A1 EP11150051A EP11150051A EP2355549A1 EP 2355549 A1 EP2355549 A1 EP 2355549A1 EP 11150051 A EP11150051 A EP 11150051A EP 11150051 A EP11150051 A EP 11150051A EP 2355549 A1 EP2355549 A1 EP 2355549A1
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Daniela Beck
Björn Freels
Uli Gommel
Holger Kral
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Sivantos Pte Ltd
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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
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/10—Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones
    • H04R1/1058—Manufacture or assembly
    • H04R1/1066—Constructional aspects of the interconnection between earpiece and earpiece support
    • 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
    • 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
    • H04R2225/57—Aspects of electrical interconnection between hearing aid parts
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining

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  • the invention relates to a guide device for a listening device.
  • the term hearing device is understood here in particular a hearing aid.
  • the term includes other portable acoustic devices such as headsets, earphones, and the like.
  • the hearing device guide includes a flexible guide for directing sound or electrical signals into an ear canal. This can be for example a sound tube.
  • the guide device comprises a coupling element for releasably connecting one end of the guide element to an element of the hearing device which is intended to be arranged in the auditory canal. This can e.g. to be an ear piece.
  • Hearing aids are portable hearing aids that are used to care for the hearing impaired.
  • different types of hearing aids such as behind-the-ear hearing aids (BTE), hearing aid with external receiver (RIC: receiver in the canal) and in-the-ear hearing aids (IDO), e.g. Concha hearing aids or canal hearing aids (ITE, CIC).
  • BTE behind-the-ear hearing aids
  • RIC hearing aid with external receiver
  • IDO in-the-ear hearing aids
  • ITE canal hearing aids
  • the hearing aids listed by way of example are worn on the outer ear or in the ear canal.
  • bone conduction hearing aids, implantable or vibrotactile hearing aids are also available on the market. The stimulation of the damaged hearing takes place either mechanically or electrically.
  • Hearing aids have in principle as essential components an input transducer, an amplifier and an output transducer.
  • the input transducer is usually a sound receiver, z. As a microphone, and / or an electromagnetic receiver, for. B. an induction coil.
  • the output transducer is usually used as an electroacoustic transducer, z. As miniature speaker, or as an electromechanical transducer, z. B. bone conduction, realized.
  • the amplifier is standard integrated into a signal processing unit. This basic structure is in FIG. 1 shown using the example of a behind-the-ear hearing aid. In a hearing aid housing 1 for carrying behind the ear, one or more microphones 2 for receiving the sound from the environment are installed.
  • a signal processing unit 3 which is also integrated in the hearing aid housing 1, processes the microphone signals and amplifies them.
  • the output signal of the signal processing unit 3 is transmitted to a loudspeaker or earpiece 4, which outputs an acoustic signal. If necessary, the sound is transmitted via a sound tube, which is fixed in the ear canal with an earmold, to the eardrum of the device wearer.
  • the power supply of the hearing device and in particular the signal processing unit 3 is effected by a likewise integrated into the hearing aid housing 1 battery. 5
  • An earmold is an element of the hearing device that is arranged in the ear canal of the device wearer. Instead of an earmold and a flexible earpiece can be used, which consists of an elastic material, for. As silicone, and the same adapts to a shape of the same when inserted into the ear canal.
  • the earmold must be firmly connected to the sound tube so that it can be pulled out of the ear canal together with the sound tube.
  • the earmold must also be able to be easily detached by a user in order to attach the earpiece, e.g. clean or replace.
  • a compound that meets both of these criteria is referred to herein as a detachable connection.
  • an ear device by means of a snap connection with a sound tube.
  • the flexible sound tube has at one end a coupling element which can be snapped into the earmold.
  • a coupling element may for example be a tube be on which one end of the sound tube is attached.
  • the tube may have at one end a bead, by means of which the tube is held in the earmold.
  • an in-the-ear speaker is provided, which is intended to be located in the ear canal.
  • a cable then connects the in-the-ear loudspeaker to an element of the hearing device located outside the ear canal.
  • the cable in this case comprises one or more insulated wires, via which electrical signals are conducted to the loudspeaker in the auditory canal.
  • the wires may further be sheathed by a tubular sheath.
  • the loudspeaker can be pulled out of the ear canal like an earmold.
  • a coupling element is also necessary in the case of the cable, by means of which the cable can be detachably connected to the in-the-ear loudspeaker.
  • connection of the coupling element to an earmold or an in-the-ear speaker should be solvable, the attachment of the coupling element to the sound tube or the shell of the cable is permanent. Otherwise, for example, a sound tube may detach from its coupling element when an earpiece is too tightly clamped in an ear canal.
  • the problem is that the sound tube on the one hand and the coupling element on the other hand consist of different materials.
  • a sound tube must be as soft and flexible as possible so that it adapts to a shape of the ear canal.
  • the coupling element must be hard enough to be able to be held in the earmold, for example via the positive connection of a snap connection.
  • the object is achieved by a guide device according to claim 1.
  • the object is also achieved by a method for producing a guide device according to claim 7 and a similar method according to claim 9.
  • Advantageous embodiments of the guide device according to the invention and the method according to the invention are given by the subclaims.
  • the guide device according to the invention for a hearing device has a guide element with which sound or electrical signals can be conducted into an auditory canal. Furthermore, the guide device has a coupling element with which one end of the guide element can be detachably connected to an element of the hearing device. This element of the listening device is intended for placement in the ear canal. In the case of the guide device according to the invention, provision is finally made for the end of the guide element and a region of the coupling element to be encapsulated together with a material. Additionally or alternatively, the end of the guide element and the region of the coupling element can be welded together.
  • encapsulation is meant a process known per se, in which the material used for encapsulation is liquefied and distributed around the components to be encapsulated. Subsequently, the material hardens and forms a sheath. By the guide element and the coupling element are molded together, a body is formed of the material, which encloses the overmolded areas of these two components.
  • the guide device has the advantage that the guide element on the one hand and the coupling element on the other hand may consist of different materials and yet a reliable attachment, for example, a hard coupling element on a soft, flexible guide element is possible.
  • a reliable attachment for example, a hard coupling element on a soft, flexible guide element is possible.
  • the guide element can therefore be made of a material that is particularly skin-friendly and soft, for example, so that a hearing aid wearer does not feel any unpleasant sensation on the ear.
  • the coupling element can be made of a material which is particularly well suited for the respective desired releasable connection with the element of the listening device. Examples of such a releasable connection are a snap connection and a screw connection.
  • the invention is based on the finding that materials which are particularly suitable for producing a guide element on the one hand and a coupling element on the other hand, can be particularly firmly connected to each other by injection-molding with a material and by welding.
  • the guide device according to the invention is further developed in an advantageous manner by the coupling element consists at least partially of a rigid material.
  • this rigid material is a metal or a hard plastic.
  • the coupling element can then be particularly small. In a rigid material, it is then still possible to provide a releasable connection with the element of the listening device, via which a sufficiently large force can be transmitted to this element to pull it on the guide element from the ear canal.
  • the end of the guide element and the region of the coupling element are encapsulated with an elastic material. It is preferably a material which is identical to a material from which the guide element is at least partially made. This results in the advantage that the body, which is formed by encapsulation of the guide element and the coupling element adheres particularly well to the guide element.
  • the guide element and the coupling element are inserted into one another.
  • a guide element for conducting sound this results in the advantage that when encapsulating no material gets into the interior of the guide element or the interior of the coupling element and clogged a channel for conducting sound.
  • nesting prevents liquefied material from flowing into and clogging the channel.
  • a guide element for conducting electrical signals are protected by the nesting terminals against being encapsulated during encapsulation, so that an electrical contact with an in-the-ear speaker is no longer possible. Welding prevents the insulation of the wires from melting causing short circuits between the wires, for example.
  • the invention also relates to a method for producing a guide device for conducting sound or electrical signals to an element of a hearing device in an auditory canal.
  • a guiding element for conducting sound or electrical signals. Furthermore, a coupling element is provided for a releasable connection with the element of the listening device. In a further step, a relative position of the coupling element to set one end of the guide. Subsequently, a region of the coupling element and the end of the guide element are encapsulated and thereby fastened the coupling element to the guide element.
  • the method according to the invention is developed in an advantageous manner by at least partially treating the end of the guide element or the region of the coupling element to be encapsulated with a plasma before encapsulation. Both parts can also be treated with the plasma.
  • a plasma is a gas that consists partially or completely of free charge carriers, such as ions or electrons.
  • One possible way to treat the baffle or coupling element with a plasma is e.g. It is to create such a plasma in an environment of these components, so that a surface of the components comes into contact with the plasma.
  • pretreating a surface of the guide element or of the coupling element with plasma it is advantageously achieved that the material used during encapsulation bonds particularly firmly to the pretreated component.
  • Another aspect of the invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a routing device for directing sound or electrical signals to an element of a hearing device in an ear canal. Also in this method, a guide element for guiding sound or electrical signals and a coupling element for a detachable connection with the element of the listening device are provided. According to the further aspect of the invention, one end of the guide element is attached to the coupling element and then welded to the coupling element. This then results in a guide device according to the invention. The guiding element and the coupling element are then particularly firmly connected.
  • a laser beam for which a material of the guide element is transparent, is preferably directed onto that part of the coupling element which is located in the guide element after being plugged on.
  • a material of the guide element or a wavelength of the light of the laser beam are selected such that the laser beam can be transmitted through the material of the guide element.
  • the laser beam then heats a surface of the coupling element.
  • the two components are thus welded in an area that is not accessible with a tool.
  • a welded connection can be produced in a particularly cost-effective manner. Furthermore, it is not necessary to design the guide element or the coupling element such that the area to be welded can be achieved with a tool.
  • a baffle can be provided in which a shape is optimized to direct sound or electrical signals into the ear canal without compromising comfort to the implement wearer.
  • FIG. 2 a sound tube 10 is shown, in which at one end a plug 12 is attached as a coupling element. About the plug 12 of the sound tube 10 is connected to a flexible earpiece 14 or another, insertable into an ear canal element.
  • the earpiece 14 is a so-called dome (dome dome), in which a dome-shaped region of an elastic material, for. As silicone exists.
  • dome dome dome
  • a support 15 carries a portion of the weight of the sound tube 10 and the plug 12.
  • the support 15 is located at the entrance of the ear canal.
  • An arm 15 'of the support 15 abuts a concha of a pinna of the hearing aid wearer. From the arm 15 'is in FIG. 2 only a part shown. The unillustrated part of the arm 15 'extends beyond a break line 16.
  • the sound tube 10 is in FIG. 2 also shown only partially. An unillustrated part of the sound tube 10 extends beyond one in FIG. 2 shown fault line 17 toward a housing of a behind-the-ear hearing aid. A receiver located in the housing generates a sound which is conducted through the sound tube 10 and the plug 12 to the earpiece 14.
  • the plug 12 is a tube with a rotationally symmetrical shape. It is made of a rigid material. This can e.g. a metal or a hard plastic such as polyetheretherketone (PEEK). An outer diameter of the plug 12 varies along a longitudinal extension of the plug 12. As a result, in addition to the bead 20, rings 22 are formed on an outer side of the plug 12.
  • PEEK polyetheretherketone
  • the plug 12 is held by a snap connection in a socket 18 of the earpiece 14.
  • the plug 12 has at a plug-in end in the socket 18, a bead 20, via which the plug 12 is held by positive engagement in the socket 18.
  • the bush 18 may be made of a metal. The snap connection can be released by pulling the plug 12 and the earpiece 14 apart. Neither the plug 12 nor the socket 18 are destroyed.
  • the sound tube 10 and the plug 12 are held together by the support 15.
  • the support 15 has been produced by molding a hose end 24 of the sound tube 10 and a connection region 26 of the plug 12.
  • the attachment region comprises the two rings 22.
  • the material from which the support 15 is made is similarly soft and elastic as the sound tube 10.
  • the hose end 24 adheres particularly well in the support 15.
  • the support 15 can then be made of the same material be, from which also the sound tube 10 is made. Then there is a particularly strong connection between these two components during encapsulation.
  • the support 15 is made of a relatively soft material, the support 12 is held firmly in the support 15 by the positive engagement provided by the rings 22.
  • the hose end 26 is inserted in a recess in the plug 12. During encapsulation of the material from which the support 15 is made, nothing in the interior of the sound tube 10 or the plug 12 passes. The hose end can also be attached to the plug. This results in a comparable protection against penetration of the material during encapsulation in the tube interior.
  • the hose end 24 and the connection region 26 can also be encapsulated with a casing which has no arm such as the arm 15 'of the support 15.
  • the sound tube 10, the plug 12 and the support 15 form a guide.
  • the earpiece 14 is an element of the hearing device intended for placement in the auditory canal.
  • a hose is provided in which electrically insulated wires are located. Via these wires, electrical signals are then passed from an interior of a hearing aid housing to the loudspeaker. The tube and the wires inside it together form a cable.
  • One end of the tube can then have a plug, just like the sound tube 10.
  • a plug just like the sound tube 10.
  • electrical connections for electrically coupling the wires to corresponding terminals of the loudspeaker are then provided in the plug for the loudspeaker.
  • the hose and the plug can also be held together by a shell, as it is also formed by the support 15.
  • the plug can either be plugged directly into the speaker or in an earpiece for the in-the-ear speaker.
  • the shape of the plug can be very similar to the shape of the plug 12 in the latter case. Therefore, then also the shape of the ear piece for the in-the-ear speaker of the shape of the earpiece 14. This then has the advantage that no different ear pieces for sound tubes on the one hand and for cables of in-the-ear speakers on the other hand provided Need to become.
  • FIG. 3 a sound tube 30 is shown, which is held by a plug 32 to an ear piece 34.
  • the sound tube 30 is similar to the sound tube 10.
  • the ear piece 34 is similar to the earpiece 14.
  • the plug 32 is also held in the ear piece 34 in a socket of the ear piece 34 by a snap connection, as has already been described in connection with the plug 12 and the ear plug 14.
  • a guide device is formed, through which sound is directed to the ear piece 34.
  • the plug 32 is a tube with a rotationally symmetrical shape. It can be made of metal or a hard plastic, such as PEEK, be made.
  • a hose end 36 of the sound tube 30 is plugged onto the plug 32.
  • the connection region 38 and the hose end 36 are welded together.
  • a laser beam was directed onto a surface 40 of the attachment region 38.
  • a material from which the hose end 36 is made was for the light of the Laser beam transparent or at least almost transparent.
  • the surface 40 of the plug 32 was heated by the laser beam.
  • the plug 32 is firmly connected to the hose end 36.
  • a sheath as seen through the in FIG. 2 is shown, is not necessary to hold the plug 32 in the sound tube 30. This allows a diameter of the guide device consisting of the sound tube 30 and the plug 32 in the region of the hose end 36 smaller than in the in FIG. 2 be shown arrangement.
  • connection between the sound tube 30 and the plug 32 are also used for connecting a hose of a cable with a corresponding connector.
  • the invention provides a way to permanently connect a plug of metal or hard plastic to one end of a sound tube or cable.
  • the plug is either plugged into the sound tube or the sound tube initially mechanically deformed, for example by heating so that the end has an expanded inner diameter, and then plugged onto the plug.
  • This assembly is then overmolded with a material which adheres to the tube after encapsulation.
  • a material which adheres to the tube after encapsulation can be formed from the material at the same time a support.
  • the plug is held in the material by positive locking.
  • the hose end to be overmolded and the plug can be pretreated, for example, with a plasma, which results in an improved connection of the material used for extrusion coating with the surfaces of the hose or of the plug.
  • hose end 36 may also be mechanically deformed by heating prior to attachment to the plug 32, so that the hose end 36 has a larger inner diameter than the rest of the tube 30th
  • the invention makes it possible to connect a plug made of a hard material firmly with a flexible hose made of a relatively soft material.

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